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SLTC/SLT Member 1968 - 2016

Widow of Leslie Lidyard, Ruth died in April 2016.

Ruth (right) as Madame de Rosemonde with Elinor Morgan Jones in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2001). Photograph by photographer's name

Acting Roles

• Beryl in Everything in the Garden (1968) (Theatre)
• Eurydice in Antigone (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)
• Lily in The Coffee Lace (1975) (Prompt Corner)
• Eleanor in The Lion In Winter (1976) (Main Stage)
• In The Importance of Being Coarse (1976) (Prompt Corner)
• Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (1976) (Main Stage)
• Madame Desmermortes in Ring Round the Moon (1976) (Main Stage)
• Rosemary in The Master of Two Servants (1977) (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)
• in An Anthology of Love (1991) (Prompt Corner)
• Mrs McCutcheon in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1991) (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)

Other SLTC Roles

• Theatre Representative (now known as Director) 1987 - 1989

Interests

External Links

• This member's Web Site.