Theatre – Dudley Long

Liverpool Playhouse Company (1970)

Dudley joined the Liverpool Playhouse Company in 1970. He was involved with “Let’s make a play & Hansel & Gretel” in which he played a Witch.

Let’s Make A Play & Hansel & Gretal

1970

Dudley played a Witch

He has played rep throughout the country, from Worthing in the south, to Pitlochry in the Scottish highlands

Don Quixote

1970?

Connaught Theatre, Worthing

Dudley played Don Quixote

Black Spot On The Mersey

Liverpool Playhouse – 24 March 1970

Dudley played the First Irishman & Father O’Reilly

Hindle Wakes

Dudley played Sir Tim Farrow

The Girl On The Balcony

Dudley played the Villian

The Importance Of Being Ernest

Dudley played Canon Chasuble

Rashomon

A 1959 English-language play written by Fay and Michael Kanin, based on Kurosawa’s film.

Dudley played the part of a Buddhist Priest & had to wear a bald wig which took 2 hours to fit before every performance.

Pitlochry Festival Theatre

Dudley toured the Highlands & Islands with this troop & once again played Don Quixote amonst other roles

Don Quixote

Dudley played the role of Don Quixote

Yorkshire Theatre Company

He spent 2 years with the Yorkshire Theatre Company as their leading man, specialising in situation comedy & Police Inspectors.

Northanger Abbey

by Jane Austin

New Theatre, Hull

21st May 1973

Dudley played the General

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Northanger Abbey

Warren Mitchell – 1972 / 73?

Dudley played a stooge to Warren Mitchell

Dudley once played alongside Warren Michell, as his straight man in Caberet. This looks like it was pre 19 October 1973, according to the Herne Bay Press (see Review for A Chorus Of Murder at the Gulbenkian Theatre) & they mentioned that this was recently.

The Irregular Verb To Love

New Theatre, Hull

28th May 1973

Dudley played the Husband

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for The Irregular Verb To Love

House By The Lake

New Theatre, Hull

4th June 1973

Dudley plays a Detective

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for House By The Lake

A Friend Indeed

New Theatre, Hull

June 1973

Dudley played the role of Sir John Holt

Ten Little Indians

New Theatre, Hull

18th June 1973

Dudley played the overworked worried Doctor

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Ten Little Indians

The Unexpected Guest

New Theatre, Hull

25th Jun 1973

Dudley played the Police Inspector

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for The Unexpected Guest

Grand National Night

New Theatre, Hull

9th July 1973

Dudley plays the Cautious Lawyer

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Grand National Night

The Sound Of Murder

New Theatre, Hull

6th August 1973

Dudley’s role unknown as yet

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for The Sound Of Murder

Love From A Stranger

New Theatre, Hull

20th August 1973

Dudley plays Bruce Lovell

Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 21 August 1973

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Love From A Stranger

Every Other Evening

New Theatre, Hull

27th August 1973

Dudley’s role unknown as yet

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Every Other Evening

Murder Mistaken

New Theatre, Hull

3rd September 1973

Dudley played a suspicious Solicitor

Hull Daily Mail – Tuesday 04 September 1973

NB: The Hull History Centre holds a programme for Murder Mistaken

A CHORUS OF MURDER

Dudley played Mr Golightly

Adeline Genee Theatre, Lingfield Road, East Grinstead, West Sussex

29th October 1973 – 4th November 1973

Built as a dance theatre for Bush Davies School capable of use as a professional theatre. Not one of the great post-war theatres, but well suited to its original purpose and it is a great pity that a building named after such a historically significant dancer should have been lost to the public. The theatre ceased to operate in 1989 when the ballet school closed. Purchased by security firm Sabrewatch.

It had a rectilinear exterior in concrete and brick with a plainly finished auditorium in a single rake with a wide proscenium.

Purchased by Town House Developments by 2009 and demolished in 2011. The site was subsequently acquired by Retirement Villages Ltd for the Charters Village development which retained part of the original school building.

A Chorus Of Murder by Dennis Woodford
Yorkshire Theatre Company: Jeanne Starbuck, Elaine Montgomerie, Maggie Petersen, Dudley Long, Roy Patrice; dir:Terence Fitzgerald [8pp, 5.5×8.5; cast list, biographies, credits etc.; VG]

Kent & Sussex Courier – Friday 26 October 1973

There is a reference to this production in “The Stage” dated 12th April 1973 on the British Newspaper Archive. https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0001180/19730412/119/0017

The Kent & Sussex Courier, Tunbridge Wells, 5th October 1973

Kenton Theatre, Henley on Thames, Surrey

18th October – 20th October 1973

Reading Evening Post – Saturday 13 October 1973

Gulbenkian Theatre, University of Kent , Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NB

23rd October – 27th October 1973

Herne Bay Press – Friday 19 October 1973

Herne Bay Press – Friday 26 October 1973

The Man Most Likely Too

? – 21st September 1974

Dudley’s role unknown as yet

The Unexpected Guest

1974

by Agatha Christie

Adeline Genee Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England

Dudley’s role unknown as yet

Plot summary

On a foggy night, Michael Starkwedder enters the home of the Warwicks through a window in the study. He finds the dead body of Richard Warwick, and finds Richard’s wife, Laura, holding a gun that supposedly killed him. Michael does not believe she killed him, and she soon tells him she is innocent.

