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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/886
Title'The Dark is Light Enough' by Christopher Fry
Extent1 file
Date1954-1955
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Dark is Light Enough' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list, press cutting announcing the end of run and date 1954; magazine extract from 'The London Illustrated News' Mar 1955 photograph and brief biography of Edith Evans (actress); also includes magazine extracts with photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Aldwych Theatre, London, 30 Apr 1954, closing performance (241st) 27 Nov 1954; presented by Tennent Productions Ltd; directed by Peter Brook; settings by Oliver Messel; music by Leslie Bridgewater; The Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, 22 Feb 1954
America: The Anta Theatre, New York, 24 Feb 1955; directed by Guthrie McClintic; settings by Oliver Messel

Casts: John Moffatt, Hugh Griffith, Peter Bull, Peter Barkworth, Violet Farebrother, David Spenser, Margaret Johnston, James Donald, Edith Evans, John Glen, Jack Gwillim, George Murcell, Peter Halliday, Peter Sallis, Frederick Treves, Churton Fairman, Frances Hyland, Katharine Cornell, Tyrone Power, Arnold Moss, Christopher Plummer, Marian Winter, Donald Harron, John Williams, William Podmore, Paul Roebling
Access StatusOpen

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