The Trial Of Mary Dugan

by Bayard Veiller
Directed by Hugh Miller

RADA Students

London County Council Open-Air Entertainments
Waterlow Park and Streatham Common
June 20th - 25th
1955

Clerk Of Court ..... Keith Baxter-Wright
Judge Nash ..... Neville Jacobson
District Attorney Galwey ..... Graham Abernathy
District Attorney Galwey ..... Tristram Jellinek
District Attorney's Secretary ..... Sylvia Childs
Mary Dugan (Known As Mona Tree)..... Katherine Hallgren
Pauline Agguerro ..... Joan Frederiksen
Interpreter ..... Eira Heath
Dr. Welcome ..... Peter O'Toole
James Madison ..... Robert Richardson
Edward West (Mary Dugan's Attorney) ..... Peter Needham
Police-Inspector Hunt ..... Frank Finlay
Police-Captain Price ..... Harvey Ashby
Dagmar Lorne (of "The Follies") ..... Virginia Thomas
May Harris (of "The Scandals") ..... Phyllis Tillinghast
Ferne Arthur (of "The Follies") ..... Patricia Kilgarriff
Jimmy Dugan ..... Michael O'Brien
Mrs. Edgar Rice ..... Claudine Morgan
Court Stenographer ..... Mary Richards
Patricia Kearney ..... Alison Mckinnell
Marie Ducrot ..... Eira Heath
Henry Plaisted ..... Tristram Jellinek
Henry Plaisted ..... Graham Abe
Reporter ..... Geoffrey Goldsmith
Court Attendants:
Antony Higginson
Brian Mulholland
Alan Halley

Open-Air Entertainments were an extensive post-war programme of entertainments held by the London County Council (LCC) in parks across the city. As well as theatre, these entertainments included opera, ballet, concerts and folk dancing.

This student production boasted an impressive cast, along with Frank there is Peter O’Toole and Keith Baxter as well as Tristram Jellinek and Peter Needham who both had long careers as actors.