Brighton Theatre Royal – Escape – 1927

About this Escape theatre programme

An original theatre programme for Escape at the Brighton Theatre Royal, dated 31 January 1927. The cast includes Gerald Ames, Gwendolen Hill, Doris Reginald Harding and Bertha Inmann. John Galsworthy’s play follows Matt Denant, a gentleman convicted of manslaughter, as he escapes from Dartmoor prison and encounters a series of strangers. A fine programme of a then-new Galsworthy play, and a good piece of old theatre programmes.

Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr (what the codes mean)

Did you know?

• Escape was first staged in London in 1926.
• It was filmed in 1930 and again in 1948 with Rex Harrison.
• Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932.