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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/375
Title'Romeo and Juliet' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1935-1936
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Romeo and Juliet' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme inside front cover gives cast list and has typescript dates and change of roles for leading men; includes magazine extract photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play

Performed at The New Theatre, St Martins Lane, London, 17 Oct 1935, closing performance (186th) 28 Mar 1936; presented by Howard Wyndham and Bronson Albery; produced by John Gielgud; costumes and scenery by Motley; music by Herbert Menges; fights arranged by Gabriel Toyne; dance arranged by Susan Salaman
On tour: 1936: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Kings Theatre, Glasgow; The Opera House, Manchester; The Streatham Hill Theatre
America: New York, 1935; presented by Katharine Cornell; directed by Guthrie McClintic

Casts: Laurence Olivier, Alec Guiness, Peter Murray Hill, Harry Andrews, Cecil Winter, Geoffrey Toone, Glen Byam Shaw, Frederick Lloyd, Marjorie Fielding, H. R. Hignett, Barbara Dillon, Alan Napier, John Gielgud, Peter du Calion, George Devine, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Andrew Churchman, George Howe, Gordon Glennon, Sam Beazley, Leon Quartermaine, Hubert Harman, Ellen Terry, Maurice Evans, Katharine Cornell, Basil Rathbone, Brian Aherne
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