Cowardy Custard

Richmond Theatre

24th-29th November 1980

Producer – Sheila Searing

Musical Director – Barry Knight

Following Sir Noel Coward’s death in March 1973, the Mermaid Theatre produced an entertainment, Cowardy Custard, which brought together much of the best, and some of the less familiar, of Sir Noel’s lyrics and poems, with snatches of dialogue from the plays and passages of autobiography.

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CAST

The Company – Marion Alais, Jackie Barrell, Pauline Beament, Sue Brittle , Joan Clayton, Alison Cooper, Trish Edwards, Wendy Edwards, Renee Furftenfeld, Kiki Garnham, Debbie Harkness, Ellen Harvey-, Smart, Sally Hester, Alex Jervis, Helen Jenkins, Pauline Kendrick, Anne Kitcherside, Sally Knighton, Marion McLaren, Joan Skingley, Mandy Stenhouse, Barbara Thomas, Janet Turner, Steve Alais, Peter Barnett, John Boult, Len Jackson, Paul Knighton, Richard Matthiae, Jeremy Newton, David Price, Roger Roseboom, Robert Salter, Alan Scott, Peter Sporle, Alan Titchmarsh

CREW

Designer – David Casey

Stage Manager – John Mitchell

Deputy Stage Manager – Barbara McDowell

Assistants – Fiona Hughes, Francis Smith, Joyce Stewart & Aranka Zsidi

Costumes concocted by – Pauline Kendrick

Rehearsal Accompanist – David Armour, Denis Gomm & Stephanie Underhill

Prompters – Janie Piddock & Wendy Taylor

Box Office – Barbara Weedon

Assisted by – Rosalind Mitchell

House Manager – Peter Brown

London sequence costumes & accessories by – Alan Scott

Make-up – Margaret Davies & Judith Vandepeer

Sound Reinforcement – Philip Stannard

Lighting designed by – Steve Montgomery

Sets Constructed by – David Casey, John Mitchell, Peter Sporle, Barbara Mitchell, John Boult & Jeremy Newton

Pianos supplied by – J Samuel

BAND

Piano – J Samuel

Photo credit: David Casey & John Boult