| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Alibi', based on the novel 'The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' by Agatha Christie; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list, typescript dates and changes in cast members; includes printed flyers [1928]
Performed at The Prince of Wales' Theatre, Coventry Street, London, 15 May 1928; presented by B. A. Meyer by arrangement with Andre Charlot and Lionel Bute; produced by Gerald du Maurier; scenery by Stafford Hilliard
Transferred to: The Haymarket Theatre 20 Aug 1928, closing performance, 8 Dec 1928
On tour: 1928: The King's Theatre, Hammersmith; The Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich; The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin; The Grand Theatre, Croyden; The Grand Opera House, Belfast; 1929: The Winter Gardens, New Brighton; The New Theatre, Cambridge; 1930: The Borough Theatre, Stratford
America: The Booth Theatre, New York 9 Feb 1932 (as 'The Fatal Alibi'); presented and produced by Jed Harris
Casts: Lady Tree, Jane Welsh, Henry Daniell, Basil Loder, Iris Noel, Henry Forbes Robertson, Gillian Lind, Charles Laughton, J. H. Roberts, Cyril Nash, Norman V. Norman, John Darwin, J. Smith Wright, Constance Anderson, Oliver Johnston, C. Disney Roebuck, Francis L. Sullivan, Ernest Norris, Wilfred E. Payne, Edwin Sykes, Alexander Bradley, Graham Hadow, Douglas Cecil, Geoffrey Clark, Holland Bennett, Carrie Baillie, Laurie Ellwood, Molly Jenkins, Nancy Poultney, Hilda Campbell Russell, Sergi de Kazarine, Paul Neville, Clifford Spurr, T. Wilson Claridge, Edith Gregory, Gladys Roberts, Joan Carol, Alicia Travers, Eileen Atherby, John Ruddock, Christine Barry, Talbot Homewood, William Dexter, A. E. Sprotson, Lilian Temple, Idina Scott Gatty, Lionel Atwell, E. E. Clive, F. Compton, Richard Whorf, H. Langdon Bruce, Ralph Roberts, Ian Emery, Herbert Belmore, Bertha Belmore, Esther Mitchell, Edward Crandell, Kenneth Hunter, Lawrence H. Cecil, Jane Wyatt, Helen Vinson, Effie Shannon |