The Match Girls

by Joyce Adcock and Gordon Caleb, Performed in June and Augustdirected by Joyce Adcock and Maureen Rutter
June 1962
The Civic Theatre

Leeds Arts Centre performed The Match Girls in June 1962.

Cast

SarahFreda Dallywater
SadieSylvia Brayshay
AdaJoan Milbourne
KeziahGwen Hart
KateRuby Palka
AliceMaureen Rutter
RubyPat Gore
BessieNettie Ross
ElizaClare Cheetham
MaryKay Gurney
PerlPatricia Appleson
MarthaWendy Terry
JinnyMolly Bush
LizzieMonica Sheldon
RoseLiz McCafferty
 
Annie BesantOlive Richardson
Clementina BlackJanet Brown
Eleanor SummersSusan Francis
Clara MosbyChristine Curtis
MabelBetty Triggs
 
BarkerEdward Lakeland
TommyFrank O’Donnell
BertNorman Thackwray
DavyBarry Stanhope
Fabian ChairmanPhilip Rhodes
Herbert BurrowsJack Lewis
Lewis LyonsPhilip Weston
TheodoreJack Clark
FrederickLen Sheldon
WilberforceEric Parker
CharlesGeorge Westmoreland
Rev. Mark LathamGeorge Teale
ManPeter Riley
Barrow BoyCarl Beedle
BookieJohn Byfield
BoyStephen Ratcliffe
 
Match Girls and WorkmenBarbara Musson
 Jenny McLean
 Pamela Puckering
 June Stonehouse
 Stephen Clarkson
 Robert Tolan
 
Chorus MistressOlive Richardson
PianosGordon Caleb
 Jack Harrison
BassRoger Davies
DrumsMichael Atha

Backstage team

DirectorJoyce Adcock and Maureen Rutter
Stage ManagerJohn Lawson
LightingCedric Vendyback
Scenery Designed byLeslie Wainwright
Scenery Constructed byFred Mower
Properties Made bySybil Jenkinson
 John Byfield
WardrobeMargaret Shackleton
 Doreen Parker
 Elaine Cooper
 Pat Evans
 June Stonehouse
 May McAndrew
Production SecretariesMargaret Shackleton
 Philip Rhodes
Box Office ManagersCora Greaves
 Ernest Greaves
Front of House ManagersColin Belford
 Margaret Shackleton

Archive documents

The following documents from the production are in the LAC archive.

Download: Programme
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Add to the archive

We’re always looking to add to our archive of past productions – if you have any other memories of The Match Girls, we would be very pleased to hear from you.