In 1951–52 "Waters of the Moon" by N. C. Hunter starred Sybil Thorndike, Edith Evans and Wendy Hiller. For the Coronation season in 1953, Coward gave a rare performance in a play not written by him, "The Apple Cart" by George Bernard Shaw, with Margaret Leighton as his co-star. To Coward, the Haymarket was "the most perfect theatre in the world". In 1956, Stuart Watson, who had taken over management of the theatre from his father Horace, died and was succeeded by his son Anthony, and then his daughter-in-law Sylva Stuart Watson, who took over in 1963. Productions under the new management included "Flowering Cherry" by Robert Bolt (1957) starring Ralph Richardson and Celia Johnson; "Ross" by Terence Rattigan (1960) and John Gielgud's production of "The School for Scandal", with Ralph Richardson and Margaret Rutherford. In the 1960s, notable presentations included "The Tulip Bee" by N. C. Hunter starring Celia Johnson and John Clements and Thornton Wilder's "Ides of March" directed by Gielgud (both 1963).