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 January 1922 Programme ‘The Bat’ St. James’s Theatre.
Past productions
- Appearance, Tribute to The Lady
- Lilian Baylis Centenary Festival
- Mrs Bramson, Night Must Fall, Martin Tickner (for Firmont Plays Ltd)
- Abby Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace, Peter Saunders
- Mrs Doris Tate, Return Ticket
- 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
- Dame Sophia Carrell, Eighty in the Shade
- Under Milk Wood
- Laura Anson, A Day by the Sea
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company
- My Son’s My Son
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company
- Mrs Venables' Daughter - Mrs Millward (Evie), The Distaff Side
- Lady Bucktrout, Short Story
- Katharina (the Shrew, Baptista's eldest daughter), The Taming of the Shrew, The Old Vic Theatre Company
- Victoria Van Brett, Double Door, Howard and Wyndham Tours Ltd and Moss Empires
- Hamlet