IN FONDEST MEMORYMARY JONES (d.1975) |
Among my own personal memories, however, are the gasp of pleasure she gave when, after teasing her that I had bad news, I offered her part of The Duchess of Malfi, her heroic attempts to keep in tune between two of The Questors' worst singers in Steam and her superb performance as Oenone in Phaedra. Her final exit at the Minack Theatre, a flash of purple between the rocks and the sea as she plunged into the night will remain with me for ever. She will be deeply missed. Mary Jones at The Questors 1963 Don't Wait For Me 1964 Altheim (rehearsed reading) 1964 Is the House Shut? 1965 The Igloo 1965 The Winter's Tale 1966 Hecabe 1967 The Imaginary Invalid (schools tour) 1967 Phaedra 1968 An Anatomie of Horror 1968 The Maids (director's showcase) 1968 Romeo and Juliet 1968 The Way of the World 1969 The Borage Pigeon Affair 1970 Henry IV Part 2 1970 Othello 1970 The Others 1971 The Duchess of Malfi 1971 Steam 1972 Catsplay 1972 A Day in the Death of Joe Egg 1973 Touch-and-Go 1974 The Breasts of Tiresias 1974 The Cenci
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Members will be saddened to hear that Mary Jones died on August 8th. Mary was an actress who had given great pleasure to many audiences since she played her first part in 1963. She was a generous person both in her ability to give to other actors on stage and in her awareness of the efforts of the back stage team and it was this that made her so popular. Rehearsing with her was fun and her sense of humour relaxed many a tense moment. Perhaps her greatest achievement was in the creation of the part of Mrs Orb an in the English premiere of Istvan Orkeny's