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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2470
Title'Henry V' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1938-1956
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Henry V' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Drury Lane Theatre, London, 16 Sep 1938, closing performance, 1 Oct 1938; presented by Tom Arnold; produced by Lewis Casson; scenery by Edward Carrick; incidental music by Ivor Novello and Norman O'Neill; orchestrations by Norman Prentice; The Assembly Hall, Edinburgh, 28 Aug 1956 (as part of the Edinburgh Festival); presented by The Stratford Ontario Festival Company; directed by Michael Langham; designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch

Casts: Ivor Novello, Kenneth Tuckfield, David Burney, George Skillan, Mario Francelli, Arthur Rees, Reyner Barton, Patrick Ross, Neil Porter, John Moore, Leonard Shepherd, Brandon Acton Bond, Vincent Sternroyd, Stanley Vine, Frederick Bennett, Eugene Leahy, Alex McCrindle, A. B. Imeson, Laurence Bascomb, Alexander Sarner, Sydney Bromley, Bert Evremonde, Leonard Thorne, Charles Doran, Peter Graves, W. E. Holloway, Basil Neale, Stephen Jack, Beatrice Wilson, Dorothy Dickson, Joan Swinstead, Veronica Brady, Janet Machen, Hilary de Chaville, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, William Needles, Christopher Plummer, William Shatner, Grant Reddick, Robert Goodier, Tony van Bridge, Donald Davis, William Hutt, Robert Christie, Bruce Swerdfager, Robert Easton, Max Helpmann, David Gardner, Eric House, Ted Follows, Roland Hewgill, Douglas Rain, Douglas Campbell, Bruno Gerussi, Gratien Gelinas, Roger Garceau, Lloyd Bochner, Jean Louis Roux, Gabriel Gascon, Jean Gascon, Jacques Godin, Guy Hoffman, Eleanor Stuart, Ginette Letondall, Germaine Giroux, Helene Winston
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