WORLD PREMIERE Written by J Michael Hankon Music By Lynne Cockburn Production Designed and Directed by Shirley Lovell. MD – Vyvyan Donnithorne Chorus Master – Joe Beer, Dances devised and staged by Shirley Lovell, Monica Farmer and Patrick Driver. FIRST PERFORMANCE 25th September 1970.
CAST – MUEZZIN – John Welch, 1st HAMAL/ PRINCE VALERIAN – Jack Taylor, 2nd HAMAL – Patrick Driver, 3rd Hamal – Clive Millman, MERCHANT/AUCTIONEER- Ron Styles, 1st COURTESAN – Shirley Parkhouse, BYSTANDER – Daphne Garrett, 2nd COURTESAN – Pat Real, BARONESS LILA KARLSHEIM – Ruth Kerswill, PAULINE BRISCATI – Ann Tucker, TAYFUN – Gordon Monk, SAILORS & SLAVES Chris Byrne Jones, Ron Graham, Derek Warren, LUCIA – Betty Graham, DMITRI GAVALLAS – J Michael Hankon, SERVANTS – Tim Tolman, Mary Byrne Jones, Bernard Styles, Sylvia Billows, Irene Doeg, VOICE OF FANNY and PARSIFAL – Phyllis Bradbury, SECOND SULTAN of TURKEY – Geoffrey Wildey, ALPAY – Chris Byrne Jones, TEOMAN/VANGELLI/PETROS – Clive Millman, MURAT – Patrick Driver, MORIS – Kevin Buck, COUNTESS GASPRALI – Mavis Williamson, LORD CRIMPLETON GORDON – Chris Cearley, LADY CRIMPLETON GORDON – Ida hayes, NICO – Patrick Driver, KOULA – Wendy Walker, ELENIE Lesley Clare, MARIA – Barbara Makepeace, ANNA – Phyllis Pitman, MAKIS – Jack Taylor, PAVLOS – Chris Cearley, VASSO – Frances Copp, EMILIO – Kevin Buck, , KENAN – Ron Graham, PRINCESS VALERIAN – Daphne Garrett, EUNOCH – William Woolland NOTARY – Jack Sealey, CHORUS not mentioned above –Christine Hooper, Myrtle Perry, Ann Gardner, Jill Chaplyn, June Wakley, Pamela Long, Letty Monk, Frances Sheasby, Evelyn Beer, Ethel Taylor, Alice Cearley, Jackie Staddon, Julie Hayes, Penny Nichols, Linda La Forge, Stephen Hooper,