Matyelok Gibbs

Gibbs was involved with the Unicorn Theatre from the 1950s, and became artistic director in 1973. She was a character actor, and appeared in the West End in a play by Alan Ayckbourn, Ten Times Table, in 1978. She toured with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

In 1961, Gibbs began living with the actor Ursula Jones in Notting Hill. The couple lived in France for 23 years where they entered a civil partnership, and they later entered a civil partnership in Britain as well. Gibbs and Jones were known by their friends as "Puck and Ursie". Gibbs died on 14 August 2023.