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Here's Your Uncle George!

OVERVIEW

Playwright

Peter Powell
Setting

The scene throughout is the drawing-room of the Mervyn Over-Livesy's house in Hampstead.
Synopsis

No synopsis available
Play Type

Plays General

Number Of Acts

Full-Length

Cast size

Male

7
Female

7
Total

14

Original Production

Date of First Production

June 1939
Production Notes
Furniture kindly supplied by Messrs. Edward Lee & Co., Mary Street, Dublin. Lighting Equipment by Strand Electric Co., Talbot Street, Dublin. Sweet Afton Cigarettes kindly supplied by Messrs. P.J. Carroll & Co.
Producer

Presented by Longford Productions
Original Venue

Gate Theatre/Amharclann an Gheata

Original Cast
Zazu	Cathleen Delany
Claud	Basil Lord
Boris Arbuthnot-John	Michael Ripper
Mervyn Over-Livesy	Noel Illiff
Mary Over-Livesy	Vivien Dillon
Clarissa Arbuthnot-John	Doris Cloghran
George Arbuthnot-John	Hamlyn Benson
Maisie McLaughlin	Jean Anderson
Iris	Nora O'Mahony
Alexandrina Arbuthnot-John	Ann Penhallow
Hecuba Arbuthnot-John	Doris Finn
Bert	Wm. Van Craen
Frank Over-Livesy	Ronald Ibbs
Tommy Over-Livesy	Charles Blair

Production Team
Director	Peter Powell
Settings by	Peter Powell
Musician	Alice Brough
Musician	Annie McNally
Musician	Gretta Smith
Manager	Lord Longford
Stage Director	Basil Lord
Assistant Stage Director	Doris Cloghran
Stage Manager	Cecil Brock
Set Painter	Eric Adeney
Wardrobe Mistress	Christina Keely
Wardrobe Supervisor	Nancy Beckh
Chief Electrician	Patrick Long
Secretary	Maureen Naish-Gray
Carpenter	Michael Lambert

Unpublished Scripts

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Source Of Information

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme

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