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In 1967, after several months with the Liverpool Playhouse, Gareth played a number of roles in Derby Playhouse productions.

Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which ran between the 10th and the 21st October 1967, for which there is a programme:

There is a press review (source unknown, dated 25th October 1967) for Harvey, a comedy by Mary Chase, in which Gareth’s work is singled out as the sanitarium’s orderly, Wilson:

The next Derby Playhouse production was Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw, in which Gareth played Randall Utterword; this production was performed between the 7th and 18th November, 1967:

There followed Saul Bellow’s The Last Analysis, presented 21st November to the 2nd December:

And Let’s Get a Divorce, an English translation of a play by Victorien Sardou, which ran from the 5th to the 16th of December, in which Gareth played Bastien:

From here Gareth went to the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford, though he was to return to the Derby Playhouse briefly in May of 1969 in order to appear in a play by D.H.Lawrence, The Daughter-in-Law. There is a programme:

There was a review published in the Derby Evening Telegraph on May 14th 1969:

As well as one on May 16th 1969, in the Derbyshire Advertiser: