The Last Straw
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Dick Seele | André Morell |
|---|---|
| Dr Alan Fermoy | Alastair MacIntyre |
| Dr Lintot | Richard Haydn |
| Freda Duveen | Ann Heffernan |
| John Duveen | Tom Gill |
| Martin Streathfield | Peter Mosley |
| Nurse | Jasmine Lane |
| Old Dan | Arthur Hambling |
| Pamela Francis | Anna Konstam |
| Peter Johnson | Philip Ashley |
| Quiney | Hugh Metcalfe |
| Sonia Duveen | Lucie Mannheim |
| Tod Gauntlet | Alan Hamilton |
| Wally Sams | Lionel Spence |
| Wolfe Guldeford | Marius Goring |
Crew | |
| Director | Lucie Mannheim |
| Producer | Lucie Mannheim |
- Observations (1)
- Source: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
- Last modified by Michael Hope.
Photographs
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Photo credits
- Lucie Mannheim & Marius Goring in The Last Straw October 1937, Other public domain
Observations
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Reviews: ‘The play and its central performance keep us sitting almost throughout on the edge of our chairs. The horror is of the kind which some must find delectably alarming and others unpleasantly so. The point is that the alarm is certainly conjured, and Mr. Goring’s taut and jagged manic touches our heat as well as our nerves. Every noise appals him, and the actor makes it appal us equally in the last two acts. Miss Lucie Mannheim gives us another admirable performance as the most responsible of the bright young nuisances who turn up in time to prevent everybody from being frightened out of his wits“. (The Guardian 30/09/1937)
”Mr. Marius Goring, as the decadent and desperate Wolfe, trots up and down his cage, shows his fangs, and takes his revenge with a fine parade of the symptoms of maniac depression and bestial rage. I take it that effectively to empty this bag of tricks is not difficult for a player of his quality. He does it, we know, extremely well, and now I hope he will be moved up a form and allowed to be a nice young man for a change". (Ivor Brown in The Observer 03/10/1937)
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