Ruth Shettle
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SLTC/SLT Member 1968 - 2016
Widow of Leslie Lidyard, Ruth died in April 2016.
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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
Productions as Assistant Stage Manager
Properties on:
Productions as Costume Assistant
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
