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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/523a
Title'The Country Wife' by William Wycherley
Extent1 file
Date1926-1936
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Country Wife' with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; brief mentions of tour and American productions; includes programme only on back cover for the Old Vic - Sadlers Wells 1936-1937 season with cast list and typescript dates

Performed at The Everyman Theatre, Hampstead, London, 11 Dec 1926, closing performance, 1 Jan 1927; presented by Carr, Massey and Wade; produced by Allan Wade; setting by Peggy Fremantle
Revival: The Old Vic Theatre, London, 6 Oct 1936, closing performance, 7 Nov 1936; produced by Tyrone Guthrie; scenery by Oliver Messel; orchestra under the direction of Herbert Menges
On tour: 1926: The New Theatre, Cambridge

Casts: Philip Desborough, Robert Holmes, Allan Wade, Bryan Powley, Guy le Feuvre, George Howe, Victor H. Leslie, Orlando Barnett, Isabel Jeans, Nell Carter, Athene Seyler, Peggy Fremantle, Adrianne Allen, Louise Holbrook, Audrey Cameron, Michael Redgrave, Frederick Bennett, Michael Kennedy, Richard Goolden, Edith Evans, Iris Hoey, Alec Clunes, Patrick Barr, Ernest Thesiger, James Dale, Ruth Gordon, Ursula Jeans, Eileen Peel, Freda Jackson, Kate Cutler, Basil Coleman, Roy Byford, Ernest Hare, Gwladys Black Roberts, Peter Cresswell, Frank Darch, V. Bennett, Viola Tree
Access StatusOpen

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