Job for the Boy
By Dennis Driscoll
There is a persistent social distinction even today between the man in the white collar and the small bowler hat, with the polished shoes and the puttee-tight umbrella, and the shirt-sleeved mechanic with grease under his fingernails. It has nothing to do with earning capacity or brains or usefulness, but it is there, this prestige of the 'clean job', and it is part of the ambition of many parents among what used to be called the working class to see their sons elevated into, say, insurance offices or banks. Maggie Lomax in Dennis Driscoll's play is the anxious spokeswoman for these aspirations. She has seen her boy David win a scholarship to the university and graduate with a degree fitting him, she is confident, for a clean and respectable career-possibly at the Town Hall, which is evidently her ideal of cleanliness and respectability. But David is of a new generation that has not inherited the old snobberies, and he comes home with the dismaying determination to take a technical post in a coalmine.
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Cast
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| James Wilkinson | Director |
| Rose Dodds | Patience Lomax |
| Doris Collinge | Maggie Lomax |
| Jim Connor | Walter Lomax |
| Robert Shepherd | David |
| James Wilkinson | Dwight (Shiner) H. Schuleman |
| Jean Grimshaw | Lady Ariadne Crofield |
| Jack Dobson | Amos Entwistle |
Past Production
This show ran from 3rd October 1952 - 11th October 1952.
Venue
St John's School
Cloughfold
Peel Street
BB4 7LJ