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West End & Broadway
1952-1974
"I drink too much. Will you tell me one great actor who doesn't drink?"
Caro William
Robert Shaw as George Lamb
Directed by
Produced by
Written by William Douglas-Home
CAST
Rachel Gurney as Mrs. George Lamb
Freda Gaye as Lady Melbourne
Venue: Embassy Theatre, London
Dates: 1952
Tiger at the Gates
Robert Shaw as A Topman
Directed by harold clurman
Written by jean giraudoux
adapted by robert l. joseph and stephen micthell
Assistant Stage Manager: Verena Kimmins
Assistant Stage Manager: Howard Loxton
Decor / Costume Design: Loudon Sainthill
General Manager: Victor Melleney
Incidental Music composed by Lennox Berkeley
Press Representative: Suzanne Warner Ltd
Scenery built by Brunskill & Loveday
Scenery painted by Alick Johnstone
Stage Manager: Diana Boddington
The management gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Jean-Pierre Giraudoux
Wardrobe Mistress: Mrs V Gordon
cast
Abneos - Duncan Lewis
Ajax - Christopher Rhodes
Andromache - Barbara Jefford
Busiris - Wyndham Goldie
Cassandra - Leueen MacGrath
Demokos - John Laurie
Hector - Michael Redgrave
Hecuba - Catherine Lacey
Helen - Diane Cilento
Laundress - June Rodney
Mathematician - Frederick Farley
Messenger - Patrick Horgan
Olpides - Norman Rossington
Paris - Leo Ciceri
Polyxene - Margaret McCourt
Priam, King of Troy - Nicholas Hannen
Sailor - Howard Loxton
Senator - Henry Milton
Servant - Coral Fairweather
Servant - Mary Holland
Troilus - Peter Kerr
Ulysses - Walter Fitzgerald
VENUE: APOLLO THEATRE, LONDON
JUNE 2ND - SEPTEMBER 3RD 1955
NATIONAL TOUR
Opera House, Manchester 25th – 30th April 1955
King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 2nd – 7th May 1955
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne 6th – 21st May 1955
New Theatre, Oxford 23rd – 28th May 1955
Off the Mainland
Robert Shaw as Laszlo Rimini
Set on a Balkan prison Island, the play centres on three characters Sandor Rimini, Laszlo Rimini and Constance Rimini. An account of the brutal torture of political prisoners that spills over into a bitter struggle between one family...
DIRECTED BY PETER HALL
Written by Robert Shaw
CAST
Ralph Michael - SANDOR RIMINI
Constance Wake - CONSTANCE RIMINI
Venue: The Arts Theatre, London
Dates: 8th May - 19th June 1956
Live Like Pigs
ROBERT SHAW AS BLACKMOUTH
DIRECTED BY GEORGE DEVINE AND ANTHONY PAGE
PRODUCED BY THE ENGLISH STAGE SOCIETY
WRITTEN BY JOHN ARDEN
DESIGNED BY ALAN TAGG
CAST
A Doctor - Anne Blake
A Police Sergeant - Stratford Johns
An Official - Alfred Lynch
Big Rachel - Anna Manahan
Col - Alan Dobie
Daffodil - Frances Cuka
Doreen - Jacqueline Hussey
Mr Jackson - Nigel Davenport
Mrs Jackson - Peggy Anne Clifford
Rosie - Margaretta D’Arcy
Sailor Sawney - Wilfrid Lawson
Sally - Daphne Foreman
The Old Croaker - Madge Brindley
VENUE: ROYAL COURT THEATRE, LONDON
DATES: 30TH SPETEMBER - 12TH DECEMBER 1958
ONE MORE RIVER
Robert Shaw as Sewell
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Joseph Papp
Written by Beverley Cross
designed by alan tagg
cast
China, a seaman - Bryan Pringle
Danny, the deck boy - David Andrews
Duffy, the cook - Bennet O’Loghlen
Finch, a carpenter - Dudley Foster
Jacko, a young seaman - Dudley Sutton
Johnny Condell, the bosun - Paul Rogers
Mick, a greaser - Patrick Connor
Pompey, a seaman: ex R.N. - Percy Herbert
Ross, an apprentice - Brian Smith
Smith, a seaman - Danny Sewell
Trim, a greaser: a West Indian - Tommy Eytle
Venue: Duke of York's Theatre, London
Dates: October 6th - December 5th 1959
WESTMINSTER THEATRE, LONDON
DATES: 3rd November – 5th December 1959
NATIONAL TOUR
Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne (14th – 19th September 1959)
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield (21st – 26th September 1959)
Theatre Royal, Brighton (28th September – 3rd October 1959)
Number of Performances: 62
Robert Shaw as Sergeant Mitchem
The play is set in British Malaya in 1942, during the Battle of Malaya. The characters are a patrol of British Army soldiers; the play's events take place in an abandoned hut in the middle of the Malayan jungle. Tension rises as the patrol's radio malfunctions and a Japanese soldier stumbles upon them.
