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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2477
Title'King Henry VIII' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1953
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'King Henry VIII' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; magazine extract photographs of cast members meeting the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh after the first night performance

Performed at The Old Vic Theatre, Waterloo Road, London, 6 May 1953; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; settings and costumes by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; incidental music by Cedric Thorpe Davie; music directed by Christopher Whelan; dances arranged by Tom Brown

Cast: Wynne Clark, Leo Genn, John Philips, Eric Thompson, Patrick Wymark, Alexander Knox, Laurence Hardy, David Waller, Garth Adams, Paul Rogers, Gwen Ffrangcon Davies, Wolfe Morris, Robert Hardy, James Ottaway, Alan Dobie, Bernard Kilby, Jeanette Sterke, Newton Blick, John Warner, Bruce Sharman, Daniel Thorndike, Timothy Bateson, Margaret Courtenay, Norman Fraser, Terry Wale, William Squire
Access StatusOpen

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