An actor in a play at Theatr Clwyd raped a teenager during the interval, a court has heard.
Two amateur dramatics society performers were said to have taken the young woman to a darkened room during the intermission of the play and then assaulted her.
The woman - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said it had not crossed her mind to tell anyone “the awful truth” about what happened during attack, said to have taken place in the late 1970s at the Mold theatre.
David Simmons, 68, of Highlands Road in Rhuddlan, denies raping the young woman.
His co-defendant, Ronald Edwards Jones, of Trem yr Afon, Kinmel Bay, denies indecent assault.
Prosecuting barrister Andrew Green told Mold Crown Court she was taken to a darkened room where both began groping her.
One of the men left the room and the other stayed behind and raped her,” he alleged.
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Simmons denied that any such thing ever happened or that he had ever engaged in any sexual activity with her.
Jones on the other hand recalled that both he and Simmons were present but he denied sexually assaulting her.
The prosecutor told how the female told police that during the interval of the play the defendants approached the young woman and said they had something to show her.
With hindsight, she naively went with them, they took her to a quiet room and once inside the door was closed and the room fell into darkness.
“She could feel both members touching her, groping her and trying to kiss her,” Mr Green said.
“She was telling them to stop and trying to push them away.”
He said it would have been obvious to them that she was not happy about what was happening.
Within a short time, Jones left after allegedly being told to do so by Simmons.
Then the incident took a much darker turn, said Mr Green, and he alleged that Simmons “carried on regardless” although she was telling him to stop.
It was alleged he told her “you know you want it really.”
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But the prosecutor said that she was begging him, saying “please don’t do it.”
In evidence, the woman said that in the dark room “there seemed to be hands everywhere.”
Of the alleged rape, she said that she did not recall shouting out but remembered fighting him off and getting upset.
“I was begging him not to,” she said.
Simon Mintz, for Simmons, suggested it would have been awkward in the position they were in, but the victim - now in her 50s - responded: “It may have been awkward but it happened.”
She denied Mr Mintz’s allegations that she had given different versions of the rape allegation – including a claim she was raped by two men – at times when she wanted to attract attention and sympathy.
Mr Mintz said it was his client’s case that no such thing happened.
Simon Mills, for Jones, said it was his client’s case that the three of them had been in a room, Jones opened the door to get some light in, Simmons had his arm around her and there was laughter, and all three left without anything sexual happening at all.
The victim agreed that after the alleged incident she had continued to have driving lessons with Jones.
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