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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/115
Title'Progress to the Park' by Alun Owen
Extent1 file
Date1959-1961
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Progress to the Park' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript on front cover gives dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme with cast list for provincial theatre [1961]; magazine extract of brief biography of Alun Owen (author)

Performed at The Theatre Royal, Stratford East, London, 16 Nov 1960, closing performance, 14 Jan 1961; presented by Theatre Workshop; directed by Harry H. Corbett; setting by John Bury; music by Ron Franklin
Revived at: The Saville Theatre, London, 3 May 1961, closing performance, 3 Jun 1961; presented by Harold Fielding and ABC Television (with Sydney Newman for Armchair Theatre) by arrangement with STP (Theatres) Ltd; directed by William T. Kotcheff; designed by Timothy O'Brien; lighting by John Wyckham; The Streatham Hill Theatre, 24 Apr 1961
Originally at: The Royal Court Theatre, London, 8 Feb 1959 (one performance); presented by the English Stage Society without decor; directed by Lindsay Anderson; setting by Sean Kenny

Casts: Brian Murphy, Claire Isbister, Sean Lynch, James McLoughlin, Colette O'Neill, Frank Coda, Billie Whitelaw, Michael Coles, Roy Kinnear, Barbara Ferris, Griffith Davies, Glen Williams, John Junkin, Laurie Taylor, Tom Bell, Fanny Carby, James Garrett, Ivor Dykes, Derek Marlowe, Joyce Marshall, Derek Toyne, John Wallbank, Ken Jones, Malcolm Taylor, Keith Smith, Robin Chapman, Anthony Moore, Royston Hodges, Jon Croft, Maurice Podbury, John Quayle, Edmond Bennett, Patrick Magee, Patrick Duggan, Valerie Varnam, Pat Armstrong, Norman Rossington, Brian McDermott, Julia Jones, Bee Duffell, Harry H. Corbett, Margaret Tyzak, Gerard Dynevor, Donal Donnelly, Keith Smith, Joyce Latham, Harry Gwyn Davis, Donald Howarth, Jeremy Sandford, Nell Dunn, Shirley Teague
Access StatusOpen

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