Sybil Thorndike
‘Theatrical Confessions’
Which is your favourite Theatre?
The Old Vic.
Which is your favourite play?
‘Macbeth’.
What is your earliest recollection?
I was two. It was my brother’s christening in Rochester Cathedral. He was yelling, and I had on a new pelisse which felt lovely.
Which is your favourite sport?
Swimming.
Which is your favourite hobby?
The Piano.
Which are your favourite cigarettes?
Love them all.
From ‘The Bat’ programme, St James’s Theatre (January 1922).
Past productions
- Appearance, Tribute to The Lady
- Lilian Baylis Centenary Festival
- The Woman, There Was an Old Woman, Thorndike Theatre (Leatherhead) Ltd
- Mrs Bramson, Night Must Fall, Martin Tickner for Firmont Plays Ltd
- Abby Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace, Peter Saunders
- Mrs Doris Tate, Return Ticket, Peter Saunders
- Molly (Dowager Countess of Lister), The Reluctant Peer, Peter Saunders
- Lady Beatrice Cuffe, Queen B., Murray Macdonald and John Stevens Ltd and Windsor Theatre Company
- Miss Crawley, Vanity Fair
- Marina Timofeyevna, Uncle Vanya
- Sacrifice
- Lotta Bainbridge, Waiting in the Wings
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Mrs Kittridge, The Sea Shell, Stephen Mitchell
- Dame Sophia Carrell, Eighty in the Shade
- Amy, Dowager Lady Monchensey, The Family Reunion
- Under Milk Wood
- Laura Anson, A Day by the Sea
- Mrs Whyte, Waters of the Moon, Tennent Productions Ltd
- Mrs Whyte, Waters of the Moon
- Aunt Anna Rose, Treasure Hunt, Tennent Productions Ltd
- Isabel Brocken, The Foolish Gentlewoman
- Mrs Jackson, The Return of the Prodigal
- Isabel Linden, The Linden Tree, London Mask Theatre
- Uncle Vanya
- Justice's Lady, The Critic
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Catherine Petkoff, Arms and the Man
- Jocasta, Oedipus Rex
- Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Part 2, Old Vic Company
- Mistress Quickly, Henry IV, Part 1, Old Vic Company
- Margaret of Anjou, Richard III
- Aase, Peer Gynt
- Marina, Uncle Vanya
- Mrs Dundass, Lottie Dundass, Farndale Ltd
- Lady Beatrice Cuffe, Queen Bee, CEMA and Old Vic Company
- She Stoops to Conquer
- Georgina Jeffreys, The House of Jeffreys, Alex B Nichols and Jeffreys Production Ltd
- Jacob
- Medea
- King John
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Miss Moffat, The Corn is Green, Stephen Mitchell
- Mrs Conway, Time and the Conways
- Volumnia, Coriolanus
- Ann Murray, Yes, My Darling Daughter, Alfred de Liagre Jr and Gilbert Miller
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company
- My Son’s My Son
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company