Manchester City News Fellowship Players Archibald, a naughty boy with a peashooter in one act comedy “House full” 1942 Andy Haveran, a cheeky Irish lad in “Boyd’s Shop” by St. John Irving 1946 Reggie Frampton in “Husbands are a Problem” 1948 The Centurian at Galgotha in “If any Man...” by David Izatt 1951 (An Easter play performed at St. Mark’s Methodist Church, Fayid Suez Canal Zone) Performed in two radio plays on the Forces Broadcasting Service, MELF, Egypt “They came up from the Sea” and a radio comedy Manchester University Students Union Theatre Group The Thane of Caithness, messenger and 2 nd murderer in “Macbeth” 1953 Team player in “Suite Sixteen” a Rag Revue, “ Old Adam and Sir Oliver Martext in “As You Like It” 1954 Tubal, friend of Shylock, in “The Merchant of Venice” “ Team player in “The Mad House”,a Rag Revue, devised by Tom Egan 1955 Produced two play readings, “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas and “Mary Rose” by J.M. Barrie Produced “The Playboy of the Western World” by J. Synge 1955 Fluellen in “King Henry V” (Part of the Manchester Festival of Arts) 1956 Nuneaton Teachers Amateur Dramatic Society Romanov in “Ring Round the Moon” by Christopher Fry 1958 Sir Oliver Surface in “The School for Scandal” by Richard B. Sheridan 1959 The Director in “ The Director ”, a one act farce 1960 Produced a recoded play Hall Green Little Theatre, Birmingham Revd. Eli Jenkins in “Under Milk Wood” by Dylan Thomas 1962 Mr Gill in “The Two Bouquets” by Eleanor and Herbert Fargeon 1963 Bolstrode in “A Month in the Country” by Ivan Turgenev 1964 Duncan, King of Scots, 1 st murderer and Old Siward, in “Macbeth” 1965 Cannon Chasuble in “The Importance of being Ernest” By Oscar Wilde 1966 Brutus in the quarrel scene “Julius Caesar” in “A Night with Shakespeare” 1967 Alderman Halliwell in “When we are Married” by J B Priestley 1968 Billy Bones, and Redruth in “Treasure Island” by R. L. Stevenson 1968 The Solihull Parish Players Shendi in “The First Born” by Christopher Fry Dates uncertain Produced Recorded readings from “Jesus Christ” by Dorothy L. Sayers Noah in “Noah’s Flood” an original mystery play The first knight in “Murder in the Cathedral” performed in Birmingham Cathedral The Apostle in “Star over Bethlehem” by Noel Harrower Sancha in “Sunday costs five Pesos” The Knowle Revels Nippy Briggs in “The Blue Goose” 1967 The United Nations Association Youth Group Numerous parts in “Voice of the People” a drama for the 30 th Anniversary of the Proclamation of The International Convention of Human Rights performed in Birmingham Cathedral in the presence of the Lord Mayor 1968 The Nottingham Lacemarket Theatre Dr Purgon in “The Imaginary Invalid” by Molliere 1971 The pig and the turkey in “The Owl and the Pussycat” 1972 Ballested in “The Lady from the Sea” by Henrik Ibson 1973 Pistol and Feeble in “Henry 1V Part Two” by W. Shakespeare 1974 Soldier in “Night in the Trojan War” by Lord Dunsany 1975 Ben Jordan in “”by Stanley Houghton 1976 Bardolph in “The Merry Wives of Windsor” By W. Shakespeare 1978 Dr Einstein in “Arsenic and Old Lace” 1988 Erpingham in “Erpingham Camp” by 1989 Malanus in “The Pot of Gold” by The pastry cook in “Amadaus” by Fabian in “Twelfth Night” by W. Shakespeare 1995 Dr Macfarlane in “Hobson’s Choice” by Harold Brighouse 1997 Chair-born Players: Chilwell Pedlar in “Nottingham Fair” by Noel Harrower 1987 Ugly sister in the pantomime “Cinderella” 1988 Writer, Narrator and Producer of “Exmouth at War” Glenorchy URC 2007 Inspector Trunchonmeat in “Murder at Tottering Towers”. a murder mystery week-end organised by Maslen George 2010 and various other parts including work with the British Drama League and at Nottingham and Notts. Drama Association Festivals