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LevelItem

ReferencePHPN/2/1/45

Artist / Photographer

McBean, Angus

Title

Production photograph of The Beggar's opera at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge

DateMay 1948

DescriptionPhotograph of the Finale of Act II. From left, among the Ladies of the Town, are Mrs Vixen (Lesley Duff) , Molly Brazen (Anne Sharp), in front of Mrs Trapes (Gladys Parr), Mrs Slammekin (Elisabeth Parry) in front of Jenny Diver (Jennifer Vyvyan), Betty Doxy (Mildred Watson) and Mrs Coaxer (Catherine Lawson). Of the Men of the Town , second from left is Ben Budge (Denis Dowling),Wat Dreary (John Highcock) in dark shadow, Nimming Ned (Max Worthley) and Harry Paddington (Roy Ashton). From Lockit (Otakar Kraus) in centre foreground, the principal group are Lucy Lockit (Rose Hill), Captain Macheath (Peter Pears), Polly Peachum (Nancy Evans) and Mr Peachum (George James.)
photographer: [Angus McBean] (copyright Harvard University. Image provided courtesy of The Harvard Theatre Collection, The Houghton Library – see http:// hcleducation/libraries/collection/htc.hcml )

Extent1 photograph

Physical DescriptionBlack and white 20 x 15 cm

CopyrightHarvard University

Copies1 (38 x 30 cm, mounted on cardboard)

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