£28.50
Date 16/02/1940
Liverpool Playhouse Theatre – Busman's Honeymoon – 1940
An original programme for Busman’s Honeymoon at the Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool, dated 16 February 1940. The cast includes Philip Lennard, Harry Bristow, Ena Burrill, Deryck Guyler, Guy Verney and Manfred Priestley.
The detective comedy by Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel St Clare Byrne sees Lord Peter Wimsey and his new bride Harriet Vane find a body in their honeymoon cottage.
A must for crime fiction fans, this is a fine example of old theatre programmes from the early months of the war.
| Production | Busman's Honeymoon |
|---|---|
| Venue | Playhouse Theatre – Liverpool |
Condition: V Good, Vlcr, some slight cover marks, a slight rough bottom edge, slrs
Did you know?
- The play premiered in London in 1936, and Sayers then turned it into the final Wimsey novel in 1937.
- Lord Peter Wimsey first appeared in Sayers’s novel Whose Body? (1923).
- Deryck Guyler, here in his Liverpool rep days, later became a familiar face in Sykes and Please Sir!
SKU: T01727
