Doria Paston (née Dorothy Paston Fisher, 1893,

Kandy Kandy (, ; , ) is a major city located in the Central Province, Sri Lanka, Central Province of Sri Lanka. It was the last capital of the Sinhalese monarchy from 1469 to 1818, under the Kingdom of Kandy. The city is situated in the midst of ...

- 1989, East Lambrook) was an English actress and

set designer Scenic design, also known as stage design or set design, is the creation of scenery for theatrical productions including plays and musicals. The term can also be applied to film and television productions, where it may be referred to as prod ...

who worked with Terence Gray at the Cambridge Festival Theatre in the 1920s and 1930s. With Gray she co-published the programmes for the plays they put on as the ''Cambridge Festival Theatre Review''.

Early life

She was born Dorothy the daughter of Lionel Paston Fisher and his wife Emma Wood Locket, who were married in Kandy, Ceylon in 1893.

Work at Cambridge Festival Theatre

The architect

Hugh Casson Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910 – 15 August 1999) was a British architect, also active as an interior designer, an artist, and a writer and broadcaster on twentieth-century design. He was the director of architecture for the 1951 Fest ...

learnt set design from her, although he did not share her commitment to abstract and

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set design.

Godfishers

Doria settled in East Lambrook with her friend Molly Godlonton. The two women were known as the Godfishers and played a role in the community life the Kingsbury Episcopi, where East Lambrook is located. Doria provided paintings while Molly took photographs, many of which have been archived by a local resident. They organised a number of exhibitions of their pictures to raise money for guide dogs for the blind.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Paston, Doria 1893 births 1989 deaths 20th-century English actresses Actors from Kandy English people of Sri Lankan descent Sri Lankan people of English descent Scenic designers