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OLD VIC 1934-1949
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1934-35 OLD VIC SEASON director: Henry Cass
Maurice Evans, Mary Newcombe, Abraham Sofaer, Cecil Trouncer, Alec Clunes, Vivienne Bennett, Leo Genn, Alan Webb

1934-35: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Old Vic)
Maurice Evans, Newcombe, Trouncer, Sofaer, Clunes, Genn; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1934-35: HENRY IV PT II (Old Vic)
Merritt, Maurice Evans, Trouncer, Sofaer, Bennett, Clunes, Genn, Webb; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10; photo not included] £4

1934-35: MAJOR BARBARA (Old Vic)
Newcombe, Trouncer, Maurice Evans, Clunes, Genn, Webb, Bennett; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1934-35: HIPPOLYTUS - Euripides & THE TWO SHEPHERDS - Sierra (Old Vic)
Maurice Evans, Newcombe, Sofaer, Trouncer, Clunes, Bennett, Genn, Webb, dir:Cass & M.MacOwan [4pp; 6x10] £3

1934-35: OTHELLO (Old Vic)
Sofaer, Maurice Evans, Bennett, Newcombe , Trouncer, Clunes, Genn, Webb; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1934-35: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Sadler's Wells)
Maurice Evans, Cathleen Nesbit, Trouncer , Andrew Leigh, Sofaer, Clunes, Bennett, Genn, Webb; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1934-35: ST.JOAN (Old Vic/Sadler's Wells)
Mary Newcombe, Maurice Evans, Abraham Sofaer, Cecil Trouncer, Alec Clunes, Leo Genn, Alan Webb, Felix Aylmer; dir:Henry Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1934-35: RICHARD II (Old Vic)
Maurice Evans, Abraham Sofaer, Cecil Trouncer, Alec Clunes, Vivienne Bennett, Leo Genn, Alan Webb; dir:Henry Cass [4pp, 6x10; w.newsclipping review] £5

1934-35: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Old Vic)
Wilfred Lawson, Mary Newcombe, David Horne, Maurice Evans, Cecil Trouncer, Abraham Sofaer, Alec Clunes, Leo Genn, Alan Webb; dir:Henry Cass [4pp, 6x10; with newsclipping review] £4

1934-35: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Maurice Evans or Marius Goring, Abraham Sofaer, Dorothy Green, Cecil Trouncer, Alec Clunes, Vivienne Bennett, Leo Genn; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10; rumpled; photo not included] £5

1934-35: SCENES (Old Vic)
Students, dir:Leigh & MacOwan [4pp; 6x10] £2

1934-35: GREEN REPERTOIRE SHEET Sep-Dec 1934 (Old Vic/Sadler's Wells)
Details of performances at The Vic and The Wells [single green sheet, printed both sides; 7.5x14; Opera, Shakespeare, and Ballet Company lists; faded at creases, else VG; fascinating!] £4

1934-35: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 23 1935 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Peggy Ashcroft, Sybil Thorndike, Donald Wolfit, Maurice Evans, Lewis Casson, Marius Goring, Alec Clunes, Adele Dixon, Dorothy Green, Wilfred Walter, Ben Greet, Abraham Sofaer, Ursula Jeans, Margaret Webster, Frank Napier, Robert Speaight, Cecil Trouncer, Alan Webb, Leo Genn
[4pp; 9x11.5; lightly folded, slightly grubby] £12

1934-35: LAST NIGHT OF SHAKESPEARE SEASON May 20 1935 (Old Vic)
Scenes from HAMLET, RICHARD II and TAMING OF THE SHREW with Maurice Evans, Dorothy Green, Abraham Sofaer, Leo Genn, Vivienne Bennett, Frank Napier, Cecil Trouncer, Marius Goring, dir:Henry Cass
[4pp; 9x11.5; with engraving of exterior of Old Vic; some foxing, minor edge damage] £9

1935-36 OLD VIC SEASON director: Henry Cass
Ion Swinley, William Devlin, Leo Genn, Vivienne Bennett, Cecil Trouncer, Alec Clunes, Anthony Quayle

