Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

The 1st Artistic Director was Laurier Lister who delighted audiences from his opening production with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave in A Month In The Country; the powerful performance by Max Adrian of The Cardinal of Spain; Sybil Thorndike's penultimate role as the murderess in The Viaduct; Wendy Hiller and Gladys Cooper in Somerset Maugham's The Sacred Flame; Alec Guinness's riveting scientist in Time out of Mind to A Midsummer Night's Dream which featured the complete Mendelssohn Score, especially recorded by a sixty piece orchestra.