| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Desire Under the Elms' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript throughout gives dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; [flyer] with cast list and photographs 1941; programme extract with cast list for provincial theatre, 1941
Performed at The Gate Theatre Studio, London, 24 Feb 1931, closing performance, 11 Apr 1931; presented and produced by Peter Godfrey; The Westminster Theatre, London, 24 Jan 1940; presented by the London Mask Theatre; produced by Henry Cass; The Theatre Royal, 18 Aug 1941; produced by Thane Parker; decor by David Homan
Revived at: The Royal Theatre, Brighton, 17 Mar 1947; presented by J. Baxter Somerville and Godfrey Harrison for Associated Theatre Seasons Ltd; directed by Godfrey Harrison; setting by Richard Leacroft; The Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, London, 22 Mar 1955; presented by Marjory Hawtrey; directed by Joan Kemp Welch; setting by Harry Pegg; costumes by Aubrey Samuels
On tour: 1940: The Kings Theatre, Edinburgh; The Kings Theatre, Glasgow; The Royal Theatre, Newcastle; The Opera House, Manchester; The Grand Theatre, Leeds; The Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool; The Grand Theatre, Blackpool; The Royal Theatre, Brighton; The Pavillion Theatre, Bournemouth
America: The Greenwich Village Theatre, New York, 14 Nov 1924; presented by the Provincetown Players; setting by Robert Edmond
Casts: George Merritt, Arthur Goullet, Norman Shelley, Eric Portman, Flora Robson, Walter Huston, Mary Morris, Charles Ellis, Allan Nagle, Perry Ivins, Stephen Murray, Richard George, George Woodbridge, Mark Dignam, Beatrix Lehmann, Mario Francelli, Georgia MacKinnon, Marie Ault, Wilson Coleman, J. Hwfa Pryse, George Dillon, Martin Miles, Robert Marsden, Elspeth Currie, Muriel Davidson, Margot Christine, Rosalind Wilde, Sarah Galbraith, James Wellman, David Garth, Ronan O'Casey, Robert O'Neil, Robert Rietty, Pat Sandys, Errol Mackinnon, Edward Holton, Nicholas Hawtrey, Marlies Fyffer, Lucy Guard, Morwenna Pidgeon, Griffith Jones, Robert Christie, Robert Wilton, Michael Warre, Grenville Darling, Bennett O'Loghlen, Bellenden Clarke, Rosalinde Fuller, Lawrence Stevenson, Gillian Adams, Elspeth Currie, Patricia l'Estrange, Margot Bryant, Jack Denton, Edward Smythe, Alec Wallace, James Price, Harry Rousby, Barry Steele, Sonia Dresdel, James Raglan, Bernard Archard, Paul Lee, Donald Tandy |