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CLASSIC PLAYS: 1950-1959

Classic Plays: 1950

1950: THE SCHOOLMISTRESS - Pinero (Saville)
Cyril Ritchard, Fred Emney, Madge Elliott [8pp] £2

1950: THE BEAUX' STRATAGEM (Lyric)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Robert Eddison, Charles Lloyd Pack, Phyllis Relph, Gwen Cherrell [4pp; a tatty copy] £1

1950 (Oct): THE SECOND MRS.TANQUERAY - Pinero (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Eileen Herlie, Marie Ney, Basil Dignam, Leslie Banks, Ronald Ward, Robert Urquart; dir:Murray MacDonald, decor:Cecil Beaton [4pp; cast, credits etc.; minor marks, "20.10.50" written on cover, else VG] £3

1950 (Dec): THE SECOND MRS.TANQUERAY - Pinero (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Eileen Herlie, Marie Ney, Basil Dignam, Norman Wooland, Ronald Ward, Robert Urquhart; dir:Murray Macdonald, decor:Cecil Beaton [4pp; cast, credits etc.; "22 Dec '50" written on cover, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1950: THE GENTLEMAN DANCING MASTER - William Wycherley (Gateway)
Henry Rayner, Michael Evans, Michael Logan, Hugh Buckner, Gerald Spark, Enid Lindsey, Priscilla Darcy, Sulwen Morgan; dir:Jack Williams [4pp; flimsy, minor marks, else VG; unusual] £2

c1950: THERE ARE CRIMES AND CRIMES - Strindberg/Rawson (New Lindsey Theatre Club)
Wanda Rotha, Manning Whiley, Antony Eustrel; dir:Esme Percy [4pp, 5.5x8.5] £4

Classic Plays: 1951

1951: EMLYN WILLIAMS as CHARLES DICKENS - Williams (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Emlyn Williams [8pp; VVG] £2

1951: HIS HOUSE IN ORDER - Pinero (New)
Godfrey Tearle, Mary Kerridge, Sebastian Shaw [8pp; cast, scenes, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1951: THE SECOND MRS.TANQUERAY - Pinero (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Eileen Herlie, Marie Ney, Norman Wooland, Robert Urquhart; dir:Murray Macdonald, des:Cecil Beaton [4pp; rumpled] £1

1951: OTHELLO (St.James's)
Orson Welles, Gudrun Ure, Peter Finch, Maxine Audley, Giles Cooper [8pp; date on cover, rumpled] £2

1951: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Robert Atkins, Richard Johnson, Russell Thorndike, Leslie Crowther, Diana Wilson, Judith Stott, Josephine Tweedy, Diarmuid Kelly, Leslie French; dir:Robert Atkins [4pp; cast, credits etc.; with invitation to associated Garden Party (6 June); VG] £2

1951: PRESERVING MR.PANMURE (Aldwych)
Reginald Purdell, Dorothy Reynolds, Gwen Cherrell, Alan MacNaughtan, John Garside [4pp; cast, scenes etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1951: OLD VIC SCHOOL SHOW - Programme A (Old Vic School Theatre)
The Doctor's Duty, A Journey To London, and Fortunio's Song; the student casts included John Abineri, Yvonne Bonnamy, Patrick Wymark, Prunella Scales, Christopher Hancock, Colin Jevans, and Joan Plowright; among the other students at the school were Rosalind Knight, Dilys Hamlett, Priscilla Morgan, Alan Dobie, Alan Spencer, Eric Thompson, Clive Revill, James Maxwell, Donald Pickering, Douglas Rain (Junior Acting Course), Caspar Wrede, Frank Dunlop, Christopher Morahan (Technical Production Course), Richard Negri (Technical Design Course); the distinguished staff of the school included Glen Byam Shaw, Peter Streuli, Jani Strasser, Leslie Fyson, Norman Ayrton, Margaret Harris and many others [8pp; staff list, cast lists, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG; most unusual - a notable piece of British Theatre history!] (£5) SOLD

