The run closed January 7, 1961
- Opened
- September 20, 1960
- Closed
- January 7, 1961
- Performances
- 127
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- James Earl Jones Theatre
Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 158th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it18 named
Avis Bunnage
Patience Collier
Anita Dangler
Glynn Edwards
Michael Forrest
Leila Greenwood
Alfred Lynch
Aubrey Morris
Warren O Connell
Kathleen O Connor
James A Roache
Celia Salkeld
Maxwell Shaw
Victor Spinetti
Dudley Sutton
Metro Welles
Vincent O Connor
1 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 17 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
- Joan Littlewood
- Producer
- Leonard S. Field
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 The Hostage at all.
- No show page for The Hostage. 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.