£17.50
Date November 1947
London New Theatre – The Taming Of The Shrew – 1947
An original theatre programme for Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew at the New Theatre, London, dated November 1947. The cast includes Trevor Howard, Bernard Miles, James Lytton, Renee Asherton, George Rose and Pietro Nolte.
In these post-war years the bombed Old Vic company made the New Theatre its London home.
With a film star of Trevor Howard’s calibre on the cast list, this is an excellent Shakespearean theatre programme and a fine piece of old theatre programmes history.
| Production | The Taming Of The Shrew |
|---|---|
| Venue | New Theatre – London |
| Cast | Bernard Miles – Trevor Howard, James Lytton – Renee Asherton, George Rose – Pietro Nolte., V Good,cfld,lcr,the front page is torn half across on the fold |
Did you know?
- Trevor Howard had found screen fame two years earlier in David Lean’s Brief Encounter (1945).
- Bernard Miles later founded the Mermaid Theatre at Puddle Dock in the City of London, which opened in 1959.
- The Old Vic was damaged in the Blitz in 1941 and the company played at the New Theatre until returning home in 1950.
SKU: T02725
