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The second Norman Conquest play, Living Together, opening the final season on the old stage, had a change of cast, with Roger Parrott giving a diferent view of the principal character; only Jan Young continued in her original part. The Odd Couple, a splendidly masculine American comedy handicapped by a silly title, had Casewell and Barten in good form
Then an unusual Christmas choice, with Shirley Gaston, Jenny Crawley and Jane Vale as Chekhov's Three Sisters, giving
a lucid account of an unseasonable subject.

The Bells of Hell, John Mortimer's so-called divine comedy, with Barten and Parrott as two unlikely clergymen, Peter Simpson as an even more unlikely bishop, and Sheila Potter, was an undisputed winner. David Story's sad little piece, Home, had Harry Beresford and Norman Long well cast and holding attention. Finally, The Importance of Being Earnest, another big production well executed, had Margaret Woodall as Lady Bracknell, Ronald Griffin as Canon Chasuble, Pam Meredith and Amanda Hipkiss as the girls and, inevitably, Young and Casewell.

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