| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast lists and dates; includes programme with cast list 1954; translations of 'Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore' by: Mrs A. Green 1922; H. K. Ayliff [1928], 1932; Edward Storer and Frederick May 1954; American production adapted by Tyrone Guthrie and Michael Wager with new translation by Frank Tauritz 1956
Performed at The Arts Theatre Club, London, 20 May 1928, closing performance, 23 May 1928; presented by Barry Jackson; produced by H. K. Ayliff
Transferred to: The Globe Theatre, London, 28 May 1928, closing performance, 9 Jun 1928
Originally at: The Kingsway Theatre, London, 15 June 1922; presented by the Stage Society; The New Oxford Theatre, London, 15 Jun 1925 (performed in Italian) (as 'Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore'); [presented by Charles B. Cochran; directed by Luigi Pirandello]; The Westminster Theatre, London, 18 Feb 1932; presented by Anmer Hall; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; settings and costumes by Molly McArthur; The Embassy Theatre, London, 21 Nov 1950; presented by Molly May by arrangement with Anthony Hawtrey; produced by Ngaio Marsh; The Arts Theatre, London, 23 June 1954; presented by the London Arts Theatre Committee Ltd; directed by Royston Morley; settings by Ronald Brown
Transferred to: The St James's Theatre, London, 20 Jul 1954, closing performance (38th) 21 Aug 1954; presented by the Arts Theatre by arrangement with Laurence Olivier Productions Ltd
America: The Phoenix Theatre, New York, 1956; directed by Tyrone Guthrie
Casts: Walter Pearce, Margaret Chatwin, Dorothy Black, Colin Keith Johnston, John Denis, Betty Raymond, Isabel Thornton, Fewlass Llewellyn, Dorothy Holmes Gore, D. A. Clarke Smith, Madge Burbage, Dorothy Revelly, Ethel O' Shea, Philip Easton, Victor Lusk, Julian D'Albie, Frank Irish jnr, Charles Leighton, Kingstone Trollope, Henry Oscar, Gillian Scaife, Flora Robson, John Teed, John Denis, Helen Moore, Catherina Ferraz, Morland Graham, Vivienne Bennett, Philip Thornley, Margery Phipps Walker, Lamberto Picasso, Maria Alba, Egisto Olivieri, Lamberto Ferrari, Karel Staepanek, Charles Lloyd Pack,Yvonne Mitchell, Dudley Foster, Gordon Bell, Barbara Lynne, Marigold Charlesworth, Edward Hardwicke, John Lane, Bruno Barnabe, Ingrid Burke, Anne Jenkins, Reginald Tate, Diana Blackwood, Ralph Michael, Marda Vanne, Mary Morris, Alan Stebbings, Diane Cook, Roger Gage, Doris Rogers, Kurt Krasznar, Francis Bethencourt, Natalie Schafer, James Lacirignola, Michael Wager, Katherine Squire, Whitfield Connor, Karen Sue Trent, Betty Lou Holland |