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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4217
Title'The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles' by George Bernard Shaw
Extent1 file
Date1935
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; cuttings also mention productions in Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig

Performed at The Malvern Festival Theatre, 29 Jul 1935; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by Herbert M. Prentice; costumes and scenery executed by Marion Spencer; The Arts Theatre, London, 10 Mar 1945; presented by the Arts Theatre Group of Actors; directed by Judith Furse; settings by Michael Warre
America: The Theatre Guild Theatre, New York, 18 Feb 1935 (six weeks)

Casts: Godfrey Kenton, Arthur Ridley, Eileen Beldon, Derek Prentice, Cecil Trouncer, Vivienne Bennett, Elspeth Duxbury, Julian D'Albie, Stephen Murray, Donald Eccles, Norris Stayton, Curigwen Lewis, Elspeth March, Richard Lonscale, Rex O'Malley, Lionel Pope, Patricia Calvert, Reginald Malcolm, McKay Morris, [Alla] Nazimova, Viola Roache, Lawrence Grossmith, Romney Brent, Leon Janney, Franklin Gray, Alma Lloyd, Rita Vale, Louis Hector, Peter Jones, Cicely Paget Browne, Mark Dignam, Bill Shine, Wilfred Babbage, Anna Burden, Nigel Clarke, Dorothy Reynolds, Natasha Sokolova, Daphne Arthur, Michael Ingram, Owen Holder
Access StatusOpen

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