1951: OLD VIC SCHOOL SHOW - Programme B (Old Vic School Theatre)
The House Of Bernarda Alba - Act I (produced by Michel Saint Denis), and The Comedy Of Errors (produced by George Devine, designed by Malcolm Pride); the student casts included Prunella Scales, Joan Plowright, Margaret Ashcroft, Yvonne Bonnamy, James Vowden, Jerome Willis, Patrick Wymark, Colin Jevans, Christopher Hancock, and John Abineri; among the other students at the school were Rosalind Knight, Dilys Hamlett, Priscilla Morgan, Alan Dobie, Alan Spencer, Eric Thompson, Clive Revill, James Maxwell, Donald Pickering, Douglas Rain (Junior Acting Course), Richard Negri (Technical Design Course), Caspar Wrede, Frank Dunlop, Christopher Morahan (Technical Production Course); the distinguished staff of the school included Glen Byam Shaw, Peter Streuli, Jani Strasser, Leslie Fyson, Norman Ayrton, Margaret Harris and many others [8pp; staff list, cast lists, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG; most unusual - a notable piece of British Theatre history!] (£5) SOLD

1951: MAN AND SUPERMAN - G.B.Shaw (Princes)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Esme Percy [8pp] (£3) SOLD

1951: HASSAN - Flecker (Cambridge)
Andre Huguenet, Hilda Simms, Elizabeth Sellars, Frederick Valk, Arthur Lowe; dir:Basil Dean; music:Delius; ballets:Marie Rambert; decor:Motley [8pp; 4 photos; famous Festival of Britain Production] (£3) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1952

1952: THE CONSTANT COUPLE - Farquhar (Winter Garden)
Alec Clunes, Tony Britton, Maxine Audley, Dorothy Green [8pp; photo] £3

1952: EMLYN WILLIAMS as CHARLES DICKENS - Williams (Duchess)
Emlyn Williams [8pp; extensive programme notes; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1952: MEASURE FOR MEASURE (Theatre Royal, Bristol)
Bristol Old Vic: John Neville, Robert Eddison, Richard Wordsworth, Julian Slade, Margot Van Der Burgh, Kenneth Cope, Dorothy Reynolds, James Cairncross, Richard Gale, Kenneth Mackintosh, Norman Tyrrell, Norman Rossington, Pauline Jameson, Antony Tuckey; dir:Basil Coleman [8pp; cast, scenes etc.; photo and biography of Robert Eddison; VG] £4

1952: ROMEO AND JULIET (Phoenix Theatre)
Cambridge University Marlowe Society: Anthony White, Teresa Moore, Tony Church (as Friar Laurence), Toby Robertson (as Escalus), Peter Orr, David King, John Barton (as Mercutio), Peter Hall (as Tybalt); dir:George Rylands and John Barton, designed by Timothy O'Brien [8pp; cast, programme notes, list of past productions of the Marlowe Society since 1908 etc.; one staple missing, the other rusted, else VG; another remarkable piece of British Theatre history!] £5

1952: MARIA MARTEN - Anonymous/Clunes (Arts Theatre)
Mark Dignam, S.Williams, D.Jones, Andrew Downie, G.Nelson, William Dickie, Alan Dudley; dir:Alec Clunes, pno:Donald Swann; dir:Alec Clunes [4pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1952-53: VOLPONE - Ben Jonson adapt.Stefan Zweig (Tour of South Africa)
National Theatre Organisation (of South Africa): Frank Wise, Siegfried Mynhardt, Gerrit Wessels, Alan Chadwick, Edna Jacobson, Vivienne Drummond; dir:Leonard Schach, designed by Frank Graves [8pp, 7.6x10.5; cast list, programme notes, 14 cast photos and biographies etc.; a frankly tatty copy - but highly unusual (especially for the cast photos and biographies)] £3

1952: THE CASTLE SPECTRE - Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis (Players' Theatre)
Edmund Willard, Milton Rosmer, Brian Oulton, Don Gemmell, Mary Laura Wood, May Hallatt, Prudence Rennick; dir:Harold Scott [4pp w."Late Joys" insert; grubby] (£3) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1953

1953: THE FATHER - Strindberg (Arts Theatre Club)
Wilfred Lawson, Beatrix Lehmann, Nora Nicholson, Gerald Harper [8pp; 6x4.75] £2

1953: A DOLL'S HOUSE - Ibsen (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Mai Zetterling, Mogens Wieth, Sylvia Syms, Rosalie Crutchley, George Rose [8pp; cast, scenes, credits, notes; VG] £2