Directed by Lindsay Anderson
Written by Willis Hall
CAST
Cpl. Johnstone - Edward Judd
Japanese Soldier - Kenji Takaki
L./Cpl. MacLeish - Ronald Fraser
Pte. Bamforth - Peter O’Toole
Pte. Evans - Alfred Lynch
Pte. Smith - Bryan Pringle
Pte. Whitaker - David Andrews
Venue: Royal Court Theatre, London
New Theatre, London
Opening Night: January 7th 1959
April 8th 1959
"Shaw is excellent in defining the character split between a kind heart and an unfaultering belief in duty." - The London Times
A Lodging for a Bride
Robert Shaw as Watson
A coterie of crooks become involved in a bank robbery which ends in the murder of a policeman. The Press are tipped off, the thieves fall out. and the one innocent party-the murderer's newly married wife-is the helpless victim of a sordid attempt to create a nine days' wonder.
WRITTEN BY PATRICK KIRWAN
DIRECTED BY JOHN FERNALD
DESIGNED BY ROGER FURSE
CAST
Alfie Davis - ThomaS Heathcote
Bridges - Hamlyn Benson
Edna Marshall - Jane Hylton
Jack Bentley - David Battley
Judkin Browne - Ronald Adam
Marcus Heatherington - Roger Livesey
Miss Slee - Olga Lindo
Mrs Palmer - Helena Hughes
Plainclothes Policemen - Griffith James
Plainclothes Policemen - Jon Laurimore
Policeman - Colin Rix
Superintendent Bussy - Jack Lambert
Weatherby - Michael Gover
VENUE(S): BRISTOL HIPPODROME
STREATHAM HILL THEATRE, LONDON
GOLDERS GREEN HIPPODROME, LONDON
WESTMINSTER THEATRE, LONDON
DATES: OCTOBER 29th 1959 - june 14th 1960
The Changeling
Robert Shaw as De Flores
There are two parallel plots. The main plot in Alicante ("Alligant") focuses on Beatrice-Joanna; Alonzo, to whom she is betrothed; and Alsemero, whom she loves. To rid herself of Alonzo, Beatrice makes De Flores (who secretly loves her) murder him. This, predictably, has a tragic outcome. The sub-plot in the madhouse involves Alibius and his young wife Isabella. Franciscus and Antonio are in love with her and pretend to be a madman and a fool, respectively, to see her. Lollio also wants her. This ends comically.
Directed by Tony Richardson
Written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
CAST
Alibus - John Blatchley
Alonzo de Piraquo - Alan Howard
Anselmo - Jeremy Brett
Antonio - Robin Ray
Beatrice-Joanna - Mary Ure
Diaphania - Annette Crosbie
Ensemble - Robin Chapman
Ensemble - Derek Fuke
Ensemble - Basil Moss
Ensemble - Pauline Munro
Ensemble - Morris Perry
Ensemble - Rita Tushingham
Franciscus - Charles Kay
Isabella - Zoe Caldwell
Jasperino - Derek Newark
Lollio - Norman Rossington
Pedro - Roland Curram
Tomazo de Piraquo - David William
Vermandero - Peter Duguid
Venue: Royal Court Theatre, London
Opening Night: February 21st 1961