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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3967
Title'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1957-1959
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Hamlet' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list [1957]; magazine extract with photographs of members of the cast; cuttings include brief biographies of cast members Judy Dench and Coral Browne

Performed at The Old Vic Theatre, Waterloo Road, London, 18 Sep 1957; presented by the Old Vic Trust Ltd in association with the Arts Council; produced by Michael Benthall; decor and costumes by Audrey Cruddas; music composed by Gordon Jacob; orchestra directed by Frederick Marshall; fights arranged by Bernard Hepton
Tour of America and Canada; presented by Sol Hurok
Yugoslavia: The National Theatre, Belgrade, 18 Mar 1959

Casts: Roy Patrick, Charles West, Oliver Neville, David Dodimead, Jack Gwillim, John Humphrey, Derek Francis, Coral Browne, Judi Dench, Daniel Thorndike, Dennis Shinnery, Stanley Meadows, David Waller, John Rye, Margaret Courtenay, Brian Badcoe, Barrie Ingham, Barbara Leigh Hunt, Michael Culver, Harold Innocent, John Rye, Ronald Fraser, Richard Gale, Juliet Cooke, Adrienne Hill, Simon Fraser, Edward Hardwicke, Neville Jason, Thomas Johnston, James Mellor, Crispian Woodgate, Richard Wordsworth, Dudley Jones, Joseph O'Conor, Joss Ackland, Gerald Harper, Jane Downs, Peter Cellier, Job Stewart, James Culliford, David Gardner, Robert Algar, John Gay, Thomas Johnston, Roy Patrick, Christian Woodgate, Peter Hodgson, Dyson Lovell, Douglas Harris, William Young, Jennie Goossens, Ursula Jenkins, Peggy Butt
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