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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4842
Title'Saint Joan' by George Bernard Shaw
Extent1 file
Date1924-1934
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Saint Joan' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and the author; press cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, dates and changes in cast members; includes photograph of the drop curtain designed by Charles Ricketts [1924]; programme extract entitled 'Note by the Author'; photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; also includes programme extract for provincial theatre [1924]; press cuttings with photographs relating to European productions of the play 1925

Performed at The New Theatre, London 26 Mar 1924, closing performance (244th) 25 Oct 1924; produced by Lewis Casson; scenery and costumes by Charles Ricketts; music by John Foulds
Revived at The Regent Theatre, London 14 Jan 1925, closing performance (132nd) 9 May 1925; The Lyceum Theatre, London, 24 Mar 1926, closing performance, 8 May 1926; His Majestys Theatre, London 6 Apr 1931
Transferred to: The Haymarket Theatre, London, 12 May 1931, closing performance, 16 May 1931; presented by Lewis Casson; The Old Vic Theatre, London 26 Nov 1934; produced by Henry Cass
Transferred to: The Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, 18 Dec 1934, closing performance, 29 Dec 1934
On tour: 1925: The Devonshire Park Theatre, Eastbourne; The Royal Theatre, Leamington Spa; The Golders Green Hippodrome; 1926: The Royal Theatre, Worcester; The Grand Opera House, Belfast; The Borough Theatre, Stratford; 1931: The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith
America: The Garrick Theatre, New York, 28 Dec 1924; presented by the Theatre Guild; directed by Philip Moeller; settings and costumes by Raymond Sovey

Casts: Shayle Gardener, Francis Hope, Sybil Thorndike, Victor Lewisohn, Robert Cunningham, Bruce Winston, Sam Pickles, Milton Rosmer, Raymond Massey, Ernest Thesiger, Beatrice Smith, Robert Horton, Jack Hawkins, E. Lyall Swete, Lewis T. Casson, Eugene Leahy, Sydney Bromley, O. B. Clarence, Lawrence Anderson, Kenneth Kent, Matthew Forsyth, Stockwell Hawkins, Harold Scott, Hubert Carter, Reyner Barton, William Fazan, Russell Thorndike, Douglas Burbidge, Walter Gore, H. R. Hignett, Osborne Adair, Brenda Gordon Cleather, Iris Baker, Agnes Lauchlan, Gwen Harter, Vere Shepstone, Cyril Hardingham, Michael Logan, Chris Walker, Desmond Deane, Carol Reed, Ronald Kerr, Winifred Lenihan, Ian Maclaren, A. H. Van Buren, Joseph Macauley, Herbert Ashton, Maurice Colbourne, Henry Travers, Philip Leigh, Albert Perry, Robert Donat, D. Lewin Mannering, George Merritt, Hubert Carter, Horace Sequiera, John Moore, Angus L. MacLeod, Ralph Michael, Eileen Thorndike, Bobby Jones, George Curzon, Harold Reese, Philip Hatfield, Cecil Trouncer, Ronald Ritchie, Mary Newcombe, Alan Webb, Philip Leaver, Jack Endle, Alec Clunes, Elspeth Currie, Leo Genn, Raymond Johnson, Felix Aylmer, Morland Graham, Abraham Sofaer, Peter Copley, Richard Warner, Frank Napier, George Woodbridge, Caroline Bayley, Hester Bevan, Mary Leftwich, Penelope Palmer, Nancy Ramsden, Michael Ashwin, Lester Damon, Leonide Igel, David Parsons, Patrick Ross, Stefan Schnabel, Malcolm Eager, John Dean, Alan Foss, Terence Greenidge, Russell Waters, Eric Wynn Owen, Bruce Belfrage, Walter Hudd, Earle Grey, Peter Ridgeway, C. Jervis Walter, William J. Miller, Stanley Vine, Ben Webster, Anthony Clarke, Dorothy Holmes Gore, George Mallett, David Gill, Edgar Williams, Frederick D. Davies, Francis Sullivan, Frank Tennant, Eve Day, Bernard Merefield, Frederick Annerley, Peter Madgewick, Godfrey Baxter, Henri De La Motte, Geoffrey Long, Thomas Reynor, Eugune Wellesley, Rosemary Hersee, Eric Dark, F. Arbuthnot, Sidney Vernon, G. Mansfield, Isobel Macdonald, Minna Davis, Lilian Lowe, Dora Devenish, Florence Denbigh, Donald Smith, L. Harcourt, C. Wills, D. Davies, R. Smythe, S. Sharp, B. Tallant, H. Escott, F. Grahame, R. Gilbey, B. Johnson, T. Osborn, Roger Maxwell, J. O. Twiss, Harold Greaves, Howieson Culff, Roy Campbell, Clement Hamelin, George De Lara, James Stuart, Frederick Fanton, T. Weston Fields
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