Information for Separate Tables at The Courtyard Theatre, Chipstead (Play). 1956: The Beauregard Private Hotel near Bournemouth is a hotbed of repressed emotions and middle-class Englishness. Each of the staff and residents has their own reasons for seeking the solace of a quiet life, but hiding away from a growing wave of cultural change proves to be impossible. Things can't go on as they were and nothing will ever be the same again.