1935-36: JULIUS CAESAR (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, William Devlin, Genn, Bennett, Clunes; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: MACBETH (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, Bennett, Genn, William Devlin, Clunes; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: RICHARD III (Old Vic)
William Devlin, Bennett, Ion Swinley, Genn, Clunes, Trouncer, Helen Haye; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: KING LEAR (Old Vic)
William Devlin, Ion Swinley, Bennett, Clunes, Catherine Lacey, Robert Eddison; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: THE WINTER'S TALE (Old Vic)
William Devlin, Bennett, Ion Swinley, Clunes, Dorothy Green, Andrew Leigh, Geoffrey Keen, dir:MacOwan [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: ST.HELENA - R.C.Sherriff (Old Vic)
Ion Swinley, Clunes, William Devlin, Bennett, Anthony Quayle, Genn, Trouncer, Glynis Johns; dir:Cass [4pp, 6x10; with newsclipping review] £4

1935-36: PEER GYNT (Old Vic)
William Devlin, Ion Swinley, Genn, Bennett, Clunes, Trouncer; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: PEER GYNT (Sadler's Wells)
William Devlin, Ion Swinley, Bennett, Clunes, Robert Eddison; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] (£4) SOLD

1935-36: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Old Vic)
Trouncer, Bennett, Genn, Ion Swinley, Clunes, Helen Haye, Nancy Hornsby; dir:Macowan [4pp; 6x10] £4

1935-36: THE THREE SISTERS (Old Vic)
Vivienne Bennett, Ion Swinley, Marie Ney, Nancy Hornsby, Cecil Trouncer, William Devlin, Alec Clunes, Keneth Kent, Andrew Leigh; dir:Cass [4pp; 6x10] £5

1935-36: SCENES (Old Vic)
Students, dir:MacOwan & Gunn [4pp; 6x10] £2

1935-36: GREEN REPERTOIRE SHEET Sep-Dec 1935 (Old Vic/Sadler's Wells)
Details of performances at The Vic and The Wells [single green sheet, printed both sides; 7.75x14.5; company list; creased and tatty round the edges, but fascinating] (£3) SOLD

1935-36: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 23 1936 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ernest Milton, Jean Forbes-Robertson, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Ion Swinley, Ben Greet, Alec Clunes, Ann Casson, Catherine Lacey, Esmond Knight, Frank Vosper, George Hayes, Gyles Isham, John Laurie, Leslie French, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ney, Robert Eddison, Vivienne Bennett, William Devlin [4pp; 9x11.5; lightly folded, slightly grubby] £12

1936-37 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Laurence Olivier, Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, Alec Clunes, Marius Goring, Leo Genn

1936-37: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Francis L.Sullivan, Robert Newton, Dorothy Dix, Cherry Cottrell, Alec Guinness, Marius Goring [4pp; 6x10; creased, faint stain on cover; photos not included] (£8) SOLD

1936-37: AS YOU LIKE IT (Old Vic)
Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, dir:Esme Church [4pp; 6x10; photos not included] £10

1936-37: THE COUNTRY WIFE (Old Vic)
Edith Evans, Michael Redgrave, Ruth Gordon, Clunes, Ernest Thesiger, Ursula Jeans [4pp; 6x10] £8

1936-37: THE WITCH OF EDMONTON (Old Vic)
Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Michael Redgrave, Marius Goring; dir:Saint-Denis [4pp, 6x10; slightly rumpled and grubby, else VG] £5

1936-37: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST (Old Vic)
Clunes, Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness, Ernest Milton, Rachel Kempson; dir:Guthrie [4pp; 6x10; light creases] £6

1936-37: TWELFTH NIGHT (Old Vic)
Jessica Tandy, Laurence Olivier, Alec Guinness, Marius Goring, Leo Genn, Ivy St.Helier, Jill Esmond [4pp; 6x10; photo not included; horizontal fold, rumpled] (£7) SOLD

1936-37: HENRY V (Old Vic)
Laurence Olivier, Marius Goring, Harcourt Williams, Alec Guinness, Ivy St.Helier, Leo Genn, Jessica Tandy, Stuart Burge, Stephen Murray, Basil Coleman; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp, 6x10; minor creases; photos not included] £10

1936-37: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Old Vic)
Robert Speaight, Denis Carey, Christopher Casson, dir:E.Martin Browne [4pp; 6x10] £3

