University of Sheffield Library. Special Collections and Archives Ref: MS 349 Title: Theatre Archive Project: Archive

Scope: A collection of interviews on CD-ROM with those visiting or working in the theatre between 1945 and 1968, created by the Theatre Archive Project (British Library and De Montfort University); also copies of some correspondence

Dates: 1958-2008 Level: Fonds Extent: 3 boxes

Name of creator: Theatre Archive Project

Administrative / biographical history: Beginning in 2003, the Theatre Archive Project is a major reinvestigation of British theatre history between 1945 and 1968, from the perspectives of both the members of the audience and those working in the theatre at the time. It encompasses both the post-war theatre archives held by the British Library, and also their post-1968 scripts collection. In addition, many oral history interviews have been carried out with visitors and theatre practitioners. The Project began at the University of Sheffield and later transferred to De Montfort University. The archive at Sheffield contains 170 CD-ROMs of interviews with theatre workers and audience members, including Glenda Jackson, Brian Rix, Susan Engel and Michael Frayn. There is also a collection of copies of correspondence between Gyorgy Lengyel and Michel and Suria Saint Denis, and between Gyorgy Lengyel and Sir John Gielgud, dating from 1958 to 1999.

Related collections: De Montfort University Library Source: Deposited by Theatre Archive Project staff, 2005-2009 System of arrangement: As received Subjects: Theatre Conditions of access: Available to all researchers, by appointment Restrictions: None Copyright: According to document Finding aids: Listed MS 349 THEATRE ARCHIVE PROJECT: ARCHIVE

349/1 Interviews on CD-ROM (Alphabetical listing)

Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Age Concern Drama Comments on theatre in Sheffield in the Alan Lane 22/03/2004 26 Group 1950s and 1960s Allen, Michael Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, Richard Tom Dymond 17/07/2006 71 Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, French plays, Christopher Fry, John Gielgud, Vivien Leigh, Moscow Arts Theatre, Laurence Olivier, John Osborne, programmes, Anthony Quayle, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare performance, George Bernard Shaw, The Shaw Festival, theatre-going, translated plays, Kenneth Tynan, verse-speaking The Wandering Jew, Orson Welles, Donald Wolfit Anderson, Ian Noel Stage worker. Brighton theatres, cinema, Jennifer Ball December 2006 106 comedy, John Gielgud, Howard Goorney, The Lady’s not for Burning, London theatre-going, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, repertory, scenery painting, street entertainers, Theatre Workshop, toy theatres Aveline, Joe Production Manager. A Flea in Her Ear, As Francesca Soper 08/01/2007 93 You Like It, audience interaction, Bristol Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, Othello, The National Theatre, props, Leonard Rossiter, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Stage 60, touring, vocal projection, Lesley Wallner, West End productions Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Ayliff, David Director and Stage Manager. Actors, H.K. Matthew Comras 18/12/2006 95 Ayliff, Equity, King Lear, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, scenery, sound effects, stage management, the Stage Management Association, technical rehearsals, television, training, Two for the Seesaw Ayres, Geoffrey Theatre-goer. Amateur dramatics, British Emma Nolan 10/11/2006 101 theatre around the world, Shelagh Delaney, The Entertainer, European drama, John Gielgud, Harold Hobson, Inadmissible Evidence, Laben movement, Joan Littlewood, Wolf Mankowitz, NUS Drama Festival, the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Richard II, The Tempest, theatre going, Theatre Royal Stratford, Theatre Workshop, Theatre Workshop techniques and repertoire, Kenneth Tynan Banbury, Frith Ewan Jeffrey 14/03/2005 62 Barlow, Thelma Actress. Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Gregory Povey 14/03/2006 64 critics, Edinburgh Festival, female theatre managers, Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham, repertory, repertoire, theatre grants, Theatre Workshop, touring, West of England Theatre Company Bartlett, Peter Actor. Auditions, BBC drama, George Ewan Jeffrey & Kate 20/10/2005 35 Bernard Shaw, Charlie Chaplin, Edith Evans, Harris Equity, John Gielgud, learning parts, Look Back in Anger, RADA, Michael Redgrave, touring (Germany), touring (UK), Orson Welles Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Baugh, Christopher On the Society for Theatre Research, Lynsey Jeffries 20/11/2003 42 censorship, Liverpool Everyman, theatre design Bench, Frank Theatregoer. Theatre-in-Education, The David Miller 12/02/2004 24 Winslow Boy Boxer, Elizabeth Actor, on training at LAMDA, working with Ewan Jeffrey 10/03/2005 58 Jack Hulbert, repertory theatre in the 1950s and 1960s Bramley, Philip Theatre-goer. 1950s society, accents, Alison Parry 10/11/2006 104 American theatre, Antony and Cleopatra, Caesar and Cleopatra,John Gielgud, Hair, Henry V, The Homecoming, Liverpool theatres, Look Back In Anger, Oh! Calcutta, the Old Vic, Lawrence Olivier, Peter O’Toole, regional theatre, Saved, social issues, theatre stars, Waiting for Godot, Donald Wolfit Brooks, Dorien Theatregoer, London: Noel Coward, Simon Finnegan 04/12/2003 21 Priestley, Look Back in Anger Brown, Kenneth Theatre-goer. Alan Ayckbourne’s plays, Steve Nicholson 07/04/2008 139, 140 Bertolt Brecht, Blackpool Tower Circus, incidental music, Manchester theatres, Frank 2 CDs Matcham theatres, musical theatre, John Osborne’s plays, pantomime, The Piccolo Players, refreshments, repertoire, revues, Shakespeare, Stockport Theatres, theatre design, theatre-going, Theatre in the Round, variety Brown, Ross Interview with Ross Brown, who talks about Emma Johnson 16/03/2004 29 sound design in theatre productions Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Budworth, David Theatre-goer. Actors, Alexandra Theatre, Sarah Strachan 10/11/2006 102 Birmingham, Birmingham Rep, censorship, Christopher Fry, musicals, J.B. Priestley, regional theatre, repertory theatre, television, ticket price, verse drama, West End plays, Waiting For Godot Burke, Alfred Actor Alfred Burke on his memories of The Kate Harris 29/11/2005 9 Old Vic 1930s, Training at RADA 1937, Repertory theatre, Arts Council Tours, The Young Vic, George Devine and Michel Saint Denis, The Library Theatre, Manchester, New writing, Birmingham Rep, Memories of directors, Impressions of John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier, Ion Swinley, Impact of early television, Censorship Burman, Lionel Theatre-goer 1945-68. Absurdist theatre, Kavita Naker 27/06/2005 33 audiences, Samuel Beckett, censorship, Club theatres, Eugene Ionesco, London theatre- going, Look Back in Anger, Spike Milligan, Merseyside Unity, musicals, Luigi Pirandello, The Playhouse, Liverpool, production styles, ticket prices, Theatre Workshop Burrows, Tony Audience member Tony Burrows on his Ewan Jeffrey 16/03/2005 63 memories of theatre going in the 1950’s, Stratford, The Midland Theatre Company, The Coventry Hippodrome, Memories of seeing Gielgud and Ralph Richardson, Impressions of Harold Pinter’s plays, Involvement with The Talisman Amateur dramatic Company, Censorship, Hair Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Cawley, Robert Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, censorship, Sophie Lightfoot 04/12/2007 125 costumes, critics, John Gielgud, Hamlet, musicals, new wave writing, Laurence Olivier, playwrights, Terence Rattigan, regional theatre, Royal Court Theatre, scripts, Shakespeare, star actors, St Joan, theatre- going, theatre in the round, ticket price, Kenneth Tynan, verse speaking Cecil, Jonathan Actor. Amateur Dramatics, Ambrosine Daniel Buckley 13/12/2006 110 Philpots, Bartholomew Fair, Binkie Beaumont, The Birthday Party, comedy, ‘Professor’ Jimmy Edwards, Sir John Gielgud, Half-Way up the Tree, A Heritage and its History, Home, LAMDA, Robert Morley, overacting, pantomime, Harold Pinter, Vanessa Redgrave, repertory, Ralph Richardson, Reggie Salberg, Salisbury Playhouse, Tommy Steele, David Story, Eric Sykes, television, H.M. Tennent, Tommy Trinder, Sir Peter Ustinov Chambers, Colin Kate Dorney 2005? 