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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4033
Title'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1942
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Macbeth' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes magazine extract with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Piccadilly Theatre, London, 8 Jul 1942; presented by Tennent Plays Ltd by arrangement with the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts; produced by John Gielgud; decor by Michael Ayrton and John Minton; incidental music by William Walton; fights and movements buy Suria Magito; The Opera House, Manchester, 16 Jan 1942

Casts: Nicholas Hannen, Emrys Jones, John Shepherd, John Gielgud, Leon Quartermaine, Francis Lister, Alan Badel, Abraham Sofaer, George Woodbridge, Frank Thornton, Frederic Annerley, Michael Gainsborough, Charles Maunsell, David Baxter, A. Bromley Davenport, Tarver Penna, Robert Griffith, Gwen Ffrancgon Davies, Frances Ruttledge, Thea Holme, Ernest Thesiger, Annie Esmond, Dorothy Green, Madge Whiteman, Viola Johnstone, Brown Derby, Gordon Duttson, Seth Holt, David Maxwell, John Milton, Donald Stewart, J. S. Russell Thompson, Milton Rosmer, Alec Mango, Terence Alexander, Jean Cadell, Beatrix Feilden Kaye, Madge Whiteman, Viola Johnstone, Simon Freeman
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