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The Player King

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by Christopher Hassall
Adapted by Mollie Greenhalgh

[Starring] Owen Holder, Catherine Lacey, Max Adrian and Leon Quartermaine

(See top of page and page 17)
(BBC recording)
(Max Adrian is in "Airs on a Shoestring" at the Royal Court Theatre, London)
(To be repeated on December 9 at 3.30)

The action of the play begins in 1492

Contributors

Author:
Christopher Hassall
Adapted by:
Mollie Greenhalgh
Producer:
Charles Lefeaux
Narrator:
T. St John Barry
Richard of York:
Owen Holder
Cicely Lampson:
Denise Bryer
Sir Robert Clifford:
Edward Jewesbury
Sir George Nevill:
Brian Haines
Margaret, Duchess Dowager of Burgundy:
Catherine Lacey
Henry of Bergen, Bishop of Cambrai:
Godfrey Kenton
Henry VII, King of England:
Max Adrian
Sir William Stanley:
George Hagan
Roderigo de Puebla, Spanish Ambassador in London:
John Gabriel
James IV, King of Scotland:
John Laurie
Robert Erskine:
Hugh David
Lady Katherine Gordon:
Mary Watson
John Kinch:
Peter Howell
The Abbot of Beaulieu:
Leon Quartermaine
A peasant woman:
Nuna Davey
[Actor]:
Peter Claughton
[Actor]:
Edward Kelsey

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