1936-37: programme for THE VIC-WELLS CORONATION YEAR BALL, March 15th 1937 (Royal Albert Hall)
Cover photo of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth; photos of Lilian Baylis , Ivor Novello , Leslie Banks, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, Harold Turner, Robert Helpmann, Mary Honer, Margot Fonteyn ; article about The Coronation Ball; list of Society Box Holders (many familiar names); list of prizes; Programme, including ‘Divertissement', choreographed by Ninette de Valois, and danced by Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards etc. - An Appeal and Collection by Laurence Olivier- Fancy Dress Parade, Judges: Charles B.Cochran, Leslie Banks, Ivor Novello - Presentation of Prizes by Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans ; and - ticket (No.125) tipped in!
[16pp; 7.25x9.75; see scan above - staples rusty, pronounced vertical crease] (£7) SOLD

1936-37: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 23 1937 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by a fantastic line-up of stars, including Alec Clunes, Rachel Kempson, Basil Coleman, Henry Baynton, Morland Graham, Laurence Olivier, Jill Esmond, Irene Vanbrugh, Violet Vanbrugh, Gyles Isham, Stephen Murray, George Hayes, Lawrence Baskomb, Malcolm Keen, Leo Genn, Stuart Burge, Michael Gough, Dorothy Green, Margaretta Scott, Michael Redgrave, Vivienne Bennett, Alec Guinness, Jessica Tandy, Ivy St.Helier, Harcourt Williams; joined at the fall of the curtain by Edith Evans, Ruth Gordon, George Howe, Martita Hunt, Ursula Jeans, Esmond Knight and Tyrone Guthrie
[4pp; 9x11.5; light horizontal fold, else VG] (£12) SOLD

1937-38 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Vivien Leigh, Emlyn Williams, Stephen Murray, Anthony Quayle, Andrew Cruickshank

Play Pictorial/1938 (Jan) No.426 - THE OLD VIC 1937/38 SEASON
Entire issue devoted to the 1937-38 Season; cover-Emlyn Williams as Richard III; photographic features on PYGMALION (Robert Morley, Diana Wynyard, Jay Laurier, Mark Dignam, Jean Cadell; dir:Tyrone Guthrie), MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Emlyn Williams, Marie Ney, Stephen Murray; dir:Tyrone Guthrie), RICHARD III (Emlyn Williams, Angela Baddeley, Jean Cadell; dir:Tyrone Guthrie), and MACBETH (Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Vera Poliakoff; dir:Michel Saint-Denis, music:Darius Milhaud); portraits of principal artists; essay on Lilian Baylis [20pp; 36 excellent photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] (£7) SOLD

1937-38: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Old Vic)
Emlyn Williams, Marie Ney, Stephen Murray, Jack Merivale, Jean Cadell, Jay Laurier, David King Wood, Mark Dignam, Sylvia Coleridge; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp; 6x10; photo not included; minor marks, light crease] £4

1937-38: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Old Vic)
Robert Helpmann, Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Stephen Murray, Anthony Quayle [4pp; 6x10; edge damage and some foxing, but sought-after] (£5) SOLD

1937-38: PYGMALION (Old Vic)
Robert Morley, Diana Wynyard [4pp; 6x10] £4

1937-38: RICHARD III (Old Vic)
Emlyn Williams, Alec Clunes, Angela Baddeley, Jean Cadell, Andrew Cruickshank [4pp; 6x10] £4

1937-38: OTHELLO (Old Vic)
Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quayle, Stephen Murray, Alexander Knox, Martita Hunt, Andrew Cruickshank; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp; 6x10; light creases, else VG] £5

1937-38: CORIOLANUS (Old Vic)
Laurence Olivier, Sybil Thorndike, William Devlin, Cecil Trouncer, Stephen Murray, George Skillan, Vivienne Bennett, Viola Lyel, Richard Dare; dir:Lewis Casson [4pp, 6x10; minor edge tear, else VG] £5

1937-38: THE KING OF NOWHERE - Bridie (Old Vic)
Vivienne Bennett, Alexander Knox, Laurence Olivier, Marda Vanne, Sylvia Coleridge, Stephen Murray: dir:Esme Church [4pp; 6x10; photo not included; some adhesion on back cover - but an unusual programme; w.newsclipping review] £4

1937-38: MACBETH (Old Vic at The New Theatre/Dec 1937)
Laurence Olivier, Judith Anderson, Andrew Cruickshank, Niall MacGinnis, John Moody, James Ottaway, Laurence Naismith, James Donald; dir:Michel Saint-Denis, des:Motley, music:Darius Milhaud [20pp, 5.4x8.4; photos of L.Olivier as Macbeth, and J.Anderson as Lady Macbeth; slightly rumpled; an uncommon programme] (£6) SOLD

