King Richard II, 1956

The run closed January 12, 1957

Opened

October 23, 1956

Closed

January 12, 1957

Performances

27

Previews

—

Theatre

Winter Garden Theatre

Of the 705 productions we hold that opened in the 1950s and record a performance count, this is the 421st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Other stagings of King Richard II 3 more that season

Who was in it34 named

Ronald Allen
Claire Bloom
Peter Bowles
Jeremy Brett
Graeme Campbell
Juliet Cooke
Margaret Courtenay
Charles Gray
John Greenwood
Jack Gwillim
Ernest Hare
Edward Harvey
Denis Holmes
Sally Home
Donald Homer
Marion Hood
Fraser Kerr
Tom Kneebone
Aubrey Morris
Daniel Moynihan
Peter Needham
John Neville
Derek New
Timothy Parkes
Alan Penn
Bryan Pringle
Paul Rogers
Job Stewart
Keith Taylor
James Villiers
Charles West
Jennifer Wilson
John Woodvine
Richard Wordsworth

0 of these 34 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 34 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director

Michael Benthall

Producer

Old Vic Trust, Ltd.

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

What this page does not know

• No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
• No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
• No recording is held for King Richard II at all.
• No show page for King Richard II. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
• Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.