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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/275
Title'The Respectable Prostitute' by Kitty Black
Extent1 file
Date1947-1950
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Respectable Prostitute', adapted and translated from ['La Putain Respectueuse'] by Jean Paul Sartre; also for accompanying production of 'Men without Shadows' by Jean Paul Sartre, also adapted and translated by Kitty Black; with photographs of members of the cast; handwritten note on front cover informs that 'The Respectable Prostitute' was revived with 'Salome' by [Oscar Wilde] at The St Martins Theatre [20 Jul ]1954

Performed at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, [17] Jul 1947, closing performance [51st] [30 Aug 1947] (as double bill); presented by Tennant Plays Ltd in association with the British Arts Council; both plays produced by Peter Brook; settings by Rolf Gerard; The County Theatre, Bangor, Jun 1947
On tour: 1950: The Queens Park Hippodrome, Manchester; The Royal Theatre, Middlesborough; The New Theatre, Cambridge; The Empire Theatre, Tonypandy; The Kemble Theatre, Hereford; The Hippodrome Theatre, Ipswich; The Regal Theatre, Southend
America: The Cort Theatre, New York, 18 Mar 1948; presented by New Stages Inc; directed by Mary Hunter (performed at various times as part of a double bill with the following plays: 'Church Street' by Lennox Robinson; 'The Happy Journey' by Thornton Wilder; 'Hope is the thing with Feathers' by Richard Harrity)

Casts: Mary Morris, Aubrey Woods, John Byron, Lyn Evans, Hector MacGregor, David Markham, Philip Leaver, Sidney James, Denis Carey, Alan Tilvern, Dale Macdonald, Ronald Barker, Harrop Allin, Betty Ann Davies, Orlando Martins, Hugh Morton, Hugh Griffiths, Helen Sessions, Michael Cooper, Robin Wentworth, Christopher Hodson, Meg Mundy, Ann Dvorak, Wendell Holmes, Karl Weber
Access StatusOpen

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