22 Apr 1964
Viel Lärm um nichts
Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
Cymbeline
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
Top Billed Cast
Richard Johnson Cymbeline
Hugh Thomas Cornelius
Aimée Delamain Gentlewoman
Claire Bloom Queen
Helen Mirren Imogen
Michael Pennington Posthumus
John Kane Pisanio
Nicholas Young Lord
Paul Jesson Cloten
Robert Lindsay Iachimo
Geoffrey Lumsden Philario
Patsy Smart Helen
Allan Hendrick Frenchman
Nigel Robson Singer
Terence McGinity British Captain
Graham Crowden Caius Lucius
Michael Gough Belarius
Geoffrey Burridge Guiderius
David Creedon Arviragus
Patricia Hayes Soothsayer
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