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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1328
Title'Tamburlaine the Great' by Christopher Marlowe
Extent1 file
Date1951-1956
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Tamburlaine the Great' with photographs of members of the cast; includes programme extract with cast list 1951; magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Old Vic Theatre, London, 24 Sep 1951, closing performance [40th] 27 Oct 1951; presented by The Old Vic Company; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; scenery and costumes by Leslie Hurry; music by John Gardner
America: The Winter Garden Theatre, New York, 18 Jan 1956 (20 performances); directed by Tyrone Guthrie

Casts: Robert Welles, Kenneth Griffiths, David Waller, John Blatchley, Reginald Tate, George Murcell, Ernest Hare, Donald Wolfit, Jill Bacon, Richard Pasco, David Greene, Lee Montague, Alun Owen, George McCallum, John Abineri, Joan Poulter, Michael Godley, Leo McKern, Eugene Leahy, Peter Coke, Margaret Rawlings, Sheila Cooper, John Phillips, Wolfe Morris, Elizabeth Bramfield, Yvonne Bonnamy, Anne Ronaldson, Noel Vaz, David Stevens, Colin Jevons, John Blatchley, Anthony Quayle, Coral Browne, Douglas Rain
Access StatusOpen

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