£37.50
Date 29/10/1945
Manchester Opera House – Man About The House – 1945
An original theatre programme for The Man About The House at the Opera House, Manchester, dated 29 October 1945. The cast includes Patricia Hastings, Basil Sydney, Betty Sinclair and Frank Tickle.
The play is a dramatic tale adapted from the novel by Francis Brett Young, in which two English sisters inherit an Italian villa and one falls dangerously under the spell of its charming major-domo.
A fine example of old theatre programmes from the immediate post-war months.
| Production | The Man About The House |
|---|---|
| Venue | Opera House – Manchester |
| Cast | Patricia Hastings – Basil Sydney, Betty Sinclair – Frank Tickle |
Condition: V Good, cfld, lcr
Did you know?
- The story was filmed in 1947 with Kieron Moore and Margaret Johnston.
- Basil Sydney later played Claudius in Laurence Olivier’s film of Hamlet (1948).
- The Manchester Opera House opened in 1912 as the New Theatre.
SKU: T01505
