Why we’ve got 1930s theater all wrong
Marie Tempest and John Gielgud in the first staging of Dear Octopus from 1938 – Performing Arts Images / ArenaPAL The opening night of Dodie Smith’s Dear Octopus at the Queen’s Theater on September 14, 1938, unveiled against the backdrop of Hitler’s maneuvers in Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland, was unlike almost any other West End opening before … Read more