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SLTC/SLT Member 1968 - Present

Originally credited under the name Ruth Shettle she was later credited under her married name Ruth Lidyard.

Acting Roles

• Beryl in Everything in the Garden (1968) (Theatre)
• Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1968) (Theatre)
• Hedda Tesler (nee Gabler) in Hedda Gabler (1969) (Theatre)
• Elizabeth Proctor in The Crucible (1970) (Theatre)
• Irina Arkadina (Mme.Treplev) in The Seagull (1970) (Theatre)
• Beartrice in Much Ado About Nothing (1971) (Theatre)
• Lottie Grady in When We are Married (1972) (Main Stage)
• 'Z' in A Village Wooing (1972) (Main Stage)
• Ensemble in Under Milk Wood (1972) (Main Stage)
• Gertrude in Hamlet (1973) (Nettlefold Hall)
• Edna Selby in Harlequinade (1973) (Main Stage)
• Mrs Shankland in 'Table by the Window' & Miss Railton-Bell in 'Table No 7' in Separate Tables (1974) (Main Stage)
• Ruth in Blithe Spirit (1975) (Main Stage)
• Cynthia in The Real Inspector Hound (1975) (Main Stage)
• Grainne Gibbon in The Patrick Pearse Motel (1975) (Main Stage)
• Eleanor in The Lion In Winter (1976) (Main Stage)
• Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1976) (Main Stage)
• Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd the Barber (1977) (Main Stage)
• Anna in Time and Time Again (1978) (Main Stage)
• Karen Nash/Muriel Tate/Norma Hubley in Plaza Suite (1978) (Bell Theatre)
• Sybil Birling in An Inspector Calls (1979) (Main Stage)
• Gertrude in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1979) (Main Stage)
• Joanna Markham in Move Over Mrs Markham (1980) (Main Stage)
• Argia in The Queen and the Rebels (1980) (Main Stage)
• Mrs Fitzpatrick in Tom Jones (1980) (Main Stage)
• Alma in The Bed Before Yesterday (1981) (Main Stage)
• Rachel Verney in The Offshore Island (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• La Duchesse de Chateau Gaillard in An Italian Straw Hat (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Emily Brent in Ten Little Indians (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Monica in Let's Murder Vivaldi (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in The Last Day of November (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Usherette for The Golden Pathway Annual (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• 'Final Choruses' in Music Hall (1983) (Bell Theatre) with Leslie Lidyard led by Ann Mattey
• Judith Bliss in Hay Fever (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Hagga in The Thirteen Clocks (1985) (Prompt Corner)
• Mrs Higgins in Pygmalion (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Hannah Warren/Diana Nichols/Gert Franklin in California Suite (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Edith Ollerenshawe in Fur Coat and No Knickers (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Mrs O'Reilly in The Hairdresser, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1986) (Prompt Corner)
• Aunt in Stevie (1986) (Prompt Corner)
• Queen in Rhyme and Treason (1986) (Prompt Corner)
• Donna Lucia D'Alvadorez in Charley's Aunt (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Helen Kroger in Pack of Lies (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• Xenia in Summer (1989) (Prompt Corner)
• Anna-Marie Conklin in Come into the Garden Maud (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Lady Clementina Beauchamp in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Gleen in Not With a Bang (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard/Mrs Organ Morgan/Mrs Beynon in Under Milk Wood (1991) (Prompt Corner)
• Mrs Mabel Claythorpe in Clara's on the Curtains (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• Margaret Devize in The Lady's not for Burning (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• Filumena Marturano in Filumena (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Juliet's Nurse in The Merry Regiment of Women (1993) (Prompt Corner)
• Lady Charles in Pass the Butler (1994) (Bell Theatre)
• Irene Ruddock in 'A Lady of Letters' in Talking Heads (1994) (Prompt Corner)
• Elsa Von Grossenknueten in The Musical Comedy Murders of 1940 (1995) (Bell Theatre)
• Maria in Uncle Vanya (1995) (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in Stage By Stage (1996) (Prompt Corner)
• Mrs Reece in The Farndale ... Christmas Carol (1996) (Bell Theatre)
• Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997) (Bell Theatre)
• Mrs Amelia Tilford in The Children's Hour (1997) (Bell Theatre)
• Lottie Grady in When We Are Married (1997) (Bell Theatre)
• Muriel Wicksteed in Habeas Corpus (1998) (Bell Theatre)
• Madame Arcati in Blythe Spirit (1999) (Bell Theatre)
• In 'Early Blight' in Deckchairs (2000) (Bell Theatre)
• Mrs Billet in Sandcastles (2000) (Bell Theatre)
• Madame de Rosemonde in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2001) (Bell Theatre)
• Grandma in Rebecca (2002) (Bell Theatre)
• Joan in 'Now and Then' from Between You and Me (2003) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Director

• Rock Bottom in Odds and ....! (1984) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Assistant to the Director

• Boeing Boeing (1972) (Main Stage)
• Red Peppers (1981) (Main Stage)

Productions as Production Assistant

• A Man for All Seasons (1983) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Assistant Stage Manager

• The Miser (1968) (Theatre)

Properties on:

• Harlequinade (1983) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Costume Assistant

• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1997) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Prompt

• The Day After the Fair (1980) (Main Stage)
• The Browning Version in Kaleidoscope '90 (1990) (Bell Theatre)

Interests

External Links

• This member's Web Site.