Romeo and Juliet (1934)
by William Shakespeare
This was first production of Romeo and Juliet at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre and featured Griffith Jones and Margaretta Scott in the titular roles.
The production also featured theatre impresario Ben Greet as Friar Lawrence and Greer Garson - a then unknown actress who would go on to become a major motion picture star of the 1940s - in the Ensemble.
The cast
Dennis Hoey
Escalus

Eric Dance
Paris

R. Kerr Carey
Montague

Henry Baynton
Capulet

Griffith Jones
Romeo

Leslie French
Mercutio

Hubert Gregg
Benvolio

Terence de Marney
Tybalt

Sir Philip Ben Greet
Friar Laurence

Ivor Harries
Friar John

Sydney Bromley
Balthasar

Frank Tickle
Sampson

Clement Hamelin
Gregory

Michael Martin-Harvey
Peter

Eric Lousada
Abraham

A. B. Imeson
An Apothecary

Tony Halfpenny
Page to Paris

Joan French
Page to Mercutio

Olga Edwards
Page to Capulet

Fiona Cunningham
Page to Tybalt

Marjorie Stewart
Lady Montague

Alison Pickard
Lady Capulet

Margaretta Scott
Juliet

Laura Smithson
Nurse to Juliet

Maria Solveg
Principal Dancer

Katta Sterna
Principal Dancer

Ruth Britter
Ensemble

Doreen Brownhill
Ensemble

Nora Colton
Ensemble

Sybil Evers
Ensemble

Greer Garson
Ensemble

Elizabeth Gwynne
Ensemble

Eileen Payley
Ensemble

Madge Potter
Ensemble

Jean Summers
Ensemble

Averil Tempest
Ensemble

Ann Wilson
Ensemble

Beatrice Munro
Ensemble

Josephine Arkell
Ensemble

Freda Bamford
Ensemble

Joan Beecher
Ensemble

Jean Brodie
Ensemble

Peggy Beales
Ensemble

Doris Chandler
Ensemble

Florence Dryden
Ensemble

Joy Francis
Ensemble

Irene Gwynn
Ensemble

Monica Gough
Ensemble

Billie Holloway
Ensemble

Marie Jose
Ensemble

Billie Lees
Ensemble

Pat Lees
Ensemble

Anna Marita
Ensemble

Thora Marshall
Ensemble

Corinne Mackenzie
Ensemble

Joan Milner-Moore
Ensemble

Aase Nissen
Ensemble

Phyllis Olsen
Ensemble

Betty Robinson
Ensemble

Olive Trevor
Ensemble

Sydney Malcolm
Ensemble

George Howell
Ensemble

Kenneth Jerwood
Ensemble

Donald Masters
Ensemble

Hedley Mattingly
Ensemble

Lyon Playfair
Ensemble

Robyn Cull
Ensemble

Leonard Hayes
Ensemble

Maurice Brooke
Ensemble

Bernard de Gautier
Ensemble

D. McLeod
Ensemble

Toni Repetto
Ensemble

Teddy Haskell
Ensemble

Edgar Elmes
Ensemble
