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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/403
Title'Rosmersholm' by Henrik Ibsen
Extent1 file
Date1891-1950
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Rosmersholm', translations by: Charles Archer 1891, 1925; R. Farquharson Sharp 1923; Max Faber 1950; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside and throughout gives dates and cast list; includes programme with cast list and script date 1950

Performed at The Criterion Theatre, London, 5 Mar 1936 (as part of the "Ibsen Cycle"); presented by Leon M. Lion in association with the Cambridge Arts Theatre; produced by Irene Hentschel; setting by Motley
Originally at: The Vaudeville Theatre, London, 23 Feb 1891; English version by Charles Archer; The Kingsway Theatre, London, 30 Sep 1923, closing performance, 25 Nov 1923; English version by R. Farquharson Sharp; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery by Paul Shelving; The Faculty of Arts Theatre, Piccadilly, London, 4 Dec 1930; presented by the Faculty of Arts; produced by Ralph Neale
The Arts Theatre Club, London, 8 Jul 1948; presented by the Great Newport Theatre Committee; produced by Peter Powell; setting by Fanny Taylor; The St Martins Theatre, Cambridge Circus, London, 22 Aug 1950, closing performance (38th) 23 Sep 1950; English version by Max Faber; presented by Hallmark Productions Ltd by arrangement with Bernard Goodman; directed by Michael Macowan; settings and costumes by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; lighting by Michael Northen; The Winter Gardens Pavillion, Blackpool, 8 May 1950
America: The 52nd Street Theatre, New York, 5 May 1925 (English version by Charles Archer); presented by the Stagers; directed by Edward Goodman; setting by Cleon Throckmorton; costumes by Fania Mindel

Casts: Esme Church, Jean Forbes Robertson, D. A. Clarke Smith, John Laurie, Walter Piers, Wilfred Grantham, Charles Carson, Edith Evans, Rupert Harvey, Robert Farquharson, George Howe, Muriel Aked, Betty Potter, Marjorie Gabain, Reyner Barton, John Laurie, Neil Porter, Neil Curtis, Charles Staile, Margaret Wycherly, J. M. Kerrigan, Arthur Hughes, Warren William, Carl Anthony, Josephine Hull, Lucie Mannheim, Marius Goring, Wilfred Walter, Elwyn Brook Jones, Stanley van Beers, Eileen Thorndike, Nora Nicholson, Signe Hasso, Edward Chapman, Robert Harris, George Coulouris, John Kidd, Hugh Griffiths
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