1937-38: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 25 1938 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Michael Redgrave, Donald Wolfit, Jessica Tandy, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Russell Thorndike, Baliol Holloway, Cecil Trouncer, Harcourt Williams, Vivienne Bennett, Wilfred Walter, Marie Ney, Alec Clunes, Andrew Cruickshank, Alexander Knox, Frank Napier, George Hayes, Leo Genn, Malcolm Keen, Margaretta Scott, Marius Goring, Stephen Murray, William Devlin, and Tyrone Guthrie (!) What a line-up!!
[4pp; 9x11.5; lightly folded, a few marks] £12

1938-39 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Edward Chapman, Ursula Jeans, Roger Livesey, Andrew Cruickshank, Pamela Brown, Hermione Hannen, Nora Nicholson, John Mills

1938-39: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Alec Guinness, Andrew Cruickshank, Veronica Turleigh, O.B.Clarence, Hermione Hannen, Anthony Quayle [4pp; 6x10; modern dress; photos not included] £8

1938-39: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Old Vic)
Harry Andrews, Chapman, Robert Helpmann, Dorothy Hyson, John Mills [4pp; 6x10] (£4) SOLD

1938-39: THE RIVALS (Old Vic)
Ellen Compton, Anthony Quayle, Lewis Casson, H.Hannen, Alec Guinness, Cruickshank, dir:Church [4pp; 6x10] £4

1938-39: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (Old Vic)
Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Edward Chapman, Nora Nicholson, Ballard Berkeley [4pp; 6x10] £4

1938-39: TRELAWNY OF THE WELLS (Old Vic)
O.B.Clarence, Alec Guinness, Nicholson, Anthony Quayle, Cruickshank [4pp; 6x10; minor marks else VG] £5

1938-39: SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER (Old Vic)
Ursula Jeans, Edward Chapman, John Mills, Pamela Brown [4pp; 6x10] £4

1938-39: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic)
Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Robert Helpmann or Charles Hawtrey, Pamela Brown, Edward Chapman [4pp; 6x10] £5

1938-39: MAN AND SUPERMAN (Old Vic)
Anthony Quayle, Andrew Cruickshank, Hannen, Valerie Tudor, dir:Casson [4pp; 6x10] £4

1938-39: THE OLD VIC AND SADLER'S WELLS MAGAZINE Vol.7 No.4 Mch-Apr 1939 (Old Vic)
Across the Footlights (news article, including mention of the tour to Egypt and Italy with "Amleto Moderno"); "New York and London" by Ursula Jeans and Roger Livesey; article on 'The Taming of the Shrew'; 'Design for Singing' by Hamish Wilson [8pp; 7.9x10; ragged and rumpled, staple rusted - but intact!] (£4) SOLD

1938-39: GREEN REPERTOIRE SHEET Mch-May 1939 (Old Vic/Sadler's Wells)
Details of performances at The Vic and The Wells [single green sheet, printed both sides; 7x13; company list; a single fold] £3

1939-40 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, Alec Guinness, Robert Donat, Constance Cummings, Marie Ney

1939 (Nov): THEATRE WORLD Magazine (Old Vic Company on tour)
5-page photographic feature on Old Vic productions of ROMEO AND JULIET, THE GOOD NATURED MAN, THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE, SAINT JOAN, VICEROY SARAH featuring Robert Donat, Constance Cummings, Marie Ney, Stewart Granger, Andre Morell, Sonia Dresdel, Esme Church; much extra content [28pp; 8.75x11.75; VG] (£7) SOLD

1939-40: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE (Golder's Green Hippodrome)
Robert Donat, Stewart Granger, Sonia Dresdel, Andrew Cruickshank, Max Adrian, dir:Esme Church [16pp; 5.5x8.5; magazine programme] (£5) SOLD

1939-40: ROMEO AND JULIET (Streatham Hill Theatre)
Robert Donat, Constance Cummings, Marie Ney, Stewart Granger, Sonia Dresdel, Andrew Cruickshank, Andre Morell, Max Adrian, dir:E.Church [16pp; 5.5x8.5; magazine programme; rumpled, minor puncture damage] (£5) SOLD

