BEING held at gunpoint is, fortunately, a very rare event for the average person - let alone in front of an audience.

Luckily for this Tweed-suited lady it was all in the name of a good show.

Beryl Heaton was staring down the barrel of the gun for drama The Chiltern Hundreds.

With his finger on the trigger was Allan Scholes and a shocked Harry Brickles caught in between.

They formed part of St Thomas’s ADS cast forf the production in April, 1975.

Penned by William Douglas-Home, The Chiltern Hundreds, also known as Yes, M’Lord, is set in the summer of 1945 during Parliamentary elections.

It follows Tony, son of the Earl of Lister, Lord Lieutenant of the County, who loses his long-standing Conservative seat to a Labor candidate, Mr. Cleghorn, much to the disgust of the family butler, Beecham.

When a by-election occurs, Beecham is put forward as the Conservative candidate who ends up battling for the place against Tony, who is now with the Socialists.

Performed at St Thomas’s School hall, it ran for three nights.