Ashley Dukes
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Ashley Dukes
(1885–1959) Complete man of the English theatre, being by turns a critic (New Age, Star, and Illustrated London News), dramatist, translator, producer, and manager. He championed the more innovative work of his contemporaries while acting as English editor for Theatre Arts Monthly and worked zealously to get staged in London the best of continental playwriting, translating extensively to that end from French and German drama, especially work in the expressionist style. His own plays, notably The Man with a Load of Mischief, are characterized, remarkably for the 1930s, by their thematic focus on social and racial tolerance. In 1933 he created the Mercury Theatre in Notting Hill, providing a platform for experimental verse drama; by bringing Murder in the Cathedral to London he launched T. S. Eliot's theatrical career. Dukes consistently supported his wife Marie Rambert in working to establish her dance company from 1931, also at the Mercury.
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Ashley Dukes
Ashley Dukes (29 May 1885 – 4 May 1959) was an English playwright, critic, and theatre manager.
In 1933, he founded the Mercury Theatre of London and wrote plays that appeared in the London West End and on Broadway. The Ashley Dukes Company was an important interwar promoter of serious drama, and a training ground for actors.[1]
He was the husband of Marie Rambert as well as the older brother of British MI6 spy Paul Dukes and respected pathologist Cuthbert Dukes.
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- Ashley Dukes at the Internet Broadway Database
- Ashley Dukes at the Internet Movie Database
- Find-A-Grave page
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