Mary Harding

My first acting roll with The Players was as a 13 year old school girl in our very first production THE HAPPIEST FAYS OF YOUR LIFE – since then I have played many parts with my last stage performance as Mrs Cropley in THE VICAR OF DIBLEY. One of my many memories was in REBECCA – during a very emotional scene my Dad – Harold Huggett who was playing opposite me had to pluck a rose from a vase to give to me – unknown to us, our lovely “Props” lady Phyl Sadler change the flowers for some that she thought looked better – only thing was they were all fixed together so Dad couldn’t ‘pluck’ one from the vase – a very tense moment for us on stage at the time. So many happy memories and friends made – when Dad started the group he was told “it will never last in Petworth” how wrong they were!