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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3638
Title'The Playboy of the Western World' by John Millington Synge
Extent1 file
Date1960-1961
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Playboy of the Western World' with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list, typescript date and loose printed notice of change in cast member 1960-1961; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play

Performed at The Piccadilly Theatre, London, 12 Oct 1960; presented by Henry Sherek in association with Brendan Smith; directed by Shelagh Richards; designed by Patrick Scott
Transferred to: The St Martins Theatre, London, 7 Nov 1960, closing performance, 14 Jan 1961
Originally at: The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 12 Sep 1960 [as part of the Third Dublin International Festival]; produced by Shelagh Richards

Casts: Siobhan McKenna, Eithne Dunne, Godfrey Quigley, Ronald Walsh, John Cowley, Desmond Perry, Brendan Cauldwell, Donal Donnelly, Finola O'Shannon, Anne Mulvey, Kate Binchy, Lelia Doolan, Brian O'Higgins, Eamonn Keane, Ruth Baker, Peter Cartwright, John Corvin, Frances Hooker, Stanley Lebor, John Malcolm, Susan Paice, Frederick Pine, Rhea Richardson, Jill Smith, Peter Williams
Access StatusOpen

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