[Afamilyatwar-list] Lesley Nunnerley and Colin Campbell pre-AFAW

[john at johnfinch.com]

On 2018-04-04 17:04, Christine Kendell via Afamilyatwar-list wrote:
> I have just bought two theatre programmes, one for Turgenev’s A
> Month In  The Country from 1949 with Colin Campbell (the Old Vic
> Company), and one for a production of Hamlet by the Elizabethan
> Theatre Company in 1955, with Lesley Nunnerley as Ophelia.
> 
> I don’t think I can add images here, but this is the cast
> information:
> 
> 1949 (Dec): A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - Ivan Turgenev (Old Vic at The New
> 
> 
> Theatre)
> 
> Walter Hudd, Angela Baddeley, Colin Campbell, Yvonne Mitchell, Dorothy
> Green, Diana Churchill, Paul Rogers, Michael Redgrave, Nigel Stock,
> George Benson, Mark Dignam, Leo McKern, Jane Wenham; dir:Michel Saint
> Denis
> 
> 1955: HAMLET (Arts Council Tour)
> 
> Elizabethan Theatre Company: Richard Gale (as Hamlet), Eric Thompson
> (as Claudius), Toby Robertson (as Polonius and Osric), Peter Jeffrey
> (as Horatio), Clifford Rose (as Laertes and Guildenstern), David
> Terence (as Rosencrantz), Bernard Brown (as Priest and Marcellus),
> Peter Barker (as Barnardo and Lucianus), Roger Boston (as Francisco),
> Patrick Duffy (as Prologue, 2nd Gravedigger and An Attendant), Colin
> George (as Player King, 1st Gravedigger, Fortinbras and Ghost), Simon
> Carter (as Player Queen and A Sailor), Patricia Kneale (as Gertrude),
> Lesley Nunnerley (as Ophelia), Yvonne Bonnamy and Patricia Voysey (as
> Ladies attendant on the Queen); directed by Peter Wood, music composed
> by David King, fights arranged by John Barton
> 
> Amazing casts! Colin Campbell’s character is ten, which I think he
> would have been, about.
> 
> Christine


Hi C hristine,   Fascinating!    Nigel Stock was in my BBC series FLESH 
AND BLOOD, in which he played a neighbour of Thora Hird.This 20 hour 
series was never repeated although I was told it was very high in the 
audience appreciation ratings.  Head of BBC1 then was a former assistant 
of mine at Granada.  He then turned down the only series I wrote that 
was never made.  Called JOSS it consisted of 10 episodes and is now 
rotting in my garage.    JOHN