Plays,Music and Other Entertainments

Alan Miles writes  "One important element missing from the Askeans page is the school drama.Some superb Plays were produced at Aske's."

"Shakespeare play before Easter a lighter production in the summer"

David Twizell writes  "throughout my time at the School the Orchestra was outstanding providing the backbone of the London Schools Symphony Orchestra and from around 1967 there was a musical production every year"

From David Collier comes three pictures of a 1973?
production of "Amahl"---corrected by Gladys.

Hope they provide memories of past exploits.

Opportunity to cast back in the mind for the entertainments of your years! Let me know so that I can add them to this page,together with any old photos etc.

Shakespeare.

   1947   Julius Caeser
   1948   Macbeth  (Dynevor and French)
   1949  etc ?

  1956  Much Ado About Nothing
  1957  Hamlet (Doug Verrall as H. and Mick Cass as                                                           Ophelia)
  1958  Macbeth
  1959  Othello  (Fox as O. and Paul Clement as Iago)
  1960  King Lear  (Tony Harding giving a convincing                                          performance as a crazed old man)
  1961  The Tempest (jointly directed by Frank Clewley and Tony Harding)

(The last Five were planned as the dramatic culmination of Ned's career)
  1962   Coriolanus
  1963   Ben Johnson's   Volpone

  1964  etc ?

Lighter productions.

1944 (from Harry) The Teignmouth Production was--   Pygmalion   --    with Davey as Prof Higgind and Gerry Dynevor as Eliza Doolittle.

1956 onwards:--

Robert Furnival's "A Tale of Aske" possibly Vic Campbell playing the Founder

The Winslow Boy  (Mick Cass in the title role)

The Missing Prince (to follow up Hamlet)

The Brass Butterfly-- with Paul Clement

Fairy Tales of New York -- production by Tony Harding

1965       The Oresteia

                   The Cherry Orchard

                  The Seagull

                Crime and Punishment

        Leading Players were:   Midgley,Richards-Carpenter,Jim O'Dea,Jon Tiley,Jupp and Nick Pamphlett,also Ken Boon

Orchestra

     H.M.S.Pinafore

   The Mikado

   Patience

   Tubby the Tuba

    Dvorak's New World

Further memories will be welcome.

From David Brooker comes these notes.

Summer Productions:

1971  Oliver
1972 "My Fair Laddy"  a rewrite!
1973  nil
1974 Orpheus in the Underworld
1975  nil
1976  La Belle Helene
         HMS Pinafore

Carmina Burana

Nelson Mass