April- June:

• What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton was Ewan Marshall’s last production as artistic director and went on a national tour.

  Graeae’s words: “Lecherous psychiatrist Dr Prentice is attempting to seduce a prospective secretary. But his wife promises the position to her own seducer, a blackmailing pageboy from the Station Hotel. His lust thwarted, Prentice must explain away a naked shorthand typist to the formidable Rance – commissioner for asylums, with power to hold ‘sway over a rabbit hutch if the inmates were mentally disturbed’. But, as cross-dressing leads to increasingly crossed wires. the police search for the missing parts of Winston Churchill, and Rance aims for a hat trick of strait-jacketed maniacs within the hour, who can say what madness really is?”