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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1249d
Title'Coriolanus' by William Shakespeare
Extent1 file
Date1959
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Coriolanus' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes photographs of cast members in scenes from the play; press article from 'The Sunday Times' 1959, entitled 'On the banks of the Avon', with photographs of the "sweeping panorama" to line the walls of the dress circle of the theatre as part of the celebration of The Stratford Memorial Theatre's 100th season, by Angus McBean

Performed at The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, as part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Festival -The 100th Season of Plays by William Shakespeare on 7 Jul 1959; directed by Peter Hall; setting by Boris Aronson; costumes by Riette Sturge Moore; music by Roberto Gerhard; lighting by Michael Northen; fights arranged by Bernard Hepton and John Greenwood

Cast: Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Donald Eccles, Paul Hardwick, Peter Woodthorpe, Robert Hardy, Michael Blakemore, Albert Finney, Julian Glover, Roy Dotrice, Ian Holm, Michael Graham Cox, Stephen Thorne, Dan Meaden, Donald Layne Smith, Edward de Souza, Kenneth Gilbert, Peter Mason, Stephanie Bedmead, Georgine Anderson, Edna Landor, Diana Rigg, Michael Scoble, Roy Spencer, Richard Rudd, Christopher Cruise, Jon Dennis, Don Smith, Malcolm Taylor, Edith Evans, Mary Ure, Malcolm Ranson, Anthony Nicholls, Charles Borromel, Norman Henry, Nicholas Hawtrey, Dave Thomas, Robert Russell, David Buck, Roger Bizley
Access StatusOpen

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