1939-40: THE TEMPEST (Old Vic)
John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, Alec Guinness, Lewis Casson, Andrew Cruickshank, Marius Goring, Jack Hawkins, John McCallum, Renee Asherson, dir:Devine & Goring [4pp; 6x10; w.3 clippings about Peggy Ashcroft tipped in; minor marks else VG] £9

1939-40: KING LEAR (Old Vic)
John Gielgud, Lewis Casson, Jack Hawkins, Nicholas Hannen, Cathleen Nesbit, Jessica Tandy, Fay Compton, Harcourt Williams, Andrew Cruickshank, Alan MacNaughton, Robert Harris, Stephen Haggard, John McCallum, James Donald, dir:Casson & Granville-Barker [4pp; 6x10; grubby, slightly rumpled; photos not included] £10

1939-40: GREEN REPERTOIRE SHEET June 1940 (Old Vic/Sadler's Wells)
One side is a poster for THE TEMPEST, with John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, Alec Guinness and others; the other side gives the opera and ballet repertoire for June [single green sheet, printed both sides; 8x12; creased, some fading, minor edge damage - see scan above; but how many of these survived the Blitz??] (£4) SOLD

1939-40: SHAKESPEARE BIRTHDAY FESTIVAL - April 22 1940 (Old Vic)
Excerpts from Shakespeare performed by Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave, Donald Wolfit, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Jessica Tandy, Jack Hawkins, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Ann Casson, Edward Chapman, Constance Cummings, Adele Dixon, Wilfrid Walter , Cathleen Nesbitt, George Howe, Vivienne Bennett, Peter Glenville, Abraham Sofaer, James Donald, Veronica Turleigh, Jill Esmond, Alan MacNaughton
[4pp; 9x11.5; lightly folded, with newspaper review attached] £15

1940-41 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Ernest Milton, Sybil Thorndike

1941 (Feb): MACBETH (Victoria Theatre, Burnley)
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Kenneth Griffith, Mark Dignam, Abraham Sofaer, Ann Casson, Freda Gaye; dir:Tyrone Guthrie and Lewis Casson [8pp, 5.6x8.9; cast list, notes, credits, "Next Week - Trilby"; a remarkable survivor from war-time Britain!; very lightly rumpled, else VG] (£6) SOLD


On 19th May, 1941, the Old Vic
was damaged during an air raid.

1941-42 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Frederick Valk, Bernard Miles, Frank Petley

1941: THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Chekhov (New Theatre)
Athene Seyler, James Dale, Nicholas Hannen, O.B.Clarence, Olive Layton, Rosalind Atkinson, Lucy Griffiths, Stanford Holme, James Donald, Walter Hudd, Charles Barrett, dir:Tyrone Guthrie [8pp; 5.6x4.4; cast list, credits, programme note, Air Raid notice; VG] £4

1941-42: MEDEA - Euripides (South Wales Tour)
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Ann Casson, John Garside, dir:Casson [4pp; 5.25x8.25] (£5) SOLD

1942 (Spring): MEDEA - Euripides (North Wales, Pembroke, Cheshire, Durham & Northumberland Tour)
Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson, Ann Casson, John Garside, dir:Casson [4pp; 5.25x8.25; lightly rumpled w.minor marks; extremely uncommon] (£5) SOLD

1942-43 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie

1943 (Jan 19 on): ABRAHAM LINCOLN - John Drinkwater (Old Vic/C.E.M.A. at the Liverpool Playhouse)
Herbert Lomas, Andrew Leigh, Noel Willman, Douglas Campbell, Ernest Hare, Winifred Oughton, Basil Coleman, James Pugh, Alan Blair, Diana Boddington; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp, 4.9x8.25; cast list, notes, credits, ticket prices, announcements; very uncommon; very light vertical bend, else VG] £5

1943-44 OLD VIC SEASON director: Tyrone Guthrie
Robert Helpmann, Pamela Brown

Robert Helpmann as Hamlet and
Pamela Brown as Ophelia

1944 (April 25 on): HOUSE OF REGRETS - Peter Ustinov (Old Vic/C.E.M.A. at the Liverpool Playhouse)
Catherine Salkeld, Mary Dailey, Alfred Sangster, Alexandra Mikellatos, Malya Nappi, James Gibson, John Ruddock, Noel Willman, Clement Ashby, Kathleen Hilditch, David Markham, Daphne Courtney; dir:John Moody [4pp, 4.9x8.25; cast list, notes, credits, ticket prices, announcements; very uncommon; VG] (£5) SOLD

