All dates from The Times digital archive
Queen’s – Aspern Papers – ad (continuing run from 1959)
Monday, Mar 06, 1961
BBC third programme, St Joan of the stockyards, Beatrix Lehmann as Mrs Luckermiddle, a worker’s wife.
Wednesday, Jun 21, 1961
ATV Play of the week (broadcast television), The Paper Palace by Robert Harling. “a tangled tale well acted”
Miss Beartrix Lehmann as the dead man’s mother stole the play in her relatively brief appearances.
Tuesday, Sep 12, 1961
Bristol Mother Courage, which opens Nov 7 Miss Beatrix Lehmann will join the company to play Brecht’s heroine. (till 27)
Wednesday, Nov 08, 1961
ATV play of the week, The candidate, with James Glover. Other principle roles were less fully developed than Glover’s but Miss Brenda Bruce as his wife, MBL as his most cantankerous opponent … brought them vividly to life.
Saturday, Mar 17, 1962
Amazing photo of Beatrix as The Mummy
BBC The Ghost Sonata – “a battle of wills between the mummy and the demonic old man, the dramatic power of what was happening in front of the camera made up for a certain lack of interest in the way it was staged and recorded. This was largely the result of two finely extravagant performances, from Mr. Robert Helpmann, whose Old Man recalled irresistibly his satanic doll maker in The tales of Hoffman and MBL who grew in conviction as the Mummy she played took on strength and life again.
Saturday, May 04, 1963;
BBC television Shakespeare series – Coriolanus – Miss Beatrix Lehmann as Volumnia and Mr Roland Culver as Meneius are unlikely to arouse such division of opinion as they are both admirable.
Wednesday, Jul 01, 1964;
Birthdays - Beatrix Lehamnn is 61
Wednesday, Oct 07, 1964;
Royal Court Theatre – A cuckoo in the nest.
Miss Beatrix Lehmann returns to the stage after four years in films and television to play the redoubtable Mrs Poker
Friday, Oct 23, 1964;
Royal Court Theatre – A cuckoo in the nest – review and photo
Beatrix in a play with Miss Polly James
Though Beatrix Lehmann may have done more with the terrifying properties than merely hooding her eyes monotonously grating the lines…
Thursday, Oct 29, 1964
Film – Psyche 59
“sort of film which sets one seriously wondering whether one has gone quite mad. .. those caught in the web include … Miss Beatrix Lehmann"
Thursday, Jul 01, 1965;
Birthday – 62
Friday, Jul 01, 1966;
Birthday – 63
Wednesday, Oct 19, 1966
National Theatre – The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky – review – photo
“naïve cliché studded melodrama”
But there is nothing exotic in Beatrix Lehmann’s performance as the mother in law, a bourgeois gorgon whom one can imagine in a Trollope parsonage, or Frank Finlay’s Dikoy, whose volcanic bursts of fury are scaled down to comic petulance.
Thursday, Mar 30, 1967;
Letter to dissociate bombing of Vietnam!
Thursday, May 18, 1967;
Mermaid Theatre Euripides double Bill – review and photo of Beatrix as Hecuba
"On its own melodramatic ground the evening packs some punches – notably the blinding scene in Hecuba with Beatrix Lehmann spreading her arms like a vampire bat as she ushers Polymestor’s brood into her den…. Besides Miss Lehmann admirable in anger but verging on parody in pathos…"
Saturday, Jul 01, 1967
Birthday 64
Saturday, Feb 03, 1968;
Purcell room BL (no other detail besides London engagements)
Thursday, Apr 25, 1968;
Letter signed for democracy in Greece and for women political prisoners on the Greek Islandof Yioudra to be freed by BL and 40 other British women
Wednesday, May 29, 1968;
BBC television (BBC2) – 30 minute theatre, Walk in the Dark by John Wiles, with BL
Monday, Jul 01, 1968;
Birthday 65
Monday, Jul 29, 1968;
A great part for Beatrix Lehmann – headline
But she isn’t actually appearing in the play!
Saturday, Jun 14, 1969;
Comedy Theatre, The night I chased the women with an eel by William Payne,
Friday, Jun 27, 1969 Friday, Jul 04, 1969;
Comedy Theatre, The night I chased the women with an eel – ad
Tuesday, Jul 01, 1969;
Birthday 66
Wednesday, Jul 09, 1969
Comedy Theatre - The night I chased the women with an eel by William Payne, - review
A young factory worker stifled equally by his job, his wife and his mother at home who makes a sad attempt to escape by taking a correspondence course and finally relapses into defeat.
His mother is a possessive monster who blackmails the family with bad health and the bible.
At one moment we are in the midst of modern black farce, and at the next engulfed in a melodramatic poisoning episode that might have been written in the 1920s (opportunities for this kind of thing are seized by Beatrix Lehmann with grotesque over emphasis) The play in short has taken a serious social theme and converted it into a cheap stage currency.
Saturday, Jul 12, 1969; Wednesday, Jul 16, 1969, Saturday, Jul 19, 1969 Friday, Jul 25, 1969; Monday, Jul 28, 1969
Comedy Theatre, The night I chased the women with an eel – ad
“whole hearted admiration” - Times “truly wonderful actress” – Telegraph top billing
A dazzling domestic uproar – news of the world, Brilliant excellent cast – standard Blazingly funny –mirror
Thursday, Dec 04, 1969
Letter about motorways signed by BL among others
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