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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1193
Title'The Hostage' by Brendan Behan
Extent1 file
Date1958-1961
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Hostage' with photographs and illustrations of member of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list and typescript dates 1958; magazine extract script with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at Wyndham's Theatre, London, 11 Jun 1959, closing performance, 18 Jun 1960; presented by The Theatre Workshop; produced by Joan Littlewood; settings by Sean Kenny; costumes by Margaret Bury
Originally at: The Royal Theatre, Stratford, 14 Oct 1958, closing performance, 13 Dec 1958
Revived at: The Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, 13 Feb 1961, closing performance, 25 Mar 1961; presented by Bob Swash and Kenneth Wagg; reproduced by Clive Barker from the production by Avis Bunnage
America: The Cort Theatre, New York, 20 Sep 1961; presented by The Theatre Workshop; produced by Joan Littlewood; transferred to: The Barrymore Theatre, New York

Casts: Howard Goorney, Avis Bunnage, Glyn Edwards, Leila Greenwood, Annette Robertson, Dudley Sutton, Roy Barnett, Robin Chapman, Eileen Kennally, Murray Melvin, Celia Salkeld, James Booth, Clive Barker, Alfred Lynch, Ann Black, Ann Beach, Yootha Joyce, Stephen Cato, Brian Murphy, Patience Collier, Maxwell Shaw, Aubrey Morris, Victor Spinetti
Access StatusOpen

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