Play: Volpone

Theatre / City:Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith/Regent Theatre, King's Cross

Dates:30 Jan., 1 Feb. 1921/29 June 1923

Company: Phoenix Society

Director / Producer: Allan Wade

Actors: Volpone - Balliol Holloway; Mosca - Ion Swinley/Rupert Harvey; Voltore - D. Lewin Mannering; Corbaccio - Stanley Lathbury; Corvino - George Zucco; Bonario - Murray Kinnell; Peregrine - William Armstrong; Sir Politic Would-be - Eugene Leahy; Lady Would-be - Margaret Yarde; Celia - Isabel Jeans

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Reviews / Production History: H&S, +H270 9.207; The Era , 9 Feb. 1921; Frank Swinnerton, 'The drama: Volpone', Nation & Athenaeum , 5 Feb. 1921, 633; St John Ervine, 'Volpone revived', Observer , 6 Feb. 1921, 9; Saturday Review , 5 Feb. 1921; Tarn, 'Volpone at the Phoenix ', Spectator , 5 Feb. 1921, 170; The Stage , 3 Feb. 1921; Sunday Times , 6 Feb. 1921; Times , 2 Feb. 1921; A.P., 'Volpone', Spectator , 7 July 1923, 14; G. G., ' Jonson and Fletcher ', Saturday Review , 7 July 1923, 10-11; T. S. Eliot, 'The Phoenix Society's production of Volpone', The Dial 70 (June 1921), 686-7; Desmond MacCarthy, ' Ben Jonson : an object lesson', New Statesman , 5 Feb. 1921, 530-2