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The White Guard

By Mikhail Bulgakov

(Translated by Michael Glenny)

RSC

Aldwych Theatre London, 23rd May 1979


A state of mind and body, Theatre Magazine 1979
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Equally subtle is Michael Pennington’s Shervinsky whose debonair manner seems ingrained…

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I liked particularly…Michael Pennington’s handsome, vain and shifty Shervinsky

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