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John Gielgud saw his work and invited Andreu to create the costumes and settings for <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i> at Stratford-upon-Avon in 1949.  The production was a great success and was toured and revived in Stratford and London. Andreu went on to design a number of productions in Britain during the 1950s, including <i>Hamlet </i>with Alec Guinness as the Prince at the New Theatre, London, and Berlioz's opera <i>The Trojans </i>at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.\n\n<i>All Well That Ends Well</i> was directed by Noel Willman, with Joyce Redman as Helena, Rosalind Atkinson as the Countess and Michael Denison as Bertram. The costume shown in this design was worn by Richard Coe. Theatre critic Ivor Brown, summing up the production in a published photographic record of the 1954 - 1956 Stratford seasons, called the design 'sumptuous in the Caroline manner: if play and performance were not always a satisfaction to the ear and mind, the eye was constantly gratified by a pageant of cavaliers'.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Costume design for a Courtier in <i>All's Well That Ends Well</i>, showing a full-length male figure in 1630s style costume. He wears a rust coloured doublet and breeches, a wide-collared white shirt, white stockings and black shoes, a narrow-brimmed black plumed hat and has a short gold trimmed black cloak over his left shoulder. 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