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Liverpool was well-served for London productions that year, and the following week's play, advertised on the poster for <i>Macbeth</i> but not the hanging card, was a post-London tour of Cocteau's intellectual Ruritanian melodrama <i>The Eagle Has Two Heads</i> from the Theatre Royal Haymarket starring Eileen Herlie (1918-2008): she made her career overnight as the Queen when the play was first produced at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith in 1946, performing the sensational 21 minute speech by candlelight which was thought at the time to be the longest speech in the history of the stage.\n\nThis hanging card, and a poster and programme for <i>Macbeth</i>, were kept by the actor Richard Bebb (1927-2006) as a souvenir of his professional debut as one of the Watchmen at Dunsinane. He is credited here with his original name Richard Bebb Williams, which he later changed, using his mother's name Bebb as his surname since there was another actor at the time called Richard Williams.\n\n","physicalDescription":"Typographic hanging card printed in red and black advertising Michael Redgrave and Ena Burrill in <i>Macbeth</i> by William Shakespeare directed by Norris Houghton, at the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, week commencing 10 November 1947.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"John Waddington Ltd.","id":"A4538"},"association":{"text":"printer","id":"x30811"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"card","id":"x30344"}],"techniques":[{"text":"printing","id":"AAT53319"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Printing ink on card","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Posters","id":"THES252963"},{"text":"Shakespeare","id":"THES253244"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2014HD7671"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"002","id":"THES345262"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"posters","id":"AAT27221"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Leeds","id":"x28967"},"association":{"text":"printed","id":"x46159"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1947","earliest":"1947-01-01","latest":"1947-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"S.612-2014","id":"O1286066"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"Given by Richard Bebb","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"63.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"33.3","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"The hanging card gives the cast of <i>Macbeth</i> as Michael Redgrave, Michael Goodliffe, Douglas Wilmer, William March, Roger Braban, Hector MacGregor, Leslie Sands, Alan Hood, Donald Bain, Richard Bebb Williams, Elizabeth Kentish, Margot van der Burgh, Keith Lloyd, Paddy Green, Janet Joye, Gillian Webb, Michael O'Halloran, Olivier Ford, Clement McCallin, Clement Ashby, Wilfred Carter, Paul Hardwick, Leonard White, Paul Hansard, Stephen Darlot, Peter Bartlett, Lesley Merritt, John Blatchley and Eda Burrill. The play was directed by Norris Houghton with 'decor' by Paul Sherriff and incidental music by Alan Bush, and was produced by Tennent Productions Ltd., in association with The Arts Council of Great Britain.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Hanging card advertising <i>Macbeth</i> by William Shakespeare at the Royal Court Theatre Liverpool for the week commencing 10 November 1947. Typographic hanging card printed in red and black on cream card, with red string for suspension. 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