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		Directed by Graham Crowden
Ian McKellen in the role of Count Claudio
        
		Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
        
		6 March 1962 - 19 March 1962
        
CAST            
            | 
	Leonato | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Norman Henry | 
| A Messenger | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Christopher 
		Tranchell | 
| Don Pedro | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Bernard Brown | 
| 
		Don John | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Bernard Horsfall | 
| 
		Benedick | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Bernard Kilby | 
| Claudio | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Ian McKellen | 
| 
		Antonio | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Peter French | 
| Conrade | . . . . . . . . . . . . | David Warner | 
| 
		Borachio | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Denzil Ellis | 
| Boy | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Michael Everitt | 
| 
		Balthasar | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Christopher Tranchell | 
| 
		Dogberry | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Roy Godfrey | 
| First 
		Watchman | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Anthony Boden | 
| Second 
		Watchman | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Christopher Tranchell | 
| 
		Third Watchman | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Peter Cartwright | 
| Fourth 
		Watchman | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Patrick Chapman | 
| Friar 
		Francis | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Richard Simpson | 
| A 
		Sexton | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Peter Cartwright | 
| Hero | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Bridget Turner | 
| 
		Beatrice | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Gillian Raine | 
| Margaret | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Gillian Martell | 
| 
		Ursula | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Kristine Howarth | 
| A Lord | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Anthony Boden | 
| 
		A Lady | . . . . . . . . . . . . | Penelope Verney | 
            
OTHER CREDITS            
            Designed by 
Christopher Morley