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D H Lawrence
a season of plays
Royal Court Theatre
The Plays take place in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
See also the rehearsal diary and an essay on D H Lawrence as dramatist.
A Collier's Friday Night
29 February 1968
Written in 1906-7, A Collier's Friday Night was premiered on August 8th 1965, directed by Peter Gill, as a production without decor, for the English Stage Society.
Edward Garnett records that Lawrence pencilled on the manuscript 'was written when I was twenty-one almost before I'd done anything'. Garnett goes on: 'The warp and woof of the drama out of which the situations are spun are the bitterness between the parents and Earnest's relations with the women around him. At twenty-one, Lawrence had not yet evolved his philosophical doctrines about sex, nor had he developed the inner conflict between his selves. But his uncanny clairvoyance about women and the sex duel generally is declared in every scene of the play'.
It is a play which shows even more than his others Lawrence's largely unrecognised faculty for humour, in its rich comic situations and verbal wit.
| Mrs Lambert | Anne Dyson |
| Nellie Lambert | Christine Hargreaves |
| Gertie Coomber | Susan Williamson |
| Lambert | John Barrett |
| Ernest Lambert | Victor Henry |
| Barker | Anthony Douse |
| Carlin | Mark Jones |
| Maggie Pearson | Jenifer Armitage |
| Beatrice Wyld | Gwendolyn Watts |
The Daughter-in-Law
7 March 1968
Written 1912, had its first public production by Peter Gill in March last year at the Royal Court Theatre. Acclaimed as one of the best new plays of 1967, the production, in which Judy Parfitt gave one of the most praised performances of the year as Minnie Gascoigne, was regarded as a significant landmark in naturalistic presentation and acting.
Set against the 1912 Coal Strike (the year in which the play was written), it is a passionate study of a proud and intelligent young woman's struggle to possess her husband from the domination of his mother.
| Mrs Gascoigne | Anne Dyson |
| Joe Gascoigne | Edward Peel |
| Mrs Purdy | Gabrielle Daye |
| Minnie Gascoigne | Judy Parfitt |
| Luther Gascoigne | Michael Coles |
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd
14 March 1968
Written in 1914, this rarely performed play is a romantic tragedy: a study of a failing marriage and a doomed love affair with a last scene of tragic stature unparalleled in modern drama.
| Mrs Holroyd | Judy Parfitt | |
| Blackmore | Mark Jones | |
| Jack Holroyd | Len Jones | Appears by permission of the Wendy Wisbey Agency and the Phildene Stage School |
| Minnie Holroyd | June Liversidge | Appears by permission of the Corona Stage School. |
| Clara | Gwendolyn Watts | |
| Laura | Joan Francis | |
| Holroyd | Michael Coles | |
| Grandmother | Anne Dyson | |
| Rigley | John Barrett | |
| Manager | Anthony Douse | |
| Miner | Edward Peel | |
| Tony Rohr | ||
| Director | Peter Gill | |
| Sets | John Gunter | |
| Costumes | Deirdre Clancy | |
| Lighting | Andy Phillips | |
| Assistant Directors | Barry Hanson | |
| Rob Knights | ||
| Deputy Stage Manager | Juliet Alliston | |
| Assistant Stage Managers | Eileen Bence | |
| Frances Dixon | ||
| Student Stage Manager | Charles Hubbard |
| Front of House Display and programme photographs by | The National Coal Board |
| Publicity and Programme designed by | Brian Cooper |
| Programme compiled by | Shirley Matthews |
| Set built by | Ray Addison Ltd |
| Properties and scene painting by | John Campbell Design Ltd |
| Furniture by | Old Times Furnishing |
| Set dressings by | Studio and Television Hire |
| Tree by | GLC Parks Department |
| Oil lamps by | Christopher Wray's Lighting Emporium |
| Flour used in bread given by | Whitworth's Holdings Ltd |
| Spectacles by | Clifford Brown |
| Hats by | Eric Gates |
| Men's Clothes by | John Bright of Cosprop |
| Women's Clothes by | Henrietta Webb |
| Jane Hamilton | |
| Breaking down of pit clothes by | Rod Stopes |
| Additional Womens' Clothes by | Jo Canty |
| Wigs by | Wig Creations |
| Electrical Fittings by | J.M.B. Hire |
| Electrical Installation by | Strand Electrical and Engineering Co. |
| Hoovermatic Washing Machine by | Hoover Ltd. Perivale |
| Shoe Polish by | Kiwi |