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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2581
Title'The Visit' by Maurice Valency
Extent1 file
Date1958-1960
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Visit', adapted and translated from the original German of Friedrich Duerrenmatt; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; programme with cast list 1960; press article and brief magazine biography of husband and wife cast members Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne; programme contained in this file has messages of congratulation and support with printed signatures from many famous actors and actresses on the opening of the new Royalty Theatre, Kingsway, 23 Jun 1960; it also includes forward from the chairman and managing director Bernard Delfont and sketches of the auditorium and foyer

Performed at The Royalty Theatre, Kingsway, London 23 Jun 1960, closing performance, 29 Oct 1960; presented by H. M. Tennent Ltd and Two Arts Ltd in association with Bernard Delfont; directed by Peter Brook; settings and costumes by Ted Otto; music by James Stevens
The Royal Theatre, Brighton, 24 Dec 1958 (as 'Time and Again')
America: The Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York, 5 May 1958; presented by Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne; directed by Peter Brook; settings and costumes by Ted Otto

Casts: Lynn Fontanne, Alfred Lunt, Henry McCarthy, Ralph Nossek, Robin Chapman, David Nettheim, Ian Wilson, George Rose, Brian Wilde, Richard Dare, Howard Douglas, Richard Scott, Myles Eason, John Wyse, Michael Browning, Richard Huggett, Keneth Thornett, Irene French, Terry Richards, Bruce Wells, Harry Ross, Alfred Hoffamn, Nuna Davey, Daphne Newton, Diana Beevers, Philip Lowrie, Trevor Barnett, Nicholas Grimshaw, Madge Brindley, Roy Pattison, Clinton Greyn, Harry Ross, Peter Woodthorpe, Gerard Dynevor, George Little, James Bree, Eric Porter, Norman Mitchell, Tristam Jellinck, Ewan Hooper, Christopher Rhodes, Lesley Hunt, Valerie Newbold, Carl Caldwell, Peter Brayham, Elwyn Stock, Anthony Selby, Gordon Gostelow, Trevor Barnett, Madge Brindley, Peter Lamsley, Harry Ross
Access StatusOpen

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