''A Sleeping Clergyman'' is a 1933

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in Two Acts by

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. Directed by H. K. Ayliff, it opened at Malvern's Festival Theatre in July 1933, before moving to London's

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in September, where it ran for 230 performances. It then transferred to

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's Guild Theatre in October 1934, where it closed after 40 performances. It was revived, again with

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, at London’s

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in 1947.

Plot

Hereditary evil runs through three generations of a medical family, in the 'conflict of social morality and natural desires' - the dissolute and murderous Camerons (from 1867 to 1935) - before a son and daughter finally redeem the family name.

Original cast

*A Sleeping Clergyman ... Godfrey Baxter *Dr. Cooper ...

Wilson Coleman Wilson Coleman (1873–1940) was a British actor. He started his stage career in 1891, playing juvenile and heavy parts. He worked with Barry Jackson for five years. He toured both North and South America as well as South Africa. His hobbies w ...

*Dr. Coots ... Alexander Sarner *Wilkinson ... Frank Moore *Charles Cameron the First ...

*Mrs. Hannah ... Beatrix Feilden-Kaye *Dr. Marshall ...

Ernest Thesiger Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger, CBE (15 January 1879 – 14 January 1961) was an English stage and film actor. He is noted for his performance as Doctor Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's film ''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1935). Biography E ...

*Harriet Marshall ...

Dorice Fordred Dorice Fordred (25 November 19024 August 1980) was a South African actress, best known for character parts and Shakespearean roles on the London stage.'Miss Dorice Fordred: Noted stage actress', ''The Times'', August 13, 1980. The ''Brooklyn Dai ...

*Cousin Minnie ...

Sophie Stewart Sophie Stewart (5 March 1908 – 6 June 1977) was a British actress of stage and screen. Biography She was born as Sophia Lyal Drummond Stewart in Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland in March 1908 and died in June 1977 at the age of 69, in Cupa ...

*Aunt Walker ... Isabel Thornton *Wilhelmina Cameron ... Dorice Fordred *John Hannah ...

Bruce Belfrage Bruce Belfrage (30 October 1900 – August 1974) was an English actor and BBC radio newsreader.Obituary in ''The Times'', ''Mr Bruce Belfrage'', 17 August 1974, p.14 He was casting director at the BBC between 1936 and 1939, and founded th ...

*A Sergeant ...

Arthur Hambling Arthur Hambling (14 March 1888 – 6 December 1952) was a British actor, on stage from 1912, and best known for appearances in the films ''Henry V'' (1944) and ''The Lavender Hill Mob'' (1951). In 1939 he appeared in the West End in N.C. Hunter ...

*A Constable ... John Rae *Charles Cameron the Second ... Robert Donat *Donovan ... Walter Roy *Lady Todd Walker ...

Eileen Beldon Eileen Beldon (12 September 1901 – 3 August 1985) was an English stage and film actress. She had a successful career as a Shakespearean actress as well as in modern repertory theatre. Biography Eileen Beldon was born on 12 September 1901 in ...

*Sir Douglas Todd Walker ...

Evelyn Roberts Evelyn Roberts (28 August 1886 – 30 November 1962) was an English stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1918 after serving in WW I; and his theatre work included the original Broadway production of R.C. Sherriff's ''Journey's E ...

*Hope Cameron ... Dorice Fordred *Little Thing ... Phyllis Shand *Dr. Purley ... Whitmore Humphreys *Lady Katherine Helliwell ... Pamela Carme *Dr. Coutts ... Alexander Sarner *A Medical Student ... Kenneth Fraser

Adaptations

The play was later adapted for radio and broadcast on the

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