17 Chapple, Freda Theatre worker. Formerly an Assistant Stage Kate Harris 12/01/2004 27 Manager at Sydney Opera House, now teaches drama in the Institute for Lifelong Learning Chater, Elizabeth Actor, working for the King’s Theatre, Ewan Jeffrey 10/03/2005 58 Gainsborough, ‘outreach’ theatre for Holloway prison in the 1950s, acting in repertory

Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Cheeseman, Peter Former Artistic Director of the Victoria Kate Dorney 11/11/2004 46 Theatre, Staffprdshire, talking about his experiences with the Lord Chamberlain Chivers, David Actor and Stage Manager. A Breath of Spring, Sarah Tough 10/11/2006 99 A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum Ian Albery, Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, Esme Church, digs, Rudolf Laban, repertory, school theatre, Athene Seyler, touring, voice training Clayton, Barry Actor. Arden of Faversham, audiences, Kate Harris 08/10/2007 127 auditions, Bradford Northern Theatre School, Brendan Behan, Barbara Brown, censorship, critics, The Good Soldier Schweik, International Theatre Festival, Joan Littlewood, Mother Courage, production ideas, The Quare Fellow, rehearsals, Theatre Workshop, West End transfers Cole, Austin Theatre-goer. Frank Adie, Tommy Cooper, Dominic Shellard 06/11/2007 118 Cecily Courtneidge, Noel Coward, G.H. Elliot, Roy Hudd, Jack and Claude Hulbert, London Coliseum, Murray and Mooney, music hall, new writing, Ivor Novello, Beryl Reid, Sheffield theatres, theatre seating, variety, Waiting for Godot, West End Cooper, George Actor. Lindsay Anderson, Arden of Kate Harris 17/04/2007 145, 146 Faversham, audiences, Billy Liar, John Bury, The Dutch Courtesan, commercial Theatre, 2 CDs critical reception, The Good Soldier Schweik, Harry Greene, Rudolf Laban, Joan Littlewood, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Ken Loach, lighting, Ewan MacColl, Mother Courage, movement training, Jean Newlove, The Old Vic, Gerry Raffles, rehearsals, Richard II, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, touring, Twelfth Night, Uranium 235, voice training, Volpone, West End transfers Cottis, Eileen Theatre-goer. The Bells, Brecht’s plays, Matt Willis 10/11/2006 100 Cinema, critics, Peter Daubeny, Edwige Feuillère, French drama, John Geilgud, International Federation for Theatre Research, Vivien Leigh, London theatre, melodrama, Mermaid Theatre, London, Laurence Olivier, Othello, Oxford theatres, pantomime, radio, Saturday Night Theatre, Shakespeare, Maggie Smith, Stop It, Whoever You Are, television, ticket price, theatre- going, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan, Arnold Wesker Coulter, David Actor. Accent, actor-managers, audiences, Poonam Ganglani 12/05/2008 143 censorship, John Gielgud, learning parts, Joan Littlewood, Micheál MacLíammóir, Anew McMaster, motives for theatre-going, new writing, Othello, revue artistes, technique, theatre in the Commonwealth, theatre in Ireland, weekly repertory, Wise Child Cox King, Joyce Theatre-goer. Amateur acting, Birmingham Philippa Wilson Autumn 2005 1 theatres, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. My Fair Lady, play-goers clubs, theatre-going, ticket prices, Variety, well-made plays Crow, William Theatregoer 1945-68, on censorship, Irish Ewan Jeffrey 27/06/2005 31 Theatre, the influence of European theatre, visiting the first runs of Harold Pinter’s plays Cruickshank, Graeme Stage Manager and Actor. James Bolam, Marie-Claire Wyatt 04/09/2006 80, 81 Richard Burnett’s Penguin Players, Agatha Christie’s plays, Carl Clopet, Company 2 CDs Manager’s duties, Harry Corbett and Sooty, John Counsell, Cecily Courtneidge, Peter Haddon, Arthur Lane and Audrey Lupton, lighting, Ralph Lynn, Cameron Mackintosh, Mermaid Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, pantomime, Ron Pember, repertory repertoire, Clarkson Rose, Salad Days, stage managing, touring, A View from the Bridge, Wakefield Mystery Plays Davies, David Actor, Pinter’s The Room. Bristol Old Vic, Jamie Andrews 25/02/2008 141 Bristol University drama department, The Cherry Orchard, Dartington Hall, Susan Engel, Fulbright students, the Green Room Theatre, Look Back in Anger, method acting, modern drama, Peter O’Toole, pauses, Harold Pinter, rehearsals, reviews, The Room, Auriol Smith, the Theatre of the Absurd, well-made plays, Henry Woolf De Lannoy, John Stage Manager and Director. Peter Bridge, Charlotte Chelsom Pill 30/01/2007 113 George Formby, Bruce Forsyth, foreign touring, Grand Theatre, Halifax, An Ideal Husband, Emile Littler, pantomime, Ian Paul, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. rehearsals, repertory, scenery, stage management, Stephen D, John V. Trevor, twice-nightly shows, touring, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford Dennis, Johnny Actor. An Ideal Husband, Maria Callas, Mathew Webb 04/12/2007 122 censorship, Charlie Chaplin, critics, image, Tito Gobbi, Bernard Miles, music hall, Laurence Olivier, opera, preparation, rehearsals, stardom, television, theatre atmosphere, theatre etiquette, theatre- going, RSC, Tosca Detmer, Sarah Audience member talking about her Kate Dorney 01/02/2005 53 recollections of Richardson, Gielgud and Olivier, and the World Theatre seasons Digby Day, Richard Freelance director and Artistic Director of Ewan Jeffrey 17/06/2003 40 Northcott Theatre 1978-80, on taining in RADA, Wesker’s plays, Kenneth Tynan and censorship Diss, Eileen Designer. The Basement, BBC, Central Ewan Jeffrey 15/03/2005 64 School of Arts and Crafts, design developments, Ealing Studios, The Mermaid Theatre, Harold Pinter, sets, special effects Dorney, Tony Music Hall and London theatre 1950-68, Kate Dorney 25/11/2004 47 meeting David Mercer, Olivier at the Old Vic, premiere of Oh, What a Lovely War! Draper, Colin Stage Manager of the Richmond Theatre, on Ewan Jeffrey 08/12/2004 48 changes in lighting technology, repertory stage management, the impact of ‘Realism’, repertory prop acquisition Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Dunn, Tony Theatre-goer. Berthold Brecht, Early Dominic Shellard 17/07/2006 75 Morning, fringe theatre, Hedda Gabler, impact of the Lady Chatterley trial, Italian theatre, Liverpool theatre, Living Theatre, Marat/Sade, Mother Courage (Gaskill production), Royal Shakespeare Company, Saved, Paul Scofield’s Lear, theatre dress- code, Monica Vitti, The Wars of the Roses Dynevor, Shirley Actress. Audiences, audition, A Christmas Rachael Leo 27/03/2008 139 Carol, The Good Soldier Schweik, influences, Laban movement, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, money, new writing, politics, The Quare Fellow, reinterpretations of classic plays, Richard II, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, television, Theatre Workshop, twice- nightly rep, West End Engel, Susan Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Audience, Bristol Jamie Andrews 17/10/2007 128 University Drama Department, Samuel Beckett, characterisation, DramSoc, drama school, Harold Hobson, production, props, Harold Pinter, reviews, the script, Raphael Shelly, Jimmy Wax Ewing, Elizabeth Began her theatregoing career in 1945, early Kate Dorney 07/08/2004 45 experiences in Sheffield, musical theatre in London 1956, premiere of Separate Tables Farquhar, Malcolm Actor and former Artistic Director of the Ewan Jeffrey 02/02/2004 25 Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. On repertory, theatregoing 1945-68, secrets of successful direction, post-war star system of the West End. Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Field, Anthony Theatre Producer, Theatre Project Kate Harris 14/03/2007 109 consultant, former Finance Director of the Arts Council. Arts Administration, the Arts Council, Arts Council Funding 1957-1983, audiences, A View from the Bridge, Binkie Beaumont, Cameron Mackintosh, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cats, censorship, The Comedy Theatre, club theatres, H.M. Tennent’s, the Lord Chamberlain, My Fair Lady, The New Watergate Theatre, new writing, Oklahoma!, regional theatre, Tea and Sympathy, Theatre Workshop Foster, Richard Theatre-goer and amateur actor. Acting, Sarah Burbridge 11/12/2006 105 censorship, The Caretaker, musicals, Music Hall, Oklahoma!, Harold Pinter, protest plays, Sheffield theatre, television, theatre-going, touring Francis, Pat Theatregoer, on East Ham Palace, Joan Rosie Taylor 06/01/2005 51 Littlewood, seeing Brendan Behan’s plays, Chekhov Fraser, Sonia Actress and Director. Accent, A Taste of Vicki Carey January 2007 88 Honey, audiences, Bristol Old Vic School, censorship, directing, Ibsen, Look Back in Anger, modern plays, repertory, rehearsing, RSC, Shakespeare, theatre-going habits, theatre training. Frayn, Michael Playwright and novelist: influences Ursula Canton 27/02/2004 28 Gaffin, Jean Theatre-worker. Actors, Arts Council grant, Kate Harris 25/04/2007 70 Bertolt Brecht, censorship, critics, The Good Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Soldier Schweik, Howard Goorney, Yootha Joyce, Joan Littlewood, Lord Chamberlain, Ewan MacColl, Mother Courage, Murray Melvin, music, politics, productions, The Quare Fellow, Gerry Raffles, Richard II, Tony Richardson, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan Gardner, Jacci 27 Gardner, Viv On British Drama League, theatregoing in the Liz Sowden 20/02/2004 26 1960s, regional theatre, impact of Brecht Gaunt, Pauline Actress. Accommodation, audiences, Binkie Dominic Shellard 06/11/2007 124 Beaumont, Castle Theatre, Farnborough, community spirit, costumes, Noel Coward, Bernard Delfont, French’s Acting Editions, Kenneth Moore, the Penguin Players, props, repertoire, re-writing scripts, salaries, sets, Spotlight, stage management, The Stars Shine for Jack – The Crazy Gang, Marlene Dietrich, Spike Milligan, Suite in Three Keys, television, weekly rep., West End productions, Irene Worth George, Colin Actor and Director. A Man for All Seasons, Kate Harris 21/11/2005 6 audiences, Birmingham Rep, children’s theatre, Coventry Belgrade Theatre, The 3 CDs Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, drama students, The Elizabethan Theatre Company, Albert Finney, Tyrone Guthrie, Peter Hall, Laurence Olivier, Look Back in Anger, Harold Pinter, The Playhouse, Nottingham, The Playhouse, Sheffield, repertory, Maggie Smith, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. television Gill, James Actor and Stage Manager. Audiences, Jean- Elena Thompson 04/12/2007 125 Louis Barrault, censorship, foreign influence on British theatre, Hair, Loamshire plays, method acting, Music Hall, new writing, John Osborne, repertory, Robert and Elizabeth, stage management, theatre design, Theatre Royal, Leicester, ticket price, Webber- Douglas Theatre School Girling, David Theatregoer 1945-68, on original run of Kate Dorney 15/12/2004 49 Waiting for Godot, John osborne’s Luther, george Devine, John Gielgud and the Oxford University Drama Society Goddard, Renee & Fry, Renee Goddard professional actress, stage Kate Harris 26/10/2005 7, 8 Hano manager, script reader 1943-1954, Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, Salome, 2 CDs Theatre workshop, Weekly Rep, Oscar Lewenstein, Embassy Theatre, Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Touring in Antony and Cleopatra with Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Meeting Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble, Reading Scripts for Donald Albery, The first read-through of Waiting for Godot, Meeting Jean Genet, Staging The Blacks, Working in early television Goodman, Pearl Actress and singer. Audiences, digs, domestic Kate Harris 26/03/2007 147, 148 service, The Flying Doctor, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Johnny Noble, Gerry Raffles, 2 CDs rehearsals, David Scase, Theatre Workshop, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. touring, training, Uranium 235 Gould, Leila & Gerald Secretary to Theatre Workshop and her Sarah Burbridge 12/01/2008 134 husband. Authors, Big Rock Candy Mountain, George Cooper, drama techniques, East London Theatres, Howard Goorney, Joan Littlewood, money, plays, politics, theatre- going, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, the Theatre Workshop cast Gould, Mervyn Theatre Worker. Decline of theatre business, Tom Shallaker 04/12/2007 133 employment pattern, New Theatre, Cambridge, lighting, Number One theatres, pantomime, Regal Theatre, Boston, relationship between Cast and Technical Crew, Sunderland Empire, touring, union membership, West End theatres Gray, Frances Senior lecturer in English Literature at Kate Dorney 27/06/2005 89, 90 Sheffield University talking about her experiences at Chichester Festival Theatre 2 CDs and the RSC in the 1960s and 1970s Gray, Ronald Theatre-goer. Alfie Bass, Samuel Beckett, Payam Hosseinian 04/05/07 149 Berliner Ensemble, Italian opera, King Lear, Look Back in Anger, Mother Courage, Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, Paul Robeson, Saturday Night Theatre, Shakespeare, Soviet cinema, Theatre Workshop, Unity Theatre, Orson Welles Green, Peter Actors' Agent, Actors, agency routine, Ewan Jeffrey & Kate 20/10/2005 35 celebrity, The Entertainer, Equity, John Harris Gielgud, London theatre, Laurence Olivier, Manager of the Vaudeville Theatre, London, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. modern drama, Regional theatre, Repertory, Setting up an Actors' Agency, television, Richard Wilson Green, Yvonne Theatregoer 1945-68, on musicals, Ionesco, Claire Fayers 28/09/2004 46 dressing up for theatre visits Greene, Harry Actor. Amateur drama, actors, John Bury, Kate Harris 20/09/2006 154, 155, George Cooper, critics, ensemble, Equity, 156 lighting, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, New 3 CDs Theatre, Cardiff, props, productions, realism, The Red Megaphones, Red Roses for Me, rehearsal method, Royal Court Theatre, scenery, the search for a permanent home, Harry Secombe, Swedish tour, television, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, touring, Uranium 235, wages, West End transfers Griffiths, Trevor Professor of Drama at London Metropolitan Kimberley Whitehead 22/01/2003 39 University. Birmingham Rep during the 1960s Haffenden, John Professor at Sheffield University, RSC