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Programme for the Elfed School's Production of Toad of Toad Hall Produced by Beatrice Barker"

Elfed High School, Mill Lane, Buckley

October 1956

see 181.14 - 16 for the entries on this production

 

PROGRAMME COVER

 

Toad of Toad Hall

presented by the

Elfed Secondary Modern School

October 1956

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TOAD OF TOAD HALL

 

A play from Kenneth Grahame's Book

"The Wind in the Willows", by A.A.Milne

 

CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)

MarigoldHazel Wainwright

Nurse Sylvia L. Fox

Mole Brenda Parry

Water RatWendy C. Hewins

Mr. BadgerGordon E. Davies

Toad Neville C. Ellis

Alfred Barry Hughes

The back legs of AlfredGeoffrey Weaver

Chief FerretCarol Wilcock

Chief WeaselMichael Peters

Chief StoatMichael Jones

First Field MouseTony W. Jones

Second Field MouseIvor Beavan

PolicemanKenneth Davies

Gaoler Ian Thomas

Usher Basil Williams

Judge Glyn Fisher

TurkeyJean Sparks

Duck Rosalind Thornton

PhoebeEluned Hughes

Washer WomanJennifer M. Major

Mama RabbitEnid Williams

Lucy RabbitCarol A. Jenkins

Harold Rabbit John G. Davies

Barge-womanAngela Hopwood

 

FerretsStoats

Carol A. Carr Brian Harrison

Neville PhillipsCarol A. Done

Judith HewittStephen Hebblewhite

Joan Williams Michael Speke

Pamela M. Wynne

 

WeaselsField Mice

Anne M. BlackCarol Hopwood

Douglas McallisterHoward Wrigley

Bernice PurtonCharles Wrigley

Christine HoughtonEleri Messham

Richard Jacks

Wynne Robinson

 

Squirrels

Jacqueline Blore

Margaret Hill

SYNOPSIS OF SCENERY

Prologue-Down by the Willows

Act 1The River Bank

Act 2Scene 1The Wild Wood

Scene 2Mr. Badger's House

Scene 3The same (some weeks later)

Act 3Scene 1The Court House

Scene 2The Dungeon

Scene 3The Canal Bank

Act 4Scene 1 Rat's House by the River

Scene 2The Underground Passage

Scene 3The Banqueting Room at Toad Hall

"Wouldn't it be lovely if they suddenly came out and began to talk - Mole from under the ground there, and the Water Rat from his hole in the bank, and the old Badger from the dead leaves in the ditch and Mr. Toad…."

"We should just listen to them, without their knowing anything about it"

 

Stage ManagerassistedC. Peters

Scenery byJ. V. Hughes

LightingSenior PupilsD. A. Davies

CostumesMiss E. Peters

PropertiesG. Pickford

Music Mrs. G. M. Davies

RecordingsJ. E. Millington

Business ManagerL. Millington

Producer: Miss B. M. Barker

 

Musical items by members of the Orchestral Class

of the Elfed Evening Institute

 

Hen Wlad fy NhadauThe Queen

 

 

 

Author: Elfed High School

Tags

Year = 1956

Month = October

Building = School

Document = Ephemera

Event = Social/Entertainment

Work = Education

Extra = Entertainment

Extra = 1950s

Extra = Theatre

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