Person    | Male  Born 29/5/1885  Died 4/5/1959

Ashley Dukes

Categories: Theatre

Playwright, critic and theatre manager. Founded the Mercury Theatre. Husband of Dame Marie Rambert.

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Ashley Dukes

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Mercury Theatre

Here stood the Mercury Theatre, 1931 - 1987, founded by author and playwright...

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A Grade II listed building, designed by architect Lewin Sharp. It was the venue for the first British production of Harold Brighouse's very English comedy 'Hobson's Choice', which curiously had it...

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Walter Macqueen-Pope

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