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Laura Wade February 2024

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This award-winning, thoughtful comedy recently enjoyed a hugely successful National tour, visiting Sheffield's Lyceum Theatre It's been described as "intriguing and unsettling, witty, sad and very clever," and we are delighted to bring this modern play to our audience.

Whilst Judy looks back at the 50s as some sort of "golden age", for many in the UK, the effects of the war were still keenly felt and life was hard, Rationing didn't fully end until 1954, whilst bomb sites scarred towns and cities for many years to come. And the predominant colour of the 50s, at least according to many British films of the period, was brown!

It wasn't all bad, though. Pay was rising and unemployment falling, Domestic appliances such as washing machines, cookers, vacuum cleaners and, of course, the fridge, were making life easier for the "housewife."

And there was also a great feeling of optimism about the future. American culture, spread through cinema, magazines and the growing influence of television, showed an exciting, vibrant, optimistic and, above all, colourful world just round the corner.

After all, as the UK Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan told us all in 1957, "You've never had it so good!"

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Judy	Siobhan Hible
Johnny	Ross Bannister
Fran	Danielle Victoria
Sylvia	Nicky Beards
Alex	Rhiannon Jones
Marcus	Tommy Jones

Director	Joe Gascoyne-Thompson
Set Design	Hansel D'Roza Joe Gascoyne-Thompson
Stage manager	Melanie Perkins
Assistant Stage manager	Justin Harrison
Sound	Hansel D'Roza
Lighting	Kevin Chambers
Properties	John Jex & members of the company
Continuity	Andrea Howard
Ticket Secretary	Janet D'Roza