As You Like It (1934)
by William Shakespeare
Opening the third season of the Open Air Theatre, As You Like It ran for just 5 days in late May 1934. Produced by Robert Atkins and directed by Sydney Carroll, it featured notable actors including Leslie French as Amiens, Anna Neagle as Rosalind, Margaretta Scott as Celia and John Drinkwater as Duke.
The cast
John Drinkwater
Duke
Dennis Hoey
Frederick
Leslie French
Amiens
Nigel Playfair
Jaques
Basil Bartlett
Oliver
Jack Hawkins
Orlando
Henry Hewitt
Touchstone
A. B. Imeson
Corin
Hubert Gregg
Silvius
Michael Martin-Harvey
William
Anna Neagle
Rosalind
Margaretta Scott
Celia
Nini Theilade
Premiere Danseuse
Eric Dance
Le Beau
Leonard Gibson Cowan
Charles
Robert Eddison
Jaques (Son of Roland de Boys)
R. Kerr Carey
Orlando (Wednesday and Thursday Matinees)
Stanley Lathbury
Adam
Clement Hamelin
Dennis
Frank Tickle
Sir Oliver Martext
Pamela Stanley
Phebe
Eileen Beldon
Audrey
Nora Colton
Page attending on the banished Duke
Irene Gwynn
Page attending on the banished Duke
Creative team
Robert Atkins
Producer
Sydney Carroll
General Director-in-Chief
Sir Philip Ben Greet
Master of the Greensward
Costume supplier
Doreen Erroll and Chas. H. Fox, Ltd.
Designer
Philip Gough
Wig supplier
Gustave, Long Acre
Auxiliary Theatre and Equipment supplier
John Smith & Co., Ltd.
Sound Amplification
Patridge & Mee, Ltd.
Music Director
Rosabel Watson
Dance arrangement
Letty Littlewood
Wrestling arrangement
Leonard Gibson Cowan
Assistant Director
W. B. Calder
Assistant Director
Maxwell Wray
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