| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play
Performed at The Empire Theatre, Edinburgh, 31 Aug 1954; presented as part of the Edinburgh Festival by the Old Vic Company; produced by Michael Benthall; decor and costumes by Robin and Christopher Ironside; choreography by Robert Helpmann; music arranged by Gordon Jacob
America: The Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 21 Sep 1954; presented by the Old Vic Trust Ltd and the Arts Council of Great Britain; directed by Michael Benthall ; The Shrine Theatre, Los Angeles
Cast: Anthony Nicholls, Margaret Courtenay, Peter Johnson, John Dearth, Ann Walford, Patrick MacNee, Terence Longdon, Joan Benham, Eliot Makeham, Stanley Holloway, Philip Locke, Daniel Thorndike, Norman Rossington, Michael Redington, Philip Guard, Tania D'Avray, Sheila Wright, Joan King, Anne Brown, Robert Helpmann, Moira Shearer, Jocelyn Britton, Rudolfo Cornejo, Phyllis Harcourt, Vivienne Hetzel, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Rosemary Moore, Gillian Neason, Jane Shore, Suzanne Steele, Betty Shale, Elizabeth Wade, Anne Wilson, Ivan Baptie, Jeremy Giedt, David Hurst, David Harding, Michael Hayes, William Martin, Kenneth Melville, David Reynolds, David Rose, David Stephens, Sven van Zyl, Valerie Adams, Mary Brookes, Louise Carley, Mary Fenwick, Margaret Knoesen, Lana Kassinova, Joanne Nisbet, Josephine Spaull, Sheila Wright, Henry Naughton |