This verse play by TS Eliot concerning the murder of Becket, had its London premiere at The Duchess Theatre in 1936.
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Murder in the Cathedral - London premiere
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Duchess Theatre
Duchess Theatre The Duchess Theatre began a distinguished career as a home f...
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Bill Kenwright
Born Liverpool. West End theatre producer and chairman of Everton Football Club.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Emma Cons
Social reformer and theatre manager. Born London. Knew and was influenced by Octavia Hill, John Ruskin and Henrietta Barnett. Her involvement in the temperance movement led to her taking on the lea...
Person, Gender Issues, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Theatre
3 memorials
George Bernard Shaw
Born Dublin. Socialist, member of the Fabian Society. Plays include: Saint Joan, Major Barbara and Pygmalion on which My Fair Lady is based. Didn't like his first name, "Don't George me!" so is oft...
Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, Seriously Famous, Theatre, Ireland
5 memorials
His Majesty's Theatre / Her Majesty's Theatre
In 1705 Vanbrugh completed the Queen's Theatre, named in honour of Queen Anne, which quickly became informally known as the Haymarket Opera House (not to be confused with the Theatre Royal Haymarke...
4 memorials
Previously viewed
1 memorial
World War 1
We'd always assumed that this war was known as the Great War until WW2 came along at which point it was renamed as World War One or the First World War. But the term was first used in print in 1920...
402 memorials
1 memorial
Sir Francis Ronalds
Inventor and meteorologist. Probably born in London. He successfully sent messages through an eight mile long primitive electric telegraph by looping wire enclosed in glass tubes all around his bac...
2 memorials
Samuel Lewis
Moneylender and philanthropist. A jew, born in a slum in Birmingham, who worked his way into being an established travelling jeweller by 1867, when he married and came with his wife, Ada, to London...
2 memorials
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