during Elena Parissi 25/11/2003 19 the 1960s Hamilton, Jacci Theatregoer at Golders Green Hippodrome Alan Lane 25/03/2004 5 and Sheffield Playhouse during the late 1950s and early 1960s Hampton, Antony Chairman of the Sheffield Playhouse and Sue Fulton 19/11/2003 41 Artistic Director of the Crucible, on the construction of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and press reaction Hancock, Philip Actor, list of theatre experience, education at Jörg Pomplun 11/11/2005 1 drama school, sound in the theatre (music and effects), working with Peter Hall, experience with repertory theatre, idols and Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. geniuses (working with famous actors) , life as an actor, drama vs. comedy, role of music in the theatre Hardwicke, Edward Actor. Acting styles, Berthold Brecht, Bristol Kate Harris 06/11/2007 136 Old Vic., The Crucible, John Dexter, film, the National Theatre, the Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, make-up, Othello, repertory, Ralph Richardson, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Royal Hunt of the Sun, television, theatre- going habits, Kenneth Tynan, Robert Wagner, the West of England Theatre Company Haynes, John Photographer. Samuel Beckett, Edward Tom Dymond 28/07/2008 144 Bond, George Devine, Bill Gaskill, David Hare, Jocelyn Herbert, Home, Keith Johnson, The Living Theatre, Charles Marowitz, Joe Orton, John Osborne, photography, rehearsals, Royal Court Theatre, David Storey, Taking the Stage Heayes, Neil Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Atkins, Natalie Dunton 16/01/2008 138 Brixton Theatre, Jack Buchanan, Cyrano de Bergerac, The First Gentleman, John Gielgud, Hamlet, Haymarket Theatre, Robert Helpmann, Mona Inglesby and the International Ballet Company, King Lear, King’s Theatre, Hammersmith, Esmond Knight, Vivien Leigh, Love for Love, Lupino family, Oedipus Rex and The Critic, Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park, Paganini, programmes, Ralph Richardson, the Savoy Operas, Firth Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Shepherd, Alistair Simm, Streatham Hill Theatre, the Travelling Repertory Theatre, ticket prices, Rex Whistler, Donald Wolfit Hedley, Philip Actor, Theatre-goer and Director Emeritus, Alec Patton 06/11/2007 130 Theatre Royal Stratford East. Arts Council, Margaret Bury, critics, Shelagh Delaney, East 15 Acting School, Intimate Theatre, Palmer’s Green, directing, directors, Ben Jonson, LAMDA, Joan Littlewood, Michael Macowen, movement classes, Jean Newlove, Royal Court Theatre, David Scase, Stratford East, Theatre Royal, Lincoln, three-weekly rep, weekly rep Hemmingway, William Theatre-goer and actor. Audiences, Burnley Chris Furness 27/04/2006 68 theatre, experimental theatre, Look Back in Anger, Joan Littlewood, Manchester Library Theatre, David Scace, schools television, Theatre Workshop, theatre-going, Theatre Libero, West Side Story. Hepton, Bernard Actor and Director. Samuel Beckett, Kate Harris 06/04/2006 68 Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Bradford Civic Playhouse, Esme Church, The Devils, Directing, Fortnightly repertory, Sir Barry Jackson, Krapp's Last Tape, National Theatre, One Way Pendulum, Penny for a Song, television, John Whiting Hern, Nick Publisher, academic and theatre-goer. Alec Patton 25/06/2007 163 Actors, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol University Drama Department, Chips With Everything, 2 CDs Glasgow University Drama Department, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Heinemann, Hull University Drama Department, National Theatre, The Old Vic, Harold Pinter’s plays, publishing drama, refreshments, Royal Hunt of the Sun, Royal Shakespeare Company, Peter Shaffer’s plays, Kenneth Tynan, The War of the Roses Hobson, Harold Harold Hobson interviewed by Professor Dominic Shellard 09/06/1995 18 Dominic Shellard as part of DS’s research Holt, John Theatre-goer. A Taste Of Honey, audience Sinead Gray 10/11/2006 102 behaviour, censorship, club theatres, The Entertainer, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton, Harold Pinter, Joan Littlewood, John Osborne, Look Back in Anger, Oh! What a Lovely War, repertory theatres, revues, Royal Court Theatre, Sandy Wilson’s musicals, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, ticket prices, Waiting for Godot, Arnold Wesker Hornick, Neil Actor and Theatre-goer. Jean Anouilh, Arts Katherine Lofthouse 24/01/2008 132, 133 Lab., The Blue Lamp, Butlins, The Crazy Gang, critics, Jack Gelber, the Golders Green 2 CDs Hippodrome, interval music, Danny Kaye, The London Palladium, The Mousetrap, musicals, Oklahoma!, programmes, school plays, Shakespeare, theatre-going, well-made plays Howard, Pamela Scenographer and director Pamela Howard Kate Harris 09/11/2005 11 on her memories of training at Birmingham Rep, Relationship between directors and designers in the fifties, Watching the Berliner Ensemble in London, Watching Arnold Wesker's plays at The Belgrade Theatre, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Jocelyn Herbert, Working at Birmingham Rep as a professional designer, Meeting Helene Weigal at the Old Vic, 1965, Impact of Berliner Ensemble, Changes in theatre design Hunnings, Neville Theatre-goer. Alan Badel, amateur theatre, Marie-Claire Wyatt 04/09/2006 83 Arts Theatre Club, Bristol Old Vic, club theatres, Harry H. Corbett, Margot Fonteyn, French theatre, John Gielgud’s Hamlet, Robert Helpmann, history cycles, Stephen Joseph, Look Back in Anger, Tom Milne, Mother Courage, Old Vic at the New Theatre, Old Vic Theatre School, post-war growth in theatre, ballet and music, provincial theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Society for Theatre Research, Theatre in the Round, Theatre Workshop, David Thompson, verse drama, World Theatre Seasons Iveson, Richard Theatre-worker. Tommy Bradley, The Diary Marc Le Deroff 04/12/2006 103 of Anne Frank, Frank Formby, lighting, nudity, recording equipment, special effects, ticket prices, variety. Jackman, Margaret Actress and theatre worker. Against the Alec Patton 06/11/2007 120 Wind, The Dancing Years, Bernard Gallagher, The Glass Menagerie, Victor Graham, Harry Hanson, lighting, Love on the Never Never, People’s Theatre, Newcastle, props, realist plays, Renaissance Theatre Company, Muriel Rowan, Donald Sartain, scenery painting, Shoebox Theatre, sound, special effects (stage maroons), stage furniture loans, stage Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. management, wardrobe Jackson, Glenda Actress. Arts funding, Peter Brook, Ben Sneddon 16/04/2007 164 censorship, Equity, Look Back in Anger, The Marat/Sade, new writing, Laurence Olivier, politics in theatre, RADA, repertory, RSC, Workers Revolutionary Party Jeffries, Ursula Theatregoer, on theatre in the 1960s, Ewan Jeffrey 10/05/2005 36 Waiting for Godot, audience response to Beckett’s plays, the end of censorship and radio drama Jellicoe, Ann Playwright. Censorship, Central School of Kate Dorney 27/06/2005 32 Speech and Drama, Community Theatre, George Devine, early theatre experience, Endgame, The Knack, Look Back in Anger, Lord Chamberlain, The Observer writing competition, reading plays, Royal Court Theatre, Michel Saint-Denis, Shelley, The Sport of My Mad Mother, Sir Vincent Troubridge, Ken Tynan, Waiting for Godot, writers group, writing Jolley, Joyce Actress and theatre-goer. Christopher Fry, Louise Harrison 10/11/2006 97 Hamlet, Robert Helpmann, lighting, Look Back in Anger, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, People’s