Download: Programme
(113 KBytes)
A Christmas Fantasia
• directed by Arthur Cox
December 1948
The Civic Theatre
Leeds Children’s Theatre
Leeds Arts Centre performed A Christmas Fantasia in December 1948.
This production was staged by Leeds Children’s Theatre, who at the time were one of the sub-groups within Leeds Arts Centre. Having returned to being a company in their own right in the 1950s, they are still creating theatre for children to this day.
Cast
| The Imp Tree | |
| Lynette, Queen of Winchester | Thelma Laycock |
| Joan, her lady-in-waiting | Joyce Whitney |
| Mary, her lady-in-waiting | Jean Macaulay |
| Alice, her lady-in-waiting | Avril Whitaker |
| First Goblin | Maureen Spanton |
| Second Goblin | Barbara Tullock |
| Wyvern, the Goblin King | Barbara Colley |
| Robert, King of Winchester | Pauline Sturdy |
| Eric, a noble lord | Jean Cameron |
| Cedric, a noble lord | Barbara Richardson |
| Frederick, a noble lord | Louis Wilson |
| Old Man | Prudence O’Neill |
| Peasant | Christine Higgins |
| Other Goblins | Joan Benn |
| Pat Wilson | |
| Dorothy Smith | |
| Megan Salter | |
| Brenda Moss | |
| Janice Goldsborough | |
| Harlequinade | |
| Pantaloon | John Ridley |
| Joey the Clown | David Johns |
| Policeman | Clive Tutton |
| Moneybags | Norman Robinson |
| Bones the Butcher | Alan Ridge |
| Herlequin | Sylvia Towse |
| Columbine | Pauline Bird |
| The Truth About King Wenceslas | |
| King Wenceslas | Don Farrow |
| The Queen | Madeleine Michaels |
| The Princess | Joan Lake |
| The Page | Ruth B. Hamlyn |
| The Prime Minister | Arthur Cox |
| The Royal Doctor | Leslie Oliver |
| The Royal Astrologer | Henry Miller |
| Yonder Peasant | J. L. McGee |
| A Carol Singer | Ernest Greaves |
| The Pace Egg | |
| The Fool | Ernest Beaumont |
| St. George | Don Farrow |
| Slasher | Herbert Stead |
| The Doctor | Arthur Ridley |
| The Black Prince of Paradine | C. E. Blakeborough |
| The King of Egypt | Henry Miller |
| Hector | Leslie Oliver |
| Beelzebub | Arthur Cox |
| Little Devil Doubt | Colin North |
Backstage team
| Director | Arthur Cox |
| Stage Manager | Arthur E. B. Brown |
| Lighting | William Bishop |
| Music | Walter P. Miller |
| Property Mistress | Margaret Gale |
| House Manager | Shirley Wood |
| Publicity Manager | William Sharp |
| The Scenery Painted by | LAC Team |
Archive documents
The following documents from the production are in the LAC archive.
Download: Review
(282 KBytes)
(282 KBytes)
Download: Review
(143 KBytes)
(143 KBytes)
Download: Review
(140 KBytes)
(140 KBytes)
Download: Review
(153 KBytes)
(153 KBytes)
Add to the archive
We’re always looking to add to our archive of past productions – if you have any other memories of A Christmas Fantasia, we would be very pleased to hear from you.
