Preface: a personal search for theatre of the people
Acknowledgments
The actor-manager's temperament
Hamlet at the Malvern Festival Theatre, October 1937
Selections from Shakespeare at the Strand Theatre, 1940-41
Richard III at St. Francis Theatre, Letchworth, September 1941
A midsummer night's dream at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Cardiff, September 1942
The merchant of Venice at the Opera House, Manchester, October 1943
King Lear at the Scala Theatre, London, April 1944
Twelfth night at the Grand Theatre, Leeds, October 1945
Othello at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, November 1946
As you like it at His Majesty's Theatre, Montreal, January, March 1947
The Merry wives of Windsor at the Bedford Theatre, Camden Town, March 1949
Macbeth at the Dudley Hippodrome, October 1950
The taming of the shrew at the King's Theatre, Hammersmith, April 1953
The legacy.