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S.I.\u00a0\u00a0Hsiung\u2019s play concerns the undying love of wealthy Precious Stream (Nancy Bradshaw) for her long-absent husband (Christopher Tutt).\u00a0\u00a0He was a humble gardener, and the marriage was opposed by her father (Frank Pickering) and mother (Audrey Hall).\u00a0\u00a0He becomes a great warrior, and the Princess of the Western Regions (Diane Fairweather) tries to tempt him into marriage
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It is an old Chinese play performed in English, but in traditional style, with an Honourable Reader (Elizabeth Birkby Snr) appearing occasionally to explain the progress of the play.\u00a0\u00a0The programme lists 34 people appearing on stage: about half of these had not appeared for GDS before, and several (including Brenda Hester and Viv Stuart) stayed and became key members<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have only found a couple of photos so far<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The play was performed at Yew Lane (Yewlands) Secondary School as part of International Theatre Month.\u00a0\u00a0Betty Bellamy produces, assisted by Mr P.\u00a0\u00a0Cromwell.\u00a0\u00a0It seems to be the last involvement for Hilda Dronfield, after 12 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also the last play under the name \u201cGrenoside Dramatic Society\u201d, before they become the \u201cGrenoside Community Players\u201d in 1966 when the Community Centre opens<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

\"1963-11
1963-11 (GDS) Lady Precious Stream 1 Diane Fairweather and Nancy Bradshaw<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1963-11
1963-11 (GDS) Lady Precious Stream 3<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1963-11
1963-11 (GDS) Lady Precious Stream 00 Review with border<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1963-11
1963-11 (GDS) Lady Precious Stream 00 Programme with border<\/div><\/div><\/a>\"1963-11
1963-11 (GDS) Lady Precious Stream 2 (L-R Mary Sykes, Elizabeth, Viv, Rosalind, Lazenby, X, Audrey, Wendy, X<\/div><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

S.I.\u00a0\u00a0Hsiung\u2019s play concerns the undying love of wealthy Precious Stream (Nancy Bradshaw) for her long-absent husband (Christopher Tutt).\u00a0\u00a0He was a humble gardener, and the marriage was opposed by her father (Frank Pickering) and mother (Audrey Hall).\u00a0\u00a0He becomes a great warrior, and the Princess of the Western Regions (Diane Fairweather) tries to tempt him into marriage It is an old Chinese play performed in English, but in traditional style, with an Honourable Reader (Elizabeth Birkby Snr) appearing occasionally to explain the progress of the play.\u00a0\u00a0The programme…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":245,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/1350"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gbcplayers.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}