Cast List

Masha : Alice Spaul
Medvyedenko, a schoolmaster : Tony Bilbow
Konstantin : David Thompson
Sorin, Miss Arkadina's brother : Frank Smith
Nina : Vilma Hollingberry
Pauline, Masha's mother : Margaret Skea
Dr Dorn : John Benson
Miss Arkadina, Konstantin's mother : Bobbie Peacock
Trigorin, an author : John Gordon
Shamrayov, Pauline's husband : Denis Richardson
Yakov : John Bennett
A maid : Barbara Arnott
The cook : Joan Smith

Production Team

Director : Margery Withers
Set Design : Gloria Welby-Fisher
Lighting : Jean Bueno de Mesquita
Ladies' costumes devised by Jo Hall from some of the authentic period clothes presented to the Tower Theatre Wardrobe


Stage Managers : Barbara Arnott, Tom Carter
ASMs : Bill Manley, Susan Mindelsohn, Joan Smith
Lighting Operators : John Fox, Paula Munday
Wardrobe : Jo Hall assisted by Mrs Marlborough & the Misses Berger, Gladman, Gentry, Hocking & Stanton
Properties : Irene Carter, Wendy Hooper
Gun made by Larry Barnes
Set construction : Gloria Welby-Fisher, Ray Sleap, Laureen Strassheim, Edward Stannard, Christopher Mears, Roy Baker Les Haines in the Tower Theatre Workshop