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Matthew Lyne

SLT member since the early Cretaceous period...

Acting Roles

• Ensemble in Under Milk Wood (1972) (Main Stage)
• Warder in Sweeny Todd the Barber (1977) (Main Stage)
• Jackson in The Ghost Train (1978) (Main Stage)
• Ensemble in Oh, What a Lovely War (1979) (Main Stage)
• Rupert in Ball Boys David Edgar (1980) (Prompt Corner)
• Donalbain/Murderer in Macbeth William Shakespeare (1980) Director Ian Vallender
• Francis Flute in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1980) (Main Stage)
• Bartender in Kennedy's Children Robert Patrick (1980) Director Vince Oliver (Main Stage)
• Bluebelle, Ugly Sister in Cinderella (1981) Director Bruce Murray (Main Stage)
• Alf in Red Peppers Noel Coward (1981) Director Ken Lucas (Bell Theatre|Main Stage]])
• Colin in The Knack Ann Jellicoe (1981) Director Angie Shrubsole (Main Stage)
• Protean in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Shevelove and Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• Christie Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World J M Synge (1981) Director Charlie Cheetham (Bell Theatre)
• Bumble in Gullible's Troubles Shrubsole (1982) Director Harry Sanders, Adrian McLoughlin (Bell Theatre)
• Porter in A Doll's House Ibsen (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Ranting in The Bespoke Overcoat - Wolf Mankowitz (1982) Director John Hartnett (Bell Theatre)
• Boby, the Bride's cousin in An Italian Straw Hat - Eugene Labishe, Marc Michel (1982) Director Jill Clark (Bell Theatre)
• Anthony Marston in Ten Little Indians Agatha Christie (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Owen in The Golden Pathway Annual - John Harding and John Burrows (1982) Director Pam Lyne (Bell Theatre)
• Jack Wakefield in Harlequinade - Terrence Rattigan (1983)(Prompt Corner) Director Pam Lyne
• Sandy Tyrell in Hay Fever - Noel Coward (1984) Director Les Lidyard (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in Le Repertoire De La Cuisine - Review Various (1984) (Prompt Corner) Director Alan Buckman
• 'No stranger to our audiences - than he is to anyone else' in 'Arf 'n' 'Arf (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Inspector Pissanni in Accidental Death of An Anarchist Dario Fo (1984) (Bell Theatre) Director Malcolm Saunders
• Will Scargill in Robin Hood - The Truth Behind the Green Tights (1985) Director John Hartnett
• 'Man of many parts - assembled by committee' in Just Another 'Arf - Review Alan Buckman and Others (1985) Director Alan Buckman (Bell Theatre)
• Jackie Jackson in The Deep Blue Sea - Terrence Rattigan (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Spirit of Christmas Present in A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens adapted by Shaun Sutton (1985) Directors Malcolm Saunders and Sharon Phipp
• Yonkers & Pastey in Gypsy (1986) Director Alan Deakin
• Mr Shanks in Habeas Corpus (1998) (Bell Theatre)
• Inspector Hound in The Real Inspector Hound (2000) (Bell Theatre)
• On the Boards in The (12) Daze of Xmas (2000) (Bell Theatre)
• Ratcatcher/Nazi Border Official/English Organiser/Postman/Station Guard in Kindertransport (2001) (Bell Theatre)
• Azolan in Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2001) (Bell Theatre)
• Launce in Two Gentlemen of Verona (2002) (Prompt Corner)
• Jim in Passion Play (2002) (Bell Theatre)
• Vicar in Melons at the Parsonage (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• Paul in Absent Friends (2004) (Prompt Corner)
• Ross in Macbeth (2004) (Prompt Corner)
• Melchior in On the Razzle (2005) (Bell Theatre)
• Magus in Between Worlds (2005) (Prompt Corner)
• Benny in My Night With Reg (2005) (Bell Theatre)
• Squire Western in Tom Jones (2006) (Bell Theatre)
• John Proctor in The Crucible (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• Corbaccio, an old Gentleman in Volpone (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Sydney in Kafka's Dick (2007) (Prompt Corner)
• Prof Rupert Fenton/Algy Longwort/A Country Policeman/A Waiter/Inspector Scabbard/Wolfgang Schmidt/Marovich/Kwang Lee in Bullshot Crummond (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• The Slow Assassin in The Dice House (2008) (Prompt Corner)
• Ross, Bishop Walsham How, Snork in The Elephant Man (2008) (Bell Theatre)
• Gary in Gagarin Way (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• The Superintendent in Accidental Death of an Anarchist (2009) (Prompt Corner)
• Butch Honeywell in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2009) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Stage Manager

• Pippin (1980) (Main Stage)
• The Dumb Waiter (1980) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Assisstant Stage Manager

• Habeas Corpus (1978) (Main Stage)
• A Taste of Honey (1978) (Main Stage)
• The Wizard of Oz (1979) (Main Stage)
• Play It Again, Sam (1979) (Main Stage)
• An Inspector Calls (1979) (Main Stage)
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1979) (Main Stage)
• Breath of Spring (1979) (Main Stage)
• A Doll's House (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Once a Catholic (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Lettice and Lovage (2002) (Bell Theatre)
• Absurd Person Singular (2002) (Bell Theatre)

Props on:

• I am a Camera (1979) (Main Stage)

Set Construction on:

• Breath of Spring (1979) (Main Stage)
• The Golden Pathway Annual (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Lettice and Lovage (2002) (Bell Theatre)
• Rebecca (2002) (Bell Theatre)
• The Marriage-Go-Round (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• New Directors' Showcase (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• Carpe Jugulum (2003) (Bell Theatre)
• Dr Faustus (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Volpone (2007) (Bell Theatre)
• Dracula (2008) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Prompt

• Plaza Suite (1978) (Bell Theatre) (1 night only)
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1979) (Main Stage)

Interests

Who's got time for 'interests'? (Apart from Spam, obviously!)

I was Membership Secretary for a couple of years in the eighties.

I briefly went into semi-retirement when my children, Jennifer and Thomas, were small, in the nineties.

I have run the bar rota since 2007.

Appointed Members' Club Deputy Chairman 2009.

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