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The family did occasionally go there in the 1950s and it always seemed to be well kept and tidy. One regular annual visit was with a Young Peoples Club to whatever was on. I would like to say that I saw Peter Sallis. (Summer Wine), Paul.Eddington (Yes Minister) and Margaret Tyzack but I can't  truthfully do that. The production was "Wind in the Willows", full animal costumes and no face holes. Who was who didn't come into it and at that time they were not yet very well-known. It didnt  matter and full skin notwithstanding we heard every word. Never forgotten it 

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Sheffield Playhouse, Entrance on Little Hill / Townhead Street, 1963/4. 

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Little Hill from Townhead Street, Playhouse Theatre, right. 

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Fernando Perredita (1913 - 1975), actor at Sheffield Playhouse, (later changed name to Anthony Marlowe)

s08715.jpg.42410d81424980a53b79da0ce9f0bf72.jpgs08715   September 1935

Here shown in the role of John Middleton in The Constant Wife. First appeared at Sheffield Playhouse in 1935. Newspaper cutting report; Anthony Marlowe, the actor, who has died at the age of 62, joined Oxford Repertory in 1934 after being at RADA. During 1934-35 he was with the Jevon Brandon-Thomas company at Glasgow and Edinburgh; he went on to Sheffield Repertory and made his London debut in 1937 at the Mercury as the Electrician in Theatre Street. After more repertory, he had a season at the Bolton's and first appeared in the West End as Mr Thorpe in The Hidden Years at the Fortune. A gifted and impressive player, among the parts in which he was particularly noted were Randall Utterwood in Heartbreak House at the Arts, the General in The Moment of Truth at the Adelphi and the Rev Oliver Prefoy in Sailor, Beware! at the Strand.

 

Sir Laurence Olivier (1907-1989) at the Playhouse Theatre, Townhead Street. 12 April 1966.

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Stan Barstow (1928-2011) at the Playhouse Theatre, Townhead Street. 11th November 1965.

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