He designed William Shakespeare's play, "Much Ado About Nothing," in the Stratford Theatre Festival at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford, England with Anthony Quayle, Diana Wynyard, Harry Andrews, Leon Quartermaine, Paul Hardwick, George Rose, William Squire, Penelope Munday, Jill Bennett, Margaret Courtenay, Michael Bates, Timothy Bateson, Robert Hardy, Edmund Purdom, and Robert Shaw in the cast. John Gielgud was director.