as a Stase Producer
Calhleen Nesbitt played Pardita in Granville-Barker's production of The Winter's Tale in 1912. He virtually retired from active work in the theatre in 1921, but in 1940 he was persuaded to return to London to co-produce King Lear with Lewis Casson. and Miss Nesbitt played Goneril.
In conversation with MICHAEL ELLIOTT she recalls working with the now legendary man of the theatre,