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It is committed to theatre company based in the beautiful giving exciting, entertaining and intelligent Sharing the stories market town of Richmond in North Yorkshire. theatre to audiences whose access to live Under the direction of its Artistic Director theatre is limited by geography or who simply of the people and Nobby Dimon it has created many original enjoy sharing the experience of live theatre in places of the new plays along with exciting adaptations of their local community. We would like to Yorkshire Dales classic novels since it began in 1996. It has a express our gratitude to the local promoters, special understanding of the nature of the majority of whom are unpaid, whose hard Station Yard, Hawes touring to a rural area as well as educational work allows us to visit their venues. Open daily 10am-5pm (except Christmas bank Be an Angel of the North Country, help keep the show on the road! holidays and January) For more than 15 years North Country Theatre’s ripping yarns and historical dramas Free for children have been a vital part of the cultural life of the rural north. Your donation can help www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/DCM it continue. Tel: 01748 825288 for information or download the brochure from 01969 666210 www.northcountrytheatre.com National Park and Tourist Information > Andy Thursfield donated the time he spent designing this programme in support Centre of North Country Theatre. Aside from graphic design he tries to find time to paint ~ take a look at his work in Gallerina, 37 Duke Street, Darlington DL 3 7 RX or at www.andy-thursfield.com J S Fletcher – Yorkshire’s most prolific writer J.S. Fletcher’s Whilst taking long walks in his beloved thoouussee Yorkshire landscape he would plot his novels TThheeLLiigghhth and develop his characters, but unlike other oonn writers of the genre he did not develop one dss consistent detective [such as Hercule Poirot or riinngg SSaannd Miss Marple], so perhaps this held him back. SShhiivveer However, demand for Fletcher’s books in USA Cast took off when the recovering American Adapted by the company, The Swimmer / Mrs Cornish Vivienne Garnett President Woodrow Wilson was asked what he written and directed by The Helmsman / Jezreel Cornish Simon Kirk was reading during his convalescence “It’s a Nobby Dimon great thriller, The Middle Temple Murder by JS The Passenger / Mordechai Chiddock Mark Cronfield Fletcher” he said. The Lighthouse Keeper Nobby Dimon When Fletcher died in 1935 he left behind Supported using public funding by Set Design Richard Foxton an impressive body of work, 237 books of the National Lottery through Lighting Design Thomas Weir which 120 were detective stories. There were Arts Council England Back-cloth Simon Pell also books on the Reformation in the north, We are grateful for sponsorship Swimmer Costume Alice Lawson Music/SFX Dave Harris Yorkshire monasteries, numerous books on the from Adrian Bailey Classics, W E Jameson & Sons and Administration Colin Bailey, Gillian Howells county’s archaeology which led to him thecitysecret.com. Also to the For Harrogate Theatre becoming a Fellow of many Angels of the North Country, Production Manager Richard Bielby the Royal Historical the GW Cadbury Trust and the Technical Manager Maurice Stewart Society, poetry and Friends of North Country Theatre for ongoing support. Theatre Technician Jonny Coulson several short stories Theatre Technician Lucy Elmer t is surprising that JS Fletcher who was including The Theatre Technician Oliver Stables Iprobably one of Britain’s most prolific writers Lighthouse on let alone Yorkshire’s is not well known. He was Shivering Sands. We’d also like to thank people who support the company throughout the year along with those who have helped with this production: Beki Harrison, Lindsay Trenholme, Lynn Ward, Ian Mawson, Richmond Operatic Society, Andy Thursfield, born in Halifax in 1863 and at the age of 8 Julian Farrand, Jean Wrangham, Mike Nicholls, Peter Robinson, Sheila Halladay, Elizabeth Shaw, Dave, Max & Grant months following the death of his clergyman Dalton, Nicholas Reckert, Rachel & Howard Walker, Jennifer Thursfield, Mick Bannister, Brenda Hale, John Ward, Caroline father went to live with his grandmother on a Woodroffe, Richmond Town Council, Jenny & Tony Power, Amanda & Steve Cook, Faye & David Doorbar, Geoff & Anne Wall, Tim & Hilary Kendall, Donald & Nina Cline, Wilma Burniston, Liz Floyd, Mike Potter, the late Sue Hutton-Squire farm in Darrington near Pontefract. Following Above: school in Wakefield