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The production opened on 15 July 1949. The cast included Anthony Quayle as Henry VIII, Diana Wynyard as Queen Katherine, Harry Andrews as Cardinal Wolsey and Kathleen Michael as Anne Bullen.\n\nTanya Moiseiwitsch (1914-2003) was a prolific and innovative designer who was responsible for the set and costumes of <i>Henry VIII</i>. The critic Muriel St Clare Byrne wrote of it: 'When the audience entered the theatre, instead of seeing a curtain, they had before their eyes a lighted permanent set which remained unchanged and unhidden until the end. An excellent compromise between a platform and a picture-frame stage, it suggests a basic design which might well provide a happy and practicable solution to the problem of securing the effect of the Elizabethan stage within our modern theatres. Miss Tanya Moiseiwitsch is to be congratulated on the pleasing and dignified appearance as well as on the admirably functional qualities of this set, with its varied levels, its ample forestage, fifteen feet deep, and its well thought-out modifications and rearrangements of the gallery and the inner-stage.'\n\nLorna Whitehouse (1915-2003) was a British actress whose early career at the Old Vic from 1937 to 1939 was followed by a season at the Colchester Repertory Theatre in 1940. She appeared at the Stratford Memorial Theatre in 1948 and 1949, where her roles included Ursula in <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i>. 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