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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4887
Title'Geneva' by George Bernard Shaw
Extent1 file
Date1938-1940
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Geneva' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast lists, changes in cast members and dates; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Malvern Festival, 1 Aug 1938; The Saville Theatre, London, 22 Nov 1938; presented by Roy Limbert; produced by A. K. Ayliff; scenery by Paul Shelving
Transferred to: The St James's Theatre, London, 30 Jan 1939; then back to The Saville Theatre, 15 May 1939, closing performance, 17 Jun 1939
On tour: 1939: The Palace Theatre, Manchester; The Grand Theatre, Leeds; 1940: The Wimbledon Theatre; The Royal Theatre, Nottingham; The Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth
America: New York

Casts: Eileen Beldon, Donald Eccles, Maitland Moss, Phyllis Gill, Wilson Barrett, H. R. Hignett, J. O. Twiss, Gyril Gardiner, Ernest Thesiger, Donald Wolfit, Kenneth Villiers, Cecil Trouncer, Normand Wooland, Marie Ault, R. Stuart Lindsell, Alison Leggatt, William Heilbron, Phillippa Gill, Tom Anstead, Arthur Ridley, Alexander Knox, Tully Comber, Walter Hudd, Oliver Milbourne, Clement McCallin, Derek Birch, Peggy Burt, George Welford, Elizabeth Vaughan, Barbara Brandon, Geoffrey Edwards, Alan Goford, Frank Barclay, Betty Romaine, Basil Dawson, Alan Gordon, Norah Howard
Access StatusOpen

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