Theatre Programmes:
James Beck in Anna Christie

ANNA CHRISTIE BY EUGENE O'NEILL

Venue: York Theatre Royal

Date: Monday July 20 - Saturday July 25 1959

Price: Fourpence

Right: The Seriously curtailed programme for the 1959 Theatre Royal, York production of Anna Christie.

YORK CITIZENS THEATRE TRUST LTD.
presents
ANNA CHRISTIE
by EUGENE O'NEILL

CHARACTERS IN ORDER OF THEIR APPEARANCE

JOHNNY-THE-PRIEST............DONALD PILMEAR
TWO LONGSHOREMEN...............JOHN DAVIES
..................................................JOHN LEYTON
A POSTMAN........................ROBERT WALLACE
LARRY (Bartender).............TREVOR BANNISTER
CHRIS. CHRISTOPHERSON.....JEFFERY DENCH
MARTHA OWEN....................JEAN ALEXANDER
ANNA CHRISTOPHERSO.ALETHEA CHARLTON
THREE MEN OF A STEAMERS CREW.......
JOHN DAVIES/ ROLF DIETER / KEN FINCH
MAT BURKE (a stoker)..................JAMES BECK
JOHNSON (deckhand on a barge)JOHN LEYTON

The play produced by KEITH ANDREWS
Setting designed and painted by
JANE DODSWORTH
assisted by BERYL BUNN and BARRY MASSEY

A member of York theatre company, Jimmy Beck made several performances to great acclaim in the late 1950's early 1960's. This particular production featured Jimmy as Mat Burke (a stoker).

Contemporaries who co-starred along with Jimmy in this production was future 1961 chart topper John Leyton (Johnny Remember Me), Trevor Bannister (later star of Are You Being Served and The Dustbinmen) and Jean Alexander (later Hilda Ogden of Coronation Street).

The size of the programme was merely four pages as opposed to eight, this was due a printers strike in which the programme was "necessarily curtailed"

Written and researched by Andy Howells.
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