Events Diary
2024
Our next productionDid you know?
- Our 36th production and the third time we've produced "Trial By Jury". As on all but one of the the previous productions (1954), this was a double bill with "HMS Pinafore".
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"Trial By Jury" is set in a court of law, the original setting being based by Gilbert on the Clerkenwell Court in which he had appeared during his early, brief and unremunerative career as a lawyer.
The bare bones for Trial appeared in the 11th April 1868 edition of Fun, a magazine to which Gilbert was a regular contributor. In 1875, Richard D'Oyly Carte commissioned Gilbert & Sullivan to produce a short opera. By then, Gilbert had turned the original idea into a full-scale libretto which proved the perfect basis for Sullivan's music.
Producer/Director : Steven Greenwood
Musical Director : Michael Clare
Cast
| THE LEARNED JUDGE: | Frank Croft |
| COUNSEL FOR THE PLAINTIFF: | Allan Haigh |
| THE DEFENDANT: | Steven Greenwood |
| FOREMAN OF THE JURY: | Robert Thurman |
| USHER: | Keith Horner |
| THE ASSOCIATE: | Andrew Fisher |
| THE PLAINTIFF: | Stephanie Roe |
| PHOTOGRAPHER: | Robert Hardcastle |
| FIRST BRIDESMAID: | Mary Ludford |
| BRIDESMAIDS: | Marilyn Cooper, Jean Greenwood, Jane Harmer, Jayne Lindley, Alison Sowerby |
GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY:
Keith Cooper, Peter Newell, Vernon Newman, Malcolm Parkinson, Barry Pearson, Chris Sowerby, Eric Tester, John Whitehead
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC GALLERY:
Alison Boden, Marie Bullock, Jill Carline, Sandra Chapman, Paula Craven, Margaret Croft, Marjorie Harrap, Margaret Lister, Irene Richardson, Joan Rumbold, Kath Thurman, Mary Troy, Dorothy Whitworth
