Leslie Lidyard

SLTC/SLT Member 1968 - 1996

Les (right) as Col. Chesney with Alan Buckman in Charley's Aunt. Photograph by photographer's name

Acting Roles

• Jack in Everything in the Garden(1968) (Theatre)
• Judge Brack in Hedda Gabler (1969) (Theatre)
• Stuart Wheeler in Say Who You Are (1970) (Theatre)
• Peter Sorin in The Seagull (1970) (Theatre)
• Alderman Joseph Helliwell in When We are Married (1972) (Main Stage)
• 'B' in A Village Wooing (1972) (Main Stage)
• Ensemble in Under Milk Wood (1972) (Main Stage)
• Claudius in Hamlet (1973) (Nettlefold Hall)
• Vermandero in The Changeling (1974) (Main Stage)
• Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit (1975) (Main Stage)
• Johnny in The Coffee Lace (1975) (Prompt Corner)
• Merriman in The Importance of Being Earnest (1976) (Main Stage)
• In The Importance of Being Coarse (1976) (Prompt Corner)
• Colonel Eustace Jeffrey in Sweeney Todd the Barber (1977) (Main Stage)
• Mr King in A Night Out (1978) (Prompt Corner)
• Arthur Birling in An Inspector Calls (1979) (Main Stage)
• Claudius in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1979) (Main Stage)
• Henry Lodge in Move Over Mrs Markham (1980) (Main Stage)
• Arthur Harnham in The Day After the Fair (1980) (Main Stage)
• Squire Western in Tom Jones (1980) (Main Stage)
• Rafe in Spring and Port Wine (1981) (Bell Theatre)
• Le Duc de Chateau Gaillard in An Italian Straw Hat (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• General Mackenzie in Ten Little Indians (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Gerald in Let's Murder Vivaldi (1982) (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in The Last Day of November (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Henry IV in Henry IV (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• 'Final Choruses' in Music Hall (1983) (Bell Theatre) with Ruth Lidyard led by Ann Mattey
• Pickering in Pygmalion (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Mr Miller in The Deep Blue Sea (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Father Filton Molloy in Fur Coat and No Knickers (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Menenius in Coriolanus (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Colonel, Sir Francis Chesney in Charley's Aunt (1986) (Bell Theatre)
• Peter Kroger in Pack of Lies (1987) (Bell Theatre)
• Charles QC in The Ballad of the Mignonette (1988) (Prompt Corner)
• in Summer (1989) (Prompt Corner)
• Murdock in Ways and Means (1989) (Bell Theatre)
• Sheridan Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1991) (Bell Theatre)
• The Rev Eli Jenkins/Mr Ogmore/Organ Morgan/Lord Cut Glass/Evans the Death/Drowned Sailor in Under Milk Wood (1991) (Prompt Corner)
• Matthew Skipps in The Lady's not for Burning (1992) (Bell Theatre)
• Ensemble in Stage By Stage (1996) (Prompt Corner)
• The President in Portrait of a Woman (1996) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Director/Producer

• Much Ado About Nothing (1971) (Theatre)
• Boeing Boeing (1972) (Main Stage)
• Harlequinade (1973) (Main Stage)
• Separate Tables (1974) (Main Stage)
• The Patrick Pearse Motel (1975) (Main Stage
• How's the World Treating You? (1976) (Main Stage)
• Plaza Suite (1978) (Bell Theatre)
• The Freedom Fighter (1979) (Prompt Corner)
• The Bed Before Yesterday (1981) (Main Stage)
• Red Peppers (1981) (Main Stage)
• A Man for All Seasons (1983) (Bell Theatre)
• Hay Fever (1984) (Bell Theatre)
• Geranium/The Interrogation (1984) (Prompt Corner)
• California Suite (1985) (Bell Theatre)
• Charley's Aunt (1986) (Bell Theatre) with Alan Buckman
• The Browning Version & For Stuttgart in Kaleidoscope '90 (1990) (Bell Theatre)
• Filumena (1993) (Bell Theatre)
• Stage By Stage (1996) (Prompt Corner)

Productions as Assistant Director

• The Lady's not for Burning (1992) (Bell Theatre)

Productions as Director's PA

• What the Butler Saw (1987) (Bell Theatre)

Other SLTC Roles

• Theatre Director 1987 - 1989, 1992 - 1993

External Links

• This member's Web Site.