Title: Liverpool Playhouse : a theatre and its city /
Authors: Merkin, Ros.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Liverpool Playhouse (Liverpool, England) History.; Repertory theater England Liverpool History.
Contents: Introduction -- The start of the experiment -- From trial to theatre -- Basil Dean, 1911-1913 -- Laurence Hanray, 1913-14 -- World War One and the commonwealth -- William Armstrong, 1922-1944 -- Maud Carpenter -- War and the Old Vic -- John Fernald, 1946-1949 -- Gerald Cross, 1949-1951 -- Willard Stoker, 1951-1962 -- Bernard Hepton, 1962-63 -- Ronald Settle and Joan Ovens -- David Scase, 1963-1967 -- Kay Gardner, 1967-1969 -- Antony Tuckey, 1969-1975 -- Studio 1 -- Leslie Lawton, 1975-1979 -- William Gaunt, 1979-1981 -- Gang of Four, 1981-1984 -- Studio 2 -- Jules Wright, 1985-1986 -- Ian Kellgren, 1986-1991 -- "It's too good to lose" -- Bill Kenwright, 1991-1996 -- Studio 3 -- Richard Williams, 1996-1998 -- Jo Beddoe, 1999-2003 -- Gemma Bodinetz and Deborah Aydon, 2003-