St Helena (play)


St Helena: a play in twelve scenes is a play by the English author R. C. Sherriff and Jeanne de Casalis. It deals with the exile of Napoleon I on Saint Helena. In a production by Henry Cass, it premiered at the Old Vic on 4 February 1936 to poor reviews, but was rescued by a letter to The Times by Winston Churchill, calling it "a remarkable play" and "a work of art of a very high order"; though a West End transfer also proved unsuccessful.

Original cast

Denis Carew
John Jameson
John Kennedy
John Jameson
The play opened at Broadway's Lyceum Theatre in October 1936, with Maurice Evans as Napoleon, and ran for 63 performances.