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Bartholomew Fair - Professional Productions

1950 - The Old Vic Company

directed by George Devine; opened at the Edinburgh Festival and moved to the Old Vic between 18 December 1950 and 13 January 1951

Reviewed in: The Stage, 21 December 1950 and Audrey Williamson, Old Vic Drama 2 (London: Rockliff, 1957), 53-5

1966 - The Bristol Old Vic Company

directed by Christopher Denys at the Little Theatre; autumn 1966

1969 - The Royal Shakespeare Company

directed by Terry Hands at the Aldwych, London; opened 29 October 1969

More on this production: photographs and review headlines

1970 - Tyneside Theatre Company

directed by Ann Stutfield at the Newcastle University Theatre, 30 November - 19 December 1970

1976 - *Nottingham Playhouse

directed by Richard Eyre at the Nottingham Playhouse; opened 10 June 1976

Reviewed in: Net Chaillet, Plays and Players, September 1976, 35

                     G. K. Hunter, RORD, 19 (1976), 85

1978 - *The Young Vic

directed by Michael Bogdanov at the Young Vic; 15 June - 29 July 1978 and on tour from 7 August 1978

Reviewed in: John Peter, The Sunday Times, 25 June 1978

                     Gillian Reynolds, Plays and Players, August 1978, 16-7

                     RORD, 21 (1978), 63-4

1978 - *The Roundhouse

directed by Peter Barnes at the Roundhouse; 2 August - 2 September 1978

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1988 - National Theatre Company

directed by Richard Eyre at the Olivier, National Theatre; opened on 14 October 1988

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1991 - Bristol Old Vic Theatre School with Company & Side By Side

director Richard Howard at the Bristol Old Vic

1996 - Globe Theatre

reading coordinated by Alan Cox; 12 May 1969

1997 - The Royal Shakespeare Company

directed by Laurence Boswell at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; opened on 4 December - press night 11 December 1997; transferred to Newcastle Playhouse, Newcastle-upon-Tyne for eight performances 29 September - 3 October 1998, to The Pavilions, Plymouth for seven performances 3 November - 7 November 1998, and performed at the Young Vic, London 24 February 1999

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