Half an Hour (1910)
Lilian decides she would rather run off with a civil engineer than stay married to an uncivil financier. But then the unthinkable happens, and to secure her future she has to face some unexpected obstacles...
A Well-Remembered Voice (1918)
Mr and Mrs Don have lost their only child in the Great War. They each struggle to come to terms with the devastating loss in their own way. But not even Grace Dan's unorthodox grieving strategies could have prepared her husband for the experience which lies in store for him...
The Twelve-Pound Look (1913)
Harry Sims is the man who has everything: Wealth, social status, influence and the trophy wife to underscore it all. But here comes an unexpected visitor who doesn't quite agree he is worth a quarter of a million pounds...
7, 8, 10, 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 22 May 2010
Cellar Theatre, Nadelberg 6, Basel
| Half An Hour | |
| Mr. Garson | Xander Deubelbeiss |
| Lady Lilian Garson | Johanna Schüpbach |
| Withers | Roy Fischer |
| Hugh Paton | Joel Andres |
| Susie | Sophie Debrunner Hall |
| Doctor Brodie | Oguz Kanca |
| Mr. Redding | Samuel Ammann |
| Mrs. Redding | Lena Vidoni |
| A Well-Remembered Voice | |
| Mr. Don | Patrick Kuntschnik |
| Mrs. Don | Laura Vegh |
| Major Armitage | Tom Mani |
| Georgina Rogers | Marie-Louise Uehlinger |
| Laura Bell | Ilenia Ballacchino |
| Another | Nicolas Hunziker |
| The Twelve Pound Look | |
| Sir Harry Sims | Alex Van Lierde |
| Lady Sims | Eva Mann |
| Kate | Helena Müller |
| Tombes | Roy Fischer |
| Directed by | Nora Naust |
| Assistant Director | Xander Deubelbeiss |
| Lights | Nicolas Hunziker, Xander Deubelbeiss |
| Costumes | Claudia and Eva Ott |
Seminar für klassische Philologie der Universität Basel, Jan Müller, Fischer Shop Basel, and too many relatives of the cast to mention – for loan of props.
The volunteers at bar and box office!
Ralf Gruber – for finding the most improbable props, taking photographs and supplying emotional support no matter what.
Alex Van Lierde – for his help with ticket reservations, installing and programming the lights, organizing props, and all sorts of support behind the scenes from hanging curtains to shopping for drinks.
Claudia and Eva Ott – for designing and creating the costumes from a very vague description of what I have in mind.
Xander Deubelbeiss – for too many things to list here: co-directing, unspecified hours of taking care of annoying paperwork, prop building, ticket reservations and endless patience.
My cast – because more than usual for Gay Beggars productions, this production was less the work of the director, but rather the combined effort of a great cast, who made the best – and I mean the BEST – of a bunch of deficient ideas thrown at them.