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The Match Girls
• directed by Joyce Adcock and Maureen Rutter
June 1962
The Civic Theatre
Leeds Arts Centre performed The Match Girls in June 1962.
Cast
| Sarah | Freda Dallywater |
| Sadie | Sylvia Brayshay |
| Ada | Joan Milbourne |
| Keziah | Gwen Hart |
| Kate | Ruby Palka |
| Alice | Maureen Rutter |
| Ruby | Pat Gore |
| Bessie | Nettie Ross |
| Eliza | Clare Cheetham |
| Mary | Kay Gurney |
| Perl | Patricia Appleson |
| Martha | Wendy Terry |
| Jinny | Molly Bush |
| Lizzie | Monica Sheldon |
| Rose | Liz McCafferty |
| Annie Besant | Olive Richardson |
| Clementina Black | Janet Brown |
| Eleanor Summers | Susan Francis |
| Clara Mosby | Christine Curtis |
| Mabel | Betty Triggs |
| Barker | Edward Lakeland |
| Tommy | Frank O’Donnell |
| Bert | Norman Thackwray |
| Davy | Barry Stanhope |
| Fabian Chairman | Philip Rhodes |
| Herbert Burrows | Jack Lewis |
| Lewis Lyons | Philip Weston |
| Theodore | Jack Clark |
| Frederick | Len Sheldon |
| Wilberforce | Eric Parker |
| Charles | George Westmoreland |
| Rev. Mark Latham | George Teale |
| Man | Peter Riley |
| Barrow Boy | Carl Beedle |
| Bookie | John Byfield |
| Boy | Stephen Ratcliffe |
| Match Girls and Workmen | Barbara Musson |
| Jenny McLean | |
| Pamela Puckering | |
| June Stonehouse | |
| Stephen Clarkson | |
| Robert Tolan | |
| Chorus Mistress | Olive Richardson |
| Pianos | Gordon Caleb |
| Jack Harrison | |
| Bass | Roger Davies |
| Drums | Michael Atha |
Backstage team
| Director | Joyce Adcock and Maureen Rutter |
| Stage Manager | John Lawson |
| Lighting | Cedric Vendyback |
| Scenery Designed by | Leslie Wainwright |
| Scenery Constructed by | Fred Mower |
| Properties Made by | Sybil Jenkinson |
| John Byfield | |
| Wardrobe | Margaret Shackleton |
| Doreen Parker | |
| Elaine Cooper | |
| Pat Evans | |
| June Stonehouse | |
| May McAndrew | |
| Production Secretaries | Margaret Shackleton |
| Philip Rhodes | |
| Box Office Managers | Cora E. Greaves |
| Ernest Greaves | |
| Front of House Managers | Colin Belford |
| Margaret Shackleton |
Archive documents
The following documents from the production are in the LAC archive.
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.
