Seven new faces for 'St. Joan'
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Colin is a new face on Cayman's stage, although he has done some work behind the scenes in previous productions-he served his apprenticeship as prompt to his wife, Mary, in The Boyfriend. It is rumoured that the commencement of his acting career is entirely due to his complete loss of form at darts. MARLIES MAMDTRAUCH
German born, Marlies is yet another first-timer in the Cayman Drama Society's next production. She has not done any acting since her school and college days, although she has worked backstage, both in Cayman and Freeport. MICHAEL MANN and MURIEL MANN
Michael Mann has just arrived from Canada and is working for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce here. Within days of his arrival, he was enticed into the CDS, but the theatre was not new to him as he had previously been involved in drama in Toronto and musicals in Vancouver.
Michael is in Cayman with his wife, Muriel, who is not going to allow her husband to get all the prasie so she is in the production of "St. Joan" too. Muriel's main interest is in operetta but she seems to be enjoying her present role in straight drama.
MICHAEL CALLAGHAN
Michael is no stranger on the stage in Cayman, as since he has been here, out of the four plays presented during that period, Michael has been in three of them. So there is obviously very little that the theatre-going public does not know about Michael. Suffice it to say that Michael is Irish, and is working for Guinness Mahon Cayman Trust Limited.
PHIL WILSON
Phil is a more familiar figure around the dock area in George Town (being a civil engineer with McAlpines) than on the stage but it is good to see a new face on the boards-this is Phil's first part in a play since school.
Phil is married with two children.
JOHN REDMAN
John arrived in Cayman in 1974 and is Associate Editor of the Nor'wester. Initially he took up literary dramatic criticism but then he was elected to the committee of the Cayman Drama Society, at which time he quickly forgot how to criticise. Since being a member of the CDS he has appeared in "The Hostage," "Sailor Beware," and now "St. Joan", and has produced "Arsenic and Old Lace."John took up acting at the tender age of 3 when he was a centurion in a nativity play, during which he had a traumatic experience, and he has never quite overcome the humiliation this engendered.
John attended the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, where he was involved in the Dramatic Society. He basically worked backstage and in 1962 was part of the group from St. Andrews that went to the National Union of Students' Drama Festival which was organised by The Sunday Times.
SARAH DUNNING
Born in Hong Kong and educated in Hong Kong and England, Sarah is in Cayman with her parents. Another new member of the Cayman Drama Society, this is Sarah's first part in a play.
CARTER HILLYER
Carter is an American who has only just arrived in Cayman to take up a teaching post. He joined the CDS to get to know people and immediately got himself involved in "St. Joan"-this is his first acting role.
MARTIN COUCH
Martin arrived in Cayman from England and is working for a Trust Company. This is Martin's first appearance in a Cayman Drama Society production but he is obviously making up for lost time, as he has no less than three parts in "St. Joan."
