OLD PLAY REVIVED AFTER 315 YEARS
A new tragi-eomedy was presented 315 years' ago at the Cockpit in Drury I Lane — "Tho Witch of Edrnonton, ' 7 "a
known true story by divers wellesteemed poets," of whom the most prominent were Thomas Dekker, John Ford, and William Bowley. Since then, apparently, it has never had public professional presentation, and the only professional performance was that given fifteen years ago at the Lyric, Hammersmith, by the Phoenix Society on a Sunday night. Now the Old Vic is to produce it, with Edith Evans in the part of the Witch Elizabeth. Marius Goring is to play Frank, the weak man who gefs tempted by the Devil into bigamy and murder, and the part of the Dog will be taken by Hedley Briggs. Other interesting points about the production are that Beatrix Lehraann will make her first Old Vic appearance in it as Winifred, and that Miehel St. Denis, lately of Hte Compagnie des Quinze, is to produce. Motley are designing costucnes and Gccnory of seventeenth-century, period.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 31, 20 February 1937, Page 18
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