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A Victorian Soirée & Edwardian Music Hall
• directed by Margaret Rhodes
December 1988
The Civic Theatre
Leeds Arts Centre performed A Victorian Soirée & Edwardian Music Hall in December 1988.
Cast
| “A Stalwart Rescue” | |
| Robin Dearheart – Jacob’s son (returned from abroad) | Bill Hutchinson |
| Jacob Dearheart – Poor but honest | Dennis Stevenson |
| Jemima Dearheart – His careworn wife | Audrey Barker |
| Rose Dearheart – Their daughter, sweet and true | Sam McAdam |
| Sir Rodney Blackham – The new Squire, a blackhearted villain | Chris Rowley |
| John Stalwart – A gipsy youth of noble character | Neil Roberts |
| “Honesty is the Best Policy” or “Dastardly Dishonesty gets its Cumuppance” | |
| Lucy Lively – The heroine employed by Ruthless | Shirley Hamer |
| James Honesty – The hero, also employed by Ruthless | Neil Roberts |
| Reginald Ruthless – The villain, James’s stepfather | Bill Hutchinson |
| Lady Mabel – Wife to villain, James’s mother | Joyce King |
| Lydia Lively – Mother of our heroine | George Judd |
| Sir Horatio Honesty – Long lost uncle to our hero, and brother to his late-lamented father | Trevor Money |
| Ladies of the Company | Audrey Barker |
| Susie Braime | |
| Peggy Daker | |
| Nina Goldthorpe | |
| Gwyneth Hadley | |
| Shirley Hamer | |
| George Judd | |
| Joyce King | |
| Sam McAdam | |
| Anne Robinson | |
| Margaret Savage | |
| June Stevenson | |
| Betty Triggs | |
| Christine Wilson | |
| Pam Wilson | |
| Kathy Wormald | |
| Gentlemen of the Company | George Barker |
| Martyn Drake | |
| Bill Hutchinson | |
| Martin Key | |
| Trevor Money | |
| Neil Roberts | |
| Chris Rowley | |
| Dennis Stevenson | |
Backstage team
| Director | Margaret Rhodes |
| Stage Manager | Edwin Barraclough |
| Assistants | Mel Harvey |
| David Mallinson | |
| Jim Young | |
| Properties | Richard Francis |
| Lighting | Laurie Ball |
| Ladies’ Costumes | LAC Team |
| Gentlemen’s Costumes | George Teale |
| Rehearsal Pianist | Richard Noakes |
| Box Office Managers | John Pemberton |
| Dorienne Pemberton | |
| Front of House | Malcolm Brown |
| Monica Brown |
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 A Victorian Soirée & Edwardian Music Hall, we would be very pleased to hear from you.
Other productions
Leeds Arts Centre has also performed A Victorian Soirée & Edwardian Music Hall on another occasion, in 1989 – more details of that production can be found by following the link to its page in this archive.
