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CLASSIC PLAYS: 1940-1949

Classic Plays: 1940-43
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Classic Plays: 1944

1944: THE SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY - Dekker (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Walter Hudd, Caven Watson, Andrew Leigh; dir:Hudd [6pp; triple fold; a C.E.M.A. production; VVG] £2

1944 (May): EMMA - Austen/Glennon (Opera House, Manchester)
Anna Neagle, Frank Allenby, Graveley Edwards, Wynne Clark, Ambrosine Philpotts; dir:Jack Minster [4pp; presented by Robert Donat; flimsy, rumpled] £2

Classic Plays: 1945

1945: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Wilde (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Griffith Jones, Isabel Jeans, Geoffrey Toone, Athene Seyler; dir:John Gielgud, des:Cecil Beaton [4pp; VG] £3

Classic Plays: 1946

1946: ROMEO AND JULIET (King's Theatre, Hammersmith)
Basil C.Langton, Renee Asherson, Esmond Knight, Michael Goodliffe, Douglas Wilmer, Gerald K.Souper, Horace Sequeira, Eric Porter (as Page to Tybalt), Agnes Lauchlan, Lewis Casson, Francis Crowdy; dir:Clare Harris; Assistant Stage Manager: Graham Crowden [4pp; cast, scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3

1946: TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES - Hardy/Gow (New)
Wendy Hiller, William Devlin [8pp; creased and faded] (£1) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1947

1947: THE WHITE DEVIL - Webster (Duchess)
Margaret Rawlings, Robert Helpmann, Martita Hunt, Andrew Cruickshank, Hugh Griffith, Patrick Macnee, Heather Stannard, Claire Bloom; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp; rusty staples, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1947: CASTE - Robertson (Duke of York's)
Marie Lohr, Frith Banbury, Clement McCallin [8pp; rumpled, else VG] £2

1947: TIMON OF ATHENS (Birmingham Repertory Theatre)
John Phillips, Paul Eddington, Roy Malcolm, John Paul, Alan MacNaughtan, Edward Horton; dir:Willard Stoker [4pp; cast, credits etc.; rumpled and flimsy, but most unusual] £4

1947 (May): THREE SISTERS - Chekhov (Liverpool Playhouse)
Lorna Whitehouse, Dorothy Reynolds, Nancie Jackson, Cyril Luckham, Peter Jackson, Charles Crichton, Gerald Cross; dir:John Fernald [8pp, 6x9.5; 12 cast photos; VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1948

1948: TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD - Shaw (Arts Theatre)
Marius Goring, Wilfred Walter; dir:E.Percy [16pp; 6x4.75] £2

1948: THE WILD DUCK - Ibsen (St.Martin's)
Anton Walbrook, Fay Compton, Robert Harris, Walter Fitzgerald, Mai Zetterling, Miles Malleson [8pp; cast, scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1948: HAMLET (St.James's Theatre)
Bristol Old Vic Company: William Devlin, Catherine Lacey, Robert Eddison (as Hamlet), Paul Rogers, Allan Cuthbertson, Jane Wenham, Rolf Lefebvre, Donald Sinden (as Rosencrantz), Stephen Kaye, Max Miradin, Leslie Sands, Edgar Wreford; dir: Hugh Hunt [8pp, 5x4.25; 4 photos] £5

1948: PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - Bunyan/Williamson (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden)
Robert Speaight, Jack Hawkins, Abraham Sofaer, Baliol Holloway, Cathleen Nesbitt, Covent Garden Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Malcolm Sargent, Metropolitan Ballet; dir:Ralph Reader [single-sheet flyer; cast, credits, booking info etc.; VG] (£1) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1949

1949: THE MISER - Moliere/Malleson (Arts Council Tour)
Leo McKern, James Ottaway, John Horsley, Gillian Webb, Norman Cull, Alexander Archdale, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Fredreick Bennett, Irene Ash, Tristram Butt, Cecil Winter, Adam O'Riordan, Peter Davey; dir: Tyrone Guthrie [4pp; cast, foreword, credits, tour dates; light fold, else VG] £2

1949: YOU NEVER CAN TELL - G.B.Shaw (Wyndham's)
Brenda Bruce, James Donald, Ernest Thesiger, Harcourt Williams [8pp] £2

1949: MISS JULIE - Strindberg & VILLAGE WOOING - G.B.Shaw (Lyric Hammersmith)
Joan Miller, Duncan Lamont, Miriam Adams, Brian Haines, Joan Matheson [4pp] £1

1949: THE POWER OF DARKNESS - Tolstoy, trans.Peter Glenville (Lyric)
Stewart Granger, Sonia Dresdel, Mary Clare, Jean Simmons, Herbert Lomas, Perlita Neilson, Frederick Valk [8pp; cast, scenes, 6 character photos etc.; VG] £4

1949: THE BEAUX STRATAGEM - Farquhar (Lyric)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison [4pp; photographic cover; VG] £2

1949: THE TEMPEST (Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park)
Tristan Rawson, Huia Munro, Patricia Kneale, Robert Atkins, John Carew, Sydney Bromley, Clement Hamelin, Aubrey Woods, Toke Townley, Raymond Rollett, Kenneth Griffiths, Leslie Crowther; dir:Robert Atkins [single 5.5x8.75 sheet; rumpled, slightly dog-eared but uncommon] £2

CLASSIC PLAYS pre1900 1900-29 1930-39 1940-49
1950-59 1960-69 1970-79 1980-89 1990-99 2000 on

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