Murder in the Cathedral

by T. S. Eliotdirected by Stanley Smith
probably April 1969
The Civic Theatre

Leeds Arts Centre probably performed Murder in the Cathedral in April 1969.

Cast

Archbishop Thomas BecketArthur Cockerill
First PriestGeorge Westmoreland
Second PriestBrian Shaw
Third PriestAnthony Gallagher
A MessengerEdward Macro
First Tempter / First KnightLen Sheldon
Second Tempter / Second KnightJack Clark
Third Tempter / Third KnightGraham Alchorne
Fourth Tempter / Fourth KnightGerry Armytage
AttendantsDavid Welch
 George Reagan
 Adrian Duncan
 Derek Ford
Women of CanterburyOlive Richardson
 Christine Wilson
 Betty Triggs
 Eileen Smith
 Christine Dalton
 Josephine Ward

Backstage team

DirectorStanley Smith
Stage ManagerGeoff Mountain
Assistant Stage ManagerRay Spurgeon
Set DesignFred Mower
LightingStanley Smith
MusicChristine Laskey
 Ruth Wilkinson
PropertiesDoreen Parker
WardrobeMaggie Rhodes
 Jean Blundell
PromptJoan Orange
Box OfficeHazel Irving
 John Pemberton
PublicityJo Davy
 Richard Strudwick
Front of HouseEric Parker

Archive documents

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

Download: Programme
(70 KBytes)

Add to the archive

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

Other productions

Leeds Arts Centre has also performed Murder in the Cathedral on another occasion, in 1987 – more details of that production can be found by following the link to its page in this archive.