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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4124
Title'The Merchant of Venice' by Willliam Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1940-1953
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Merchant of Venice' with photographs of members of the cast and cast list

Performed at The Kingsway Theatre, London, Feb 1940, closing performance [9 Mar 1940]; [presented by the Advance Players Association Ltd]; [directed and setting by Andrew Leigh and Donald Wolfit]; [costumes by Paul Gibson]
The Winter Garden, London [16 Feb] 1946, closing performance [13 Apr 1946]; [presented by the Advance Players Association Ltd]; [produced by Donald Wolfit and Christopher Ede]; The Savoy Theatre, London, Apr 1947; presented by the Advance Players Association Ltd by arrangement with Firth Shephard; The Bedford Theatre, Camden Town, 1949; (first Shakespeare season); The Kings Theatre, Hammersmith, 9 Mar 1953; presented by the Advance Players Association Ltd; produced by Donald Wolfit

Casts: Donald Wolfit, Brandon Acton Bond, Joseph Chelton, Clement Hamelin, Dennis Bowen, Norman Latimer, Alexander Guage, John Wynyard, Zillah Tomlin, George Benson, Rosalind Iden, Joseph O'Conor, Anthony Cullen, Ernest Hare, James Dale, Peter Rendall, Harold Pinter, Alun Owen, Tom Criddle, Michael Ingham, Michael Blythe, Desmond Tester, John Killner, Colin Mann, Ronald Fraser, Stella Christie, Ronald McMaster, Nicholas Courtney, Eileen Barry Vivien Merchant, Jane Sherrell, Sally Bussell
Access StatusOpen

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