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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/568
Title'As You Desire Me' by Luigi Pirandello
Extent1 file
Date1931-1948
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'As You Desire Me', translated from the Italian by Andree Zaro; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives cast list and dates; printed flyers [1934]

Performed at The Royalty Theatre, London, 1 Oct 1934, closing performance, 8 Dec 1934; presented by Jean Forbes Robertson; directed by Peter Godfrey; settings by John Shelley; The Gate Theatre Studio, London, 19 Sep 1934; presented and produced by Peter Godfrey
On tour: 1934: The Royal Theatre, Nottingham
Revived at: The Embassy, Swiss Cottage, London, 20 Jan 1948; presented by Envoy Productions Ltd in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain and by arrangement with Marta Abba; directed by Peter Dearing; settings by Guy Sheppard America: The Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York, 28 Jan 1931; translated by Dmitri Ostrov; presented by Lee Shubert; staged by Marcel Varnel; settings by Watson Barratt

Casts: Jean Forbes Robertson, Peter Godfrey, Susan Otto, Kynaston Reeves, Clifford Bartlett, Joan Periera, Louis Darnley, Barbara Knowles, Anthony John, David Moore, Robin Seel, John Shelley, Beatrice Kane, Alistair Sim, Miriam Adams, Glen Byam Shaw, Alan Webb, Peter Bull, Fred O'Donovan, Elwyn Brook Jones, Henrietta Watson, Patricia Goddard, Richard Hurndall, Ferdy Mayne, John Deverell, Catherine Willmer, Mary Morris, Judith Anderson, Douglas R. Dumbrille, Jose Ruben, Brandon Peters, Philip Leigh, Vera G. Hurst, Katherine Warren, Mortimer Weldon
Access StatusOpen

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