mortimer, touch, comedy, play, british, writer, eric, linklater, developed, earlier, work, atom, doctor, which, appeared, 1950, edinburgh, festival, drew, inspiration, from, jonson, alchemist, written, byeric, linklaterdate, premiered31, march, 1952place, prem. The Mortimer Touch is a comedy play by the British writer Eric Linklater 1 2 It was developed out of an earlier work of his The Atom Doctor which appeared at the 1950 Edinburgh Festival and drew inspiration from Ben Jonson s The Alchemist The Mortimer TouchWritten byEric LinklaterDate premiered31 March 1952Place premieredWimbledon Theatre LondonOriginal languageEnglishGenreComedySettingEdinburgh Scotland It premiered at the Wimbledon Theatre before transferring to the Duke of York s Theatre in the West End where it ran for 45 performances between 30 April and 7 June 1952 The original West End cast included Mervyn Johns Roger Livesey Richard Pearson George Relph William Mervyn Harry Towb Vincent Holman Mona Washbourne Pamela Brown Esma Cannon Glen Alyn and Molly Urquhart 3 It was published the same year by Samuel French 4 References edit Royle p 178 Reilly p 782 Wearing p 160 Reilly p 782Bibliography editReilly John M Twentieth Century Crime amp Mystery Writers Springer 2015 Royle Trevor The Macmillan Companion to Scottish Literature Macmillan 1983 Wearing J P The London Stage 1950 1959 A Calendar of Productions Performers and Personnel Rowman amp Littlefield 2014 nbsp This article on a play from the 1950s is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Mortimer Touch amp oldid 1083530408, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
