Play Reading, Pre-Christmas Buffet Lunch & AGM

11.a.m. Doggett’s Coat & Badge, 1 Blackfriars Bridge, London SE1 9UD – Nearest tube Blackfriars

The Society has reserved a lovely private room, overlooking the river, on the second floor of Doggett’s public house on the corner of Blackfriars Bridge (South Side). It seats 90 theatre style, so do bring guests.

11.a.m. prompt. THE PLAY READING. ‘Going Back’ by Roy Chatfield.

Roy Chatfield took second prize in The Terence Rattigan Society Award, with his play ‘Going Back’. Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford D.L) presented him with a cheque for £1,000 at the ceremony at Harrow School and the other half of the prize was a rehearsed reading of the play for members of the TRS and their guests. This play alternates between two contrasting worlds – utterly dysfunctional Africa and a cosy, claustophobic world of suburban middle-class England. After six years as the hostage of African rebels, Jules returns home determined to pick up his life where he left it, but his experiences have irrevocably changed him and his family appear not to be the people they were. It is a ‘Rattiganesque’ play in that its broad canvas is coltan mining, hostage-taking and politics, but in fact it is all about people and relationships. Adrian Brown, who was a close friend of Terence Rattigan, is directing and readers include Emily Laing, Giles Cole and Sean Garvey.

12.30/1.p.m. CHRISTMAS BUFFET LUNCH, large selection including turkey/stuffing & cranberry sandwiches, scampi and tartare sauce, cumberland pigs in blankets, chilly chicken skewers, salads, chips, cheese, mince pies and brandy sauce. There will be a private bar adjacent to the meeting room and house wine is £17.95 per bottle.

THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
This will take place at some point during lunch and will be chaired, with his usual clarity (and brevity), by our Secretary, Group Captain Clive Montellier, OBE., RAF.
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Please download the booking form here.