REHEARSALS have begun for Salisbury Playhouse’s production of Terence Rattigan’s Separate Tables which runs in the transformed main house from Thursday 16 October to Saturday 8 November.

Separate Tables is a funny and moving portrait of the lives, loves and quirks of the guests of a seaside hotel in the 1950s.

Set in the genteel surroundings of a respectable Bournemouth hotel, the arrival of an elegant young woman from London has the tongues of the lady residents wagging.

The ladies have a nose for gossip and the gentleman making notes by the window is also causing a raised eyebrow or two.

Jane How plays Mrs Railton-Bell alongside Graham Seed as Mr Fowler. How will be familiar to television audiences from her appearances in EastEnders as Den Watts’ mistress, Jan, and the sitcom Don’t Wait Up.

Her recent stage credits include Trevor Nunn’s Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.

Graham Seed is best known for playing Nigel Pargetter in Radio 4’s The Archers and is currently appearing in the Salisbury Playhouse production of Bedroom Farce.

They will be joined by four other Bedroom Farce cast members: Mawgan Gyles, Emma Noakes, Emily Wachter and Eleanor Wyld.

Completing the cast are Kirsty Besterman, who last performed at Salisbury Playhouse in Dangerous Corner, Petra Markham, Audrey Palmer, Robert Perkins and Carol Starks.

Terence Rattigan was one of the country’s most popular playwrights of the mid twentieth century and wrote such favourites as The Winslow Boy and The Deep Blue Sea.

The production is directed and designed by the creative team behind Bedroom Farce – Salisbury Play-house’s artistic director, Gareth Machin, designer Tom Rogers, lighting designer Howard Hudson and sound designer John Leonard.