Title: Equus
Date: Monday 5th-Saturday 10th April 1976
Type: Play
Company: Travelling Playhouse Ltd.
Location: Nottingham Playhouse, England
Playwright: Peter Shaffer
Director: Lionel Harris
Collection Number: 2404_1976_01

Cast

Martin Dysart: Michael Jayston
Nurse: Pamela Hardman
Hesther Saloman: Yvonne Manners
Alan Strang: Kevin O’Shea
Frank Strang: Norman Wooland
Dora Strang: Madeleine Newbury
Horseman: Philip Trewinnard
Harry Dalton: Knight Mantell
Jill Mason: Elizabeth Crowther
Ensemble: Peter Casillas, Graham Wyles, Ann Pavot

Crew

For Equus

Setting: Kenneth Turner
Music: John A. Leonard, Charlie Mingus
Movement: Jane Winearls
Production Manager: Kevin Bishop
Deputy Stage Manager: Jim Capper
Assistant Stage Managers: Martin Sadler, Edward Brett
Wardrobe Mistress: Evadne Gale
Set Constructors: Frederick Reeves, David Frankel

For Travelling Playhouse Ltd.

Artistic Director: Lionel Harris
Administrator: Llewellyn Rees
Wardrobe Supervisor: Ann-Marie Miller
Press Liason: William Wordsworth

For Nottingham Playhouse

Theatre Director: Richard Eyre
Administrator and Licensee: Gordon Stratford
Assistant Director: Richard H. Williams
Literary Adviser: Pat Silburn
Assistant to Director & Marketing Dept.: Judith Warrior
Director for Theatre in Education: Sue Birtwistle
Assistant to Director for Theatre in Education: Susie Gilmour-Mulholland
Technical Administrator and Senior Stage Manager: Rodger Hulley
Stage Manager: Mark Cunningham
Deputy Stage Managers: Alan Bruce, Carolyn Ross
Assistant Stage Manager: Heather Lillicrap
Lighting Designer: Geoffrey Mersereau
Chief Lighting Technician: Steffan Adderton
Sound Technician: Stephen Higgs
Assistant Sound Technicians: Michael Howells, Malcolm Gelsthorpe
Head of Design: David Collis
Assistant Designer: Trevor Pitt
Design Staff: Mary Coxon, Ian Smith
Property Makers: Michael Ostafieyk, Edwin Herington
Head Production Carpenter: Graham Allman
Assistant Production Carpenters: Glyn Jones, Allan Payne
Wardrobe Mistress: Betty Dewick
Wardrobe Cutter: Frances Bristow
Wardrobe Staff: Judith Cross, Susan Douglas, Gladys Fearfield, Angela Turner
Stage Carpenter: Christopher Isherwood
Flyman: James Hancock
Stage Staff: Frank Butler, Richard Simmons
Theatre Manager: Jean Samds
Administrative Assistant: Ann Booth
Marketing Manager: Glyn V. Robbins
Public Relations Officer: William N. Smith

Programme Printed By: Progressive Printers, Nottingham

Notes

Production was first stop on a tour that later visited Coventry, Norwich, Stockport, Birmingham, Cardiff, Sunderland, Croydon, Bournemouth, London, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Leeds.