Davy Jones's Locker
Subtitle: A comedy of Welsh life in one act.
Series: Miller's medley -- 1/1959
Publisher: J. Garnet Miller
Published: 1956
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
First sentence: Sitting on a high stool,centre,a few feet in front of the (signalbox) levers is the signalman DAVY JONES.He is about 60 years of age and is smoking a pipe,very restful indeed-an ordinary looking individual but with an air of shrewdness about him.The wind blowing lustily from the north rattles the windows.[A man's voice from the bottom of the steps rises above the sound of the wind]

MORGAN (off) Davy Jones! 
(DAVY lifts his head to listen to but shows no inclination to leave his stool)
Davy Jones!
(DAVY crosses to door and forces it open against the wind)
Description: One act play about the adventures of Davy Jones the Signalman.
The scene is the signal box at 'Pentrefelin'  on the slopes of the (Brecon) Beacons between Brecon and Newport.It is the winter 0f 1941.Davy Jones,aided and abetted by local widow,Liza Hargest is involved in a little black market activity.The various comings and goings from Davy Jones' signal box attract the attention of Fred the lamp boy who wants to be cut into the dealings,and also of Police Constable Prosser,who is determined to apprehend all concerned.PC Prosser thinks he has caught them,but Davy,Liza and Fred (helped by Morgan the Special turning a blind eye) have managed to remove the incriminating evidence  in a hamper placed on a train bound for Talyllyn.All the hapless constable eventually finds in Davy Jones' locker is a pile of old rags.After the bemused policeman leaves the signal box,Davy gets on the phone to Talyllyn to have the hamper full of contraband returned on the late goods train.
Notes: First performed 1954 Brecon Drama Festival,by the Llyn Safaddan Players.
Winner of various awards at the British Drama League Festival 1954.
Performed by the New Stagers Theatre Club at Southfields Methodist Hall London 26 and 27 April 1968.
Broadcasts:
BBC Radio Welsh Home Service:14 Dec 1954.
Home Service:16 Feb 1955.
BBC TV Live broadcast from Broadway Studios,Cardiff:6 Dec 1955.
It is believed T.C.Thomas had the actual signal box at Ponsticill in mind when he wrote the play.
Jack Walters played the part of Davy Jones.
CAST:
DAVY JONES,the Signal Man
FRED,the Lamp Boy
LIZA HARGEST,the Huckster
PROSSER,the Policeman
WILLIAM MORGAN,the Special (constable)
DAVIES TYISHA
PRICE THE CWM.
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