22 October - 14 November 1992

BLUES FOR MISTER CHARLIE

by James Baldwin

Meridian Henry WYLLIE LONGMORE
Richard Henry PATERSON JOSEPH
Mother Henry JOAN HOOLEY
Juanita CECILIA NOBLE
Lorenzo NICHOLAS MONU
Pete RAY FEARON
Jimmy, Blacktown STEPHEN PERSAUD
Arthur VERNON DOUGLAS
Papa D GUY GREGORY
Parnell James NICHOLAS LE PREVOST
Lyle Britten DAVID SCHOFIELD
Jo Britten BARBARA BARNES
Ellis, The State Defender MORGAN DEARE
Hazel, Whitetown LORELEI KING
Ralph, Voice of the Clerk ANDREW WATSON
Susan, Council for the Bereaved CHARLOTTE FRYER
Rev Phelps, Voice of the Judge PAUL HALEY
and members of the MANCHESTER COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR

Director GREGORY HERSOV
Designer DAVID SHORT
Lighting ACE McCARRON
Sound REBECCA WATTS
Assistant Director JAKE LUSHINGTON
Fights Director NICHOLAS HALL
Choir Director PETER MORGAN
Musical Director LUKE SMITH
Musical Supervisor CHRIS MONKS
Musical Arrangements PETER MORGAN, LUKE SMITH, CHRIS MONKS
Dialect Coach PENNY DYER

"Gregory Hersov's new production...strikes a striding, muscular pace that never flags. On this showing Baldwin is up there with the best of American theatre...This is a major production of a major work."
Martin Hoyle The Times

"...it is not only for his characteristic ability to draw so many good performances that Gregory Hersov should be acclaimed. H
is entire production is profoundly conceived and executed. It is visualised and based with an over-whelming emotional power, and the use of the Manchester Community Gospel Choir, whose voices soar and float round the great dome surrounding the theatre, is a stroke of inspired magnificence."
Jeffrey Wainwright The Independent

"A cast in full flight, on top of their roles like this, is an exciting experience. The evening's success isn't, of course, quite all down to the performers. Hersov has emerged
"over the years as one of the very best directors around...in Hersov's hands the play soars, climaxing in a courtroom scene of great power and passion...There ought to be queues around the theatre for this one."
Alan Hulme Manchester Evening News