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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2445
Title'Hedda Gabler' by Henrik Ibsen
Extent1 file
Date1926-1955
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Hedda Gabler', translations by William Archer, Edmund Gosse and Gilbert Wakefield; with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover and throughout gives dates

Performed at The Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, 12 Mar 1928, closing performance, 31 Mar 1928; presented by Milton Rosmer and Malcolm Morley; produced by Stanley Drewitt; The Arts Theatre Club, Great Newport Street, London, 17 Mar 1931 (7 performances); translated by William Archer; produced by Michael Orme
Transferred to: The Fortune Theatre, London, 23 Mar 1931, closing performance, 11 Apr 1931; The Criterion Theatre, London, 9 Mar 1936; presented by Leon M. Lion; produced by Irene Hentschel; The Mercury Theatre, London, 30 Sep 1942; presented by The Mercury Players; directed by Dermot Cathie; The Westminster Theatre, London, 16 Mar 1943; presented by the Mercury Plays and CEMA; directed by Walter Hudd
The Arts Theatre Club, Great Newport Street, London, 17 Jan 1951; translated by William Archer and Edmund Gosse; presented by The Great Newport Theatre Committee; produced by Roy Rich; setting by Ronald Brown; costumes by Michael Ellis; The YMCA Theatre, Edinburgh, 22 Aug 1955 (as part of the Edinburgh Festival); translated by Gilbert Wakefield; presented by The Fraser Neal Players; produced by Richard Eastham supervised by Fraser Neal
America: The Comedy Theatre, New York, 26 Jan 1926; staged by Dudley Digges; The Civic Repertory Theatre, New York, 26 [Mar] 1928; translated by William Archer; revised by Julie Le Gallienne and Paul Leyssac

Casts: Laura Cowie, Margaret Swallow, Lola Duncan, Joan Pereira, Walter Pearce, George Zucco, J. Vernon Sylvaine, Jean Forbes Robertson, Walter Piers, June English, Walter Hudd, W. Earle Grey, Maud Buchanan, Ann Stephenson, Esme Church, Marjorie Gabain, Elizabeth Hardy, D. A. Clarke Smith, John Laurie, Sonia Desdel, Pat Campbell, Julian Randall, Michael Oldham, Natalie Moya, Dennis Ratcliffe, Irene Arnold, Namara Michael, Amy Dalbie, Helen Burns, Elwyn Brooke Jones, Lally Bowers, Jean Webster Brough, Eric Berry, Sonia Williams, Campbell Singer, Robert Rietty, Claude Jones, Michael Blythe, John Wynyard, Audrey Young, Janet Cameron, Irena Corcoran, Patricia Collinge, Louis Calhern, Emily Stevens, Hilda Helstrom, Helen van Hoose, Frank Conroy, Eva le Gallienne, Paul Leyssac
Access StatusOpen

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