flp02: Digging Up The Past by Willie Porter
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Summary Performance History
3# Amateur in 1991
3# Amateur in 2001
3# Amateur in 1991
3# Amateur in 2001
Genre
Comedy
Comedy
Script Notes
Synopsis
Professor Neyland, the eminent archaeologist, arrives at the Church Hall in Steeple AstonThey all have their reasons to be here but very few are Archaeology
to investigate a “find” of Roman coins made by Lamplew Baines, the local sexton. Unfortunately, when the volunteer diggers begin to assemble it appears that they have very little idea about archaeology. Why are they here? What can they achieve? It would seem that they all have their reasons.The Cast List
- Howard Threemile
- Organist at the Parish Church of Steeple Heath, early sixties
- Gordon Harlech
- Archaeology student, early twenties
- Professor Neyland
- Professor of Archaeology, late forties
- Marty Neyland
- Archaeologist, and Professor Neyland's wife, around forty
- Lamplew Baines
- Sexton at the Parish Church of Steeple Heath, fifties
- Amanda Marr
- Archaeological volunteer, late twenties
- Doris Parker
- Archaeological volunteer, and passing herself off as Aurora Deathsblade, between thirty and fifty
- Stanley Grimston
- Woodwork teacher and archaeological volunteer, thirties
- Tony Wallsend
- A small time crook, late twenties
- Tracy Chesterfield
- Tony's girlfriend, late teens to mid twenties