| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Best Damn Lie', originally entitled 'The Lie Detector'; with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme extract inside front cover with cast list for original production 1956
Performed at The Winter Garden Theatre, London, 7 May 1957, closing performance, 25 May 1957; presented by Stanley Willis Croft for Company of Three Ltd; directed by Jack Williams; settings by Tod Kingman; The Pigalle Theatre, Liverpool, 25 Mar 1957
Originally at: The Richmond Theatre, London, 16 Jul 1956 (as 'The Lie Detector'); presented by Alan Miles and Fredrick Piffard for Richmond Repertory Company Ltd; decor by John Piper
Casts: Ida Shepley, Stephen Murray, Richard Dunn, Geoffrey King, Jeremy Burnham, Gladys Bacon, W. Thorp Devereux, Anne Steele, John Longden, Sonia Dresdel, Hugh Wakefield, Walter Fitzgerald, Richard Foat, John Bonney, Rita Stevens, Michael Allinson, Gerald Harper, Molly Lumley, Charles Hill, Jennifer Morris, Margaret Diamond, Hamlyn Benson, Elwyn Brook Jones, William Brookfield, John Denison |