| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of the twelve plays produced for the 1928-1929 Old Vic Season with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; typescript inside front cover gives titles and dates for the season
Performed at The Old Vic Theatre, London, 8 Sep 1928 - 1929; all plays produced by Andrew Leigh
'Love's Labour's Lost' by William Shakespeare, 8 Sep 1928, closing performance 29 Sep 1928
'The Vikings at Helgeland' by Henrik Ibsen, 1 Oct 1929, closing performance 20 Oct 1929; translated by William Archer
'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare, 22 Oct 1928, closing performance 10 Nov 1928
'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, 12 Nov 1928, closing performance 1 Dec 1928
'Adam's Opera' by Clemence Dane, 3 Dec 1928; music by Richard Addinsell
'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare, 21 Jan 1929, closing performance 2 Feb 1929
'Caste' [by T. W. Robertson] 4 Feb 1929, closing performance 16 Feb 1929
'The Merry Wives of Windsor' by William Shakespeare, 18 Feb 1929, closing performance 9 Mar 1929
'The Rivals' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 11 Mar 1929, closing performance 5 Apr 1929
'Mary Magdalene' by Maurice Maeterlinck, 25 Mar 1929; translation by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
'Henry VIII' by William Shakespeare, 8 Apr 1929, closing performance 26 Apr 1929
'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare, 28 Apr 1929
On tour: 1929: 'The Merry Wives of Windsor' by William Shakespeare performed at The Kings Theatre, Glasgow
Casts: H. Reyner Barton, Torin Thatcher, Godfrey Kenton, Wilfred Babbage, Eric Spear, Horace Sequeira, John Laurie, Rita Daniel, Monica Brett, Esme Church, Beryl Ede, Iris Baker, Adele Dixon, Peter Taylor Smith, Stanley Beers, Eric Adeney, Percy Walsh, Eric Phillips, Phillip Fothergill, Charles Smyrk, Violet Lamb, Mary Hull, Leslie Young, Rosamund Burne, Peggy Hunter, Arabella Turtle, Marie Lohr, Owen P. Smythe, Rafe Thomson |