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
- Night Must Fall
- Abby Brewster, Arsenic and Old Lace, Peter Saunders
- 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
- 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
- Arms and the Man
- Lottie Dundass
- The Queen Bee
- She Stoops to Conquer
- The House of Jeffreys
- Jacob
- Medea
- King John
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- The Corn is Green
- Volumnia, Coriolanus
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- My Son’s My Son
- Short Story
- Mrs Millward (Evie), The Distaff Side
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Katharina (the Shrew, Baptista's eldest daughter), The Taming of the Shrew, The Old Vic Theatre Company
- Victoria Van Brett, Double Door, by Elizabeth McFadden, Moss Empires/Howard and Wyndham Tours Ltd.
- Hamlet
- Mrs Millward (Evie), The Distaff Side
- Shakespeare Birthday Festival
- Citizen's Wife, The Knight of the Burning Pestle
- Saint Joan