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[[Image:CHANGETHISNAME.jpg|thumb|300px|Poster by [[Poster Designer]]]]

by [[Mike Harding]]

Directed by [[Su Hands]] 

Performances: Tue 3rd – Sat 7th September [[1991]], [[Bell Theatre]]


== Introduction ==

Act 1 - Late summer, early '80s

Act 2 - Three months later.

When the family tradition is the Territorial Army and the women realise the implications - what can they do about it? What would you do?

== Cast ==


*Bella - [[Irene Winbourne]]
*Nobby - [[Paul Hutchinson]]
*Norma - [[Tricia Court]]
*Tommy - [[Brian Scoltock]]
*Gleen - [[Ruth Lidyard|Ruth Shettle]]
*Ken - [[Malcolm Woodman]]
*Paula - [[Lisa Tobin]]

== Crew ==

*Stage Manager - [[Michaela Galloway]]
*Lighting Design - [[Steve Todd]]
*Lighting Operator - [[Melanie Deborca]]
*Sound - [[Brian Fretwell]]
*PA/Prompt - [[Nancy Marrows]]

== Reviews ==

'[[Mike Harding]]'s [[Not With a Bang (1991)|Not With A Bang]] at SLTC's Bell Theatre until Saturday, is a jokey little play with a familiar theme and serious undertones.
' The jokiness is a by-product of the author's name and reputation, the theme an echo of [[Aristophanes]]' Lysistrata, the seriousness a dicussion (of sorts) about the nature of nuclear warfare.
' The plot concerns two northern families, related by marriage. The ladies here shown as creatures of great guile and resource, start a peace movement, and the three wives go on sexual strike to persuade their husbands to leave the Territorial Army and come to terms with nuclear sanity. It all has a rather faded look, given the events of recent times.
' Under the direction of [[Su Hands]], the action is well paced, and acted with flair and vigour by a cast led by [[Irene Winbourne]] as the indomitable Bella, who dispenses homespun wisdom in her secondary role as narrator. [[Paul Hutchinson]] is her son, Nobby, amusing and irritating by turns as he tries to subdue the womenfolk with a pathetic assumption of male dominance.
' In this, he is singularly unsuccessful, thanks to a sparky display by [[Tricia Court]] as his wife. [[Brian Scoltock]] as Tommy is another ineffectual blusterer, and [[Ruth Shettle]] vividly portrays his wife as an all-purpose hypochondriac.
' Our sympathies, such as they are, tend to go out to [[Malcolm Woodman]] and [[Lisa Tobin]] as the young couple, Ken and Paula. They bring a touch of grace to the proceedings, a light air of innocence in a damaged milieu.'

[[Donald Madgwick]] Croydon Advertiser, 6th September 1991.

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