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	Curtain Up!
The History of the Bexhill Amateur Theatrical Society 1935-2000

Part One: 1935 – 1985
by
Gordon Leonard

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Part Two: 1986 – 2000: “Battling On”
by
Eric Stevens

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Additional photographic work by Peter Bradbury
Reconstruction for the web by Danni Segal

Underlined entries have been added and may be clicked on to read.
Chapters of the book will be added on a weekly basis.

Introduction

Introduction to Parts 1&2 by Eric Stephens

Part 1: 1935-1985

0. A few words
1. “At first the infant ....”
2. “And then the schoolboy …”
3. “And then the lover ... with a woeful ballad”
4. “Then a soldier ... Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard”
5. “And then the justice ...” ^*NEW*
6. “The Sixth Age” ^*NEW*
7. “Last scene of all that ends this ... History” ^*NEW*

Part 2: 1986-2000

1986:  Hollywood To Bexhill
1987:  Round We Go
1988:  Trying To Improve
1989: Changes All Round
1990: Where Have All The People Gone?
1991: BATS, Bats, And BATS On The Box
1992: Death In The Wings
1993: Joining In And Opting Out.
1994: The End Of An Era
1995: Exultate Jubilate
1996: Burnt Fingers
1997: “Like A Man Who Has Lost An Eye”
1998: One Thousand, Two Hundred
1999: Behemoth Cometh
2000: Millennium Mirth And Melancholy

“Curtain Up!” © Gordon Leonard / Eric Stevens / The BATS