1955

The Yeomen of the Guard


Monday 5th to Saturday 10th 1955


Winter Gardens, Waterloo

Dramatis Personae

Sir Richard Chomondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower

Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death

Sergeant Meryll, of the Yeomen of the Guard

Leonard Meryll, his son

Jack Point, a Strolling Jester

Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailer and Assistant Tormentor

Elsie Maynard, a Strolling Singer

Phoebe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll's Daughter

Dame Carruthers, Housekeeper to the Tower

Kate, her Niece

First Yeomen

Second Yeomen

James H. Smith

Dennis Smerdon

Walter Hosegood

Eric Forshaw

Anthony Collins

Bert Dunn

Olive Thomas

Marian Martin

Betti Lloyd-Jones

Patricia A. Jones

William F. Jones

Eric Roberts

Yeomen of the Guard


Luke Auld

Robert Bradshaw

Arthur L. Chapple

George Collins

Eric Forshaw

Godfrey K. Haselden

James C. Hepburn

William F. Jones

Malcolm Kelly

Tom McAleer

Charles McKenna

Thomas McKenna

Ernest Nickols

Robert Parry

George Poynor

Eric Roberts

William Simm

Norman L. Vaughan-Davies

G. Reg Warden

Griffith W. Williams

Owen W. Williams


Villagers


Marjorie Abbotson

Elaine Allan

Phoebe Armstrong

Mary E. Brown

Elsie Clark

Stephanie Coles

Mabel Cookson

Gwen Doyle

Joan Galliford

Frances Glynn

Marion Hellam

Joyce M. Howard

Gladys Jackson

Ada Johnston

Elsie W. Jones

Pat Jones

Dorothy Porter

Joyce Procter

Kathleen Ryder

Kathleen Stananought

Mollie Stananought

Ivy M. Whitmore

Ruth Woodfield


Production Team

Producer

Musical Director

May Collins

Wilfred Murray

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