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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Part Three, 2001-2010, is being written - watch this space!

Introduction

Introduction to Parts 1&2 by Eric Stevens

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 ...”
6. “The Sixth Age”
7. “Last scene of all that ends this ... History”

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

List of Officers 1986-2000

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

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