Bartholomew Fair
Part of University Open Air Theatre Festival 13 July-1 August 1959. Took place in the specially constructed Open Air Theatre, Avonbank Gardens, Stratford-upon-Avon under the auspices of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Performed by the Oxford University Experimental Theatre Club
Cast & Crew
Cast
Adam Overdo | Peter Holmes |
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Alice | Hazel-Ann Plumer |
Bartholomew Cokes | Denis Moriarty |
Bristle | David Vere-Jones |
Captain Whit | Oliver Davies |
Dame Overdo | Elisabeth Bosworth |
Dame Purecraft | Margaret Vernon |
Dan Jordan Knockem | Kenneth Loach |
Ezekiel Edgeworth | Martin Bowley |
Filcher | William Aaron |
Grace Wellborn | Caroline Seebohm |
Haggise | Michael Billington |
Humphrey Waspe | Adrian Brine |
Joan Trash | Susan Forrester |
John Littlewit | Adrian Petch |
Lanthorn Leatherhead | Eddie Gilbert |
Mooncalf | Jonathan Cecil |
Northern | Edmund Fisher |
Puppy | William Aaron |
Quarlous | Philip Wilkinson |
Sharkwell | John Bailey |
Troubleall | Jonathan Cecil |
Ursula | Romola Christopherson |
Val Cutting | Glyn Worsnip |
Win-the-Fight | Pat O’Callaghan |
Winwife | Bryan Stonehouse |
Zeal-of-the-Land | Keith Dawson |
Crew | |
Designer | Diana Hughes |
Director | Kenneth Loach |
Director | David Webster |
Music by | Herbert Chappell |
Music by | Dudley Moore |
Playwright | Ben Jonson |
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Play description
Bartholomew Fayre: A Comedy is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on October 31, 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth’s Men. Written four years after The Alchemist, five after Epicoene, or the Silent Woman, and nine after Volpone, it is in some respects the most experimental of these plays.
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