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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/814
Title'The Apple Cart' by George Bernard Shaw
Extent1 file
Date1929-1956
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Apple Cart' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; programme extract inside front cover gives cast list with typescript dates and change in cast member; includes 'Plays and Players' magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story 1929; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre 1930; printed flyers [1929]; programme with cast list and date 1953; also includes reviews for the Polish production of the play 1929; magazine extract of photographs of cast members in scenes from the play and the story [1953]

Performed at The Great Malvern Theatre, Malvern, 19 Aug 1929 (as part of the Malvern Festival of Shaw Plays); presented by and the Malvern Festival organised by Barry Jackson in association with R. W. Limbert; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery and costumes by Paul Shelving; The Queens Theatre, London, 17 Sep 1929, closing performance, 24 May 1930; presented by Barry Jackson by arrangement with Alfred Butt; produced by H. K. Ayliff; scenery and costumes by Paul Shelving
On tour: 1929: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre; 1930: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Streatham Hill Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Glasgow
Revived at: The Cambridge Theatre, London, 25 Sep 1935; presented by the Macdona Players; The Arts Theatre Club, London, 7 Aug 1946; presented by the Great Newport Theatre Club Ltd in association with the Arts Council; produced by Jack Hawkins in conjunction with Peter Streuli; settings by Fanny Taylor; The Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London, 7 May 1953, closing performance (100th) 1 August 1953; presented by Tennent Productions Ltd; directed by Michael Macowan; settings and costumes by Loudon Sainthill
America: The Martin Beck Theatre, New York, 25 Feb 1930; presented by the Theatre Guild; produced by Philip Moeller; settings by Lee Simonson
The Plymouth Theatre, New York, 19 Oct 1956; settings by Robert O'Hearn; costumes by Noel Taylor

Casts: Wallace Evennett, Scott Sunderland, Matthew Boulton, Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, Clifford Marquand, Julian D'Albie, Aubrey Mallalieu, Frank Moore, Dorothy Holmes Gore, Eileen Beldon, Edith Evans, Barbara Everest, Eve Turner, James Carew, Wilfred Caithness, Tom Powers, Claude Rains, Ernest Cossart, Morris Carnovsky, George Graham, John Dunn, William H. Sams, Frederick Truesdell, Thomas A. Braidon, Eva Leonard Boyne, Helen Westley, Marjorie Marquis, Violet Kembe Cooper, Ludmilla Pitoeff, Georges Pitoeff, Junosza Stepowski, Marya Przybylko Potocka, Koguslaw Samborski, Winifred Izard, F. Bellenden Clarke, Cherry Hardy, Rita John, Milton Vaughan, Dorothy Peters, Carleton Crowe, Ernest Lynds, Wilfred Lawson, John Oxford, Macdona, George Wray, Rene Rubins, Leah Bateman, Rita Daniel, Torin Thatcher, Patience Rignold, George Mallett, George Larchet, George E. Bancroft, George de Lara, K. Hamilton Price, D. Muir Little, Leonard Trollope, H. Browning, Wilson Coleman, A. Caton Woodville, Alexander Scott, Marian Spencer, Molly Leuw, Jack Hawkins, Aubrey Dexter, Lyn Evans, Eileen Beldon, Gwen Nelson, Emma Trechman, Jean Anderson, Bruno Barnabe, John Wyndham, Raymond Jaquarello, Dorothy Primrose, Harold Scott, Newton Blick, Philip Dale, Harold Nodin, Esme Percy, Oriel Ross, Barbara Everest, James Carew, George Wray, Gwen Hammond, Donald Eccles, Francis Day, Geoffrey Dunn, John Humphry, George Rose, Noël Coward, Jennifer Wright, Hugh Manning, John Moffatt, Peter Bayliss, Archibald Batty, Laurence Naismith, Margaret Rawlings, Betty Warren, Margaret Leighton, Alexis France, Cecil Trouncer, Maurice Evans, Charles Carson, Mercer McLeod, Signe Hasso, Pat Nye, Claudia Morgan, Katherine Hynes, Raymond Bramley
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