1944-45 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harcourt Williams, Michael Warre

1944 (November 22 on): UNEASY LAUGHTER (He Who Gets Slapped) - Leonid Andreyev, adapted by Judith Guthrie (Old Vic/C.E.M.A. at the Liverpool Playhouse)
Frank Napier, Milo Sperber, Arnold Marle, Noel Willman, Eileen Herlie, Peter Glenville, Percy Heming, Audrey Fildes, Julian Dallas, Henry Edwards, Olaf Pooley; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp, 4.9x8.25; cast list, notes, credits, ticket prices, announcements; very uncommon; light vertical bend, else VG] £5

1945 (Apr): PEER GYNT - Ibsen (Old Vic at the Opera House, Manchester)
Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Redman, George Relph, Margaret Leighton, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier (credited as "Laurence Oliver"), Rose Morris; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp; lightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1945 (May 9 on): HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR - Robert Marshall (Old Vic/C.E.M.A. at the Liverpool Playhouse)
Henry Edwards, Eileen Herlie, Noel Willman, Clement Ashby, Frank Napier, Winifred Evans, Audrey Fildes, Peter Varley, Eurig Bonnell; dir:Peter Glenville [4pp, 4.9x8.25; cast list, notes, credits, ticket prices, announcements; very uncommon; light horizonyal bend, else VG] £5

1945-46 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Sybil Thorndike, Nicholas Hannen, Miles Malleson, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Harcourt Williams, Michael Warre, Harry Andrews

1946: OEDIPUS - Sophocles, and THE CRITIC - Sheridan (New Theatre)
Laurence Olivier, Harry Andrews, Harcourt Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, Nicolette Bernard, Miles Malleson, George Relph, Michael Warre, Jane Wenham, Elizabeth Osman, Nicholas Hannen, George Cooper, Peter Copley, George Rose, Sydney Tafler, Diana Maddox, Oscar Quitak, William Squire; directed by Michel Saint-Denis/Miles Malleson, music by Antony Hopkins, scenery by John Piper/Tanya Moiseiwitsch [8pp, 5x3.75; tear to cover repaired with tape, else VG] £4

1946-47 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Nicholas Hannen, Pamela Brown, Alec Guinness, Joyce Redman, Margaret Leighton, George Relph, Michael Warre, Harry Andrews, Yvonne Mitchell, Lewis Casson

1946 (Nov): AN INSPECTOR CALLS - Priestley (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Harry Andrews, Margaret Leighton, Alec Guinness; dir:Basil Dean [8pp, 4.9x7.4; slightly rumpled and grubby; unusual] £4

1947: THE ALCHEMIST - Jonson (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Joyce Redman, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley, George Rose, Margaret Leighton, William Squire; dir:John Burrell [8pp, 4.9x7.4; slightly rumpled] £5

1947: RICHARD II (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardson, Lewis Casson, Harry Andrews, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley, George Rose, David Kentish, William Squire, Michael Warre, Aubrey Richards, Margaret Leighton, Rosalind Atkinson, Janet Joye, dir:Ralph Richardson [8pp, 4.9x7.25; cast, credits; VG] £4

1947: CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Rostand (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness, Margaret Leighton, Harry Andrews, George Relph, Joyce Redman, Michael Warre, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley, George Rose, Michael Turner, Oscar Quitak, Erich Pohlmann; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [8pp, 4.9x7.4; photo of Richardson as Cyrano; pencilled date on cover - March 1 1947] (£5) SOLD

1947 (May): THE ALCHEMIST - Jonson (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Yvonne Mitchell, George Relph, Alec Guinness, Nicholas Hannen, Peter Copley, George Rose, Margaret Leighton, William Squire; dir:John Burrell [8pp, 4.9x7.4; VG] £5

1947-48 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Alec Guinness, Mark Dignam, George Relph, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Renee Asherson, Rosalind Atkinson, Celia Johnson, Patricia Burke, John Clements, Trevor Howard

1947 (Nov): THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Trevor Howard, Patricia Burke, Bernard Miles, Rosalind Atkinson, George Rose, Peter Copley, Mark Dignam, Harry Andrews, Renee Asherson, Kenneth Connor, Penelope Munday; dir:John Burrell [8pp, 4.9x7.4; VG] £5

