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1926 play by John Galsworthy
Escape John Galsworthy . The world premiere was on August 12, 1926[1] Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End , produced by Leon M. Lion . The play ran until March of the following year, when it went on tour of England with Gerald Ames in the lead role.[2]
Subsequently, the play transferred to Broadway where it was produced and staged by Winthrop Ames [3] Booth Theatre , New York City .[4] Burns Mantle 's The Best Plays of 1927–1928 .
The play was made into a film in 1930.[5]
Former World War I British Army Captain Matt Denant protects a poor prostitute from an over-persistent plainclothes police detective. In a scuffle Denant hits the officer who as a result falls, striking his head, and dies. Denant gets sentenced to Dartmoor Prison for manslaughter and escapes from a work detail. The plot is a series of episodes where Denant meets people who will either abet or obstruct his escape thus becoming a study in class structure and ethos according to Galsworthy's interpretation of 1920s British society.
Cast of UK Premiere in order of appearance [ edit ]
Source:[6]
Nicholas Hannen as Captain Matt Denant
Ursula Jeans as girl of the town
Charles Koop as plainclothes man and the Dartmoor constable
Harold Lester as the policeman
Cyril Hardingham as the other policeman and the labourer
Leon M. Lion as the fellow convict, old gentleman
Gerard Clifton as the warder, the captain
Stafford Hilliard as the other warder, the man in plus fours and the bellringer
Dorothy Batley as the shingled lady
Phyllis Konstam as the maid and the wife of man in plus fours[5]
Paul Gill as the shopkeeper and the farmer
Ethel Manning as wife of the shopkeeper
Ann Codrington as sister of the shopkeeper and Miss Grace
Betty Astell as the little girl
Margaret Halstan as Miss Dora
Austin Trevor as the parson (also in NYC cast)
Cast of US Premiere in order of appearance [ edit ]
Leslie Howard as Captain Matt Denant
Henrietta Goodwin as girl of the town
Edgar B. Kent as plainclothes man, the other warder and the Dartmoor constable
A. B. I. Imeson, the policeman and the warder
F. Cecil Butler as the other policeman and the other laborer
St. Clair Bayfield as the captain and the laborer
Laurence Hanray as the fellow convict, the old gentleman and the farmer
Frieda Inescort as the shingled lady
Geraldine Kay as little girl
Lois Heatherley as Miss Grace
Renee Macredy as Miss Dora
Cyrena Smith as the maid
Alan Trotter as the man in Plus fours and the bellringer
Viva Tattersall as wife of man in Plus fours
J. P. Wilson as shopkeeper
Lily Kerr as wife of shopkeeper
Ruth Vivian as sister of shopkeeper
Austin Trevor as the parson (also in UK cast)
Adaptations [ edit ]
Newspaper advertisement for The Campbell Playhouse presentation of "Escape" (October 15, 1939)
Escape was adapted for the 1930 film Escape 1948 .[7]
A radio adaptation of play was broadcast in two parts August 15 and August 22, 1937, on the Columbia Workshop [8] : 338
The play was adapted for the October 15, 1939, episode of the CBS Radio series The Campbell Playhouse Orson Welles (Matt Denant), Wendy Barrie (Lady in the hotel), Ray Collins (Murdered cop, Forgiving Judge, Unforgiving Farmer), Jack Smart (another Cop, Farmhand), Edgar Barrier (Priest and Cabbie), Bea Benaderet (Girl in park, Woman at picnic), Harriet Kay (Maid), Mabel Albertson (Bessie) and Benny Rubin (Man at picnic).[8] : 354 [9] : 57 [10] [11]
References [ edit ]
^ Surrey Mirror, p5 Friday 12 August 1927 - www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
^ "Production of Escape - Theatricalia" . theatricalia.com .
^ League, The Broadway. "Escape – Broadway Play – Original - IBDB" . www.ibdb.com .
^ a b "Phyllis Konstam" . Initiatives of Change UK . Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 2 March 2020 .
^ The Magazine - Programme No.605, Grantley & Co.Ltd, 28 Leicester Square, London WC2
^ Goble, Alan (1 January 1999). The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film ISBN 9783110951943
^ a b Welles, Orson ; Bogdanovich, Peter ; Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1992). This is Orson Welles HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 0-06-016616-9
^ Orson Welles on the Air: The Radio Years. New York: The Museum of Broadcasting , catalogue for exhibition October 28–December 3, 1988.
^ "The Campbell Playhouse" . RadioGOLDINdex. Archived from the original on 6 December 2014. Retrieved 15 August 2017 .
^ "The Campbell Playhouse: Escape" . Orson Welles on the Air, 1938–1946 . Indiana University Bloomington. 15 October 1939. Retrieved 31 July 2018 .
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