£24.50
Date 12/03/1951
London Shepherds Bush Theatre – A Street Car Named Desire – 1951
An original programme for Tennessee Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire at the Shepherds Bush Theatre, London, dated 12 March 1951. The cast included Eileen Dale, Paul Bogdan, George Cooper and Beryl Ede.
Williams’ searing drama of the fragile Blanche DuBois and her brutish brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans was still very new to British audiences at this time.
An early British staging of a modern classic, making this a fascinating example of old theatre programmes from the post-war years.
| Production | A Street Car Named Desire |
|---|---|
| Venue | Shepherds Bush Theatre – London |
| Cast | Eileen Dale – Paul Bogdan, George Cooper – Beryl Ede. |
Condition: V Good, vcfld, lcr
Did you know?
- A Streetcar Named Desire opened on Broadway in December 1947 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.
- The first London production opened in 1949 at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Vivien Leigh and directed by Laurence Olivier.
- The film version with Vivien Leigh and Marlon Brando was released in 1951, the same year as this programme.
SKU: T03348