1953: A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE - Wilde (Savoy)
Isobel Jeans, Jean Cadell, Athene Seyler, Peter Barkworth, Clive Brook, Nora Swinburne, Paul Anstee; dir:Michael Benthall [16pp; cast, scenes, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1953: A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE (Streatham Hill)
Isobel Jeans, Jean Cadell, Athene Seyler, Peter Barkworth, Clive Brook, Nora Swinburne, Paul Anstee; dir:Michael Benthall [12pp; cast, scenes, credits etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD

1953 (Sep): THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Congreve (Library Theatre, Manchester)
Peter Whitbread, Barbara Lott, Joan Heath, Diana Olssen, Muriel Barker; dir:Stuart Latham [16pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, list of scenes, programme notes, photo etc.; VG] £3

1953 (Nov): THE DUCHESS OF MALFI - Webster (Library Theatre, Manchester)
Barbara Lott, Ralph Nossek, Douglas Rye, Alec Gunn, Peter Whitbread, Denis Raymond, Muriel Barker; dir:Stuart Latham [16pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, list of scenes, programme notes, photo etc.; VG] £3

Classic Plays: 1954

1954: CHARLEY'S AUNT (Strand) Simon Lack, David Evans, John Mills, Joy Rodgers, William Mervyn, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Natasha Parry; dir:John Gielgud [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1954: THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Chekhov (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Trevor Howard, Esme Percy, Robert Eddison; dir:John Gielgud [8pp; cast, credits etc.; w.2 press clippings; VG] £2

1954: PYGMALION - G.B.Shaw (St.James's)
John Clements, Kay Hammond, Nicholas Hannen, Athene Seyler [8pp] £2

1954 (Jun): THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Library Theatre, Manchester)
Elizabethan Theatre Company: Josee Richard, Tony Church, Frank Windsor, Colin George, Peter Jeffrey, Clifford Rose, Peter Ellis, Yvonne Bonnamy, Deirdre Doone; dir:Peter Hall, sets:Anthony Waller, costumes:Malcolm Pride, music:Brian Easdale [12pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, programme note by Peter Hall, photo etc.; The Elizabethan Theatre Company is under the Artistic Direction of John Barton, Colin George, Hugh Goldie, Peter Hall and Toby Robertson; date written on cover, else VG] £5

1954 (Nov): RICHARD II (The Playhouse, Kidderminster)
Elizabethan Theatre Company: Toby Robertson, Frank Windsor, Michael Martin, Clifford Rose, Peter Jeffrey, Emrys James, Colin George, Harry Londis (sic), Pauline Adderley, Yvonne Bonnamy; dir:John Barton, des:Disley Jones [8pp; cast, programme note etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

Classic Plays: 1955

1955 (June): THE COUNTRY WIFE - Wycherley (Library Theatre, Manchester)
Robert Stephens, Jessie Evans, Margaret Clifton; dir:Peter Lambert [12pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, list of scenes, programme notes etc.; light horizontal fold, else VG] £4

1955: THE TEMPEST (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Robert Eddison, James Maxwell, Robert Atkins, David Ritch, Russell Thorndike, Christopher Fettes, June Bailey, Nicholas Amer; dir:David William [8pp; rumpled, else VG] £2

1955: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Robert Eddison, Russell Thorndike, Robert Atkins [4pp] (£3) SOLD

1955: SAINT JOAN - G.B.Shaw (St.Martin's)
Siobhan McKenna, Kenneth Williams [8pp] £SOLD

Classic Plays: 1956

1956: CYRANO DE BERGERAC - Rostand (Theatre Sarah Berhardt, Paris)
Pierre Dux, Michel Herbault, Francoise Christophe, Paul Cambo; dir:Raymond Rouleau, des:Lila de Nobili [68pp, 5x7; 60+ cast photos, articles, designs etc.; VG] £5

1956: MISALLIANCE - G.B.Shaw (Lyric, Hammersmith)
Roger Livesey, Ursula Jeans, Donald Pleasence [8pp; cast, credits etc.; VG] £3

1956: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA (Old Vic)
Birmingham Repertory Theatre: Doreen Aris, Geoffrey Bayldon, Nancie Jackson, Kenneth Mackintosh, Charmian Eyre, Bunny May, Robert Chetwyn, Ronald Hines, Bernard Hepton, Colin George, Mark Kingston, Nicholas Courtney, Angus Mackay, Albert Finney (as Belzanor); dir:Douglas Seale [8pp; cast, scenes, credits, programme notes etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1956: THE COUNTRY WIFE - Wycherley (Royal Court)
Laurence Harvey, Nigel Davenport, Esme Percy, Diana Churchill, Sheila Ballantine, Alan Bates, Robert Stephens, John Moffatt, George Devine, Joan Plowright, Moyra Fraser; dir:George Devine [16pp, 4.9x7.25; 8 photos; VG] £4

