Description

Date: 1939

Theatre: Globe Theatre

Performance: The Importance of being Earnest

Principal Actors: John Gielgud, Margaret Rutherford, Ronald Ward, Leon Quartermaine, Edith Evans, Joyce Carey, Angela Baddeley,

The cast of this 1939 production of The Importance of being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde, at the Globe Theatre is a who’s who of actors of the day.  John Gielgud plays the lead and directs these eight special matinees during February 1952 for a selection of charities. The programme contains full page photographs of John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Angela Baddeley and Joyce Carey; and interestingly includes the cast list for the performance of 14^th February 1895 at St James’s Theatre.

16 pages including front and back cover pages. Approx. H24cm x W19cm.