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Butley


Cast:
Ben Butley .......................... Philip Dent
Joseph Keyston .......................... Colin Ward
Miss Heasman .......................... Judith Harris
Edna Shaft .......................... Beryl Needham
Anne Butley .......................... Joyce Wallace
Reg Nuttall .......................... Bill Klieve
Mr Gardner .......................... - - -
Director's Notes
BUTLEY is a play about a University Lecturer who shares his office and flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a teacher. On the day when the play takes place, Butley faces both the ultimate breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship with Joey. Butley's painful discoveries are made against a background of petty university politics and unease about student dissent. He greets them with a blistering torrent of repartee and rhetoric.
Jack Marles