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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2679
Title'A Sleeping Clergyman' by James Bridie
Extent1 file
Date1933-1947
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Sleeping Clergyman' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and dates; includes printed flyer [1933]; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre 1934; magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Piccadilly Theatre, London, 19 Sep 1933, closing performance [230th] 24 Mar 1934; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery and costumes by Paul Shelving
Originally at: The Festival Theatre, Malvern [29 Jul 1933]
Revival: The Criterion Theatre, London [19] Jun 1947, closing performance [91st] [6 Sep 1947]; presented by Sherek Players Ltd; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery and costumes by [Anthony Holland]
On tour: 1933: The Repertory Theatre, Birmingham; The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh; The Alhambra Theatre, [Glasgow];1934: The Kings Theatre, Glasgow; Golders Green Hippodrome
America: The Theatre Guild, New York, Nov 1934

Casts: Godfrey Baxter, Wilson Coleman, Alexander Sarner, Frank Moore, Robert Donat, Beatrix Fielden Kaye, Ernest Thesiger, Dorice Fordred, Sophie Stewart, Isabel Thornton, Bruce Belfrage, Arthur Hambling, John Rae, Walter Roy, Eileen Beldon, Evelyn Roberts, Phyllis Shand, Whitmore Humphreys, Pamela Carme, Kenneth Fraser, Valentine Dunn, J. H. Roberts, James Pearson, Edmund Kennedy, Holland Bennett, Clifford Webb, Robert Speaight, Christine Lindsay, Lilian Mason, A. P. Holland, Julian d'Albie, Jenny McNicoll, Philip Howard, Molly Leuw, Gordon Plaister, Margaret Leighton, Francis Lister, Sara Gregory John Gregson, Rachel Gurney
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