The two decide to place the blame on an enemy from the past, MacGregor, a man whose son was killed when he was run over by Richard’s car while Richard was driving drunk. As the story progresses, it is revealed that Laura was having an affair due to Richard’s cruel nature, and was vouching for the man she was cheating with when she claimed to have killed Richard.

SUDDENLY AT HOME – 1974

Wimbledon Theatre, Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19

started 29th July 1974

Dudley played Appleton

by Francis Durbridge
Newpalm Productions: Mary Mitchell, Maureen Sullivan, Polly March, Michael Shelley, Daphne Palmer, John Dryden, Dudley Long, David Carruthers; dir:John Newman [16pp, 5.75×8.25; cast list, biographies, credits etc.; VG]

N.B. It’s interesting to note that Andre Andre was also appearing in Suddenly At Home, but at the Kings Theatre, Southsea

The Lodger

Wimbledon Theatre,

5th August 1974

Dudley’s role unknown as yet

Esher News and Mail – Thursday 01 August 1974

Signpost To Murder – 1978

Signpost to Murder (with Annette Andre, Richard Todd) 1978

Dudley played the Police Inspector

Civic, Darlington

June 1978

Riverside Theatre, Colleraine, Ulster

12th June 1978 – 23rd June 1978

with Richard Todd. “The Belfast Telegraph said the cast all stayed at the Carrig-na-Cule Hotel, Portstewart, overlooking the sea.“

Belfast Telegraph – Thursday 15 June 1978

Carrick-Na-Cule Hotel where Dudley stayed during the run.

Belfast Telegraph – Tuesday 13 June 1978

The Alexandra, Birmingham

26th June 1978 – 3rd July 1978

with Richard Todd

Perth Theatre

10th July – 15th July 1978

with Richard Todd

New Tyne Theatre, Newcastle

17th July 1978 – 22nd July 1978

with Richard Todd

Playhouse, Harlow

24th July 1978

With Richard Todd

Cambridge Arts Centre

31st July 1978 – 5th August 1978

Theatre Royal, Norwich

7th August 1978 – 12th August 1978

with Richard Todd

Key Theatre, Peterborough

14th August 1978

Kings Theatre, Southsea

21st Aug 1978

with George Sewell

Theatre Royal, Bath

28th August 1978 – 3rd September 1978

with George Sewell

Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage Arts Centre

04^th – 09^thSeptember 1978

with George Sewell

Kings Theatre, Glasgow

12th September 1978 – 17th September 1978

(with Annette Andre, George Sewell, Barry Hills & John Patrick) – as the Police Inspector

Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds

18th September 1978 – 23rd September 1978

with George Sewell

Suffolk and Essex Free Press – Thursday 14 September 1978

Ten Times Table

1979

Dudley played Tim Barton

THE COMMITTEE FROM HELL AND A FÊTE WORSE THAN DEATH…!

Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy, Ten Times Table, about the fall-out among a committee planning a historical pageant in a small town

Starring Irene Handl, Jenny Tomasin, Amanda Barrie & Dudley Long as Tim.

Theatres that Ten Times Table played at:

Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Millbrook, Guildford GU1 3UX

5^th – 24^th March 1979

The review from the Stage newspaper, below revealed that Dudley stole the scene in the 2nd Act…..

Port Talbot Guardian – Thursday 20 January 1977

Bracknell Times – Thursday 08 March 1979

Forum Theatre, Queensway, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees TS23 2LJ

26^th – 31^st March 1979

Oxford Playhouse 11 – 12 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2LW

2^nd – 14^thApril 1979

Wimbledon Theatre, Broadway, Wimbledon, London SW19

started 16^th April 1979

N.B. on the Castlist page, In the Credit’s at he bottom of the page “Dudley Long’s trousers by HIGH AND MIGHTY. I can remember “The High & Mighty” was a shop that catered for Tall People. We had one in Southampton in the 1980’s. One of my sisters boyfriends had to go there for shoes (Size 16 feet). They only had 3 styles to choose from, but it was the only place, at the time, he could get footwear.

email: oldwimbtheatre@theambassadors.com)

Devonshire Park Theatre, 8 -10 Compton Street, Eastbourne, BN21 4BW

30^thApril – 5^th May 1979

Pavilion Theatre, Westover Road, Bournemouth, BH1 2BU

7^th – 12^th May 1979

King’s Theatre, 24 Albert Rd, Southsea, Portsmouth, Southsea PO5 2QJ

14^th – 19^th May 1979

Pam

Ten Times Table was also at the Kings Theartre because i was Dudleys wardrobe mistress and Irene was staying in Duncan Road with her family n friends there! He performed in quite a few productions over the years there i remember Actor John Patrick was on his cast members too! X

Simon

I remember meeting Irene handle

Simon Irene was such a lovely down to earth soul she liked her fish n chips from the local corner shop opp Kings lol xx

Pam

Dont forget George Sewel too Annette Andre’ all at the Kings check the Kings Theartre History web page! X

Goodness just loved those times with him! Xx https://www.kingsportsmouth.co.uk/about-us/history/the-archives/

Grand Theatre, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton

21^st – 26^th May 1979