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1981 - The Chester Cycle - The Passion

Mike Stevens (Annas or Caiaphas), Roger Haworth (Pilate), Herbert Wanbon (Caiaphas or Annas)

Herbert Wanbon (as above), ? (courtier to Pilate), Roger Haworth (Pilate), ? (courtier to Pilate)

Herbert, Mike and Roger as above.  Richard Luxford (Jesus).

Links: Mike Stevens on drama at Tulse Hill School and with Lambeth Players (broken link - try the Wayback Machine's copy. Search the page for Mike) and … Other refs to Mike on the School memorial site Mike Stevens' own web site 25 years on and I still remember my big speech as Pilate Apparently Herbert performed just once with The Players of St Peter: in 1978 Google found me a very interesting reference to a Herbert Wanbon teaching English in Tehran in the 1960s who sounded very much like this Herbert Wanbon. It was part of an interview with Yousef Ghodsizadeh, a Jew brought up in Iran! The interviewee said he had kept in touch with Herbert who had retired to France. The article was on the The Columbus Jewish Historical Society website but unfortunately Yousef has requested it to be taken down. But you could order it on cassette.

St George and the Dragon Medieval Mummers Play (Actually the script was by Ceres Squire from various traditional sources.)

In Myatt's Fields, Lambeth.  That is Mike Stevens playing St George so it must be me, Roger Haworth playing the Turkish Knight. We did this show so often, I used to turn up for performance and ask 'which part am I playing this time'. I remember once, after we had performed in Epping town centre, Bernard Dandridge asked us to do a run on this green for the video camera.  We started with no audience, playing to the camera but soon a few spectators stopped and we began to play to them.  And I am sure we bottled them when we finished!

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