Little Theatre, Sunderland

The Mayville Players
Director of Productions L. Griffith-Knight
1952-1953

    Man About The House

    Smilin' Through



    The Winslow Boy



  • Productions:
    1952
    3rd November
    THE LIGHT OF THE HEART

    11th November
    ARTIFICAL SILK, Rev Robert Titterton
    By H. C. Lomax

    18th November
    MY MOTHER HAD THREE SONS, Alan Claire
    By Richard Sargent

    25th November
    THEY FLY BY TWILIGHT
    By Paul Dornhurst

    1st December
    A GUARDSMANS CUP OF TEA
    By Thomas Browne

    9th December
    MOUNTAIN AIR
    By Ronald Wilkinson

    16th December
    JOHNNY BELINDA
    By Elmer Harris

    22nd December
    GLAD TIDINGS
    By R F Delderfield

    29th December
    A CHRISTMAS CAROL
    By Charles Dickens

    1953
    5th January
    SWEET MADNESS

    13th January
    SEPTEMBER TIDE
    By Daphne Du Maurier

    20th January
    THE HOLLOW
    By Agatha Christie

    3rd February
    WORMS EYE VIEW
    By R. F. Delderfield

    9th February
    THE WINSLOW BOY
    by Terence Rattigan

    17th February
    JANE STEPS OUT
    By Kenneth Horne

    24th February
    A MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE
    By John Parry

    3rd March
    BEGGAR MY NEIGHBOUR
    By Arnold Ridley

    10th March
    THE FAMILY UPSTAIRS
    By Harry Delf

    17th March
    WHAT ANNE BROUGHT HOME

    24th March
    MADAME TIC-TAC
    By Falkland L. Cary and Phillip Weathers

    31st March
    BED, BOARD AND ROMANCE
    By Harry Jackson

    6th April
    HERE WE COME GATHERING
    By Phillip King and Anthony Armstrong

    14th April
    TOO YOUNG TO MARRY

    21st April
    IT'S A WISE CHILD
    By Larry E Johnson

    27th April
    APRON STRINGS

    4th MAY
    TO HAVE AND TO HOLD
    By Lionel Brown

    11th May
    AREN'T WE ALL?
    By Frederick Lonsdale

    18th May
    WITHOUT THIS RING
    By Falkland L. Cary and Ivan Butler

    25th May
    CHARLEY'S UNCLE
    By Dennis Staveley

    1st June
    A PRIEST IN THE FAMILY

    8th June
    THE SHINING HOUR
    By Keith Winter

    15th June
    TONY DRAWS A HORSE
    By Lesley Storm

    22nd June
    WIDOWS ARE DANGEROUS
    By June Garland

    29th June
    JOKING APART
    By Ivan Butler

    6th July
    THE SILVER CORD
    By Sidney Howard

    13th July
    EASY MONEY
    By Arnold Ridley

    20th June
    NONE SO BLIND
    By Armitage Owen

    27th July
    THE TOLERANT HUSBAND
    By Dudley Harcourt and Elena Cleary-Fox

    3rd August

    REBECCA
    by Daphhne Du Maurier

    10th August
    SEPERATE ROOMS

    17th August
    PAINTED SPARROWS

    August 24th
    SMILIN' THROUGH
    By Allen Langdon Martin

    31st August
    THE HAPPIEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE
    By John Dighton

    7th September
    KING OF THE CASTLE
    By Mabel & Denis Constanduros

    14th September
    THE WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY
    By L. Du Garde Peach

    21st September
    GASLIGHT
    By Patrick Hamilton

  • Company Members 1952-53

    David Beeching
    Francis Butler
    Maureen Collinson
    Roland Coombes
    Ian Cullen
    Lolette Curnock
    John E Day
    Susan Dewey
    Beverley Douglas
    Frank Finlay
    Jack Irvine
    Rene Johns
    David Kirk
    Miles MacMahon
    John Morton
    David Read
    Barbara Richmond
    Doris Richmond
    Ann Seymour
    Doreen Shepherd
    Gillian Spoor
    Austin Steele
    Alwin Summers
    John Tanner
    Dorothy Thompson
    Elizabeth Tilley
    Barbara Wilson