Theatre, Nottingham, make-up, RSC, Paul Scofield, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Shakespeare, theatre training, verse speaking, Waiting For Godot, Donald Wolfit Jones, Julia Actress, playwright and theatre-goer. Alice in Helen Temple 30/03/2007 98 Wonderland, auditioning, Harry H. Corbett, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. digs, The Dutch Courtesan, lighting, Joan 2 CDs Littlewood, Look Back in Anger, Ewan MacColl, National Theatre, The Other Animals, RADA, repertory, Richard II, Ralph Richardson, RSC, David Scase, Shakespeare, Theatre Workshop, touring to Czechoslovakia and Sweden Kellerman, Julia Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Audience, Bristol Alec Patton 25/02/2008 142 drama department, Dartington Hall, discussing the play, European theatre, foreign theatre festivals, Harold Hobson, Look Back in Anger, musical accompaniment, rented accommodation, set and background of the play, theatre going, Henry Woolf Kersley, Leo Dancer and Choreographer. Frederick Tom Dymond 17/07/2006 74 Ashton, Lilian Baylis, Benjamin Britten, The Cherry Orchard, Joan Cross, Sid Field, Margot Fonteyn, John Gielgud, Robert Helpmann, Vivien Leigh, Music Hall, Nadia Nerina, Laurence Olivier, Ballet Rambert, Maria Rambert, Sadlers Wells Ballet, Antony Tudor, Ninette de Valois, Ralph Vaughan Williams's works King, Colette Director. Bill Gaskill, Central School of Cerian Jones January 2007 94 Speech and Drama, The Cherry Orchard, Dartington College of Arts, Alfred Emmett, Val Gielgud, Greek tragedies, improvisation, Joint Stock Theatre Company, National Theatre, Oxford University Drama Society, Questors Theatre, Saved, Stanislavski theory, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Strawberry Hill College, teaching, Waiting for Godot. Kingston, Mark & Actors. Accent, Alec Guinness, Binkie Rebecca Marriott 21/03/2006 67 Marigold Sharman Beaumont, Samuel Beckett, Butlins, Chichester, Robert Helpman, LAMDA, Vivien Leigh, Look Back in Anger, The Norman Conquests, Old Vic, Laurence Olivier, John Osborne, repertory, special weeks, stardom, television, touring Australia, Peter Ustinov, Waiting For Godot, Webber Douglas School of Acting, Kenneth Williams Kirk, David Ewan Jeffrey 16/03/2005 63 Knight, Rosalind Actress. ’59 Theatre Company, ’69 Theatre Alec Patton 06/11/2007 119 Company, Brand, Michael Elliott, George Devine, Frank Dunlop, Look Back in Anger, Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre, masks, naturalistic plays, the Old Vic Theatre School, Peer Gynt, Litz Pisk, Platonov, Vanessa Redgrave, Royal Court Theatre, Michel Saint- Denis, the Young Vic Lambert, Peter Theatre Director. Acting style, Christopher Kate Harris 01/12/2005 65 Fry, Manchester Library Theatre, method acting, realism, rehearsal process, repertoire, The Royal Court Theatre, London, David Scace, television, theatre criticism Landis, Harry Actor, director. Accent, Bertolt Brecht, Dean Meehan 05/12/2007 115 Richard Burton, censorship, Central School of Speech and Drama, Equity, The Kitchen, Joan Littlewood, Sean O’Casey, Harold Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Pinter, repertory theatre, touring, Unity Theatre, variety shows, Arnold Wesker, Ted Willis, West End theatre, working-class movement, writers Lawrence, Marjie Actress. Arden of Faversham, auditioning, Kate Harris 06/12/2007 123 The Bed Sitting Room, Birmingham theatres, Peter Brook, George Dare, Marianne Faithfull, The Flying Doctor, William Gaskill, Johnny Noble, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Middle Age Spread, musicals, Paris International Festival, rehearsing, repertory, Royal Court Theatre, television, theatre training, Theatre Workshop, touring, US, variety Legge, Brian Theatre technician. Belgrade Theatre, Kate Bullivant 06/01/2007 92 Coventry, The Coliseum, Billy Cotton, Tyrone Guthrie, Howard and Wyndham, Peter Hall, Kiss Me, Kate, Moss Empires, musicals, Nottingham Playhouse, repertory theatres, Royal Festival Hall, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royalty Theatre, London, The Empire, Sheffield, stage lighting, Strand Electric, tours, Peter Ustinov, variety, variety managers, weekly rep, Julie Wilson Levitt, John Actor. Accents, backstage team, Caesar and James Morris 10/11/2006 97 Cleopatra, censorship, child licences, digs, Vivien Leigh, modern writers, musicals, Laurence Olivier, RADA, repertory, South Pacific, television, touring Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Lewis Jones, John Theatre-goer. Bertholt Brecht, The Blanche Hammond 10/11/2006 15 Caretaker, censorship, Noel Coward, The Entertainer, John Gielgud, Harold Hobson, Vivien Leigh, Look Back in Anger, musicals, National Theatre, Laurence Olivier, opera, Joan Plowright, Harold Pinter, Ralph Richardson, Terence Rattigan, Separate Tables, Peter Shaffer, A Taste of Honey, Kenneth Tynan, Variety, Waiting for Godot, Arnold Wesker, Donald Wolfit. Loveday, Ted Scenery designer. Audiences, The Blue Lamp, Charlotte Chelsom-Pill 07/12/2007 137 Empire Theatre, Croydon, Enid Blyton, Brunskill and Loveday Ltd, John Brunskill Ltd, Bonar Colleano, Jack Hylton, impresarios, Wilfred Lawson, Loveday and Higson, the Old Vic.,John Osborne, Val Parnell, John Reith, television, scenery changes, scenery design, variety, Norman Wisdom Lowe, Mary Theatre-goer. The Duchess of Malfi, N.C. Sian Prosser 12/12/2005 66 Hunter, intervals, Manchester Library Theatre, Manchester Opera House, Terence Rattigan, regional theatre, Harry Rutherford (artist), The Sleeping Prince, Stratford, theatre-going, three-act plays Loxton, Howard Melanie Woodhouse 18/12/2006 114 MacKillop, Ian Interview with Professor Ian MacKillop, who Francesca Baker 05/12/2003 22 recalls theatre productions from his youth Mason, George & Mona Theatregoers: Vic Theatre, Stoke, from the Rachel Baxter 26/09/2003 18 1960s to the present Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Mason, Marjery Actress. Acting in Working Men’s Clubs, The Tom Dymond 08/10/2007 121 Actors’ Company, audiences, costumes, John Dexter, directors, Drama school, ENSA, Ian McKellen, Nora Clements Company, Edward Petherbridge, rehearsals, Flora Robson, setting up a theatre in Bangor, weekly rep, The Women’s Company Mathers, Audrey Daughter of theatre boarding house owner. Alison Norden 04/12/2006 105 Gus Aubury, Hylda Baker, Roy Castle, changing demands affecting theatre, chorus girls, Elsie Dibbs, digs, Kay Dotrice, Roy Dotrice, George Formby, home life, television, Theatre Royal, Castleford, variety McDermot, Julia Actress. Agent, auditioning, digs, dressers, Rebecca Sutton & 23/11/2005 12 early career, Rory MacDermot (husband), Maggie Speake pre-war theatre, repertory, Salberg theatres, theatrical training, touring, Watford rep., Wolverhampton rep McDiarmid, Ian Actor. Auditions, censorship, drama school, Ewan Jeffrey 26/04/2005 61 directing, Scottish theatre McDonnell, Bill Lecturer at Sheffield University and Michel Reuter 02/12/2003 20 community theatre worker. Recollections of working with CAST during the 1970s McPherson, Alexander Designer. Frith Banbury, Bristol theatres, Therese Clutario 14/04/2007 164 costume design, designing productions, kabuki drama, Music Hall, pantomime, Rapier Players, scenery, stage management, touring, Trelawney of the Wells, Victorian theatre, weekly rep Melvin, Murray Actor. 