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Afternoon Theatre From the Sixties:

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A Festival of Women by ARISTOPHANES
A transvestite comedy
English version by IAN FLETCHER with music by GUY HALAHAN
In the year 411 bc Euripides persuades his father-in-law to disguise himself as a woman in order to overhear a plot by the Women of Athens.... with Michael Aldridge and Francis de Wolff
AMBROSIAN SINGERS
AND ORCHESTRA conducted by LAWRENCE LEONARD Produced by RAYMOND RAIKES

Contributors

Unknown:
Ian Fletcher
Music By:
Guy Halahan
Unknown:
Michael Aldridge
Unknown:
Francis de Wolff
Conducted By:
Lawrence Leonard
Produced By:
Raymond Raikes
Euripides, the famous Tragic poet:
Michael Aldridgc
Mnesilochus, his father-in-law:
Francis de Wolff
Servant to Agathon:
Peter Bartlett
Agathon, a younger Tragic poet:
Gordon Gardner
Cleisthenes:
Alan Haines
A Police Sergeant:
John Boxer
A Police Cadet:
Andrew Sachs
Dancing girl Jo:
Manning Wilson
Chorus of women:
Mary Wimbush
Chorus of women ,:
Margaret Wolfit
Chorus of women ,:
Elizabeth Morgan
,Chorus of women ,:
Isabel Rennie
Chorus of women ,:
Jane Wenham,
Chorus of women ,:
Miriam Margolyes
Chorus of women ,:
Angela Piper
Source: Radio Times

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