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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/708
Title'Antony and Cleopatra' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1951
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of the play with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list 1951; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The St James's Theatre, London, 11 May 1951; presented by Laurence Olivier by arrangement with the Arts Council of Great Britain on behalf of St James's Players Ltd (a Festival of Britain production); directed by Michael Benthall; settings by Roger Furse; costumes by Audrey Cruddas; music by Herbert Menges; sword-play by Clement McCallin; orchestra under the direction of Tod Boyd
America: The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York, [autumn 1951]

Casts: Henry Oscar, Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Harold Kasket, Thomas Heathcote, Michael Godfrey, Maxine Audley, Peter Cushing, Wilfred Hyde White, Norman Wooland, Jill Bennett, Robert Helpman, Richard Goolden, Derrick Penley, Ronald Adam, Elizabeth Kentish, Niall MacGinnis, Esmond Knight, Colin Kemball, Clifford Williams, Marjorie Gresley, Anthony Pelly, Lyndon Brook, Dan Cunningham, Edmund Purdom, Cy Grant, Max Gardiner, John Dunbar, Thomas Heathcote, Desmond Llewelyn, Alexander Davion, Timothy Bateson, Noel Coleman, Paul Homer, Terence Owen, Neville Crabbe, Jessie Barclay, Renee Goddard, Teresa Moore, Jill Welchman, Elspeth March, Pat Nye, David Greene, Katharine Blake
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