archive Spring 1962

Starting on Tuesday 29 June
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
by William Shakespeare

Scene: Athens and a forest outside the city

Artistic Credits
Director: David Phethean
Designer: John Gunter
Music specially composed by: David King
Choreography: Olivia Breeze
Costumes: John Bright and the Old Vic Wardrobe

Theatre Credits
Stage Director: Jackie Harskin
Assistant Stage Managers: Colin Draper, Keith Carter and Anne Whitehead
Designer: John Gunter
Master Carpenter: Harold Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Roland Brown

Cast
Theseus (Duke of Athens): David Perry
Hippolyta ( Queen of the Amazons, betrothed to Theseus): Jane Howell
Philostrate: Norman Wingrove
Egeus: Keith Carter
Hermia (his daughter): June Watts
Lysander (in love with Hermia): Greville Hallam
Demetrius( “ “ “ “ ): Christopher Dunham
Helena (in love with Demetrius): Pat Heywood
Quince (a carpenter): Robert Gillespie
Bottom (a Weaver): Ken Wynne
Flute (a Bellows-mender): Norman Bennett
Snug (a Joiner): John Bright
Snout (a Tinker): Keith Carter
Starveling (a Tailor): Colin Draper
A Fairy: Olivia Breeze
Puck: Jonathan Meddings
Titania (Queens of the Fairies): Julia McCarthy
Oberon (King of the Fairies): Michael Lynch
Peaseblossom: Vanessa Hardman Faires
Cobweb: Christine Wright “
Moth: Corinne Pratt “
Mustardseed: Linda Kear “

There will be one interval of Fifteen Minutes