The Cock's Stride by Anne Lee-Michell
Corfield Hall, Taunton, 13th and 14th June and Bridgwater Town Hall 22nd June, 1951.
The story of Somerset, presented by the Somerset
Fellowship of Drama as its contribution to the Festival of Britain.
Across the county, fifteen plays were performed. As
Kay Marfell noted in
her scrapbook in reference to the companion piece
to this, Mary Blake: "[A]
non-Thespian production but mostly Thespian people"
| Cast | |
| Benjamin Branchflower (Potman at the Squirrel Inn) | Bert Harris |
| Goody Branchflower (his mother) | Madeleine Shore |
| Jane Branchflower (his wife – cook at the Squirrel Inn) | Audrey Beart-Fosse |
| Mistress Follett (widow – the landlady) | Ellen F Gadsden |
| Bessie Branchflower (daughter to Ben and Jane) | Mary Young |
| Sam Barnes (a weaver’s apprentice) | Michael Savage |
| John Popham (Attorney General) | Len Hewitt |
| Master Builder (of Wellington) | Jim Archard |
| Amy Popham (wife to John) | Jill Osborn (Hazel J Osbourne) |
| Constable | Stanley Ford |
| Backstage | |
| Produced by | Annette Miller |
| Stage Director | Eddie Pain |
| Lighting | Basil Allen |
| Wardrobe Mistress | Marjorie Galloway |
| Prompter | Mary Roskams |
| Property Mistress | Alice Pain |
| Call Girl | Pamela Hewitt |
| Front of House Management under the direction of | Rex Frost |
| Programme Sellers organised by | Mrs Renacre |
| Stewards organised by | Geoffrey Warrington |