Eileen Mortby (Bessie Lavington) has been a member of WWOS for a number of years as a chorus member and as part of the Olde Tyme Music Hall troupe. Notable highlights include the two productions of Sweeny Todd, performing at the Minack Theatre in Pickwick with a very large Christmas turkey and skipping around as one of the many Major-General’s daughters in Pirates of Penzance. She is delighted to be in a show with so many characters as she gets the opportunity to be a named part (although there is no photographic record of Bessie she did sail on the Titanic and survived). She has also sung in the chorus with Opera Nova and in a number of local choirs as a jobbing alto. Eileen’s other role in this show is to co-ordinate the costumes, a part she is less certain she will survive, given the size of the cast and the multiple characters they play.