Events Diary
2024
Our next productionDid you know?
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This was the 34th production and the fourth time the Society had presented "Princess Ida" (alternatively known as "Castle Adamant").
1982 saw the first of our productions to be performed in Batley Town Hall, following the closure of Crossbank Sunday School. We would spend a further 5 years here before moving to Dewsbury Little Theatre. In 2011 we moved back to the Town Hall following the closure of the Little Theatre.
This production saw Steven Greenwood move from playing principal roles to becoming our Producer/Director. Steven joined us in 1974, playing a number of principal roles including Ralph Rackstraw in "Ruddigore", Frederic in "Pirates" and Cyril in the 1976 production of "Princess Ida".
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From Gilbert's Bab Ballads:
"Would You Know?""
(Would you know the kind of maid)
Producer/Director : Steven Greenwood
Musical Director : John Davies
Cast
| King Hilderbrand: | Keith Horner |
| Hilarion: (His Son) | Eric Tester |
| Hilarion's Friends | |
| Cyril: | David S. Brooke |
| Florian: | Christopher J. Sowerby |
| King Gama: | Frank Croft |
| His Sons | |
| Arac: | Brook H. Carbutt |
| Guron: | Philip Ingham |
| Scynthius: | C. Robert Thurman |
| Princess Ida : (Gama's Daughter) | Sandra Chapman |
| Lady Psyche : (Professor of Humanities) | Pamela J. Brooke |
| Lady Blanche : (Professor of Abstract Science) | Marjorie Harrap |
| Melissa : (Lady Blanche's Daughter) | Stephanie Roe |
| Girl Graduates | |
| Sacharissa: | Mary Ludford |
| Chloe: | Alison M. Sowerby |
| Ada: | Margaret Croft |
| Hildebrand's Guards : | Jeremy Haigh, Gary Roberts |
LADIES' CHORUS:
Marie Bullock, Margaret Carbutt, Marilyn Cooper, Rachel Croft, Jean Greenwood, Jane Lindley, Margaret Lister, Irene Richardson, Sally Roberts, Joan Rumbold, Kathryn Thurman.
MEN'S CHORUS:
Keith Cooper, David Gill, Steven Greenwood, Philip Haley, Peter Newell, Vernon Newman, Malcolm Parkinson, Barry Pearson, John Whitehead.
