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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3636
Title'Platonov' by Chekhov
Extent1 file
Date1959-1960
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Platonov', translations: 1959 by Basil Ashmore; 1960 by Dmitri Makaroff; with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list 1960

Performed at The Royal Court Theatre, London, 13 Oct 1960, closing performance, 19 Nov 1960; translated by Dmitri Makaroff; presented by the English Stage Company; directed by George Devine and John Blatchley; decor by Richard Negri; lighting by Richard Pilbrow; music specially composed by Dudley Moore; The Playhouse Theatre, Nottingham, 6 Apr 1959; translated by Basil Ashmore; presented by the Nottingham Theatre Trust Ltd; directed by Val May; designed by Mark King

Casts: Robert Lang, Hermione Gregory, Bernard Kilby, James Cossins, Rhoda Lewis, Donald Burton, Elisabeth Shepherd, Angela Hopkin, William Roache, Brian Blessed, Arthur Blake, Norman Florence, George Cooper, Alan Thompson, Karal Gardner, Rachel Roberts, Ronald Baker, Graham Crowden, Norman Pitt, Nicholas Selby, Thomas Hammerton, Rex Harrison, Mary Watson, Frank Finlay, Peter Duguid, Rosalind Knight, Elvi Hale, Jeremy Geidt, Morris Perry, George Murcell, James Bolam, Susan Engel, Susan Westerby, Murray Gilmore
Access StatusOpen

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