£32.50
Date 25/09/1944
Cambridge Arts Theatre – Murder In The Cathedral – 1944
An original wartime programme for T. S. Eliot’s Murder In The Cathedral at The Cambridge Arts Theatre, dated 25 September 1944.
The cast includes Geoffrey Parkes, Michael Acton Bond, Douglas Remington, Milo Sperber, Jessie Spencer and Angela Norman.
Eliot’s verse drama portrays the final days of Archbishop Thomas Becket before his assassination in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
Programmes printed during the Second World War are a fascinating area of old theatre programmes, recording how theatre carried on through the conflict.
| Production | Murder In The Cathedral |
|---|---|
| Venue | The Cambridge Arts Theatre |
| Cast | Geoffrey Parkes – Michael Acton Bond, Douglas Remington – Milo Sperber, Jessie Spencer – Angela Norman |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr
Did you know?
- Murder in the Cathedral was written for the Canterbury Festival and first performed in the Cathedral’s Chapter House in 1935.
- T. S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.
- The Cambridge Arts Theatre was founded by the economist John Maynard Keynes and opened in 1936.
SKU: T01699
