Grinstead Courier, September 27, 2007

STAGE
Happiest Days Of Your Life

The Freshfield Hall
Forest Row

Rehearsals are in full swing for the Forest Players debut production of John Dighton’s hilarious farce “The Happiest Days of Your Life”.

Set in the days immediately following the end of the Second World War, it charts the mishaps that occur when a prim and proper girls school finds itself evacuated to an equally stuffy boys school.

The movie version in the late 1950’s starred Margaret Rutherford and Alistair Sim as the respective heads of the schools, and a memorable Joyce Grenfell as the gawky Miss Gossage. The film was the prequel to “The Belles of St Trinian’s”, currently being remade in Hollywood.

This marvellously inventive play was written by the author of Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Man in the White Suit, two of Ealing Studios greatest successes and is guaranteed to make you laugh out loud, with some wonderfully non-PC humour.

Forest Players is the new drama group created by the merger of Sackville Players and Forest Row Dramatic Society.

November 13 to 16 at 7.45pm Tickets priced at £7.50 are available from Foresta Travel in Forest Row and Bullfrog Music in East Grinstead from October 22