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)
- Rosamund/Sister Perpetua, 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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