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...

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...

JT carefully guarded her privacy. Former neighbours reported that she was very reclusive and did most of her writing in a tiny summerhouse. The Inverness Courier's account of her death notes that she did...

On an early visit to London, JT was deeply moved by John Gielgud 's Hamlet, and subsequently began a professional relationship with him. Each played an important role in the other's career: Gielgud helped JT

JT wrote several plays under the name Gordon Daviot. Her first, Richard of Bordeaux, was by far her greatest critical success. Its immediate successors had much shorter runs, and most of her later...

John Gielgud persuaded Daviot to revise the play after this initial production, the result of which, he claims, was that she improved the play, by a few brilliant strokes, almost beyond recognition. Until these...

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...