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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2738
Title'A Priest in the Family' by Kieran Tunney and John Synge
Extent1 file
Date1951-1959
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Priest in the Family' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list 1951; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Westminster Theatre, London; opening performance, 3 Oct 1951, closing performance (77th) 8 Dec 1951; presented by Alec L. Rea and E. P. Clift with Roy Limbert; directed by Andre van Gyseghem; setting by Richard Lake; The Theatre Royal, Brighton on 17 Sep 1951
On tour; 1952: The Wimbledon Theatre, London; The Kings Theatre, Glasgow
America; (as 'God and Kate Murphy'), New York, 18 Feb 1959; produced by Burgess Meredith

Casts: Sheila Manahan, Joseph O'Conor, John McDarby, Shela Ward, Maureen Delany, Ronald Walsh, Maire O'Neill, Aithna Gover, Doreen Keogh, Vivien Dillon, Dorothy Dewhurst, Alun Owen, Mai Byrne, James Neylin, Katherine Fitzgerald, John McDarby, Fay Compton
Access StatusOpen

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