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Book of presscuttings - Belgrade Theatre productions
PA2313/5/2/9
Aug 1967 - Aug 1968
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Coventry Archives & Research Centre
[Belgrade Theatre] Reviews: "Godiva Was A Lady" by John Gray; "Boeing - Boeing" by Marc Camoletti; "Gaslight" by Patrick Hamilton (cast: Elizabeth Power, Douglas Ditta, John Rowe, Jenny Austen, Alison King, Jon Yule, Paul Moriarty. Director: Tom Osborne); "Caesar and Cleopatra" by George Bernard Shaw; "Mother Courage" by Bertolt Brecht (cast: Freda Jackson, William Ellis, Paul Moriarty, Alison King, Elizabeth Power, John Franklyn - Robbins, Paddy Ward. Director: Michael Ashton); "Carissima" by Hans May and Eric Maschwitz, performed by the Coventry Musical Play Society (cast: Ann Warwick, Liam Magee, Gail Spencer, Sheila Woodley, Ted Whitehead, Syd Albrighton, Bob Bradbrook, Jack Young, Director: Betty Pattison. Musical director: Gordon Kilby); "The Knack" by Ann Jellicoe; "After the Fall" by Arthur Miller; "Squat Betty" by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (cast: Barbara Laurenson, John Rowe, Douglas Ditta. Director: Ian Norris), "Dumb Waiter" by Harold Pinter (cast: Terence Taplin, Paul Moriarty. Director: Ian Norris) Bond Street Theatre double bill; "Alfie" by Bill Naughton; "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, adapted by Alec Guinness; "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Warren Jenkins and Roger Redfarn; "The Hotchpotch of 1967" by the Belgrade Youth Theatre; "Signpost to Murder" by Monte Doyle (cast: Elizabeth Power, William Ellis, Peter Lincoln, John Rowe, Alan David, Paul Moriarty, Paul Howes. Director: Roger Redfarn); "The Flower Drum Song" by Rogers and Hammerstein, performed by the Blue Triangle Operatic Society (cast: Liam Magee, Dorcas Jones, Barrie Humphreys, Margary Oatridge, Roy Bowers); "Portrait of a Queen" by William Francis; "The Wind in the Sassafras Trees" by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson; "Henry V" by William Shakespeare; "Saturday Night at the Crown" by Walter Greenwood (cast: Peter Needham, John Rowe, Paul Howes, Joyce Latham (replaced by Alison King), Jenny Austen, Marshall Jones, Pamela Cundler, Michael McGovern, Paul Moriarty, Diana Berriman. Director: Roger Redfarn); "A Day in the Death of Joe Egg" by Peter Nichols; "Can - Can" by Cole Porter, performed by the Queen's Theatre Company (cast: Bronwyn Charles, Keith Higgins, Eric Taylor, Yvonne MacDonald, Brian Burke, Ken Spriggs, Clifford Evans, Cyril Franks, Don Griffin. Director: Peter Jacques); "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, adapted by John Davidson; "Wait Until Dark" by Frederick Knott; "The Promise" by Aleksei Arbuzov; "Simple Spymen" by John Chapman; "Narrow Road to the Deep North" by Edward Bond (cast: Peter Needham, Paul Howes, Malcolm Ingram, Christopher Matthews, John Rowe, Gordon Reid, Edward Peel, Peter Sproule, Nigel Hawthorne, Susan Williamson. Director: Jane Howell); "See The Pretty Lights" (cast: Roger Chapman, Alison King. Director: Rosemary Birbeck); and "The What on the Landing" (cast: Roger Chapman, Gordon Wiseman, Judith Warth, Stuart Bennett, Frances Colyer, Anthony Kyle, Colin White. Director: Rosemary Birbeck) double bill by Alan Plater; "No No Nanette" by Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach and Irving Caesar

Others: text to 'Narrow Road to The Deep North' by Edward Bond; "The Lunchbox", Belgrade's lunchtime entertainments; Belgrade to stage the British premiere of "After the Fall" by Arthur Miller; Belgrade tours Holland and Belgium with "The Knack" by Ann Jellicoe; Rosemary Birbeck on the work of Belgrade Theatre In Education; interviews with Peter Hall on his resignation from the RSC and Trevor Nunn on his appointment as artistic director; appointment of Tony Clayton; resignation of John Russell; Michael Croft, director of the National Youth Theatre, addresses the Belgrade Theatre Club; Belgrade's tenth anniversary; Lord Chamberlain's objections to "Narrow Road to the Deep North" - the play premieres at the Belgrade following Bond's amendments; Tina Packer; Michael Boothe; Lulu Hilton; Sandra Michaels; Angela Easterling; Linda Guest; Alec McCowen; Tony Hilton; Frankie Howerd; Marshall Jones; Peter Gilmore; Leonard Schach; Leon Gluckmann and Erica Rogers; Caricature Puppet Theatre; Marion Grimaldi; Alan Haywood; Photograph: Valerie Sarruf and William Fox tour the Belgrade; "If It Were Not For the Weaver" by Belgrade Theatre in Education, based on Joseph Gutteridge's autobiography
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