| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Appearances' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list, changes in cast members and dates; includes programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre [1930]
Performed at The Royalty Theatre, London, 10 Mar 1930, closing performance, 3 May 1930; presented by Kyrle Bellew; produced by Bernard Nedell
Revived at: The Fortune Theatre, London, 22 Dec 1932, closing performance, 31 Dec 1932; presented by K. Haxby Kendle; produced by Claude Bailey
On tour: 1930: The Golders Green Hippodrome; The Chiswick Empire; The Royal Theatre, Glasgow
America: The Frolic Theatre, New York, 13 Oct 1925; presented by Lester W. Sagar
Casts: Ben Welden, Dario Shindell, Dorothy Hamilton, Lester Matthews, Olivia Burleigh, Lilian Oldland, Farren Souter, Doe Doe Green, Betty Bolton, Everett Byington, Garrett Hollick, James Carew, Ernest Jay, Roy Emerton, Robert Sutton, Ann Herriott, Richard F. Symons, Sydney Bland, Claude Bailey, Bernard Lee, Rosemary Scott, Patric Curwen, Charles Cautley, Peter Ridgeway, Roy Emerton, John Payne, Myrtle Richardson, Jenny Dean, Claude Flemming, Dorothy Fane, Robert Sutton, Gilbert Gunn, Gerald Dane, G. Blake, Peter Field, Lister Williams, Henry Cass, Rhona Adaire, Frederick Carlton, Felicity Carter, Clifford Pembroke, Norma Drayton, Horace Wentworth, Elizabeth Cook |
| Administrative History | Information supplied by a researcher, Nov 2023:
Appearances was first staged in 1925 at the Frolic Theatre in New York. It was the first full-length drama by an African American to appear on Broadway. Anderson was likely the first person of colour to become a member of P.E.N, the writers’ association founded in London in 1921 to advocate for writers’ freedom of expression. |