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Hide and Seek
A play in three acts by Stanley Mann and Roger MacDougall. Opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York City, April 2, 1957, and ran for 7 performances. Produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe, Mark Marvin and Gabriel Katska. Staged by Reginald Denham. Setting and lighting by Ralph Alswang; costumes by Virginia Volland. The play closed April 6, 1957.
Cast of characters
| Saul | Peter Lazer |
| Michael | Walter Brooke |
| Judy | Marilyn Siegel |
| Ann Richards | Geraldine Fitzgerald |
| Janice | Dolores Dorn-Heft |
| Tom Richards |
Barry Morse (replaced Franchot Tone)* |
| Sir Roger Johnson | Basil Rathbone |
| Margo Johnson | Isobel Elsom |
| Gregson | Carl Harbord |
| The entire action takes place inside and outside a
cottage in Warwick, England. |
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| Act I — A morning in spring Act II — That evening. Act III — Twenty minutes later |
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"A play about a British nuclear scientist at work on a Government
project he loathes--for mutilating people before birth. If he quits, however, he
faces being made a security risk. The action involves a lethal radioactive egg
missing from the lab, which is very possible the egg the scientist's young son
is known to have been toting around. This situation injects some scary moments
into the final act; but Hide and Seek puts all its eggs in one basket,
all its theatre into one scene; the play in general is no less talky than
unconvincing, and as full of digressions as of longueurs."
[from The Best Plays of 1956-57, ed. by Louis Kronenberger (Dodd, Mead and
Co., 1957), pages 364-365.]
*Prior to opening on Broadway, "Hide and Seek" was performed at the National Theatre, Washington DC (March 18-23) and the Shubert Theatre, New Haven (March 25-30). Franchot Tone played the role of "Tom Richards" in the out-of-town tryouts in Washington DC and New Haven. However, due to illness, he left the show and Barry Morse joined the cast just a couple of days before the show opened on Broadway.
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