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The Member of the Wedding by CARSON MCCUSLLERS
Cleo Laine as Berenice Liza Ross as Frankie and Judy Bennett as John Henry
FRANKIE: After the wedding I'm going with them to Winter Hill. I'm going off with them after the wedding.
JOHN HENRY : You serious?
FRANKIE: Shush. just now I realised something. The trouble with me is that for a long time I have been just ' I.' All other people can say we.' When Berenice says ' we she means her lodge and church and coloured people. Soldiers can say ' we ' and mean the Army. All people belong to a 'we' except me ...
The play is set in the southern states of America, circa 1945.
Adapted for radio and produced by RICHARD WORTLEY
(Cleo Laine is in ' Show Boat ' at the Adelphi Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Carson McCusllers
Unknown:
Cleo Laine
Unknown:
Berenice Liza Ross
Unknown:
Judy Bennett
Unknown:
John Henry
Unknown:
John Henry
Produced By:
Richard Wortley
Produced By:
Cleo Laine
Jarvis:
Blain Fairman
Janice:
Sandra Clark
Mr Addams:
John Rowe
Mrs West:
Hilda Kriseman
Helen Fletcher:
Helen Worth
Honey:
Anthony Hall
T T Williams:
Frank Singuineau
Source: Radio Times

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