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

Elfed High School, Mill Lane, Buckley

December 1958

see 181.17 - 18 for the entries on this production.

 

PROGRAMME COVER

 

Bethlehem

presented by the

Elfed School

December 1958

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PROGRAMME TEXT

 

181.17

PROGRAMME TEXT

BETHLEHEM

A Choral Drama. The libretto adapted from the

COVENTRY NATIVITY PLAY

Music by Rutland Boughton

 

CHARACTERS

THE VIRGIN MARYCAROL WILCOCK

GABRIELMARGARET HILL

JOSEPHMR. DEREK HOLLINS

JEMTREVOR HUGHES

SYMIVOR BEAVAN

DAVETERENCE PRITCHARD

AN ANGELJEANNE COLLINS

ZARATHUSTRAMICHAEL SHEEN

NUBARALAN LUNT

MERLINTREVOR HILL

CALCHAS, the HeraldPETER MILLINGTON

HERODIASMARLENE STANT

HERODGLYN FISHER

HEROD'S SONHOWARD JONES

 

Chorus of peasants, who also play the parts of Believers and Unbelievers:

Marilyn Jones, Margaret Ward, Joan Williams, Lenore Iball, Bernice Purton, Pat Evans, Pamela Williams, Diana Davies, Brenda Parry, Barbara Brownhill, Dorothy Hayes, Pauline Parry, jean Roberts, Jean Fennah, Carol Hopwood, Jeanne Collins, June Griffiths, Pat Grindley, Gillian Blundert, Marie Messham, Dilys Bellis, Jacqueline Peers, Marjorie Wright, Michael Davies, Ann Davies, Denise Edwards, Jean Simpole, Valerie Lloyd, Clive Davies, Lorraine Iball, Megan Tomlinson, Gwen Jones, Vivien Webber, Carol Jenkins, Pamela Williams, Beryl Edwards, Ruth Hughes, Susan Garston, Gillian Blore, Gillian Lightfoot.

 

Soldiers: Richard Jacks, Brian Taylor, Michael Stevenson, David Freeman.

 

Slaves: Margaret Millington, Pamela Garston, Muriel Catherall, Diane lease, Susan Fletcher, Marilyn Jordon, Hazel Evans, Pat Hockaday, Ann Hughes, Helen Hopwood.

 

Angels: Kay Millward, Brenda Millington, Megan Tomlinson, Jeannie Collins,

 

Children: Susan Dodd, Glenda Shone, Irene Jones, Noreen Brockley, Joan Lewis, Marilyn Fox, Christine Arnold, Sian Williams.

Assistant Accompanist ------Elaine Jones

Choral Prelude

ACT 1, Scene 1.The Home of Joseph and Mary at Nazareth

Scene 2.A Moor at Night

Scene 3.The Stable

ACT 2, Scene 1.An open place in Jerusalem in front of Herod's Palace

Scene 2.The Stable

 

STAGE MANAGERassistedC. PETERS

SCENERY byJ. V. HUGHES

LIGHTINGSeniorD. A. DAVIES

COSTUMESPupilsMiss E. PETERS

Miss G. C. OWEN

PROPERTIESD. M. HULLEY

J. E. MILLINGTON

Producers

Miss B. M. Barker and Mrs. M. C. Davies

HEN WLAD FY NHADAUTHE QUEEN

 

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PREVIOUS PRODUCTIONS

1954:Michael, by Miles Malleson

The Princess and the Woodcutter, by A. A. Milne

1955:The Other Children, by Margaret Harding

1956:Toad of Toad Hall, by A. A. Milne

1957:Emil and the Detectives, by Erich Kaestner

 

 

Author: Elfed High School

Tags

Year = 1958

Month = December

Building = School

Document = Ephemera

Event = Social/Entertainment

Work = Education

Extra = Entertainment

Extra = 1950s

Extra = Theatre

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