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Sir Nigel Ross Playfair (1 July 1874 – 19 August 1934) was an English actor and director, known particularly as actor-manager of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, in the 1920s. After acting as an amateur while practising as a lawyer, he turned professional in 1902 when he was 28.
Nigel Playfair. Actor: Lady Windermere's Fan. When one thinks of the great English actors who have been knighted, one thinks of Sir Henry Irving, the greatest actor of the middle-to-late Victorian period who became the first thespian to have a sovereign's sword patted on both shoulders in 1895, or the likes of Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, the ...
Feb 26, 2022 · Sat 4 Feb 2023 15:00. BBC Radio 4. Opening Lines. John Yorke unpacks the themes behind the stories in Radio 4's weekend afternoon dramas. The Shakespeare Sessions. Immerse yourself in Shakespeare’s...
Nigel Playfair is the author of R.U.R. (3.83 avg rating, 14712 ratings, 1009 reviews, published 1920), R.U.R. and The Insect Play (3.72 avg rating, 247 r...
Sir Nigel Playfair. (1874-1934), Actor-manager. Sitter associated with 4 portraits. Actor and theatre manager, Playfair made his professional debut as Mr Melrose in A Pair of Knickerbockers (1902).
Sir Nigel Playfair (1874 - 1934) RA Collection: People and Organisations Profile. Born: 1874 Died: 1934. Gender: Male. Share
Sir Nigel Playfair had a taste for the bold. ONLY FORTNUM'S. As actor and manager of London’s Lyric Theatre, he would proudly flout tradition, most famously so in 1919 with an unconventional production of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’.
