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- 2. Grand Theatre Weston-Super-Mare Proprietors: GRAND THEATRE (Weston-super-Mare) LIMITED General Manager: E. E. A. GRADSHAW Commencing Thursday 26th April for One Week Only Ostar Productions LTD presents DOTTY OTLEY BELINDA BLAIR GARRY LEJEUNE in NOTHING ON by ROBIN HOUSEMONGER with SELSDON MOWBRAY BROOKE ASHTON FREDERICK FELLOWS Directed by LLOYD DALLAS Designed by GINA STAIRWELL Lighting by Costumes by CHUCK SPANNER PATSY BUTTON WORLD PREMIERE NATIONAL TOUR! SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED IN THE AUDITORIUM The Grand Theatre Weston-super-Mare is a Member of the Grand Group Evenings at 7.30
- 3. NOTHING ON by Robin Housemonger Cast in order of apperance: Mrs. Clackett.........................................Dotty Otley Roger Tramplemain..............................Garry Lejune Vicki.................................................Brooke Ashton Philip Brent....................................Frederick Fellows Flavia Brent..........................................Belinda Blair Burglar........................................Selsdon Mowbray The action takes place in the living-room of the Brentsʼ country home, on a Wednesday afternoon for Otstar Productions LTD Company and Stage Manager...............Tim Allgood Assistant Stage Manager..........Poppy Norton-Taylor Production Credits: Sardines by Sardine Services. Miss Ashtonʼs lenses by Double Vision Optical Ltd. Antique silverware and cardboard boxes by Mrs. J. G. H. Norton-Taylor. Stethoscope and hospital trolley by Severn Surgical Supplies. Straightjacket by Kumfy Restraints LTD. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of EUROPEAN BREWERIES in sponsoring this production Coffins by G. Ashforth and Son. Cast Bios Dotty Otley makes a welcome return to the stage to create the role of Mrs. Clackett after playing Mrs. Hackett, Britainʼs most famous lollipop lady (ʻOoh, I canʼt ʻardly ʻ old me lolly upʼ) in over 320 episodes of TVʼs ON THE ZEBRAS. She was born in Malta, the only daughter of Lt. Cdr. Clive Otley, R.N., D.S.M., and trained at the Estelle Brikwood School of Drama and Allied Arts, winning the Bronze Medal, and goind on to the Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, where she gained invaluable experience as ASM in successful productions like AS YOU DESIRE and STARCHED APRONS. Understudying Bee Duffell in HADDOCKʼS EYES at the New Lindsey Theatre, Peebles for a season, and the the Dukeʼs Players at Lyme Regis for the better part of two seasons, and this in turn led to a prolonged stay in Australia, where she enjoyed some of the biggest successes of her career. When she gets the time she intends writing her memoirs, she says. Belinda Blair (Flavia Brent) has been on stage since the age of four, when she made her debut in SINBAD THE SAILOR at the old Croydon Hippodrome as one of Miss Toni Tannerʼs Ten Tapping Tots. She subsequently danced her way round this country. Southern Africa, and the Far East in shows like ZIPPEDY- straight parts in GOOD TIME GIRL, LADIES OF THE NIGHT, and RING TWICE FOR RITA. More recently she has been seen in such comedy hits as DONʼT MR. DUDDLE!, WHOʼS BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED?, and TWICE TWO IS SEX. She is married to script writer Terry Wough, who has contriputed lead-in material to most of TVʼs chat shows. They have two sons and three retrievers. Garry Lejune (Roger Tramplemain) was twice winner of the Rose Bru- ford Medal for Effort. His many successful tours have brought him to Weston- super-Mare only once before, when he was starring in THE ADVENTURES OF A WINDOW DRSSER. He has made innumerable television appearences, but is perhaps best-known as ʻCornetto”, the ice-cream salesman who stirs the hearts of all the lollipop ladies in ON THE ZEBRAS. Recently made his ʻbig screenʼ debut in UP THE VIGIN SOLIDERS, for which he was nominated as Best Male Newcomer under Forty in any British Low-Budget Comedy Film by readers of the SUN newspaper. Selsdon Mowbray (Burglar) NIGHTʼS DREAM with the Ben Greet Players, with whom he toured for three years, playing, among other roles, Moth, Mustardseed, and Nerissa (!) After - play, KELLYʼS EYE. Then ʻalfrescoʼ in Regentʼs Park for several seasons, playing leads. To Stratford thence for Mercutio, King John, and the Porter in MACBETH. To Hollywood for several good supporting Roles, including Stand-in to Robert Newton. Back home he played King Lear in Portsmouth, and joined the BBC Rep for two months in 1938. Great War No. Two saw him back in Khaki. Invalided out in 1940 he continued to serve by joining Ensa, and performing all over the world in many different ʻTheatres of Warʼ. To Dublin in 1946, where he set up his own touring company playing the Classics, and rivalling the great Agnew Macmaster. Returned to England in 1952 and set up his own tour - a revival of MR. CINDERS. Since then, apart from the occasional excursion to ʻtread the greenʼ, he hass been busy writing his autobiography, which he is thinking of titling HANGING ON THE WALL.
