£27.50
Date 07/03/1949
Oxford Playhouse Theatre – The Drunkard – 1949
An original programme for The Drunkard at the Playhouse Theatre, Oxford, dated 7 March 1949.
The play is a classic nineteenth-century American temperance melodrama, charting a young man’s fall into drink and his eventual redemption, and by the twentieth century it was often revived with tongue firmly in cheek.
The cast includes John Moffatt, Ross Landon, Jack Cassidy, Patricia Gilder, Phillada Sewell and Clude Ricks.
A post-war repertory programme from one of Britain’s best-loved university-town playhouses, ideal for collectors of old theatre programmes.
| Production | The Drunkard |
|---|---|
| Venue | Playhouse Theatre – Oxford |
| Cast | John Moffatt – Ross Landon, Jack Cassidy – Patricia Gilder, Phillada Sewell – Clude Ricks |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr
Did you know?
- The Drunkard, attributed to William H. Smith, was first staged at the Boston Museum in 1844 and became one of the most performed American plays of the century.
- A revival of The Drunkard in Los Angeles ran continuously from 1933 into the late 1950s, one of the longest runs in American theatre.
- John Moffatt became a much-loved character actor and was well known for voicing Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio.
SKU: T01978
