In March 1946 the Bristol Light Opera Club staged The Rebel Maid, Montague F. Phillips’s “romantic light opera in three acts” set in Devon in 1688, at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, with evening performances at 6.30 and a Saturday matinee. The programme’s list of previous productions ends with Lilac Time in 1939, making this the club’s first show after the war, and it announced that “all proceeds” were “to be given to the Bristol Royal Hospital”. A. E. Scott Piggott produced and wrote the programme’s note on the story, calling the piece “one of our most colourful and musical English operas”, with H. N. Wybourne as musical director. The club’s own thirty-strong Orchestral Section, led by S. Nicholls, provided the music.
Cast
- Captain Percy Jerome — Ralph O. Parnell
- Dorothy — Margaret Radnedge
- Lord Milverton — W. Coulsting
- Sir Stephen Crespigny — Bernard Bamber
- Lady Elizabeth Weston — Gladys Massey
- Abigail — Kathleen Houlden
- Solomon Hooker — C. Wiltshire
- Derek Lanscombe — C. Norris
- Lady Mary Trefusis (the Rebel Maid) — Eveline Ford
- Septimus Bunkle — T. Pate
- Sam — W. I. Britt
- Sergeant — G. R. Dancey
- William of Orange — H. G. Harvey