''Waiting for Gillian'' is a 1954 play by the British writer
Ronald Millar
Sir Ronald Graeme Millar (12 November 1919 – 16 April 1998) was an English actor, scriptwriter, and dramatist.
Life and career
After attending Charterhouse School, Millar studied at King's College, Cambridge for a year before joining th ...
. It is based on the 1951 novel ''
A Way Through the Wood
''A Way Through the Wood'' is a 1951 novel by the British writer Nigel Balchin. A car accident exposes a family's deep-buried secret.
In 1954 it was adapted by Ronald Millar into a stage play, '' Waiting for Gillian'', which ran in the West End ...
'' by
Nigel Balchin
Nigel Marlin Balchin (3 December 1908 – 17 May 1970)Peter Rowland, "Balchin, Nigel Marlin (1908–1970)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, accessed 9 December 2008 was an English psyc ...
.
It was first staged at the
Manchester Opera House before transferring to
St James's Theatre in London's
West End where it ran for 101 performances. The cast included
John McCallum
John McCallum (born 9 April 1950) is a Canadian politician, economist, diplomat and former university professor. A former Liberal Member of Parliament ( MP), McCallum was the Canadian Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2019. He was asked for h ...
,
Googie Withers
Georgette Lizette Withers, CBE, AO (12 March 191715 July 2011), known professionally as Googie Withers, was an English entertainer who was a dancer and actress with a lengthy career spanning some nine decades in theatre, film, and television. ...
,
Frank Lawton and
Norman Pierce.
[Wearing p.302]
References
Bibliography
* Wearing, J.P. ''The London Stage 1950-1959: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel''. Rowman & Littlefield, 2014.
1954 plays
Plays by Ronald Millar
West End plays
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