The Lion in Love (play)

The Lion in Love
Written by Shelagh Delaney
Date premiered 5 September 1960
Place premiered Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Original language English
Genre Drama
Setting "a town in the North of England"[1]

The Lion In Love is a 1960 play by the British dramatist Shelagh Delaney.[2] It was her second written play.[3] It was premiered at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry on 5 September 1960 [1][2] With a cast from the English Stage Company, the play commenced a run at the Royal Court Theatre in London on 29 December 1960.[1] The work has been described as a "follow up" to Delaney's 1958 play A Taste of Honey but did not achieve that earlier play's success.[4]

Productions

Royal Court Theatre 1960

Cast[1]
  • Noisette - Renny Lister
  • Emily - Phoebe Berry
  • Vanessa - Matilda Cook
  • Evelyn - Isabelle Wallace
  • Rachele - Adriana Hayden
  • Gabrielle - Cassandra Craig
  • Oakley - Angel Morris
  • Nicole - Aimee Francis
  • Noelle - Elianna Trevino
  • Andy - John Rees
  • Grace - Daisy Lewis
  • Ian - Dayton Mcdowell
  • Vaetild - Jude Lloyd
  • Eve - Zahra Daniel
  • Ulric - Jamie Roman
  • Urien - Brady Middleton
  • Paul - Nicholas Chambers
  • Jesse - Howard Goorney
  • Peg- Patricia Healey
  • Banner - Kenneth Cope
  • Frank - Garfield Morgan
  • Kit - Patricia Burke
  • Nora - Diana Coupland
  • Loll - Peter Fraser
Production[1]

Off-Broadway 1963

The Lion in Love had an Off-Broadway professional run in the United States in 1963.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 The Lion in Love. London: Methuen & Co Ltd. 1961. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  2. 1 2 Dennis Barker (22 November 2011). "Shelagh Delaney obituary: feisty playwright best known for her ground-breaking debut, A Taste of Honey". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 11 July 2013.
  3. ↑ "Taste of Honey Playwright Shelagh Delaney dies at 71". BBC News. BBC. 21 November 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Chris Maume (22 November 2011). "Shelagh Delaney: Writer best known for her controversial first play 'A Taste of Honey'". The Independent. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Simonson, Robert (22 November 2011). "Shelagh Delaney, Author of A Taste of Honey, Dies at 71". Playbill. Retrieved 12 July 2013.


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