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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3665
Title'A Phoenix Too Frequent' by Christopher Fry
Extent1 file
Date1946-1951
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Phoenix Too Frequent' or 'Or is this the way to the Tomb, performed as part of a double bill with 'The Resurrection' by W. B. Yeates 1946; 'Thor, with Angels' by Christopher Fry 1951; 'Freight' by Kenneth White 1950; with photographs of members of the cast; programme extract inside gives cast lists and script date 1951

Performed at The Mercury Theatre [Apr] 1946; presented by Martin Browne
Revived at The ArtsTheatre Club, London [23] Nov 1946; presented by the Great Newport Theatre Committee Ltd; produced by Noel Willman
The Lyrice Theatre, Hammersmith, Sep 1951; presented by Tennent Productions Ltd; directed by Michael Macowan; costumes by Loudon Sainthill
America: New York, May 1950; directed by John O'Shaughnessy

Casts: Robert Speaight, Alan Wheatley, Frank Napier, Eileen Vine, Eleanor Summerfield, Hermione Hannen, Jessie Evans, Diana Churchill, George Cole, Nina Foch, Vicki Cummings, Richard Derr
Access StatusOpen

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