alevans Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I saw the original at the Playhouse, went with my mum because a mate who was an actor in it got us free tickets, his name was Terry King, I think his flat mate Jeff Rawles was in it too, he later achieved a measure of TV stardom as Billy Liar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyRocks Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I went to see "Stirrings" at Chesterfield Pomegranate earlier this year or end of last year, really enjoyed it although some of the supposed Sheff accents were atrocious but it was only an amatuer production and was pretty good on the whole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alevans Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 I went to see the original at The Playhouse, a mate who was in it called Terry King got me and my mum free tickets. He was sharing a flat with Jeff Rawles at the time who I think was also in it and went on to acheive TV stardom as Billy Liar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norbert Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 Now my memory is in gear, the music was I think Roderick Horne, and the EP just features him singing alone,the main songs, to his own guitar accompaniment,... I went to a history event in Conisborough a couple of months back and met an old chap who claimed he used to be on Golden Shot and that he wrote the songs in 'Stirrings'. I didn't catch his name but I've no reason to think he was making it up. Must have been Roderick Horne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferret63 Posted November 7, 2011 Share Posted November 7, 2011 Sheffield Light Opera Company did a production at the Sheffield University Drama Studio at least eight years ago. Does anyone remember that production? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushbaby Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 It was the first play I saw at The Crucible - not sure of the year but it was the seventies. It was absolutely superb and I would love to see a revival of it. The "Drunkard's" scene on Hereford St still sticks in mind...comedy heaven!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jude B Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I too first saw 'The Stirrings' at the old Playhouse - the original production in 1966 (from which I got my lifelong love of theatre) and again in 1968, and the two Crucible productions (the most recent one was NOT inspiring, I felt, to put it mildly). There was an LP produced for the 1st Crucible revival, with the Crucible, not the original cast: my elderly mother had it, not sure if she still has. I loved the local accents and street names that I knew, the wonderful folk song (if you could call them that) arrangements, the mixed stories of the union atrocities, the founding of the Sheffield Telegraph and the installing for the first time of gas and sewage supplies (the memorably catchy song, 'Ah, progress' was connected with this) and the hilarious associated hole-digging scene. One of the great regrets of my life was disposing of all my Playhouse programmes in a youthful clearing-out fit - if only I'd kept them! But I THINK one of the original performers (who sang 'Bird in a Gilded Cage' in the music hall section was a woman called Dorothy Vernon. (Never heard of her since - if I've got the name right!) Jude B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushbaby Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 The Students did a version of it a few weeks ago (Sept 2011) at the theatre in the old church - I didn't get to it but my sister in law saw it (for the first time) and though it was brilliant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan1951 Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I think Dorothy Vernon was part of the Playhouse Company. I have a vague recollection of seeing her in a childrens Christmas Play at the Playhouse which our saw on a school trip. This must have been sometime between 1958 and 1962 so if she was in the original Stirrings she was with the Playhouse Company for quite a while Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazel Posted December 14, 2011 Share Posted December 14, 2011 I think I saw it at the abbeydale hamlet around the 80's. hazel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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