archive Autumn 1965

Monday 30 August
Special Bank Holiday production
Oh What A Lovely War
based on an idea by Charles Chilton

Artistic Credits
Producer: John David
Designer: Paul Mayo
Choreography: Larry Drew
Musical Director: Derek Taverner

Theatre Credits
Stage Director: Brian Howard
Stage Manager: Lesley Lancaster
Assisted by: Susan Sheers, Martin Shaw, Douglas Nottage, Thomas Cloney and Allan Stirland
Master Carpenter: Harold Brooks
Workshop Assistant: Howard Eldridge
Wardrobe Mistress: Gwyn Hoadly
Lighting Technician: Len Drinkwater
Box Office Manageress: Joan Lambert

Cast
The Pierrots: Madeline Bellamy, Janet Nelson, Jennie Paul, Vivienne Schofield, Susan Sheers, Larry Drew, Joseph Greig, John Harwood, Nigel Hawthorne, Bernard Holley, Douglas Nottage, Tim Preece, Frederick Robbins, Martin Shaw, Allan Stirland and Alan Thompson

All the facts presented in this entertainment are true, and are based on the records of, among others:- The Imperial War Museum, Kaiser Wilhelm II, General Erich Ludendorff, Field Marshal Graf von Schlieffen, Marshall Joffre, Field Marshal Earl Haig, Field Marshal Sir John French, General Sir Henry Wilson, Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, Philip Noel-Baker, Alan Clark, Engelbrecht and Hanighen, Siefried Sassoon, Sir Philip Gibbs, Edmund Blunden, Leon Wolff, Captain Lindell Hart, Barbara Tuschmna, Herman Kahn, The Times, The Daily Express