Frank Napier

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Past productions

• Chaplain, The Lady’s Not for Burning started 10^th March 1948, Arts Theatre, London.
• Uneasy Laughter 1944 – 1945, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
• Lisa 1944 – 1945, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
• Hamlet 1944 – 1945, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
• The Alchemist 1944 – 1945, Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool.
• The beggar, The Beggar’s Opera 5^th March – ? 1940, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival 1939 – 1940, Old Vic, London.
• She Stoops to Conquer 1938 – 1939, Old Vic, London.
• The Taming of the Shrew 1938 – 1939, Old Vic, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival 1938 – 1939, Old Vic, London.
• An Enemy of the People 1938 – 1939, Old Vic, London.
• The Devil To Pay 1938 – 1939, His Majesty’s Theatre. Haymarket, London. (now His Majesty’s Theatre, Haymarket, London).
• / Producer, The Zeal of Thy House 10^th May – 11^th June 1938, Garrick Theatre, London.
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream 1937 – 1938, Old Vic, London.
• Mourning Becomes Electra 1937 – 1938, Westminster Theatre, London.
• Mourning Becomes Electra 1937 – 1938, Westminster Theatre, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company 23^rd April 1937, Old Vic, London.
• The Taming of the Shrew, Bronson Albery and Howard Wyndham started 23^rd March 1937, New Theatre (now Noël Coward Theatre), London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival 1935 – 1936, Old Vic, London.
• Ghost / Priest, Hamlet, Old Vic Company 29^th April – 20^th May 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company 23^rd April 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Antony and Cleopatra 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Richard II 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• The Taming of the Shrew 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• The Two Shepherds 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Much Ado About Nothing 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Saint Joan 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Henry IV, Part 2 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Scenes from Shakespeare 1934 – 1935, Old Vic, London.
• Peacey, The Voysey Inheritance 3^rd May – 9^th June 1934, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London and Shaftesbury Theatre (1888 – closed 1941), London.
• Banquo / Stage Manager, Macbeth, Old Vic Company 3^rd – 28^th April 1934, The Old Vic Theatre, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company 23^rd April 1934, Old Vic, London.
• Escalus, Measure for Measure, Old Vic Company 4^th – 23^rd December 1933, Old Vic, London.
• Earl of Surrey, Henry VIII, Old Vic Company 7^th November – 2^nd December 1933, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
• Stage Manager, The Cherry Orchard, Old Vic Company 9^th October 1933 – 6^th January 1934, Old Vic, London and Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
• Twelfth Night, Old Vic Company 18^th September – 7^th October 1933, Old Vic, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival, Old Vic Company 23^rd April 1933, Old Vic, London.
• Romeo and Juliet, Old Vic Company 6^th – 18^th March 1933, Old Vic, London and Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London.
• The Winter’s Tale, Old Vic Company 23^rd January – 4^th February 1933, Old Vic, London.
• Macbeth, Old Vic Company 21^st November – 10^th December 1932, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, The Old Vic Theatre, London, and other locations.
• Julius Caesar, Old Vic Company 25^th January – 3^rd February 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Othello 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Shakespeare Birthday Festival 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Caleb Jennings, Abraham Lincoln 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Henry V 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• The Knight of the Burning Pestle 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Everybody’s Husband 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Hamlet 1931 – 1932, Old Vic, London.
• Charles Granillo, Rope 12^th – 18^th October 1929, Regent Theatre, London.
• Stage manager, The Dark Path started 4^th November 1928, Savoy Theatre, London.