The Best of Friends
The Best of Friends is an epistolary play by Hugh Whitemore about the friendship of playwright George Bernard Shaw, Sydney Cockerell (Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge) and Dame Laurentia McLachlan (a Scottish Benedictine nun, Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, and an authority on church music). It is based upon the lengthy correspondence that passed between them for over 25 years.
Cast & Crew
Cast
| Dame Laurentia McLachlan | Rosemary Harris |
|---|---|
| George Bernard Shaw | Ray McAnally |
| Sir Sydney Cockerell | John Gielgud |
| Understudy: Bernard Shaw | John Atterbury |
| Understudy: Dame Laurentia | Mavis Walker |
| Understudy: Sydney Cockerell | Robert Wilson |
Crew | |
| Advertising Consultants | Mentor Advertising Ltd. |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Suzy Newman |
| Company and Stage Manager | Darinka Nenadovic |
| Costumes executed by | Cosprop Ltd. |
| Deputy Stage Manager | Annabel Dunne |
| Designer | Julia Trevelyan Oman |
| Director | James Roose Evans |
| General Manager | Brian Kirk |
| Graphic and Poster Design | Blake Sears Ltd. |
| Lighting | Mick Hughes |
| Lighting and Sound Equipment | Theatre Sound and Lighting Ltd |
| Make-up: Mr McAnally | Sarah Phillips |
| Plants and Foliage Supplier | Ann’s Garden |
| Press Representative | Sue Hyman |
| Production Assistant | Tim Northam |
| Production Assistant | Sarah Stamp |
| Production Carpenter | Chris Heron |
| Production Electrician | Bill Wardroper |
| Production Photographer | John Haynes |
| Scenery Construction | Ray Addison |
| Scenery Construction | Ralnick Ltd. |
| Sotheby’s Catalogues supplied by | Sotheby’s |
| Sound | Peter Still |
| Special Props | Kate Searle |
| Stationery | Smythson’s of Bond Street |
| Teaset supplied by | The China Warehouse Co. |
| Thanks | A & C Black |
| Thanks | The Board of the British Library |
| Thanks | Christopher Cockerell
(credited as Sir Christopher Cockerell) |
| Thanks | Felicitas Corrigan
(credited as Dame Felicitas Corrigan, OSB) |
| Thanks | Hildelith Cumming
(credited as Dame Hildelith Cumming, OSB) |
| Thanks | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
| Thanks | Alec Guinness
(credited as Sir Alec Guinness, CBE, Hon. D. Litt (Oxon)) |
| Thanks | Hamish Hamilton Publishers |
| Thanks | Rupert Hart-Davis
(credited as Sir Rupert Hart-Davis) |
| Thanks | Julia Jones |
| Thanks | Anne Marriot |
| Thanks | John Murray
(credited as John Murray, CBE) |
| Thanks | The National Trust |
| Thanks | Lisa Pond |
| Thanks | Hutchinson Publishers |
| Thanks | The Abbess and Community of Stanbrook |
| Thanks | The Transcription and Tape Unit of the British Broadca |
| Thanks | Roma Woodnutt |
| Thanks (Graphic and Poster Design) | The Stanbrook Abbey Press |
| Wardrobe Care | Persil Automatic |
| Wardrobe Care | Comfort |
| Wardrobe Supervisor | Elizabeth Moczarski |
| Wigs | Ray Marston |
- Source: University of Bristol Theatre Collection
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