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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/297
Title'Richard II' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1937
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Richard II' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; programme inside front cover gives cast list and typescript dates 1937; includes printed flyer [1937]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Queens Theatre, London, 6 Sep 1937, closing performance (80th) 13 Nov 1937; presented by Globe and Queens Theatres Ltd; produced by John Gielgud; music by Herbert Menges; lighting by George Divine; costumes by Motley; scenery by Annette Scott
America: The St James's Theatre, New York, 5 Feb 1937; presented by the Drama League of New York; produced by Margaret Webster; costumes by David Ffolkes

Casts: John Gielgud, Leon Quartermaine, Michael Redgrave, Glen Byam Shaw, Dorothy Green, Anthony Quayle, Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Harry Andrews, George Howe, Peggy Ashcroft, Frederick Lloyd, Ernest Hare, Hereward Russell, Peter Whitehead, Pardoe Woodman, Denis Carew, John Ford, Alastair Bannerman, Harcourt Williams, Merula Salaman, Genevieve Jessel, Barbara Dillon, George Divine, Maurice Evans, Augustine Duncan, Charles Dalton, Lionel Hogarth, Whitford Kane, Olive Derring
Access StatusOpen

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