Story For Today Sub Title A Play About the present time. AUTHOR Jack Loudan Setting The home of Mrs. Andrews, some miles from Belfast. Synopsis The working-class Moffats and Watsons are evacuated from Belfast to the Watsons' large country house following a bombing raid. Tension quickly mounts between the newcomers and their well-to-do hosts, initially over minor living matters, but later rather more seriously. With a missing money-box and embezzled army funds to be accounted for, the families begin to realise that troubles can come to all, and nothing be taken for granted. PLAY TYPE Plays General Number of Acts Full-Length Cast Size Male 4 Cast Size Female 7 Casting Notes Date of First Production 8 December 1941 Production Produced by Ulster Group Theatre ORIGINAL VENUE Group Theatre Original Cast Inspector Robb James Connolly (1) Mrs. Elsie Andrews Stella Davis Mary Edith Griffith Mrs. Andrews Nita Hardie Bob Andrews Tom Huston Mrs. Radcliffe Ivy Kidd Mrs. Moffatt Min Milligan Betty Watson Len O'Driscoll Charlie Briggs Jack O'Malley Billy Watson Joseph Tomelty Sally Watson Lucie Young Production Team Settings by Dan Fitzpatrick Sound Reproduction and Records by W. Erskine Mayne Production by Nita Hardie CLICK HERE for information on script availability, production rights and translations for this play Information for this entry was taken from the original production programme, from press cuttings, from the published script, and from the Theatre and Performing Arts Archive, Linen Hall Library, Belfast. Printer friendly version