Love on the Dole

By Walter Greenwood


The Hardcastle family are pulled apart by mass unemployment. Harry Hardcastle is working in a pawn shop, but is attracted to the glamour of working in the engineering factory Marlows Ltd. After seven years working there as an apprentice, he is laid off in the midst of the Great Depression, and is from that point on unable to find work. He becomes romantically involved with a girl on his street, Helen, whom he gets pregnant; this forces them to marry, despite the fact that Harry now not only is unemployed but also has been taken off the dole by the Means Test. Sally Hardcastle, his older sister, falls in love with a doomed socialist agitator, Larry Meath.

Photos


Cast


Name Role
Stanley Whittaker Director
Roxane Edworthy Sally Hardcastle
Sheila Godfrey Mrs Hardcastle
Greg Snowden Larry Meath
Scott Cooper Harry Hardcastle
Tony McDonagh Mr Hardcastle
Roma Taylor Mrs Jike
Maureen Jackson Mrs Dorbell
Christine Durkin Mrs Bull
John Moorhead Policeman
Tom Daniels Charlie
Amy Petterson Helen Hawkins
Tony Harris Sam Grundy
Stuart Marshall O'Leary

Past Production

This show ran from 2nd April 2005 - 9th April 2005.

Venue

Rossendale Players
69 Burnley Road East
Waterfoot, Lancashire
BB4 9AR

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