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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1080
Title'The Lady's Not for Burning' by Christopher Fry
Extent1 file
Date1948-1956
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Lady's Not for Burning' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme extract inside gives cast list and script dates 1949-1950

Performed at The Globe Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, 11 May 1949, closing performance (294th) 21 Jan 1950; presented by Tennent Productions Ltd in association with The Arts Council; directed by John Gielgud and Esme Percy; scenery and costumes by Oliver Messel; The Royal Theatre, Brighton, [7] Mar 1948; The Arts Theatre, London, [11] Mar 1948
Revived at: The Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 25 Sep 1956 (four weeks); directed by Bernard Hepton; settings and costumes by Paul Shelving
America: The Royale Theatre, New York, 8 Nov 1950

Casts: Richard Burton, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, David Evans, Nora Nicholson, Richard Leech, Harcourt Williams, Pamela Brown, Eliot Makeham, Peter Bull, Esme Percy, Albert Finney, Ronald Hines, Sonia Fraser, Colin George, Jill Forest, Alan Rowe, Geoffrey Bayldon, Nancie Jackson, Eric Jones, Kenneth Mackintosh, John Howlett, George Howe, Stella Chapman, Denis Quilley
Access StatusOpen

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