- 4. Cast Bios continued Brooke Ashton (Vicki) is probably best known as the girl wearing nothing but ʻgood, honest, naturalfrothʼ in the Hauptbahnhofbrau lager commercial. But she in Hull to six monthes in the Lebanon with PIXIE PEARLS. Her televsion appearances range from Girl at Infantsʼ School in ON THE ZEBRAS to Girl in Strip Joint in ON PROBATION. Cinemagoers saw her in THE GIRL IN ROOM 14, where she player the Girl in Room 312. Frederick Fellows (Phillip Brent) comes from a theatrical family - his parents were a popular speciality dance act of the thirties and forties, “The Funny Fellowsʼ. He taught at a prep school near Haywardʼs Heath before bowing to the family tradition and joining the Osmosis Players. There followed successful seasons in Nai- robi, Ventnor , and Southwold, and he was most recently seen in the controversial all-male version of THE TROJAN WOMEN. He is happily married, and lives near Crawley, where his wife breeds pedigree dogs. ʻIf she ever leaves me,ʼ he says, ʻit will probably be for an Irish wolfhound!ʼ Lloyd Dallas (Director) ʻread English at Cambridge, and stagecraft at the Salis- buryʼ A Commonwealth Scholarship took him to Princeton, where he spent his time ʻcommuting to New York to see Miller and musicals on Broadway, and Lee Strasberg and Tallulah Bankhead at a party on East 10th St.ʼ Since the Lloyd has directed plays ʻin most parts of Britain,ʼ wining the South of Scotland Criticsʼ Circle Special Award in 1968. In 1972 he directed a highly successful season for the Na- tional Theatre of Sri Lanka. In recent years, Lloyd has probably become best-known for his brillian series of ʻShakespeare in Summerʼ productions in the parks of the inner London boroughs. Tim Allgood (Company Stage Manager) trained for a career in Market Re- search, and became interested in the theatre only through a chance holiday visit to a local production of THEREʼS A GIRL IN MY SOUP. He had got himself taken on by the company as Assistant Stage Manager before he realised that the girl in ques- tion was not only in the soup, but also married, with two growing children! During a production of HAMLET at the Lyceum, Porsmouth, he took over the part of Polonius at short notice, but subsequently found himself more in demand on the technical side. His most recent job was with BETROTHED, a thriller by Sam Brennicle, both on tour prior to its West End Opening in December 1980, and again on tour which followed the conclusion of its successful West End run in January 1981. Poppy Norton-Taylor (Assistant Stage Manager) is from a family found more often on the Boards of leading companies than on the boards with touring companies. Her father is chairman of European Breweries, but has been ʻterribly sweet about it all - so far!ʼ After schools in Cheltenham and Montreux she found challenge enormously. Her hobbies include, riding, ski-iny, tennis, reading good books, and loving anything small and furry. CastBioscontinued DaltonWalkerisafreshmanatBVU.HewasborninStormLake,Iowa.He hasbeenin20+productionsoverhislifetimeandverymuchenjoystheater. Howeverhedidnʼtfollowinhisparentsʼfootstepsandisstudyingpolitical scienceandhistoryinordertogotolawschool.“MycharacterandIare verymuchalike.Neitherofusrealizethatrelationshipsarecomingandgo- ingandneitherofusrealizewhensomeonelikesus...itʼskindofaproblem” DaltonisexcitedtoplayPhillip/FrederickinBVUsNoisesoffandwishesthat everyoneleavesfeelingbetterthantheydidcomingin. KathrynKellerisajuniorBiologymajorfromRolfe,IA.HerroleasBelin- dainNoisesOffisherthirdatBVUherpreviouscreditsincludingRomeo& JulietandTheHollow.ThefunniestmomentthatKathrynhashadonastage iswhenshedroppedateatrayonstageduringTheHollowandthewhole casthadtomakeupanewending.Thefunnypartisitwasthenightthatthe showwasrecorded.Kathrynsaysthatsomethinginterestingaboutherchar- acteristhattheyareverysimilarpeople,perfectionistswholiketogossip. GlennHackbarthisasophomoreHistorymajorfromSpritLake,IA.His roleasSelsdoninNoisesOffishisfourthroleinamainstageproduction hereatBVU.HispreviouscreditsincludeTheLanguageArchive,TheHollow, andTheTempest.Glennthinksthefunniestthingabouttherehearsalprocess isthecastfromTheHollowmakingT-Rexarmstomakefunofourcharacters. HesayssomethinginterestingaboutSelsdonisthatheknowsalotbutgets confusedmostofthetime. ChancellorJohnsonisajuniorTheatremajorfromNashua,IA.Hisrole asTiminNoisesOffishissixthBVUmainstagerole.Hispreviouscredits includeBlitheSpirit,RomeoandJuliet,TheLanguageArchive,TheHollow, andTheTempest.Chancefoundithardtopickonemomentasthe“funniest” becausethecastoftenfoundthemselvessayingtheirlinesinnewwaysthat thatheisaveryexhaustedstagemanager,whichisfunnybecauseChance charactersaysanddoescertainthingsthathehassaidanddoneasastage manager.Hischaracteralsoplaysseveralroleswithintheplay. StaceyRosener- licRelationsfromVail,IA.StaceyistheAssistantDirectorforNoisesOffand itisthesecondBVUproductionthatshehasworkedon.Previouslyshehas actedinWomanWonder.ForStacey,thefunniestmomentsintheprocess waswhenwewerereadingthroughthescriptandwewouldallgetajoke ThankstostudentsfromTheatreandMediaPerformanceStudioClasses THME100,THME242,THME342,andTHME442