1950s, audience participation, John Dominic Shellard 07/12/2006 96 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Bury, Edward II, Joan Littlewood, stage make- up, Richard II, stage lighting, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop Miller, Jean Actress. Bellain’s School of Dancing, Emily Blakey 14/05/2008 143 costumes, films, Margot Fonteyn, Hermione Gingold, Michael Miller, orchestras, pantomime, salaries, Theatre Royal, Windsor Moffatt, John Actor, working with Noel Coward, repertory, Ewan Jeffrey 13/03/2005 60 psychology of traditional pantomime, working with Tony Hancock, working with Binkie Beaumont for HM Tennents, the Royal Court, acting with John Gielgud More than just Osborne? Frith Banbury, Anne Piper, Rupert Rhymes Kate Harris & Dominic 05/09/2006 86, 87 Shellard 2 CDs Morgan, Philip Talks of his father’s extensive Cristina Irving 26/02/2005 55 diary/scrapbook of theatre visits/personal reviews of London and Bristol productions 1945-68, including Separate Tables Morris, Grahame Ex-chairman of Sheffield Theatres on the Laura White 26/11/2003 19 rationale for their programming Murphy, Brian Actor. Audiences, auditioning, Clive Barker, Alec Patton 08/01/2008 126 Brendan Behan, John Bury, foreign reception, Lillian Harrison, Joan Littlewood, Oh! What a Lovely War, The Quare Fellow, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, rehearsals, repertory, Shakespeare, television, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, West End theatre Neale, Helen Actress and theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, As Dominic Shellard 04/09/2006 82 You Like It, Richard Burton, Agatha Christie’s Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. plays, critics, Frances Cuka, The Guildhall, John Gielgud, learning parts, Joan Plowright, Terence Rattigan, repertory, rehearsal structure, revue, Roots, Separate Tables, Shakespeare, Stratford, theatre-going, Kenneth Tynan, Peter Ustinov, West Side Story, women Newlove, Jean Movement and dance specialist. Artistic Kate Harris 06/11/2007 131 policy, audiences, Fings Aint Wot They Used T’Be, Rudolf Laban, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, modern dance, Oh! What a Lovely War, The Other Animals, sets, Theatre Workshop, theories of movement, Uranium 235 Nichols, Peter Playwright: theatregoing as child, critical Jamie Andrews 30/09/2005 77, 78 reception, Bristol Old Vic, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, the process of playwriting, 2 CDs (128, 129 censorship and the Lord Chamberlain, 2nd copy) Privates on Parade, early Variety performances Noble, Patricia Script Reader for H.M Tennent. Enid Bagnold, Kate Harris 18/12/2006 166 Hugh ‘Binkie’ Beaumont, finance, first nights, John Gielgud, H.M Tennent’s, homosexuality, The Last Joke, The Lyric Hammersmith, My Fair Lady, David Noble, parties, John Perry, Terence Rattigan, Ralph Richardson, Ross, Royal Court Theatre, Daphne Rye, Separate Tables, television, Emlyn Williams Olivier, Laurence Laurence Olivier interviewed by Kathleen Kathleen Tynan 04/03/1983, 16/08/1983 14, 15 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Tynan 2 CDs Orme, Elsie Assistant Stage Manager and theatre-goer, Anneka Shah 18/01/2005 52 on audiences, children's plays, Colin George, London Theatre, The National Theatre, Geoffrey Ost, pot-boilers, Terrence Rattigan, repertory, Sheffield Theatre, star-quality, theatre going, Arnold Wesker, women's roles Ostler, Kathy Theatregoer. West End, Woolwich Empire Roxanne Blakelock 15/10/2003 38 and repertory theatre 1945-68 Ostler, Mike Chairman of the Society for Theatre Roxanne Blakelock 15/10/2004 37 Research, on working as stage manager in repertory theatre in the 1960s Oxenford, Daphne Actress Daphne Oxenford on her memories Katherine Miller & 02/10/2005 34 of touring with ENSA 1945, Working for H M Liana Koehler Tennents, Memories of Joyce Grenfell, Doing Listen With Mother on radio, Working at the Ewan Jeffrey & Kate 20/10/2005 Library Theatre, Manchester, Touring and Harris theatrical digs, Matinee teas, Auditioning 2 interviews Page, Eileen Interview with actress Eileen Page, who Chloe Ingham 17/03/2004 29 contrasts plays from the 1950s with contemporary theatre Page, Jocelyn Actress Jocelyn Page on her memories of the Rachel Rhodes 25/11/2005 5 Oxford University Dramatic Society, Working in Repertory Theatre, Memories of Peter Hall and John Barton, Censorship, John Osborne, Working at The Mermaid Theatre Paget, Derek Stage Manager. Lionel Bart, Peter Brook’s Hannah Dodd 04/12/2007 116 King Lear, directors, Dynamo, The Hostage, King Lear, King’s Head Theatre, lighting, Joan Littlewood, Oh! What a Lovely War, John Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Osborne, Howard Panter, Royal Court Theatre, stage management, Theatre Project Company, Theatre Workshop, touring, West End productions, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Pavlow, Muriel Stage and film actor, on working as a child Ewan Jeffrey 14/03/2005 61 actor with John Gielgud, RSC, theatre and the war, working in ENSA, the crossover from theatre to screen Piper, Anne Novelist and playwright, on Look Back in Kate Dorney 12/03/2005 59 Anger, George Devine, the Royal Court in the 1950s and 1960s, Oklahoma!, Bertolt Brecht Plater, Alan Playwright. Accent, censorship, Peter Kate Harris 07/09/2007 157, 158 Cheeseman, Close the Coalhouse Door, dialogue, farce, Alex Glasgow, Joan 2 CDs Littlewood, Look Back in Anger, music in plays, Music Hall, Joe Orton, John Osborne, Sandy Powell, Peggy Ramsay, The Smashing Day, See How They Run, Ted’s Cathedral, television, Theatre in the Round Plumley, Brenda Actress. Assistant Stage Manager, The Sarah Cooper 04/12/2007 117 Birthday Party, Children’s Theatre, improvisation, Look Back in Anger, musicals, John Osborne, Palace Theatre, Plymouth, Harold Pinter, props, Royal Court Theatre, Peter Slade, teaching, Theatre Centre, theatre in the round, touring, Tower Theatre, Canonbury, Brian Way, weekly rep. Pontac, Perry Playwright. Absurdist drama, acting styles, Tom Dymond 08/10/2007 150 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, John Dexter, John Gielgud, Peter Hall, Anthony Hopkins, Joan Littlewood, the Old Vic., the National Theatre, Laurence Olivier, Harold Pinter, Joan Plowright, Shakespeare, Kenneth Tynan, Waiting for Godot, A Woman Killed With Kindness Pulford, Richard Chief Executive of the Society of London Ewan Jeffrey 03/02/04 25 Theatres/Theatre Management Association, on theatre management in London Purves, Ian On Dundee Rep, lighting and set design, the Charlotte Barton 09/01/2005 51 impact of two fires in the Oddfellows Hall in Dundee Ranger, Joy Actress and theatre-goer. Back-stage, ballet, Tom Dymond 04/09/2006 79 censorship, digs, Harrogate, Japanese theatre, Vivien Leigh, the National Theatre, Old Vic, RADA, repertory, repertoire, theatre- going, theatres, working in Japan, translations of plays, touring, Turn of the Screw Rankin, Peter Actor. Audiences, Lionel Bart, Brendan Helen Temple 09/05/2007 167 Behan, Peter Brook, Cinderella, critics, dialogue, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Oh 2 CDs What a Lovely War, playwrights, Gerry Raffles, rehearsals, Royal Court Theatre, Shakespeare, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan Redgrave, Corin Actor. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Daniel Ian MacKillop 16/04/2004 44 Barenboim, George Devine, The Entertainer, Arthur Miller, modern cabaret, the National Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Theatre, Trevor Nunn, Laurence Olivier, Look Back in Anger, George Orwell, John Osborne, Royal Court Theatre, London. Redgrave, Phyllis & Allan Theatregpers 1945-68, on visiting the RSC, Neil Redgrave 22/12/2004 49 Wolverhampton and Birmingham Rep Rhymes, Rupert Kate Dorney 04/03/2005 56, 57 2 CDs Richardson, Ian Actor. 