My Mother Said I Never Should

My Mother Said I Never Should - June 1999

"My Mother Said I Never Should, about four generations of women across the 20th Century, living in Manchester and London...is a warm, poignant elegy about growing up, growing old and growing or not growing wise. It's about debts and responsibilities; the grim burden of the puritan inheritance; and how it takes generations to learn about the value of real feeling. This is an immensely promising play"

- John Peter, Sunday Times

Directed by: David Roscoe

Among the plays David has directed for the ZCC are Educating Rita and Pack of Lies; he has also directed productions in the Kellertheater, Kammerteater Stok, Kaufleutentheatre, Miller's Studio, Theater am Neumarkt and the Kurtheater Baden. He prefers directing to acting but did return to the stage in Someone who'll watch over me. A teacher of English at the University and the ETH, David is also a translator. He has recently completed the Correspondence between C.G. Jung and the Nobel prizewinner Wolfgang Pauli on the relationship between psychology and Physics, which will be published in the summer of 1999 by Princeton University Press. David is a great fan of choral music and sings with various choirs in Zurich.

The Cast:

	Doris Patricia Peggs	Patricia's acting career goes back a long way - to schooldays, in fact - when, despite her lack of inches, she was consistently cast as a man, from Chinese Mandarin to English King. Things improved dramatically - so to speak - after she joined the ZCC, when she was cast as one of the special girls in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and given a school uniform to wear. She was most recently seen on stage in Lettice and Loveage and has directed several of our productions, the most recent being Someone who'll watch over me and last November's The Business of Murder. The role of Doris in My Mother Said I Never Should offers a real challenge, the type she relishes.
	Margaret Valery Niggli	Valery's two conditions before she auditions for a play are that she has to like the play and has to feel that the part is a challenging one. This role certainly fulfills both these requirements. Conveying the whole gamut of emotions experienced between the ages of 9 and 57 can be quite demanding, almost (but not quite!) as demanding, she feels, as her real-life role of wife, mother and drama teacher, with classes for young people aged 9 to 15. Her last appearances on stage were in The Odd Couple and Lettice and Loveage, in both of which - as in this play - she acted opposite Patricia Peggs.
	Jackie Christine Eusebio	Originally from London, Chris joined the Zurich Comedy Club 18 years ago. Since then, she has been involved in many of our productions, either on stage herself or behind the scenes, usually applying amke-up. Chris has enjoyed a wide variety of role - ranging from Shakespeare to Pinter, and including Cokney renderings in the Victorian Music Halls. Coincidentally, two of her favourite roles have been plays by the same author, the Irish palywright Brian Fiels: Lovers and Dancing at Lughnasa. Recent appearances have been as Beatrice in Much Ado about Nothing and Lois in Straight and Narrow.
	Rosie Sylvia Lynch	This is Sylvia's fourth performance for the Comedy Club. She has appeared in Much Ado about Nothing, Time of My Life and Present from the Past. Her love of acting began around the age of five, when she insisted on entertaining her parents visitors by playing a French femme fatale - and she has been hooked ever since. At University she appeared in several student productions and has worked on comedy improvisation and voice-overs. She entertains friends and family with impersonations, her most popular one being the Austrian sex therapist, Dr Ruth. In "rare moments of inspiration" she enjoys writing comedy sketches and song parodies.

Behind the scenes



Stage Managers:	Dorothy Nauer and Sheila von Arx
Set Design:	Martin Greenland
Sound:	Terry Menard and Irene Münger (and members of the ZCC)
Lighting:	Sanjeev Premchand (and members of the ZCC)
Props:	Janet Evard
Prompter:	Tom Hofmaenner
Production Co-ordinator:	Chris Eusebio
Front of House:	Joan Bridgman and Maureen Grimm (and members of the ZCC)
Publicity & programme:	Cornelia Berchtold (and members of the ZCC)
Box Office:	Alan Bridgman
Title Artwork:	Noeleen Blaich
Photography:	Leslie von Arx
Programme Editor	David Roscoe