1956: THE WAY OF THE WORLD - Congreve (Saville)
John Clements, Margaretta Scott, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford, Rosalind Knight [8pp] £3

1956: THE RIVALS - Sheridan (Saville)
John Clements, Laurence Harvey, Gwen Cherrell, Athene Seyler, Paul Daneman, William Mervyn, Brian Hayes; dir:William Chappell [8pp, 5.5x8.75; date on cover (24.4.56), else VG] £3

1956: THE RIVALS - Sheridan (Saville)
John Clements, Laurence Harvey, Kay Hammond, Athene Seyler, Paul Daneman, Michael Medwin, William Mervyn, Brian Hayes; dir:William Chappell [8pp, 5.5x8.75; signed on reverse by Laurence Harvey, Paul Daneman and two others; tatty] £4

1956 (Aug-Sep): THE SEAGULL - Chekhov trans.David Magarshack (Saville)
Diana Wynyard, Hugh Williams, Lyndon Brook, Perlita Neilson, Jill Bennett, George Relph, Nicholas Hannen, John Bennett; dir:Michael Macowan [8pp, 5.5x8.75; w.clipping; VG] £4

1956: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA - G.B.Shaw (Saville)
Paul Daneman, Ann Todd, Lewis Casson, Michael Hordern [8pp; 5.75x8.75] (£2) SOLD

1956: PHEDRE - Racine (Palace)
Edwige Feuillere, Jean-Francois Calve, Bernard Noel, Eliane Zucchini, Charles Nissar, Maria Tamar, Anne Chobaut; dir:Jacques Noel [12pp; 6.75x9.5; 7 photos; VG] (£4) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1957

1957: THE COUNTRY WIFE - Wycherley (Chelsea Palace)
The English Stage Company: Terence Morgan, Robert Stephens, Esme Percy, Marian Spencer, Sheila Ballantine, Brian Hankins, Frederick Treves, John Moffatt, Esmond Knight, Joan Plowright, Shelagh Fraser; dir:George Devine [8pp, 4.9x7.25; 8 photos; rumpled, small tear to cover, else VG] £3

1957: THE COUNTRY WIFE - Wycherley (Adelphi)
The English Stage Company: Terence Morgan, Robert Stephens, Esme Percy, Marian Spencer, Sheila Ballantine, Brian Hankins, Frederick Treves, John Moffatt, Esmond Knight, Joan Plowright, Shelagh Fraser; dir:George Devine [12pp, 4.9x7.25; 5 photos; VG] £4

1957: COMPAGNIE EDWIGE FEUILLERE SEASON (Palace Theatre) Flyer
Compagnie Edwige Feuillere: La Dame Aux Camelias, Phedre, La Parisienne, and Le Carosse du Saint-Sacremont [single-sheet flyer 4.75x8.5 for the company's season at the Palace; production credits, schedule of performances for the four weeks; a couple of pinholes, else VG; an uncommon survivor!] £3

1957 (Oct): THE DOUBLE DEALER - Congreve (Liverpool Repertory Theatre)
John Stride, David Cameron, Trevor Baxter, Terence Knapp, Caroline Blakiston, John Gay, Thelma Barlow, Irene Sutcliffe, Trevor Jones; dir:Willard Stoker [12pp, 5.5x8.5; 12 company photos, programme of music, seating plans etc.; VG] £4

1957: THE DUCHESS OF MALFY (Theatre Royal, Stratford E.15)
Avis Bunnage, Philip Locke, Yootha Joyce, dir:John Bury [8pp] (£3) SOLD

1957: LA DAME AUX CAMELIAS - Dumas (Palace)
Edwige Feuillere, Bernard Noel [12pp; 6.75x9.5; 9 photos; 2 newsclippings; VVG] (£4) SOLD

1957: LYSISTRATA - Aristophanes (Royal Court)
Joan Greenwood, Patricia Burke, Laura Sarti, Phyllida Law, James Grout, Ronald Barker, George Benson; dir:Minos Volanakis [16pp; 4 photos; with tickets] (£4) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1958

