George Hume: theatre general manager at Stratford-upon-Avon Posted on August 23rd
George Hume was general manager of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at
Stratford-upon-Avon, now the Royal Shakespeare Company, for ten years.
Brought in to be the director Anthony Quayle’s right-hand man, he presided
over the great Shakespeare revival, in which, as well as Quayle himself,
virtually all the biggest theatre names of the time took part: Richard
Burton, John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft,
Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh and Peter Brook.