Bristol Theatre Royal – London Assurance – 1973

About this London Assurance theatre programme

An original theatre programme for Dion Boucicault’s Regency comedy London Assurance at the Theatre Royal, Bristol, dated 11 April 1973. The cast includes Neil France, Roger Davidson, Brian Deacon, Ephraim Darke, Kate Nelligan and Timothy Kightley, staged in the Bristol Old Vic’s historic Georgian home. With Kate Nelligan in the cast early in her career, this is an appealing theatre programme for followers of Bristol Old Vic and classic British comedy.

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Did you know?

• Boucicault wrote London Assurance while still in his early twenties, and it premiered at Covent Garden in 1841.
• Canadian-born Kate Nelligan trained in London and began her stage career at the Bristol Old Vic before later earning an Oscar nomination for The Prince of Tides.
• The play’s comic hero, Sir Harcourt Courtly, is an ageing dandy and one of the great Victorian comedy roles.