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Stretford Children’s Theatre
Stretford Children’s Theatre is a former youth theatre
based in Stretford, England. It was founded in the 1940s
by Bertram H. Holland, and ceased to exist in the late
1970s or early 1980s. Holland wrote a book about the the-
atre called Beginners on Stage[1].
An offshoot adult theatre company of made up of
former members of the children’s theatre existed in the
1970s.
History
Founded in the 1940s by B.H. Holland. Ceased in the late
1970s or early 1980s. It moved to a premises on Sidney
Street after Bertram Holland’s death. The last remaining
trace of the Stretford Children’s Theatre is the Bertram
Holland Trophy which is awarded annuallly by the
Greater Manchester Drama Federation[2].
Productions[3]
Early shows 1945 to 1948
The Coffee Stall
Dots and Dashes
Cinderalla
Review
Three one act plays
Dick Whittington and his Cat
1948/49 Season
Dick Whittington and his Cat
1949/50 Season
Ace, King, Queen
A review
Three one act plays
Send Her Victorious by Philip Johnson. The Distant Drum
by Philip Johnson produced by Bertram H. Holland. Beau-
ty Is Fled by Paul Vincent Carroll produced by Mabel Ba-
gley.
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Rumplestiltskin Patience (opera)
A Midsummer Nights Dream The Marvellous Story of Puss in Boots
1950/51 Season The Arcadians
Three one act plays 1957/58 Season
The Land of the Christmas Stocking The Mikado
The Merchant of Venice Cinderella
Little Woman The Heartless Princess
1951/52 Season Hamlet
Rouge et Noire 1958/59 Season
Twelfth Night The Imperial Nightingale
She Stoops to Conquer Alice, Thomas and Jane
1952/53 Season Love from Judy
The Mikado 1959/60 Season
Where the Rainbow A Girl called Jo
Julius Caesar The Land of the Christmas Stocking
The Scarlet Pimpernel The Green Planet
1953/54 Season 1960/61 Season
Daddy Long Legs Meet Me by Moonlight
The Taming of the Shrew The Windmill Man
The Gondoliers The Housemaster
1954/55 Season 1961/62 Season
1066 and All That The lady’s Not for Burning
Beauty and The Beast Willow Pattern Dream
Romeo and Juliet The Green Goddess
Trial by Jury and HMS Pinafore 1962/63 Season
1955/56 Season Tabs Away
The Quaker Girl Beauty and the Beast
Alice in Wonderland Carol Service and Nativity Play
School for Scandal The Merchant of Venice
Ten Little Niggers The Snow Queen
1956/57 Season 1963/64 Season
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Julius Caesar Former members[4]
Nativity Play and Carol Service Former members include Lynn Roden[5], John Comer,
Vicky Ogden[6], John Mahoney[7][8], June Ritchie[9], Jere-
Rumplestiltskin and the Three Wishes my Clarkson[10], Timothy Walker[10], and Brian True-
man[9][11].
A Man Dies
The Tinder Box References
1964/65 Season [1] "beginners on stage holland: Books".
Amazon.co.uk. http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/
Richard III ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-
keywords=beginners+on+stage+holland&x=0&y=0.
The Imperial Nightingale Retrieved October 20, 2011.
[2] [1]
The Stone Cage [3] "Act Twenty Five". Members.lycos.co.uk.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/Sebastianne/
1965/66 Season Act_Twenty_Five.htm. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
Twelfth Night [4] "Act Twenty Four". Members.lycos.co.uk.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/Sebastianne/
The Young Dick Whittington Act_Twenty_Four..htm. Retrieved October 20,
2011.
Heidi [5] "de beste bron van informatie over
sharronashcroft". sharronashcroft.com.
Ten Little Niggers http://www.sharronashcroft.com/
cv_roden_lynn.htm. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
1966/67 Season [6] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1290431/
[7] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001498/bio
The Lord of the Amber Mountain
[8] Frances Gibb Legal Editor. "The Times | UK News,
Pinocchio World News and Opinion".
Entertainment.timesonline.co.uk.
Othello by William Shakespeare http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/
March 8–11. This was one of the plays in the ’A’ level arts_and_entertainment/article564691.ece.
GCE examination syllabus. Othello was taken by Geoffrey Retrieved October 20, 2011.
Duke. Andrew Winton was Iago. The Desdemona was [9] ^ "Stretford Pagent, 1942".
played by sixteen-year-old Christine Hayes. Emilia, Cas- Homepage.ntlworld.com. June 21, 2004.
sio and Roderigo completed the cast. It was a financial http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alscot1/
loss, but B.H. Holland believed it to be an artistic gain. StretfordPagent.htm. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
[10] ^ "Html Gear – Guest Gear View Guestbook".
1970s Htmlgear.tripod.com. http://htmlgear.tripod.com/
gw/guest/
The Wizard’s Birthday control.guest?u=Childrenstheatre&a=view&i=1&r=http://www.go
This play featured 2 performers who later turned profes- search%3fhl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-
sional: Gerry (Gerald) Sundquist (The Wizard) and Gary a&rls=org.mozilla:en-
Carp (Wizzy – the Wizard’s Apprentice). GB:official&hs=07a&q=holland+%2522stretford+children%2527s+th
Retrieved October 20, 2011.
1975/76 Season [11] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0874113/
Fun Follies ’76
A review of songs and sketches. The name of the show
External links
was picked by members of the cast, inspired by the pop- • Guest book entries by former members
ular television programme Rock Follies. • Stretford Pagent 1952
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