The Mousetrap and Other Plays

The Hollow

Presented by Peter Saunders at the Fortune Theatre, London, on 7th June 1951, with the following cast of characters:

(in the order of their appearance)

HENRIETTA ANGKATELL

Beryl Baxter

SIR HENRY ANGKATELL, KCB

George Thorpe

LADY ANGKATELL

Jeanne de Casalis

MIDGE HARVEY

Jessica Spencer

GUDGEON

A.J. Brown

EDWARD ANGKATELL

Colin Douglas

DORIS

Patricia Jones

GERDA CRISTOW

Joan Newell

JOHN CRISTOW, MD, FRCP

Ernest Clark

VERONICA CRAYE

Dianne Foster

INSPECTOR COLQUHOUN, CID

Martin Wyldeck

DETECTIVE SERGEANT PENNY

Shaw Taylor

The play directed by Hubert Gregg

The play was subsequently transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre

SYNOPSIS OF SCENES

The action of the play passes in the garden room of Sir Henry Angkatell’s house, The Hollow, about eighteen miles from London

ACT I

A Friday afternoon in early September

ACT II

SCENE 1 Saturday morning

SCENE 2 Later the same day

ACT III

The following Monday morning

The lights are lowered during Act III to denote the passing of one hour

Time: the present