Hamlet
Arts Council tour of theatreless towns in North-East England (first three weeks) and then six weeks (starting on 21st February) in Wales. Preview performance at the Chepstow Theatre Club in London’s Notting Hill.
“Since the Arts Council initiated these tours in 1947 in association with the Miners’ Welfare Commission, the mining families have delighted in Shakespeare, Shaw, Moliere, Sheridan and other great dramatists. They delighted in HAMLET [at Spennymoor Town Hall] last night and gave it a fine send off for a tour which, during the next three weeks, will take it to 11 small towns in South Durham, the North Riding and Northumberland.” – ‘HAMLET delights an audience of miners’, Yorkshire Post 2nd February 1955, page 1
Cast & Crew
Cast
Barnardo/Lucianus | Peter Barker |
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Claudius | Eric Thompson |
Francisco / Prologue / 2nd Gravedigger / Attendant | Patrick Duffy |
Gertrude | Patricia Kneale |
Hamlet | Richard Gale |
Horatio | Peter Jeffrey |
Lady attendant on the Queen | Yvonne Bonnamy |
Lady attendant on the Queen | Patricia Voysey |
Laertes / Guildenstern | Clifford Rose |
Ophelia | Lesley Nunnerley |
Player King / 1st Gravedigger / Ghost / Fortinbras | Colin George |
Player Queen / Sailor | Simon Carter |
Polonius / Osric | Toby Robertson |
Priest / Marcellus | Bernard Brown |
Rosencrantz | David Terence |
Crew | |
Director | Peter Wood |
Fights arranged by | John Barton |
Music composed by | David King |
Settings designed by | Richard Lake |
Stage Director | Ronald McMaster |
Stage Manager | Susan Lyde |
Technical Manager | Douglas Cornelissen |
Wardrobe Mistress | Patricia Voysey |
Additional Costumes executed by | Josef Roth |
Assistant Stage Manager | Yvonne Bonnamy |
Assistant Stage Manager | Roger Boston |
Assistant Stage Manager | Bernard Brown |
Assistant Stage Manager | Herbert Brown |
Assistant Stage Manager | Simon Carter |
Assistant Stage Manager | Patrick Duffy |
Costume Supervisor / Masks and Jewellery executed by | Hilary Virgo |
Manager (Arts Council) | John Cleaver |
Manager (Elizabethan Co) | Yolande Bird |
Scenery built and painted by | Harkers Studios |
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