Plays Collection (page 8)

Sir George Alexander and Irene Vanbrugh in play scene
Actors Sir George Alexander and Irene Vanbrugh in the letters scene from Pinero's play, His House in Order Date: 1906

G A Redford new censor and Examiner of Plays'. Studio portrait, in formal jacket and tie. G A Redford was formal Examiner of Plays, responsible for censorship for the Lord Chamberlain

Performance of Romeo and Juliet, Colombo, Ceylon
Depictions of a performance of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by the Singhalese in Colombo, Ceylon (modern day Sri Lanka)

Musical Comedy Out of the Bottle
Scenes from the musical comedy Out of the Bottle at the Hippodrome, including actors Clifford Mollison (1897-1986) and Arthur Riscoe (1896-1954) swigging from their hot water bottles. Date: 1932

Scene from The Merchant of Venice
Ernest Milton (1890-1974) as Shylock and Lydia Sherwood (1906-1989) as Jessica, in a production of The Merchant of Venice at the St James's Theatre. Date: 1932

Vile Bodies
A stage adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Vile Bodies at the Vaudeville Theatre. Date: 1932

Ivor Novello in I Lived With You
Ivor Novello (1893-1951) wrote and starred in this stage production of I Lived With You, which was later made into a film

The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre
Scenes from Max Reinhardt's production of The Miracle at the Lyceum Theatre, a story told entirely in mime. Inset is Lady Diana Duff Cooper (1892-1986) as the Madonna. Date: 1932

Production of Othello
Actor Ernest Milton (1890-1974) played the title role in this production of Othello at the St James's Theatre. Also pictured are Nicholas Hannen (1881-1972) as Cassio and Henry Oscar (1891-1969)

Scene from See Naples And Die
The cast of See Naples And Die, a play by Elmer Rice (1892-1967) staged at the Little Theatre. Date: 1932

Grand Hotel Scene
A scene from the play Grand Hotel being performed at the Adelphi Theatre. The production ran from September 1931 to January 1932 and was noted for its special effects. Date: 1931

Louise Hampton in Late Night Final
British actress Louise Hampton (1881-1954) in a publicity photograph for the play Late Night Final at the Phoenix Theatre. Date: 1931

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

Ivy Tresmand and Gene Gerrard
Ivy Tresmand (1898-1980) and Gene Gerrard (1892-1971), appearing in a production of the musical comedy Katja the Dancer at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End. Date: 1925

Horace Hodges in Lightnin
Actor Horace Hodges (1863-1951) performing in the play Lightnin at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1925

John Barrymore and Fay Compton
Actors John Barrymore (1882-1942) and Fay Compton (1894-1978) in their roles as Hamlet and Ophelia for a production soon to open at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Louis Esson
A portrait oil painting of Scottish born, Australian poet and playwright, Thomas Louis Buvelot Esson, who wrote plays such as The Time is Not Yet Ripe (1912) and The Drovers (1922)

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Fred Terry and his daughter Phillida Terson
Fred Terry (1863-1933) was an English actor and theatrical manager. Here he is seen with his daughter Phyllis Neilson-Terry (1892-1977) who was then performing under the name of Phillida Terson

Noel Coward's Cavalcade was a thirty-year retrospect of England in peace and war. It ran at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane between October 1931 and September 1932 and had a cast

A Scottish Highlander Piper plays Auld Lang Syne whilst strolling through the thistles and the heather... Date: circa 1942

Foundation Stone for New Brixton Theatre 1894
Henry Irving laying the foundation stone of the new Brixton Theatre and Opera House. Built by theatre architect, Frank Matcham

Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Cymbeline, by William Shakespeare. Cast list, with dead deer and two spears. Date: 1840

Illustration by Kenny Meadows to Timon of Athens, by William Shakespeare. Introductory Remarks, with a hand showering coins and jewels, to represent Timon's excessive generosity. Date: 1840

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writer
Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914

Epstein portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw
A portrait bust of George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist, by Jacob Epstein (this is the second portrait bust made by this sculptor). Date: 20th century

George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer and dramatist
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish writer and dramatist. Seen here on the right, in old age. Date: circa 1940s

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock

Samuel Beckett, Irish playwright, novelist and poet
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish avant-garde playwright, novelist and poet. Photographed in the year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Date: 1969

Pageants or dramatic mysteries anciently performed at Coventry Date: 16th century

ROMEO JULIET DEATH SCENE
Miss Phyllis Neilson-Terry is Juliet, Mr Vernon Steel is Romeo, in the dramatic climax to this sad tale of star- crossed lovers. Date: 16 December 1910

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SPANISH WAR POSTER 2
Industry plays its part in the war.. poster issued by the PSO. Date: circa 1937

MOUNET SULLY HAMLET
The eminent French actor MOUNET-SULLY in the role of Hamlet : holding Yorick's skull, he muses on life and death... Date: circa 1900

LEAR/DEATH OF CORDELIA
Final scene: Lear with his dead daughter Cordelia. Date: Nineteenth century

TITUS ANDRONICUS, Shakespeare
Act II, Scene II Scene from the play: the death of Bassianus Date: 1793

A customer plays an automatic bridge-playing slot machine Date: circa 1937

ROMEO & JULIET/DEATH
Act V, Scene III Final scene: Romeo finds Juliet & believes her to be dead Date: Nineteenth century

Shakespeare: Measure for Measure
Act III, Scene I the despondent Claudio with his virtous sister, Isabella C: "Ay, but to die, & go we know not where" Date: 1880

Henry VI, Part I, by Shakespeare
Act II, Scene V The death of Mortimer in the Tower; "Mourn not, except thou sorrow for my good" Date: Late eighteenth century

Noel Coward acts in his own play with Ann Trevor. Dressed for dinner, they peer anxiously out of a window. Date: 1923

PLAY/COWARD/CAVALCADE
A scene from Noel Coward's play. This scene is set at an English seaside town and the sophisticated set includes a beach. Date: 1931

PLAY/CHATEAUBRIAND/ATALA
A scene from the unfinished romantic idyll on American Indian themes, written by Viscount Francois Auguste Rene de Chateaubriand. Date: 1801

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