1964 RSC tour, accent, acting Aga Sikora 29/01/2007 112 techniques, attitudes to television and cinema, audiences, Broadway, Peter Brook, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Alec Guinness, Sir Peter Hall, Marat/Sade, refreshments, repertory, rehearsals, Diana Rigg, RSC, Paul Scofield, Shakespeare, smoking, Stratford community, theatre tastes, Wilson Barrett Company Richardson, Maroussia Actress. Aldwych Theatre, Arts Theatre, ASM, Marie-Claire Wyatt 23/08/2007 159 Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Brook, casting, critics, Dangerous Corner, digs, Peter Hall, Look Back in Anger, Marat/Sade, music in Marat/Sade, Old Vic, Oxford Playhouse, props, Ian Richardson, Royal Variety Performance, RSC, Shakespeare, technical rehearsals, touring, understudying, variety, Worthing Rep Rigby, Terence Actor. Agents, Birmingham Rep., censorship, Kate McNiven Autumn 2005 1, 2 Covent Garden, Equity, finding jobs, Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be, working in Ireland, Keswick Century Theatre, Harold Pinter, The Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Homecoming, regional theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Spotlight, television, working in London Rimmell, Norman Theatre-goer. A Taste of Honey, Brendan Alec Patton 24/08/2008 169 Behan, farce, Good King Charles’ Golden Days, Old Vic, opera, pantomime, Theatre Workshop, Unity Theatre, variety Ritchie, George Actor and teacher. Audiences, The Bofors Steve Nicholson 09/12/2007 135 Gun, critics, Alfred Emmet, Glasgow theatres, Mother Goose, Next Time I’ll Sing to You, New Plays Festival, Questors Theatre, Renée Raymond, James Saunders, school and university productions, Theatre Workshop, touring, Variety Ritson, Bill Theatre-goer. The Birthday Party, Cambridge Ewan Jeffrey 15/03/2005 62 theatres, celebrity, censorship, Club Theatres, London theatres and productions, Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre-going, Variety, Waiting for Godot Rix, Brian Actor-manager, Chairman of Drama at the Kate Harris 16/04/2007 151 Arts Council (1986-1993), Aldwych Farces, The Arts Council, audiences, censorship, John Chapman, Ray Cooney, early television, The English Stage Company, Equity, farce, Festival of Britain, Feydeau, Tony Hilton, holiday pay, Kenneth Horne (playwright), Philip Levene, Love in a Mist, Cecil Madden, Colin Morris, One for the Pot, Michael Pertwee, Reluctant Heroes, Six of Rix, Vernon Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Sylvaine, Whitehall Theatre, Donald Wolfit Roberts, Neil Professor of English Literature, University of T.K. Vincent 10/12/2003 160 Sheffield. Theatregoer in the 1960s: Peter Brook’s King Lear (1962) Rose, David Former head of Channel Four Drama. Kate Harris 24/10/2005 4 Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Kurt Jooss, live drama documentaries, relationship between theatre and early television, Sadler’s Wells Theatre Company, Stage Managing, television and theatre work in the seventies, Watergate Theatre Club, weekly rep, West End theatre in the late forties Roy, Donald Professor of Drama, theatregoer in the fifties Ewan Jeffrey 22/04/2005 60 and sixties. The American Musical, G.H. Elliott, Christopher Fry, Lucan and McShane, Lily Morris, Music Hall routines, post-war revival of Music Hall, premiere of Look Back in Anger, Ella Shields, Randolph Sutton, Harry Tate, Waiting for Godot, Nellie Wallace, West Side Story, Albert Whelan, Donald Wolfit Sampson, Peter Theatregoer and amateur dramatics actor, Fiona Sagar 04/01/2005 50 on acting and visiting the theatre 1945-68, visiting productions of Pinter, Shaw and O’Casey Sanders, Brian Actor with the Donald Wolfit Shakespeare Ewan Jeffrey 10/05/2005 30 Company, recollections on working with Wolfit, performing Shakespeare with ENSA, working in repertory Sartain, Donald Director and Actor. Barrow, censorship, The Kate Harris 26/04/2006 69 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Caretaker, Designers, Dundee Rep, Ewan McColl, Joan Littlewood, John Berry, Lyme Regis, No Man's Land, rehearsals, Renaissance Theatre Company, Theatre Workshop, repertory, Tonbridge Serner, Ruth Bristol drama student and theatre worker, Jamie Andrews 01/04/2008 142 Harold Pinter’s The Room. Bristol Drama department, Bristol theatres, course structure, The Duchess of Malfi, fellow students, Look Back in Anger, Harold Pinter plays, practical instruction, The Revuians, The Room, Glynne Wyckham Seymour, Michael Stagehand and stage electrician at the Royal Dominic Shellard 17/07/2006 73 Court Theatre. Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, critics, The Entertainer, Robert Helpmann, Sean Kenny, Vivien Leigh, lighting, Look Back in Anger, Patrick McGee, Laurence Olivier, John Osborne, Joan Plowright, Royal Court Theatre, sets, work as a stagehand Shellard, Christine Theatre-goer and musician. Access to the Hannah Hassock 18/12/2006 88 theatre, cinema, issues in theatre, kitchen sink drama, London theatre, Look Back in Anger, My Fair Lady, radio, realism, regional theatre, television, theatre-going, Theatre Royal, Norwich Shellard, Marcus Theatre-goer. Accent, American musicals, Sophie Barnard 10/11/2006 95 Bertolt Brecht, censorship, cinema, class, Tom Courtenay, foreign drama, Joan Littlewood, Look Back in Anger, political background, revues, Theatre Workshop, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Kenneth Tynan, university Sheppard, Barry Theatre Manager and theatre-goer. Arts Catherine Cheese 07/12/2006 107 Council, censorship, Civic Theatre, Chesterfield, Equity, The Kitchen, musicals, National Theatre, new writing, regional theatre, repertory, Ralph Richardson, Student ASMs, touring, Whirligig Theatre Sheppard, John Theatre-goer. Peter Brook’s production of Kate Harris 29/11/2005 13 Titus Andronicus, Peter Daubney’s World Theatre Seasons (late sixties, early seventies), The Deep Blue Sea, The Entertainer, European theatre, John Gielgud, Manchester Library Theatre, Manchester Library Theatre company, Manchester Opera House, media portrayal of actors, Laurence Olivier, London theatre-going, The Quare Fellow, Terrence Rattigan, Royal Shakespeare Company, David Scace, Separate Tables, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan, The Wars of the Roses (RSC 1963), women in twentieth century theatre Simeon, David Actor. Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, Kate Harris 10/11/2006 111 censorship, comedy, drama schools, Cyril Fletcher, John Gielgud, The Guildhall School of Drama, Johnson over Jordan, The Method, John Osborne, pantomime, Harold Pinter, repertory, Derek Salberg, Reggie Salberg, Salisbury theatre, television, Dorothy Tutin, variety Simpson, Michael Director. Sir Felix Aylmer, Birmingham Rep., Clare Davis 07/11/2006 108 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Birmingham theatre-goers, Christmas shows, costume design, Peter Dews, Sir Barry Jackson, relationship between actors and administrative staff, repertoire, Salberg theatres, Saved, set design, theatre design, theatre directing Skelton, Felicity Theatre worker. Actors, Assistant Stage Erin Heidrich 26/04/2006 65 Manager's job, Birmingham Rep., Ian McKellan, Laurence Olivier, modern writing, Prospect Productions, Salary structure, Terry Skelton, Touring in Ireland, working conditions. Smith, A.C.H. Playwright. Acting, Samuel Beckett, Bristol Jamie Andrews 04/08/2006 76 Little Theatre, Bristol Old Vic theatre school, critics, T.S. Eliot, Endgame, Ernest 2 CDs Hemingway, influences upon his writing, Look Back in Anger, musicals, pantomime, Harold Pinter, programmes, Royal Shakespeare Company, Tom Stoppard, theatre-going, Universities’ Poetry, Waiting for Godot, Western Daily Press arts page, Charles Wood Smith, Auriol Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Advertising, Jamie Andrews 27/06/2007 161 audience, casting, critics, Dartington Hall, Devon, Drama Department, Bristol University, The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre Club, humour, Harold Pinter, rehearsing, The Room, theatre-going, The Green Room Society, Henry Woolf Smith, Josephine Wardrobe Mistress at Theatre Workshop. Jacky Hall 29/03/2007 152 Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Actors, audiences, A Taste of Honey, budgets, John Bury, Harry H. Corbett, costume making, costume maintenance, critics, foreign appreciation, The Good Soldier Schweik, lifestyle, Joan Littlewood, Look Back in Anger, Ewan MacColl, productions, Gerry Raffles, Red Roses for Me, rehearsals, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, touring, Kenneth Tynan, wages Spinetti, Victor Actor. Auditions, Brendan Behan, childhood, Alec Patton 01/09/2008 169, 170 critics, drama school, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, The Hostage, Irving Theatre, John 2 CDs Lennon, Joan Littlewood, Oh What a Lovely War, Laurence Olivier, rehearsals, reviews, revue, South Pacific, Theatre Workshop, touring in America, Kenneth Tynan Standing, John Actor John Standing on memories of working Kate Harris 24/10/2005 5 in weekly Rep, Performing in Peter Brook's 1955 production of Titus Andronicus, Working at Bristol Old Vic, Haymarket, Chichester, West End, Touring, John Osborne, Working in film and television, Working with Cary Grant, Watching Peter Brook's Midsummer Night's Dream, Working with Harold Pinter, Working on Broadway Stewart, Maurice Actor and Stage Manager. Audiences, Kate Harris 17/07/2006 72 Michael Bentall, Berliner Ensemble, Peter Daubeny, directing Shakespeare, Jack Hylton, Italia Conti Stage School, Look Back in Anger, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. new plays, Oklahoma!, Old Vic, repertory, revue, stratification of theatre, television, tours, Sam Wanamaker, World Theatre seasons Vance, Charles Actor and Producer. A Glass Menagerie, Dominic Shellard 04/09/2006 84 Cyril Cusack, Devonshire Park Theatre, In Praise of Love, Irish theatre, Anew McMaster, Memorial Theatre, Stratford, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Terence Rattigan, repertory, The group of three, touring America Verner, Anthony Actor. The Angry Deep, audiences, Binkie Eleanor Carter 19/04/2007 168 Beaumont, comedies, Italia Conti Stage School, Ray Cooney, critics, drama tuition, musicals, The Newcomers, Peter Pan, Terence Rattigan, rehearsing, repertory, ticket prices, television, Theatre of Comedy, theatre-going, Theatre Royal, Brighton, Windsor Theatre Walker, Donald Actor and Director. Doris Buckley, Judi Alistair Keeble 19/04/2007 153 Dench, digs, drama school, The Grand Theatre, Halifax, Look Back in Anger, make- up, scenery, Separate Tables, stage management, Geoffrey Staines, theatre in education, touring, Toynbee Theatre, London, weekly repertory, working with schools, York Citizens’ Theatre Trust Wallace, Alan Stage Manager. Censorship, drawing room Katherine Pike 15/12/2006 91 comedies, Equity, Repertory, scenery, Separate Tables, stage managers’ contracts, touring, West of England Theatre Company Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Wesker, Arnold Playwright, born 1932, on his recollections of Ewan Jeffrey 19/12/2003 23 working in the theatre West, Timothy Actor, born 1934, on his recollections of Catherine Jones 05/01/2004 43 theatre, 1945-68 Weston, Graham Actor. Birmingham Rep, Broadway, Warren Ewan Jeffrey 17/02/2005 54 Clarke, John Gielgud, Home, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols, Sheffield Playhouse, David Storey, television, Mona Washbourne. White, Alan Actor. Acting style, actors' mystique, actors' Kate Harris 09/11/2005 10 strike, Alan Aykbourne, audience reaction, Canterbury and Leatherhead, censorship, digs, Frank Matcham theatres, Arthur Miller, matinees, new writing, refreshments, repertory, technical changes, touring, Waiting for Godot, writers, Yvonne Arnaud theatre, Guildford Whyte, Mavis Performer with the Entertainments National Helen Temple 05/01/2005 50 Service Association, on working in variety and review acts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Wilkinson, Christopher Actor, 1963 to present day. On Tyrone Sue Fulton 21/10/2003 41 Guthrie, the Sheffield Playhouse, construction of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Willett, Ronald Musician. Audiences, finance, Geoff Love, Marc le Deroff & Alison 04/12/2006 103 Gene Patton, orchestral role, rehearsals, Norden Royal Theatre, Castleford, television, theatre, variety, variety acts Williams, Connie Theatre-goer. A Taste of Honey, censorship, Ellie Purkiss 15/12/2006 94 Look Back in Anger, modern writing, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. musicals, regional theatre, Sheffield theatres, The Crucible, the Lyceum and the Playhouse, theatre design, theatre-going Williams, Tudor Amateur dramatics actor and theatregoer, Ewan Jeffrey 03/04/2004 38 on acting in Journey’s End while in the RAF and working in repertory Williamson, Paul Actor. Albert Finney, audience reaction, Alexis Artaud de la 20/10/2005 3 Birmingham Rep, casting, characterisation, Ferriere costume arrangements, Equity, learning roles, musicals, public perception of actors, RADA, rehearsal structure, repertory, salary, Spotlight, stage managing, television acting, theatre-going, training and experience Williamson, Susan Eleanor Thornton 18/09/2007 162 Wischhusen, Stephen Theatre worker. Donald Albery, audiences, Dominic Shellard 04/09/2006 85 The Boys in the Band, The Caretaker, The Intimate Theatre, Lyceum Theatre Crewe, Palmers Green, lighting, rep, Swansea theatre, theatre criticism, theatre going, theatre owners, tickets and reservations Woolf, Henry Actor, Pinter's The Room. Audience, Bristol Jamie Andrews 20/07/2007 160 University, critics, Eileen Diss, John Lavender, Harold Pinter, production costs, producing plays, The Room, Duncan Ross, set, subsequent productions of The Room Young, Barbara Actress. Accent, Bradford Civic Theatre Ruth Lumsden 04/12/2007 118 School, Bertold Brecht, censorship, European drama, folksongs, Frank Hauser, Johnny Noble, Rudolf Laban, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, The Method, playwrights, Interviewee Abstract Interviewer Date of Interview Disc no. Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, touring, The Travellers, Uranium 235, Welsh audiences Young, Jeremy Actor. Acting styles, Birmingham Rep, Jack Kate Harris 07/11/2005 9 Bradley's Players, censorship, Harry Hanson Court Players, Harry Hanson, London theatre, new writing, regional theatre, Renaissance Theatre Company, television, theatrical digs, Tonbridge Rep, touring, touring Look Back in Anger 1958, West of England Theatre Company Young, Wayland & Kate Dorney 14/04/2005 16 Elizabeth

349/2 Gyorgy Lengyel

Copies of GL’s correspondence with Michel and Suria Saint Denis and Sir John Gielgud (originals to be deposited by bequest in due course)

349/2/1 Correspondence with Michel and Suria Saint Denis, 1958-1988 Photocopies. 55 sheets

349/2/2 Correspondence with Sir John Gielgud, 1959-1999 Photocopies. 33 sheets