Malvern Festival Reference library
Victoria Stec
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
... Festival Summer drama festival held annually from 1929 to 1939 , revived briefly in the 1940s and 1960s, and re-established as a more general annual arts festival in 1977 . Barry Jackson founded the festival in 1929 as a forum for British drama. The first season included the British première of The Apple Cart by George Bernard Shaw , the festival's patron. His works continued to feature prominently, but the festival also presented the work of dramatists ranging from Thomas Heywood , Ben Jonson , and John Dryden to Arthur Pinero , James...
Malvern Festival Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
... The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1930 ). After the 1937 season Jackson withdrew and the festival was run by the manager of the Malvern Theatre. After the Second World War the festival was revived only once, in 1949 , when Shaw's Buoyant Billions had its first English production. In 1964 the theatre, seating 799, was taken over by a Trust, and since 1977 the festival has been revived as a Shaw and Elgar Festival each spring, the rest of the year being taken up by visits from touring companies and productions by a resident amateur company....
Malvern Festival
Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Apple Cart
Paul Shelving
Cedric Hardwicke
Queen's Theatre
Elisabeth Bergner
Alec Clunes
Wendy Hiller
Henri Ghéon
Birmingham Repertory Theatre
Edith Evans
Barry Jackson
Hardwicke, Cedric (19 Feb. 1893) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...Vic company in 1914 . After the First World War he joined the Birmingham Repertory Theatre company, where his career as a versatile male lead took off. He was especially applauded for his Shavian roles, and he created the role of King Magnus in shaw 's The Apple Cart (Malvern Festival, 1929 ), which transferred to London to great critical acclaim. He worked with equal success in film and theatre, dividing much of his career between London and New York. His memoirs were published as Let's Pretend ( 1932 ) and A Victorian in Orbit ( 1961 ). He was...
Shelving, Paul Reference library
The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...resident designer and scene painter at the *Birmingham Repertory Theatre under *Jackson , and designed *Shaw 's Back to Methusaleh ( 1923 ) and the famous modern-dress Shakespeare productions ( 1925–8 ). For a decade from 1929 he was resident designer at the new Malvern Festival with Shaw and Jackson, and after the Second World War he returned to Birmingham for Man and Superman , King John , and *Ibsen 's Lady from the Sea with *Brook as director. Shelving's personal signature was simplicity of colour and line, with bold colourful patterns...
Hardwicke, Cedric Reference library
Thomas Postlewait
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...in 1934 . After beginning with Frank Benson 's company, Hardwicke moved to the Old Vic in 1914 . After the war he joined the Birmingham Rep , then shifted to London in 1925 , appearing in several of Shaw 's plays in the next ten years. He also acted at the Malvern Festival . In the late 1930s he performed in New York , then he moved to Hollywood and films . In 1948 he returned to the Old Vic, taking roles in Chekhov , Marlowe , and Shakespeare . In 1958 he once again shifted to New York, which became his base for the rest of his...
Clunes, Alec (17 May 1912) Reference library
The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre
...Alec [ Alexander Sheriff de Moro ] (b. London , 17 May 1912 ; d. London , 13 March 1970 ) Actor , director and manager . Clunes began his career in 1934 with Ben Greet 's company, the Old Vic and later the Malvern Festival. His acting was eclipsed when he took over the small Arts Theatre Club in 1942 , running it for eight years as a producing venue. Clunes championed Shaw and new work, with premières from Fry (who wrote The Lady's Not For Burning , 1948 , on a salary from Clunes, who played the lead), Ustinov and Whiting ...
Shelving, Paul Reference library
Pamela Howard
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...designer and scene painter at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre under Barry Jackson , and designed Shaw 's Back to Methusaleh ( 1923 ) and the famous modern-dress Shakespeare productions ( 1925–8 ). For a decade from 1929 he was resident designer at the new Malvern Festival with Shaw and Jackson , and after the Second World War he returned to Birmingham for Man and Superman , King John , and Ibsen 's Lady from the Sea with the young Peter Brook as director. Shelving's personal signature was simplicity of colour and line, with bold...
