Dr. Syn
Lengthy tour, divided into ‘spring’ and ‘autumn’ sections, with a number of variations in cast and a pause from mid-June to mid-July.
The producer credit for Sybil Thorndike (Russell Thorndike’s sister) and her husband Lewis Casson seems to have been applied rather loosely, and mainly to the first half of the tour.
With a change of director and several changes in cast, this production was mounted as a Christmas attraction at London’s Strand Theatre in December 1927 (qv).
Cast & Crew
Cast
Unknown | Kate Cooper |
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Unknown | John Lauriston |
‘Sally’ | Peggy Wynne |
A Preventive Man | Horace Wentworth |
Boatswain | Charles Raymond |
Boatswain (replacement) | Rodney Ackland |
Captain Howard Collyer RN | Walter Pemberton |
Denis Cobtree | Frederick Fanton |
Dr Syn | Russell Thorndike |
Imogene | Agnes Carter |
Master Woodlands | Arnold Walsh |
Mr Harding | James Meredith |
Mr Harding (replacement) | George Sharples |
Mr Mipps | John C Bland |
Mr Rash | Charles Dickens |
Mrs Waggetts | Grace Emery |
Sailor | Peter Guerney |
Sailor | George Sharples |
Sir Anthony Cobtree | Edwin Adeler |
Spiker | John Byron |
The Mulatto | David Bain |
The Mulatto (replacement) | Charles Raymond |
Crew | |
Director / General Manager | Nelson King |
Stage Manager | Charles Raymond |
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Play description
When first presented for a one-off performance on 11th October 1925, this adaptation of Russell Thorndike’s novel was attributed solely to Ivan Firth. By the time a revised version reached the West End in December 1927, it was credited as: ‘a play of adventure on the Romney Marsh, in the County of Kent, adapted (with the assistance of Ivan Firth) by Russell Thorndike, from his novel of the same name’.
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