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 Martins Bank
Society of the Arts is the principal amateur operatic and dramatic society of
the Bank. Under its auspices, there are a number of regional groups that
stage productions and performances in Liverpool, London, and Newcastle. The
Liverpool Daily Post column “Day to Day in Liverpool” heralds the creation of
the new Society of the Arts in February 1945. Between then and 1956 the
Society runs as three separate sections – Music, Arts and Drama. The Arts
Section is concerned mainly with the Annual Display of Arts and Crafts - an
event held at Head Office, which sees creative works of all kinds entered by
members of the Bank’s Staff. From 1957
onwards, the Society of the Arts performs musical productions as Martins Bank
Operatic Society, and plays and comedies are performed by the Bank’s
remaining groups, the Argosy Players, The Cicala Players and The North
Eastern Players. The Manchester Players are recorded as putting on just two
productions, one in 1951, the other in 1954. Both are put on in conjunction
with the Argosy Players, for the benefit of the staff, and are staged in
Liverpool at the Little Theatre in the basement at Head Office. The
Manchester Players productions feature at the end of the Argosy Players
Section.
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Reproduced
from the Liverpool Daily Post
16
February 1945
Text
© Reach PLC and Find my Past created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
Text reproduced with kind permission
of The
British Newspaper Archive
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We begin our look at Martins Bank’s involvement in “song and dance”
with the TEN productions that were staged under the auspices of Martins Bank
society of the Arts (Music Section), and then the TWENTY productions
performed by Martins Bank Society of the Arts (Drama Section). Sadly, the details of SIX of the drama
productions are currently missing from the Archive, and are represented below
by name and date only…
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MARTINS BANK SOCIETY OF THE ARTS – Music Section
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MARTINS BANK SOCIETY OF THE ARTS – Drama Section
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