1958: SPRING AND SUMMER SEASON 1958 (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Flyer
The plays presented were MACBETH, THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON - John Patrick, DAGGER'S POINT - Joseph O'Conor, THE CURIOUS SAVAGE - John Patrick, HEDDA GABLER, and DR. KNOCK - Jules Romains; the Director of Productions was Bernard Hepton; the flyer contains a brief summary of each play, details of Season Tickets, a seating plan, ticket prices, credits etc. [6pp triple-fold, 5x8; very uncommon; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1958: THE CHERRY ORCHARD - Chekhov (Sadler's Wells)
Moscow Art Theatre: Alla Tarasova, Pavel Massalsky, Sergey Lukyanov [16pp] £4

1958 (Aug): EDWARD II - Marlowe (Lyric, Hammersith)
Cambridge University Marlowe Society: no cast named; dir:Toby Robertson, des:Disley Jones [20pp, 4.9x7.25; articles and synopsis; biogs and photos of director and designer; past productions of Marlowe Society; VG] £4

1958: AS YOU LIKE IT (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Ceclia Sonnenberg, Robert Atkins, Leslie French [8pp; rumpled] £2

1958: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Anthony Sharp, Ruth Dunning, Robert Atkins [8pp; VG] £3

1958: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Open Air, Regent's Park)
Bernard Brown, Ceclia Sonnenberg, Robert Atkins, Leslie French [8pp; VG] £3

1958: MOSCOW ART THEATRE 1958 Season (Sadler's Wells) Season Brochure
Moscow Art Theatre Company [16pp, 8.5x11; w.24 portraits of the leading members of the company, article about the Art Theatre, photograph and printed letter from Chekhov's widow (touching); cover slightly grubby and corners wrinkled, otherwise VG; uncommon] £10

1958: MOSCOW ART THEATRE - A Symposium (Sadler's Wells)
Moscow Art Theatre Company [44pp, 8.25x10.5; 50+ superb photos of Art Theatre productions and artists; four essays; a splendid souvenir of the Moscow Art Theatre's first visit to London - a visit which proved highly influential for the future of British theatre...; excellent condition] (£20) SOLD

1958 (Mch): LITTLE EYOLF - Ibsen (Lyric, Hammersith)
Heather Chasen, Barbara Clegg, Robert Eddison, Selma Vaz Dias, Michael David; dir David William [16pp, 4.9x7.25; biographies, programme notes, 2 photos; VG] (£4) SOLD

Classic Plays: 1959

1959 (Mch): CREDITORS - Strindberg/Meyer, and THE CHEATS OF SCAPIN - Moliere/Otway (Lyric Hammersmith)
59 Theatre Company: Creditors - Lyndon Brook, Michael Gough, Mai Zetterling, dir:Caspar Wrede; Scapin - Harold Lang, Maxwell Shaw, Peter Sallis, Patrick Wymark, Fulton Mackay, Helen Montague, dir:Peter Dews [20pp, 4.75x7.3; biographies, designs, illustrated articles, notes etc.; VG] £4

1959 (May): CYRANO DE BERGERAC (Theatre Royal, Bristol)
Bristol Old Vic: Peter Wyngarde, Donald Pickering, Ingrid Hafner, Peter Wilson, Robin Phillips, Patrick Stewart, Norman Tyrrell, David Perry, David King, John Woodvine, Daniel Moynihan, Susan Engel, Peter Jeffrey; dir:John Hale, des:Patrick Robertson and Rosemary Vercoe [8pp; cast, scenes, programme note, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG; remarkable cast!] £4

1959 (May): TWELFTH NIGHT (Northampton Repertory Theatre)
Jennie Goossens, Alan Brown, Lionel Hamilton, Charles Workman, Peter Wyatt, Nicholas Courtney, Ruth Trouncer, Michael Rothwell; dir:Lionel Hamilton [16pp; 75th Commemorative Production; cast, scenes, reproduction of 1884 Playbill, illustrated article about the Theatre Royal and Opera House, Northampton, article and photos of the 1933 and 1948 productions of 'Twelfth Night' at this theatre etc.; VG] £4

1959: BRAND - Ibsen/Meyer (Lyric, Hammersmith)
59 Theatre Company: Patrick McGoohan, Dilys Hamlett, Patrick Wymark, Harold Lang, Fulton MacKay, Peter Sallis, Frank Windsor, June Bailey; dir:Michael Elliott [20pp; photos, articles] (£4) SOLD

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