Drama at Girls' College

Scenes from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and "Taming of the Shrew", and Gertrude Jenning's "The Bride", were presented by the Drama Club of the Nelson College for Girls. (pictures by Peter Cooper)

Claire McDowell, Jean Rudland, Adrienne Wood, Suzanne Ford, Carol Cathcart, Pat Kerr and Lyndsey Sutherland await the outcome of the struggle in the grave between Louise McKechnie and Barbara Bossley.

Hamlet (Louise McKechnie) - "Alas, poor Yorick".

The gravediggers - Claire McDowell and Valerie White

Petruchio (Angela Pitt) rules with a riding crop. Servants Margaret Anderson, Geraldine Grant and Prudence Hoby look suitably cowed and Christine Shuttleworth (Kate) quite disdainful.

The full cast of "Taming the Shrew"

Cast of "The Bride". Rosemary Hall. Barbara Dobson, Lyn Wiren, Pamela Dixon. Mary Muddle and Elaine Beatty.

Petruchio and the lovely Kate

Miss Sparrow (Mary Muddle) makes a point

Lyn Wiren ("The Bride")

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The Nelson Photo News

No 2 : December 10, 1960

Drama at Girls' College