he went to London to Illustration from The study law but by 20 was a sub-editor at a Lighthouse You need Friends… we need ‘Friends of North Country Theatre’ London newspaper. He returned north and on Shivering worked at the Leeds Mercury before moving Sands The Friends of North Country Theatre are a wonderful group of supporters who on to the Yorkshire Post as a special pay an annual subscription of £20 per household. For this they get a newsletter correspondent. This allowed him to pay and occasional invitations to special fundraising events. They are often invited to the bills whilst pursuing his first love of come to the opening night of a production and stay behind to see the set and writing books. meet the cast. Friends do an invaluable job for the company, and money raised by Early on in his career as a novelist he wrote them is used to enhance the work produced by North Country Theatre, often a series of books in Yorkshire dialect which led enabling us to buy props, costumes or even commission work we would not to comparisons with Thomas Hardy. In 1914 otherwise be able to afford. he published his first detective novel and then If you are interested in becoming a Friend please sign up at the Friends table tonight, there was no stopping him – he went on to contact Tim Kendall via email on Timkend [email protected] or fill in the form overleaf. produce more than 100 novels in 20 years. Cross-section of the Eddystone Lighthouse Richard Foxton Set designer The Crucible, The Caretaker, Four Nights in Nobby Dimon Vivienne Garnett When designer Simon Pell became ill Richard Knaresborough, Saved, Blood Wedding, A Has been the Artistic Director of North This is Vivienne’s sixth time performing with Foxton stepped in at very short notice to Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dancing at Country Theatre since it was founded in 1996. North Country Theatre, having made her create a design for this production. Lughnasa and The Pitchfork Disney . He has been professional debut as Cathy in The Imitation His previous work includes : Absent He has has won the Manchester Evening writer adapter Game back in 2005. A graduate of Mountview Friends, The Winter’s Tale, Beauty and the Beast News design award five times, most recently as well as Academy of Theatre Arts, Vivienne has and Aladdin (Mercury Theatre, Colchester) in 2008 for Oh What a Lovely War (Octagon director of recently returned Takeaway (Theatre Royal Stratford East), Office Theatre). His work was included in the British most of the from Australia Suite (Theatre Royal Bath and national tour), exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial (1995), he company’s where she Brassed Off (Sheffield Theatre’s national tour), was a judge of the Linbury Prize (1997). output since worked with Blue/Orange, The Country Wife and Queen’s He is designing the Harrogate Theatre then, including Attic Erratic, MKA English (Palace Theatre ,Watford), Deathtrap, 2012 Pantomime. acclaimed and Short+Sweet, Stepping Out, Martha, Josie and the Chinese adaptations of all based in Elvis, Return to the Forbidden Planet, Kes, The Thomas Weir Technician J. L. Carr’s Melbourne. Sunshine Boys, Perfect Pitch, On the Piste and Thomas is working for an eighth time with A Month in the Country , Austen’s Northanger She has also Good Golly Miss Molly (Coliseum Theatre, North Country Theatre having previously Abbey , and Conan Doyle’s The Lost World , as appeared in Oldham), Equus, Macbeth, The Miser and Dead worked on The Imitation Game, The 39 Steps, well as writing the large scale community play various TV Funny (Salisbury Playhouse), The Rise and Fall The Man Who Would Be King, The Prisoner of for Richmondshire Last Dance of a Dalesman , commercials of Little Voice (Harrogate Theatre), Kvetch (West Zenda, Home on the Range, Blood Wedding and which moved its audience from gales of including Sony, Yorkshire Playhouse), All My Sons, Neville’s The Rocking Horse Winner. Thomas did a laughter to tears and back again. His Virgin and Sky and is delighted to be Island and Brassed Off (York Theatre Royal), seven-year stint at the Octagon Theatre adaptation with Simon Corble of Buchan’s The returning to her native North Yorkshire for Things we do for Love and Death of a Salesman Bolton where he has designed both lighting 39 Steps inspired the West End Production that this tour. (Library Theatre ,Manchester), Desperate to be and sound for numerous productions the received an Olivier Award as BEST NEW Doris, Hector’s House and The Importance of most recent being I Just Stopped By To See The COMEDY in February 2007.