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The Happiest Days of Your Life archiveIt is summer 1945. Staff and pupils of the Hilary Hall School for boys return to their Hampshire home after fifteen terms of evacuation. Godfrey Pond, the headmaster, receives a telegram from the Ministry of Devacuation informing him that another school will be billeted onto them. Enter the staff and pupils of the St Swithins School for Girls led by the formidable Miss Evelyn Whitechurch MA Oxon. The second world War may be over but the battle of the sexes is about to begin. An Ealing Studio classic - one of the funniest farces written for the British stage. The Happiest Days of Your Life was first performed in 1948 at the Apollo theatre in the West End. In 1950 John Dighton and Frank Lauder co-wrote the film adaptation which starred Alistair Sim as Pond, Margaret Rutherford as Whitchurch and stealing the limelight, Joyce Grenfell as the sports mistress Miss Gossage.

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Author: John Dighton

Archive listings for The Happiest Days of Your Life

Work type: Play.

T01135364267

Company Maidenhead Players.
21 Nov 06 to 25 Nov 06Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead :: V1294444431
listing details L738811172

T0945835937

Company Mid Surrey Theatre Company. Director Carl Whiteside.
27 Apr 05 to 30 Apr 05Epsom Playhouse, Epsom :: V699
listing details L01971234154

T01286840691

Producer Royal Exchange. Director Braham Murray. Design Simon Higlett. Lighting Richard Owen. Sound Steve Brown. Choreographer Emil Wolk. Performer Philip Madoc. Performer Joanna Riding. Performer James Cash. Performer John Southworth. Performer Simon Robson. Performer Janet Henfrey. Performer Simon Watts. Performer Claire Lams. Performer Anna Hewson. Performer Neil Savage. Performer Judy Norman. Performer John Cording. Performer Marie Collett.
3 Dec 03 to 17 Jan 04Royal Exchange, Manchester :: V491
listing details L01520970908

T0218059172

Company The College of Law Students.
15 May 02 to 18 May 02Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford :: V702
listing details L02620505

T01869930744

Company Questors Theatre. Director John Harwood.
1 Jul 00 to 8 Jul 00Questor's Theatre, Outer London :: V326
listing details L01410961789

T02138937267

Company Reflections.
28 Oct 99 to 30 Oct 99General, Oxford :: V1095
listing details L01404921657

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