11th April 1972 to 15th April 1972

The Show | Dramatis personæ | The Production Team | The Orchestra

A show full of familiar and melodious music and a version of Greek history that certainly would not gain anyone an A level!

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Juno, Queen of the Gods

Audrey Gordon

Minerva, Goddess of Wisdom

Eileen Coates

Venus, God of Love

Gwynedd Roberts

Mercury, messenger of the Gods

Keith Eaton

Paris, Prince of Troy

John Heath

Leona

young ladies

of Sparta

Jocelyn Marsh

Cressida

Jeanne Cavill

Philocomus, assistant to Calchas

Kenneth Howkins

Calchas, Chief Augur of the Temple

David Berridge

Helen, Queen of Sparta

Valerie Bowen

Nesta, Helen's confidante

Mary Myers

Orestes, son of Agamemnon

Pauline Kensett

Ajax, King of Salamis

Don Scott

Achilles, King of Myrmidons

William Bowen

Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and King of Argos

Frank Powis

Menelaus, King of Sparta

Stuart Harding

Attendants, citizens of Sparta, soldiers, servants

Pat Baikie, Margaret Beach, Lynette Bickham, Iris Briggs, Susan Cleverly, Eileen Coates, Helen Davies, Joan Foster, Audrey Gordon, Carol Horne, Eileen Jarvis, Pamela Kell, Gwen Kerslake, Joanna Merrett, Elaine Piesse, Roma Prior, Elizabeth Reeves, Gwynedd Roberts, Janet Scott, Elizabeth Tabraham, May Teague, Evelyn Whinney

John Aitken, Roy Craske, Vic Dutton, Keith Eaton, Alan Harris, Terence Jenkins, Alan Massey, Frank Mills, Peter Norris, Jim Parkinson, Derrick Pope, Tim Rowlett, John Simpson, Alan Westmoreland, William Whittuck

Dancers

Dilys Amos, Marianne Artiss, Hilary Chisholm, Marilyn Dixon

 

 

Director

Kevin Miller

 

Musical director

Sydney Bickham

Choreographer

Hilary Chisholm

 

Stage manager

Derrick Challis

 

Assistant stage managers

Peter Boddy, John Merrett

 

Lighting

Roy Fielden, Julian Duggan, Ian Burville-Jones

 

Stage crew

Harry Foster, Peter Foster, Albert Howkins, James Sutherland, Nicholas Taylor, Simon Taylor, Ken Warminger, Kelvin Wayman, John Whinney

 

Set designed, constructed and painted by

Derrick Challis, Peter Boddy John Briggs, Iris Briggs, Yvonne Harding, John Merrett

 

Wardrobe

June Butler, Mary Myers

 

Costumes

Mary Payne Limited

 

Properties

Nancy Booth, Muriel Boddy, Sheila Owen

 

Make-up

Arthur & Anne

 

Wigs

Mrs. L. Mee

 

Business manager

Keith Eaton

 

Ticket secretary

K. S. F. Bunce

 

Rehearsal accompanist

Lee Skillman, Harvey Dagul

 

Prompt

Dorothy Tabraham

 

Front of House manager

Joan Challis

Violins

William Steer, Alfred Alcock, Peter Boyle, Joyce Covey-Crump, Kate Goodchild, Gwen Johnstone, Frances Rotchell, Kenneth Sheed, Neil Symonds

Viola

Antonia Del Mar, Christine Sheed

Celli

Pauline Del Mar, Susan Wykes

Bass

Judith Stoddard

Woodwind

Virginia Burdon-Cooper, Wendy Rundle, Roland Booth, Edward Lyons, Iris Temple, Robert Porter

Trumpet

John Barnes, Michael Cannon

Trombone

Arthur Hawkes

Horn

Christopher Crawley, Cyril Taylor

Percussion

John Tournay

 

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