Profile: Barbara Cookson

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Director, Trespass (1950)
• Director, Jupiter Laughs (1949)
• Eve Newton, The Sparks Fly Upward (1949)
• Bente, The Witch (1948)
• Woman of Canterbury, Murder in the Cathedral (1948)
• Edna Randolph, Dear Octopus (1948)
• Miss Wooler, The Brontes (1947)
• Violet Robinson, Man and Superman (1947)
• Mrs Wallace, Well Caught (1947)
• Madge, Time and the Conways (1946)
• Mrs Knox, Fanny’s First Play (1945)
• Lady Marden, Mr Pim Passes By (1945)
• First Stranger, Men Are Missing (1945)
• Doris Gow, Fumed Oak (1945)
• Dorothy Stritton, They Came to a City (1944)
• Anna Portal, The Blue Goose (1944)
• Ella, Hullabaloo (1944)
• Judith Montague, Distinguished Gathering (1943)
• Mary Lassells, The Rose Without a Thorn (1942)
• Helen Tennant, Mystery at Greenfingers (1942)
• Margaret Heal, The Fanatics (1940)
• Madame Pons, Dr Knock (1940)
• Juanita La Rosa, The Women Have Their Way (1940)
• Julia, The Rivals (1939)
• Mrs Jones, The Silver Box (1939)
• Phillida Ransome, Queen of Hose (1939)
• Athene Builder, A Family Man (1938)
• Gentlewoman, Macbeth (1937)
• Candida, Candida (1936)
• Lady, The Taming of the Shrew (1936)
• Elizabeth Hitchener, They Fed the Fire (1936)
• Z, Village Wooing (1936)
• Charmian, Caesar and Cleopatra (1935)
• Caroline Westlake, The Bachelor Tax (1935)
• Z, Village Wooing (1934)
• Mother Hollunder, Liliom (1934)
• Miss Wragg, Yellow Roses (1934)
• Princess Sabra, St George and the Dragon (1934)
• Pilar, The Women Have Their Way (1934)
• Sister Perpetua/Rosamund, Godstow Nunnery (1933)
• Lady Catherine de Burgh, Elizabeth Refuses (1932)
• Young Lord, All’s Well That Ends Well (1932)
• Hero, Much Ado About Nothing (1931)

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