Document ID ET-D266

Archive Location	ET PROGS ET-D235-418, 1903 (BL) Loan 125/22/2
Document description	programme
Date	[3 June 1903] [11]
Document form	D - Programme
Document attributes	Annotated
Venue	The Imperial Theatre
Time of performance	2.30pm 8.30pm
Director	Edward Gordon Craig
Scene Designer	Edward Gordon Craig
Costume Maker	Edith Craig & Co., M. Vera and Co.
Costume Designer	Edward Gordon Craig
Music Director	Martin Shaw
General notes	Ellen Terry as Beatrice. Under management of Ellen Terry.
Language	English

Works Cited

Title	Much Ado About Nothing
Original author	William Shakespeare

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THE IMPERIAL THEATRE Sole Lessee - Mrs. LANGTRY Under the Management of Miss ELLEN TERRY MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Produced under the Direction of EDWARD GORDON CRAIG.

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Every Evening at 8.30, Matinee every Wednesday at 2.30, SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDY Much Ado About Nothing --- Don Pedro (Prince of Arragon): Mr. JULIAN L'ESTRANGE Don John (His Bastard Brother): Mr. WILLIAM LUFF Claudio (A Young Lord of Florence): Mr. CONWAY TEARLE Benedick (A Young Lord of Padua): Mr. OSCAR ASCHE (By permission of Mr. TREE) Leonato (Governor of Messina): Mr. HOLMAN CLARK Antonio (His Brother) : MR. GEORGE FITZGERALD Balthazar (Attendant on Don Pedro): Mr OTTO DOLL Borachio, Conrade (Followers of Don John): Mr. HUBERT CARTER, Mr. FRANCIS DARCH. Dogberry,Verges (Two City Officers) Mr. NORMAN FORBES, Mr. HAWLEY FRANCKS Friar Francis : Mr. CHARLES COMBE A Sexton: Mr. ARTHUR CHARLES A Boy: Mr. FRANK NORMAN (Watchmen) Oatcake: Mr. CHARLES WHITTLE, Seacol: Mr. GEORGE LAUNDY Third Watchman: Mr. B. ZARDI A Messenger: Mr. HENRY GODWIN Hero (Daughter to Leonato): Miss HUTIN BRITTON Margaret: Miss HELEN McGREGOR Ursula: Miss AUDREY CAMPBELL Beatrice: Miss ELLEN TERRY. Messengers, Watchmen and Attendants --- Synopsis of Scenery ACT I. Scene - Leonato's House ACT II. Scenes 1, 2 & 3 - Leonato's Garden Scene 4 - A Street ACT III. Scene - A Church ACT IV. Scene 1 - A Prison Scene 2 - Leonato's Garden Scene 3 - Monument of Leonato Scene 4 - Leonato's Garden From Designs by Mr. EDWARD GORDON CRAIG. --- The following Madrigals and Part Songs will be sung during the Performance: "My Bonnie Lass" - Morley "Arise, Awake" - Morley "Dainty fine Bird" - Gibbons "Hodie, Christus natus est" - Swwelinck "Jesus Dulcis" - Vittoria "Adoramus te" - Palestrina "Fire, Fire, my Heart" - Morley "When Flow'ry Meadows" - Palestrina "Sigh no more, Ladies" - Stevens --- INTERVALS Act I. 10 Minutes, Act II. 15 Minutes, Act III. 10 Minutes --- Programme of Music OVERTURE OLD ENGLISH DANCES - Cown DIVERTIMENTO - Mozart ENTR'ACTE FOUR DANCES - Coleridge-Taylor --- The Costumes by Edith CRAIG & Co. and M. VERA & Co., from Designs by M. Racinet and Gordon Craig. Wigs by CLARKSON. --- Assistant Stage Manager, Mr. FRED BOUSTEAD. Musical Director, Mr. MARTIN SHAW. --- MATINEE EVERY WEDNESDAY at 2.30 REFRΕSΗΜΕΝTS This Department is under the direct control of the Management. – All wines and spirits supplied by Messrs. Sutton Bendle & Co., 148, Sloane Street, S.W. Any complaints should be made to the Business Manager. --- Box office (Mr. Vincent Potter) Open Daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. PRICES - Private Boxes, £4 4s. to £2 2s. Orchestra Stalls, 10s. 6d. Dress Circle, 7s.6d. Upper Circle, 5s, and 4s. Pít, 2s, Gallery, 1s. Telephone 3193 Gerrard. --- Extract from the Rules made by the Lord Chamberlain. (1.) The name of the actual and responsible Manager of the Theatre must be printed on every play bill. (2.) The Public can leave the Theatre at the end of the performance by all exit and entrance doors, which must open outwards. (3.) Where there is a fire-proof screen to the proscenium opening, it must be lowered at least once during every performance to ensure its being in proper working order (4.) Smoking is not permitted in the Auditorium (5.) All gangways, passages and staircases must b ekept free from chairs or any other obstructions, whether permanent or temporary. --- Business Manager - Mr. ALFRED COURTENAY --- NO FEES. Miss Ellen Terry does not permit fees to be received by any Attendant in the Theatre, and hopes that visitors will assist her in enforcing this rule, which has been made for their comfort. J.MILES & CO. LTD., 68-70, WARDOUR STREET, W. 3 6 03 4643

