22nd April 1980 to 26th April 1980

The Show | Dramatis personę | The Production Team | The Orchestra

An exotic mix of poets, beggars, policemen, princesses, princes, Caliphs, Imams, "The Bangleman", and slave girls, all telling a complicated story of curses, gold, abduction, reunion of a father and son, marriage (and the prevention thereof) and magic.  Sounds like a normal day in Old Baghdad!

Imam of the Mosque

Michael Galloway

Muezzins

Vic Dutton, Geoffrey Smith, Bill Whittuck

Beggars

David Berridge, Colin Self, Peter Norris

Omar

Philip Gillmor

A public poet, later called Hajj

Stuart Harding

Marsinah, his daughter

Margaret Johnstone

Jawan, an old brigand

Keith Johnstone

The Bangleman

John Taylor

Chief Policeman

Michael James

The Wazir of Police

Mark Chapman

Lalume

Josephine Jenkin

The Princesses of Ababu

Alison Meek, Fiona Newbury, Laura Tolley

The Caliph

John Heath

Slave girls

Pam Homan, Diana Catt, Eve Davies, Marilyn Warminger

A servant

Dick Marshall-Hardy

Princess Zubbediya of Damascus

Samantha North

Princess Samaris of Bangalore

Jane Turner

Ayah to Zubbediya

Mary Myers

Ayah to Lalume

Evelyn Whinney

The Widow Yussef

Pauline Kensett

Chorus

Lesley Addington, Pat Baikie, Jeanne Cavill, Hilary Chapman, Eileen Coates, Janet Eaton, Audrey Gordon, Elizabeth Gorton, Rosemary Harratt, Sue Heath, Carol Horne, Valerie Houghton, Pam Kell, Pauline Kensett, Joanna Merrett, Dawn Messer, Alison Mills, Mary Myers, Elaine Piesse, Julie Ryan, Janet Scott, Deborah Shankley, Vivienne Simpson, Monica Squire, Beth Walker, Joanne Westrop, Evelyn Whinney

Alan Archer, David Berridge, Michael Chapman, Vic Dutton, Keith Eaton, Len Evans, Mike Galloway, Christopher Gunnell, Arthur Harris, Robert Houghton, Paul Leggatt, Dick Marshall-Hardy, Alan Massey, Brian McDowell, Peter Norris, Jim Parkinson, Dennis Poole, Barry Sawyer, Don Scott, Colin Self, Geoffrey Smith, Adrian Strain, John Taylor, Robert Turnbull, Bill Whittuck

Dancers

Lesley Addington, Andrea Baron, Kathryn Brown, Diana Catt, Eve Davies, Yvette Dixon, Elisabeth Gorton, Sue Heath, Pam Homan, Helen Kaye, Helen Macey, Samantha North, Jane Turner, Marilyn Warminger

Swains

Dominic Appleton, Jim Burgess, Connor Geraghty

Producer

Sean Williams

Musical director

Derrick Phoenix

Choreographer

Rosalie Ollis

Stage manager

Kenneth Warminger

Assistant stage manager

John Whinney

Lighting

Roy Fielden

Stage carpenter

John Briggs

Stage crew

A. Baker, J. Duggan, D. James, K. McClurey, R. Thompson, D. Jeggo, N. Duggan, C. McFarland, P. Stubbs

Scenery

The Stage Productions Co. Limited

Wardrobe

Mary Myers, Margaret Baker, Barbara Bostock, Pat Meakin, Helen Burrage

Costumes supplied by

Theatrical Costume House (Westcliff) Limited

Properties

Lesley Duggan, Elaine Baker, Elizabeth Whinney

Make-up

Arthur & Anne

Call "Boy"

Phyllida Whinney

Production secretary

Pauline Coulson

Business manager

Mike Galloway

Rehearsal accompanist

David Cookson, Peter Jenkin, Betty Arthur

Prompts

Sheila Turnbull, Jean Wingfield

Ticket secretary

Helen Davies

Front of House

Tony Gordon

Box office

Stan Owen

Photographer

Bob Piesse

Programmes & stewards

Jeannie Owen

Transport manager

Mike Chapman

Violins

Peter Boyle, Rachael Burdon, Fiona Jones, Jill Smith, Jenny Wigram, Beverly Clinton, Gwen Johnston, Margot Leadbeater, Frances Williams

Viola

John Fryer Tony Wigram

Celli

Michael Gray, Vivian Williams

Double bass

Wray Nunn

Woodwind

Ben Pateman, Jack Waddell, Robin Cook, David Millstead, Peter Rivron, Claire Richardson

Trumpet

Michael Cannon, Graham Weekes

Trombone

Bryan Williams, David Woodcocks

Horns

Richard Barker, Uwe Radok

Harp

Audrey Bayly

Percussion

Lindsay Barber, Francis Beuttler

 

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