Ruth Oppenheim

(****-****). Actress. Performed in Human Voice, L’Amante Anglaise, White Liars, Six Characters in Search of an Author (as “Mother” with Barney Simon at the Arena Theatre), Grand Ceremonial and in The Jewish Wife.

Ruth Oppenheim occupied the Windmill Theatre with her core company and staged Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author in April 1955. The company of actors was led by Berdine Grünewald. Oppenheim’s company also staged Albert Camus’ Caligula with Stanley Coghan; Christopher Isherwood’s I Am A Camera with Tessa Laubscher; a season of Grand Guignol and a stage version of André Gide’s novella, The Immoralist starring Charles Stodel, Stanley Coghan and Berdine Grünewald.

Sources

(SACD 1973, 1974, 1978/79)

Percy Tucker, 1997

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