£95.00
Date 1919's ?
London St James's Theatre – Lady Windermere's Fan – 1900's
An original theatre programme for Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan at the St James’s Theatre, London, from the 1910s.
The cast includes Dawson Milward, Norman Trevor, Eric Lewis, Lisa Macready, Ernest Thesiger, Lilian Braithwaite, Elizabeth Chesney and Ernita Lascelles, and there is a signature on the front cover.
This is the theatre where Wilde’s play was born, making this a special piece of old theatre programmes for Wilde collectors.
| Production | Lady Windermere's Fan |
|---|---|
| Venue | St James's Theatre – London |
| Cast | Dawson Milward – Norman Trevor, Eric Lewis – Lisa Macready, Ernest Thesiger – Lilian Braithwaite, Elizabeth Chesney – Ernita Lascelles |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr, yellowed, a few tiny marks, half torn on a few pages on fold, signature on front cover
Did you know?
- Lady Windermere’s Fan premiered at the St James’s in February 1892, Wilde’s first great stage success.
- Its most quoted line is “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
- Ernest Thesiger later played Dr Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
SKU: T00777
