Sunday Evening High School Play.

November 1964

South Yorkshire Times, November 21

A Sunday Evening High School Play.

A Conisbrough Methodist Church experiment in worship on Sunday evening proved highly successful. Instead of the normal sermon members of the County High School presented the play, “Noah” by Obey, using the pulpit and communion area.

Said the minister, the Rev David McDonnell, “The play went down very well indeed. Everyone appreciated it and it was a wonderful effort by the students of the school.”

“It was a play in which everyone can share, the congregation as well as the actors,” he added.

Mr McDonald paid tribute to the producer, Mr Bill Avis, English master at the County High School, and other members of the school staff, who assisted with the production.

“We shall certainly try to put on a another play, but we haven’t decided exactly when it will be. It may be at Easter.”

The production meant a “double shuffle” for Glynis Harrison, who played Mrs Noah. She stepped into the part at short notice when the girl who would normally have played the part was taken ill and it was only on Friday that she learned she had been chosen to deputise. “She did remarkably well,” said Mrs MacDonald.

Other parts were paid by Raymond Godber, William Webb, Julia Bradwell, Leslie Kelly, Nola Cooper, William Collins, Elizabeth Baxendale, Keith Andrews, Philip Toombs, Stuart Fowler, Dan Taylor, Robert Glennie, Melvin Mitchell, David Sellers and Susan Dennis.