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The Shaw Festival: The Apple Cart

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A political extravaganza in two acts and an interlude by BERNARD SHAW
A typically Shavian look at the future - to a time when all people now livIngare dead. Written in 1928, many of Shaw's prophecies are becoming alarmingly true.
Directed by IAN COTTERELL (Prunella Scales is in ' Make and Break ', Hay-market Theatre, London)

Contributors

Unknown:
Bernard Shaw
Directed By:
Ian Cotterell
Directed By:
Prunella Scales
King Magnus:
Peter Barkworth
the Prime Minister:
Nigel Stock
Boanerges:
Colin Douglas
Lysistrata:
Elizabeth Spriggs
Amanda:
Dilys Laye
Orinthia:
Prunella Scales
Pamphilius:
Brian Sanders
sempronius:
Christopher Scott
The Princess Royal:
Amanda Murray
Nicobar:
Brian Baines
Pliny:
Patrick Barr
Balbus:
Michael McStay
CraSSUS:
Godfrey Kenton
The Queen:
Sonia Fraser
Mr Vanhattan:
John Church
The Narrator:
Denys Hawthorne
Source: Radio Times

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