£32.50

Date 26/05/1941

Liverpool Royal Court Theatre – Close Quarters – 1941

An original wartime programme for Close Quarters at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, dated 26 May 1941, starring Beatrix Lehmann and Karel Stepanek.

This intense two-character drama is set in the cramped flat of a married couple whose relationship comes under unbearable strain amid political turmoil in Germany.

Dating from just weeks after the heaviest air raids of the Liverpool Blitz, this is a poignant example of old theatre programmes from wartime Britain.

ProductionClose Quarters
VenueRoyal Court Theatre – Liverpool

Condition: V Good, Vlcr, slrs

Did you know?

  • Beatrix Lehmann was the sister of novelist Rosamond Lehmann and writer John Lehmann.
  • Karel Stepanek was a Czech-born actor who came to Britain after fleeing the Nazis, and appeared in many British war films.
  • Liverpool suffered its most intense bombing of the war in the ‘May Blitz’ of early May 1941.

SKU: T01728