Old Vic Drama 2, 1947-1957

1817 LIBRARIES acting actress Alan Alan Dobie Antigone artist audience beauty Benthall's Bristol Old Vic Brutus Byam Shaw Caesar Cassius character characterisation charm Claire Bloom classical comedy comic Coriolanus costumes Cressida critics death Desdemona dramatic Edgar Wreford Electra Elizabethan enchanting English eyes Falstaff gave Gielgud Glen Byam Shaw grief Guthrie Hamlet Helpmann Henry Hubert Hugh Hunt human humour Iago imagination inevitably Ivor Brown Joan John Neville Juliet King lack Lady later Lear Leontes London lyrical Macbeth Michael Benthall moving murder natural never Neville's Old Vic Company Old Vic School Olivier Orestes Othello passion Paul Daneman Paul Rogers performance perhaps play players poetic poetry Prince production Queen realised Richard II Robert Hardy romantic Romeo Rosalind Rosemary Harris scene season seemed sense Shakespeare Shylock speech spirit stage Stratford-on-Avon style success suggest Tamburlaine Theatre tion touch tragedy triumph Twelfth Night voice Wolfit wrote young actor Young Vic youth