The collections below are materials from The Quarter Jack’s Challenge production in December 1999 and June 2000. View the production’s page here.
Programme
View The programme listed all those involved in the production, as well as a short synopsis of the play and some background information on the project.
Newspaper clippings from the press
View The press reviewed the play as part of the Millennium celebrations in Wimborne.
Performance leaflet
View Wimborne Community Theatre’s plans for the future were advertised at the time.
Photos
View Photographs taken in the streets of Wimborne and at the June performance outside the Minster during Wimborne Folk Festival 2000.
Lyrics of the Gloucestershire Wassail
This traditional Christmas song was adapted and arranged by Ray Sargent and sung by the cast around the streets of Wimborne before the production.
View The Gloucestershire Wassail
Millennium Wishes
View Wishes for the new Millennium made by audience members.
Scripts
View the script of the 1999 Millennium Eve production of The Quarter Jack’s Challenge as a PDF.
View the adapted version of the script for the June 2000 production of The Quarter Jack’s Challenge as a PDF.
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Copying Architecture in an Old Minster
View the full text of Thomas Hardy’s poem used in the production.
Video
The complete play in performance in the Wimborne Minster church on Millennium Eve 1999. Informal footage at the end shows the cast collecting the wishes of the people of Wimborne for the new Millennium and everyone joining in a traditional dance and conga round the Minster Green.