Robert Speaight
played the lead role. In November 1935, the play transferred to the public stage (the Mercury Theatre
at Notting Hill Gate in London). It was then given at the Old Vic
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Performance of text
Anne Ridler
AR
's verse nativity play The Shadow Factory opened at the Mercury Theatre
in Notting Hill, London, as part of a series of Plays by Poets; it was published the following year.
Ridler...
Textual Production
Anne Ridler
Henry Bly was written for Martin Browne
's Mercury Theatre
, but only got as far as a read-through by the Poets Theatre Guild
before Browne's tenure of the theatre lapsed. Another of these plays,...
