Mary Stuart

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Mary Stuart (1932/3) John Drinkwater was an English poet, playwright, and critic and is primarily remembered as a typical man of letters of the Georgian age of the 1910s and 1920s. He was a successful promoter of repertory theatre in England and the author of popular chronicle dramas. In 1907 he became manager and producer for the Pilgrim Players, which developed into the Birmingham Repertory Theatre Company. He published several volumes of verse (including The Collected Poems, 2 vol., 1923); critical studies (William Morris, 1912; Swinburne, 1913; and others); and several historical plays, of which Abraham Lincoln (1918) and Mary Stuart (1921) were produced with great success both in London and in the United States. Full synopsis or Gallery.				Boyd: No, don't be impatient. Mary Stuart is in my blood, I know, but I am thinking of your trouble only, John. Have you ever reflected on the strangeness of that Edinborough (sic) story - the confusion of it, growing and growing through the years? History never so entangled itself. All the witnesses lied, and nearly all who have considered it have been absorbed in confirming this word, refuting that. And at the centre of it, obscured by our argument, is the one glowing reality, a passionate woman. Beside that, the rest is nothing, but we forget. . . .
cast list		production credits
Sir Thomas Randolph	Alastair Sim	Director	Frank Napier
Mary Stuart	Peggy Ashcroft	Playwright	John Drinkwater
Andrew Boyd	Morland Graham	Theatre	The Old Vic
Bothwell	Malcom Keane	Presented by	Lilian Bayliss
John Hunter	Charles Hickman	Produced by	Harcourt Williams
Mary Beaton	Clare Harris
David Riccio	Geoffrey Wincott
Darnley	Harcourt Williams

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In 1932/33 Alastair started his second season at he The Old Vic where Malcom Kean and Peggy Ashcroft were leading the company.