Production 39 - The Yeomen of the Guard

The Guild Players
By W.S. Gilbert, Adpated by Tony Kilshawe

Performed on 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd August 1966 at Deal Castle
By kind permission of The Master of Public Buildings and Works

The Cast

Phoebe Meryll (Sergeant. Meryll’s daughter) Phyllis Gray (sung by Eilleen Rickon)
Wilfred Shadbolt (head jailer & assistant tormentor) Alec Thompson (sung by John Jennings)
Dame Carruthers (houskeeper to the Tower) Eleanor Bowthorpe (sung by Thelma Greenstreet)
Sergeant Meryll (of the yeomen of the guard) Conrad Shewin (sung by Leslie Booth)
Sir Richard Cholmondeley (Lieutenant of the Tower) John Evans
Colonel Fairfax (Under sentence of death) Ronald Latham (sung by Donald Wynn)
Jack Point (a strolling jester) Julian Grenville (sung by Alan Blakey)
Elsie Maynard (a strolling singer) Iris Doms or Madeleine Franklin (sung by Anita Sargent)
Kate (niece to Dame Carruthers) Mollie Boyce (sung by Dawn Solly)
1st Yeoman Roger Bradshaw
2nd Yeoman Philip Bowthorpe
3rd Yeoman Martin Thompson
4th Yeoman Stephen Hoskings
1st Citizen Reuben Atkinson
2nd Citizen Robin Davis
3rd Citizen Zena Almond
Headman Donald Jack
Yeomen of the Guard Arthur Birch, Philip Bowthorpe, Roger Bradshaw, Philip Ellender, Stephen Hoskings, Donald Jack, Richard Startin, Roger Taylor, Martin Thompson, Richard Whiteside & Colin Whitmore
Citizens Zena Almond, Mollie Boyce, Pamela Bramble, Marion Franklin, Daphne Jack, Dominic Jack, Leonie Jack, Susanne Jack, Carol Smith, Jill Thompson, Ann Willis, Reuben Atkinson, Robin Davis, Martin Hoskings, Christopher Jack & Raymond Osbourn
Orchestra Harry Lipman (leader), William Brown, Edward Claxton, Jack Dacombe, Audrey Gratton, Joseph Dudley, Harold Eden, Louise Leask, Arthur Lipple, Barbara Keeble, Ronald Kempton, Gerald Martin, Phyllis Nicholson, Helen Rhoden, Tom Stenning, Mike Stone, Jeanne Walker, Freda Yeomans & Nancy White