1948 (Jan): THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
John Clements, Patricia Burke, Bernard Miles, Rosalind Atkinson, George Rose, Peter Copley, Mark Dignam, Harry Andrews, Renee Asherson, Kenneth Connor, Penelope Munday; dir:John Burrell [8pp, 4.9x7.4; slightly tatty] £4

1948 (Mch): THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
John Clements, Patricia Burke, Bernard Miles, Rosalind Atkinson, George Rose, Peter Copley, Mark Dignam, Harry Andrews, Renee Asherson, Kenneth Connor, Penelope Munday; dir:John Burrell [8pp, 4.9x7.4; VG] £5

1948 (Jan): SAINT JOAN (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Celia Johnson, Alec Guinness, Bernard Miles, Patricia Burke, John Clements, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Connor, Mark Dignam, Peter Copley, George Rose, Penelope Munday; dir:John Burrell, music by Gordon Jacob [8pp, 4.9x7.4; w.insert 'Note by the Author'; lightly rumpled, else VG] (£5) SOLD

1948 (Mch): THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Bernard Miles, Mark Dignam, George Rose, Peter Copley, Kenneth Connor, Rosalind Atkinson, Renee Asherson, Penelope Munday; dir:John Burrell, des:Felix Topolski [8pp, 4.9x7.4; photo not included; VG] £5

1948 (Apr): CORIOLANUS (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
John Clements, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Mark Dignam, Peter Copley, Rosalind Atkinson, Pauline Jameson, George Rose, Kenneth Connor; dir:E. Martin Browne [8pp, 4.9x7.4; photos not included; lightly rumpled, else VG] £5

1948-49 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Edith Evans, Harry Andrews, Jane Baxter, Cedric Hardwicke, Pauline Jameson, Peter Copley, Robert Eddison, Faith Brook, Mark Dignam, Donald Sinden

1948 (Oct): DOCTOR FAUSTUS - Marlowe (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Eddison, Peter Copley, Donald Sinden (as A Scholar, Envy, and Martino), Timothy Bateson, Norman Ayrton, Nigel Green, Penelope Munday, Harry Andrews, Mark Dignam, Nigel Green, Pauline Jameson, June Brown, Faith Brook; dir:John Burrell [8pp; 4.9x7; light horizontal bend] (£4) SOLD

1948-49: THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Edith Evans, Harry Andrews, Faith Brook, Robert Eddison, Pauline Jameson, June Brown, dir:John Burrell [8pp; 4.9x7; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1948: TWELFTH NIGHT (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Jane Baxter, Harry Andrews, Nigel Green, Cedric Hardwicke, Pauline Jameson, Peter Copley, Robert Eddison, Faith Brook, Mark Dignam, Donald Sinden (as Sebastian), Timothy Bateson, Penelope Munday, June Brown, Norman Ayrton, dir:Alec Guinness [8pp, 4.9x7.25; cast, credits; VG] £4

1948: THE CHERRY ORCHARD (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Edith Evans, Cedric Hardwicke, Mark Dignam, Pauline Jameson, Harry Andrews, Josephine Stuart, Mary Martlew, Faith Brook, Cecil Winter, Peter Copley, Robert Eddison, Norman Ayrton, Timothy Bateson, June Brown, Nigel Green, Penelope Munday; dir:Hugh Hunt [8pp, 4.9x7.25; cast, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1949 OLD VIC SEASON director: John Burrell (and Olivier & Richardson)
Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, George Relph, Peter Cushing, Terence Morgan (Company returned from Australasian Tour)

1949 (May): THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Sheridan (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Peter Cushing, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, George Relph, Terence Morgan, Mercia Swinburne, Peggy Simpson, Eileen Beldon, George Cooper, dir:Laurence Olivier, sets and costumes designed by Cecil Beaton [8pp, 4.9x7.25; cast, credits; VG] £6

1949: ANTIGONE - Anouilh, and THE PROPOSAL - Chekhov (Old Vic at the New Theatre)
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, George Relph, George Cooper, Peter Cushing; dir:Olivier [8pp; 4.9x7; 1.5" tear through first two pages, a few marks; unusual] (£2) SOLD

OLD VIC 1914-28 1928-34 1934-49 1949-56 1956-63

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