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Description: | The twenty three press albums were compiled by or for Wolfit, and give a comprehensive account of his stage work through press notices/programmes from 1921 to 1967. The pre-Second World War volumes include his work at the Old Vic (1929-30), West End and Stratford-upon-Avon, where he played Antony and King Lear in Komisarjevsky?s productions of 'Antony and Cleopatra' (1936) and 'King Lear' (1937). They also cover productions by his own Shakespearian company in association with Phyllis Neilson-Terry.
The war years are well documented with reference to provincial and ENSA tours, and the celebrated St James? seasons in London in 1942-43 which saw Donald Wolfit?s King Lear.
Sir Donald left these albums to the author and playwright Ronald Harwood, who joined Wolfit?s company in the 1950s as actor and dresser to Wolfit. Ronald Harwood published his biography of Wolfit in 1971.
Archive reference number: THM/43. (23 volumes) | Format: | Press cuttings Scrapbooks | Subjects: | Actors - Great Britain - 20th century; Theatrical managers; Theater - Great Britain -20th century | Temporal: | 20th century 1921-1967 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Wolfit, Donald, 1902-1968 | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Press cuttings Scrapbooks | Go to resource |
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