| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Bare Idea' with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; includes magazine extract photographs of members of the cast in scenes from the play
Performed at The Comedy Theatre, London, 10 Jan 1940, closing performance, 27 Jan 1940; presented by Maxwell Colburn Ltd; produced by Gordon Sherry; scenery by Hal Burton
Originally at: The Richmond Theatre, 10 Apr 1939; produced by Nigel Patrick
On tour: 1940: The Grand Theatre, Blackpool; The Alhambra Theatre, Glasgow; The Kings Theatre, Portsmouth
Casts: Peggy Pearlman, Peter Folliss, Iris March, Ellen Pollock, Eric Cowley, Robert Gilbert, Valerie Tudor, Marie Sellar, Gerald Case, James Dale, Oliver Gordon, Roddy Hughes, Raymond Rollett, Joan Appleby, Nuala Barrie, Joanna Law, Edwin Ellis, Brian Coleman, Valerie White, Molly Backus, Joss Ambler, Fletcher Lightfoot, Betty Lynne, Esmee Watson, Esme Vernon, John Mortimer, John Salew, Kaye Seely, Richard Parry, Fred Royal, Stanley Vilven, Grace Evans, Wileen Wilson, Elizabeth Hennings, Amola Wallis, Diana Ellinger, Norah Williams, Charles Stewart, Arthur Pitt, John Lemont, Herbert Ramskill, George Sims, Clive Holden, Bartholomew Knight, Victor Crawford, Rosamund Paget |