Sir John Gielgud

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

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 .

The Charioteer's focus on homosexuality caused great concern to MR 's publishers. She had not published anything for five years, and this novel was a significant departure from her earlier work. In Britain her...

Milton had his first big London success in 1922, and before Royde-Smith married him she had praised his magnetic performance as Hamlet. Over the course of his career he also tried his luck as a...

John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft performed in Twelfth Night in the Barn Theatre; it was on this night that CSJ first met her new neighbours Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson .

After studying at RADA, NS went on the stage, where she gained experience of everything from classic roles to revues and pantomime. Her first engagement was with the Charles DoranShakespeare an Company where she...

The West End production was a major success for everyone involved. The first two nights were slow, but the first matinee saw an unexpected rush on seats, and the show became a smash hit....

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 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

The play was a moderate success, and ran for just over one hundred performances. The Punch reviewer praised it for its effect of well-pondered apprehended reality, which gave the spectator the impression of being...

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 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...

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.

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...