Roy Limbert

Roy Limbert (1893–1954) was a prominent London West End theatre director and producer between the 1930s and the 1950s.

Biography

The son of Charles Limbert and Florence Strahan Campbell, Roy Limbert was born in 1893 and educated at Bedford School.

In 1929, Limbert established the Malvern Festival, at the Festival Theatre, Malvern, with Sir Barry Jackson. He was joint director of the festival with Jackson until 1938, when he assumed sole control. Between 1929 and 1949, the Malvern Festival was primarily a festival of the work of George Bernard Shaw, producing twenty-two of his plays, six of them for the first time in England, one a world premiere.

Between 1932 and 1952, Limbert directed and produced a large number of highly successful London West End theatre productions.

Roy Limbert died on 29 November 1954.

London West End stage productions directed and produced by Roy Limbert

The School for Husbands, Royal Court Theatre, 1932 She Shall Have Music, Saville Theatre, 1934 Barnet’s Folly, Haymarket Theatre, 1935 The Last Trump, Duke of York's Theatre, 1938 Geneva, Saville Theatre, 1938, and St James's Theatre, 1939 Worth a Million, Saville Theatre, 1939 Music at Night, Westminster Theatre, 1939 In Good King Charles’s Golden Days, New Theatre, 1940 Rookery Nook, St Martin's Theatre, 1942 Mr Bolfry, Westminster Theatre, and subsequently Playhouse Theatre, 1943 It Depends What You Mean, Westminster Theatre, 1944 The Forrigan Reel, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 1945 Dr Angelus, Phœnix Theatre, 1946 School for Spinsters, Criterion Theatre, 1947 The Anatomist, Westminster Theatre, 1948 Miss Mabel, Duchess Theatre, subsequently Royal Strand Theatre, 1948 Two Dozen Red Roses, Lyric Theatre, 1949 Lady Audley’s Secret, Princes Theatre, 1949 Buoyant Billions, Princes Theatre, 1949 Black Chiffon, Westminster Theatre, 1949, 1950 Background, Westminster Theatre, 1950 Journey’s End, Westminster Theatre, 1950 Lace on Her Petticoat, Ambassadors Theatre, 1950 Beauty And The Beast, Westminster Theatre, 1950 The Martins’ Nest, Westminster Theatre, 1951 Taking Things Quietly, Ambassadors Theatre, 1951 Winter Sport, on tour, 1951 The Day’s Mischief, Duke of York's Theatre, 1951–52