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--- PETER JONES, Ltd. Sloane Square FACE MASSAGE MANICURE CHIROPODY The LADIES' HAIR-DRESSING BOUDOIRS ARE NOW OPEN. HAIR SPECIALIST IN CONSTANT ATTENDANCE ONE MINUTE FROM SLOANE SQUARE STATION (DISTRICT RAILWAY). --- HAVE YOU SEEN THE MYSTERIOUS PICTURE OF "CHRISTUS" 35, NEW BOND ST. DAILY, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. 1/- --- Biscuits Guillout LATEST NOVELTIES IN PARISIAN BISCUITS Exquis, Regente, Abricotine, &c. Supplied at the Bars of this Theatre. --- Sole Purveyors to this Theatre. Fuller's American Confectionery 206, 207 & 209, Regent Street 113, Victoria Street, S. W. --- JAMES LYLE & Co. 15, OLD BOND STREET, SUPPLY THIS THEATRE WITH THE FINEST BLEND OF Tea. and. Coffee Deliclous in Taste. Delicious in Aroma. Sou Proprietors of THE CELEBRATED CLUB BLEND COFFEE ESTABLISHED 100 YEARS. --- THE CARLTON HOTEL AND RESTAURANT (PALL MALL) Only a few minutes drive from this Theatre. Telephone, 1598 Gerrard. In communcation with the Box Office. --- Cooper Machinka 36, Dover St. W. MODELS DE LUXE COURT GOWNS.. --- ONLY WORTHINGTON'S PALE ALE ON DRAUGHT AND IN BOTTLE ON SALE AT THE BARS. --- "THE MAGNUM" MINERAL WATERS As supplied to the House of Lords and this Theatre. HILLS, CHAPMAN & CO. LTD. VESTRY ROAD, CAMBERWELL, S.E --- THE STANSTED United Cream Ice Company, Ltd. For Puddings, Jellies, Bavaroises, &c. EXCLUSIVELY SUPPLY THIS THEATRE. 155, COMMERCIAL STREET, E. --- BRYANT & MAY'S SPECIAL PATENT SAFETY MATCHES Are used exclusively throughout the Bars of this Theatre. --- "CLAN MACKENZIE" 7 Year Old SCOTCH WHISKY ALL MALT Supplied at the Bars --- FELIXIR The finest Spirit of the Age. BETTER THAN WHISKY. BETTER THAN GIN... To be obtained at all the BARS of this Theatre.

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Document ID: ET-D266 Archive location: ET PROGS ET-D235-418, 1903 (BL) Loan 125/22/2