Androcles and the Lion

by George Bernard Shaw

 

Tavistock Little Theatre
April 28 - 29, 1939

One of two plays presented together, the other being Bernard Shaw's Overruled
 

Cast List

Androcles, a Greek tailor : Walter Cory
Mmegaera, his wife : Honor Campbell
The Lion, ("Tommy") : Harry H Hudson
The Centurion : Rowland White
Lavinia, a Christian : Edith Rose
The Captain : Leonard White
Lentulus : E W Brown
Metellus : John Cain
Roman courtiers
Spintho, a debauchee : Alec Ross
Ferrovius, an armourer : Ronald Anderson
Both Christians
The Menagerie Keeper : E Willett Brown
The call boy : Janet Hitchman
Retiarius : Douglas Snelgar
Secutor : Howard Dickinson
Gladiators
The Editor of the gladiators : Martin Benson
The Emperor : Jack Richman
Christians, soldiers, gladiators etc. : June Grimble, Tom Puzey, Yvonne de Leddra, Timothy Killar, Lillian Shadwell, Kenneth Evenett, Ethel Smith, Carol Jackson, Beatrice Cooper, Pauline Growse, David Morrison, Neil Wilson, Albert Allegro
 

Androcles and the Lion


Production Team

Director : Raymond Raikes
Set Design : Denise Saxton
Costumes designed & chosen by Winifred Fecher

Stage Manager : Mary Fitzgerald
ASM : Honor Campbell
Electrician : C W Godbold
Masks & properties under direction of Violet Rutter
Set construction : Desmond Hall and Betty Upton & members of the company