Sir John Gielgud

Following its success on Broadway, EB 's play The Chalk Garden, began its impressive twenty-three-month run at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket , directed by John Gielgud and starring Peggy Ashcroft and Edith Evans .

Kennedy co-wrote this play with producer Basil Dean . Opening night in London was a smashing success and a production in New York followed shortly afterwards, to similar acclaim. The star-studded cast included Noël Coward

After touring the provinces, EB 's play The Last Joke opened at the Phoenix Theatre in London, starring John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson .

Gordon Daviot 's first and most successful play, Richard of Bordeaux, starring John Gielgud and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies , re-opened at London's New Theatre , where it ran for fourteen months.

Gordon Daviot 's Queen of Scots, directed by Sir John Gielgud and starring Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies and a young Laurence Olivier , opened at the New Theatre in London.

HP 's play No Man's Land opened at the National Theatre : a two-hander employing the theatrical eminences John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson , directed by Peter Hall .

She used the pseudonym M. J. Farrell when the play was published by Collins the same year. The play opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. Perry had urged her to write it, against...

The play grew out of an argument with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (Daviot's friend since they met on the set of Richard of Bordeaux) about Mary Stuart 's character. (At that time Daviot sided with Elizabeth of England

Daviot wrote this play in 1936, and sent the script to John Gielgud , who liked [it] very much except for the last act, but this she was not willing to change. It was...

The play opens in Hollywood, with Mrs Patrick Campbell regaling a new, American generation with her memories. It centres on her relationship with George Bernard Shaw , but her life and career are also...

This play was considerably less successful than Richard of Bordeaux, and ran for only a few weeks.John Gielgud turned down the male lead, which he felt was too young for him...

The other volumes of the set appeared in 1954. Her plays were a special focus of her concern for posthumous publication: her will instructed her agent to pay for their printing out of her estate...

EC 's articles on theatre include Producing a Play in Munsey's Magazine (June 1907) and Notes on the Costumes in The Kensington (undated). An essay entitled Ellen Terry and Henry Irving (28 June 1939)...

It was an inauspicious time for an opening, because of gathering war-clouds. Anne Ridler later wrote, it was a great pity that Eliot had refused to offer the part [of Harry, the pivotal character] to...

Peter Davies posthumously published the first of a three-volume collection of Plays by Gordon Daviot (also known as JT ), with a foreword by Sir John Gielgud (though without any overview of Daviot's career to...