The Late Christopher Bean

Past productions

Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliott, Theatre Royal, Bath, Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, and other locations 21^st August – 14^th October 1972.
Swansea Repertory Company, Grand Theatre, Swansea 25^th – 30^th October 1965.
Little Theatre, Bristol 1961 – 1962.
Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre 1960.
Lincoln Repertory Company, Theatre Royal, Lincoln started April 1956.
Mobile Theatre Ltd., by arrangement with Peter Hoar, Seaford Summer Theatre started 1956.
Northampton Repertory Company, Royal & Derngate Theatre, Northampton started August 1952.
Derek Salberg’s Repertory Company, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (now The Alexandra) 10^th – 22^nd September 1951.
Beacon Players, Shrewsbury Repertory Theatre started August 1951.
Harry Hanson’s Court Players, Theatre Royal and Empire, Peterborough started June 1951.
Harry Hanson’s Court Players, Prince’s Theatre, Bradford 19^th – 24^th March 1951.
Worthing Theatre Company, Connaught Theatre, Worthing 5^th – 10^th March 1951.
Molly May Ltd, Embassy Theatre, Swiss Cottage, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London started 20^th February 1951.
Dundee Repertory Theatre, Foresters Hall started 22^nd July 1945.
Derek Salberg’s ENSA Company, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (now The Alexandra) started 8^th May 1945.
ENSA 1944 – 1945.
Sally Latimer Productions, Playhouse Theatre, Amersham started June 1943.
Birmingham Repertory Theatre 25^th August – 12^th September 1942.
Birmingham Parks 22^nd June – 8^th August 1942.
Little Theatre, Bristol 1940 – 1941.
Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre 29^th April – 4^th May 1940.
Alexandra Repertory Company, Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham (now The Alexandra) started October 1939.
Colchester Repertory Company, Colchester Repertory Theatre 4^th – 9^th October 1937.
Park Theatre, Hanwell started September 1937.
Sheffield Repertory Company, Sheffield Playhouse started 14^th September 1936.
Martin Sabine, Victoria Palace Theatre, London 2^nd – 8^th May 1936.
Swansea Repertory Company, Fforestfach Cross Theatre started 1^st November 1935.
Lyric Theatre (Shaftesbury Ave), London 24^th September 1935.
Cardiff Repertory Company, Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff started 25^th March 1935.
Terence Byron Repertory Company, Prince’s Theatre, Bradford started January 1935.
Streatham Hill Theatre, London 5^th – 10^th November 1934.
St James’s Theatre, London 16^th May 1933 – 21^st July 1934.
Henry Miller’s Theatre, New York (now Stephen Sondheim Theatre) 31^st October 1932 – May 1933.

“The Late Christopher Bean” is a translation and adaptation of the French play “Prenez Garde a la Peinture!” by Rene Fauchois.

It was adapted by Sidney Howard and presented at the Henry Miller’s Theatre in New York in 1932. It was anglicised by Emlyn Williams and presented in London in 1933 when the setting was changed from Boston USA to a small village in the middle of England. The plot remained the same but two characters were renamed and their backgrounds slightly altered.

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