| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Beaux Stratagem' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, dates and changes in cast members; includes printed flyers [1930]; programme with cast list and script dates 1949-1950; magazine article with photographs of scenes from the play and profile of the life of the author, George Farquhar [1949]; magazine extract of photographs of cast members in scenes from the play [1949]
Performed at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 20 Jan 1927, closing performance, 28 May 1927; presented and produced by Nigel Playfair
Originally at The Haymarket Theatre, 8 May 1707
Revived at The Royalty Theatre, London, 11 Jun 1930, closing performance, 30 Aug 1930; produced by Nigel Playfair; The Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 27 Jun 1949, closing performance (532nd) 19 Aug 1950; presented by Associated Artists Ltd; directed by John Clements; settings by Roger Ramsdell; costumes by Elizabeth Haffenden
Transferred from: The Phoenix Theatre, London, 5 May 1949; The Royal Theatre, Brighton, Mar 1949
Casts: Carleton Hobbs, George Hayes, James Whale, David Horne, Nigel Playfair, Haigh Jackson, Leslie Mitchell, Scott Russell, Miles Malleson, Winifred Evans, Edith Evans, Phyllis Konstam, Marie Brett Davies, Dorothy Hope, Renee De Vaux, Brian Gilmour, Eric Portman, Godfrey Tearle, Martin Walker, Frank Lacy, Arnold Pilbeam, John Clements, Anthony John, Townsend Whitling, Mary Mayfren, Helen Cane, Grizel Niven, Cherry Cottrell, Dora Barton, Brian Aherne, Robert Eddison, Hamlyn Benson, Alwyne Whatsley, Lloyd Pearson, Michael Allinson, David Bird, Charles Lloyd Pack, Phyllis Relph, Kay Hammond, Iris Russell, Clare Bradley, Gwen Cherrill, Megan Latimer, Allan Cuthbertson, Hamlyn Benson |