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Old Rep and New Rep material including production file notes (unsorted box 7)

Catalogue reference: MS 2339/4/7

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This record is a file about the Old Rep and New Rep material including production file notes (unsorted box 7) dating from 1920s - 1981.

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Reference
MS 2339/4/7
Title
Old Rep and New Rep material including production file notes (unsorted box 7)
Date
1920s - 1981
Description

Includes:

Notebook with pages from script for Sheridan's 'The Rivals' pasted in [for use as a prompt script?];

Typed copy of script for 'The Seal Woman' - a Celtic folk opera by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser and Granville Bantock [1924];

Production file for 'Absurd Person Singular - main theatre Nov. 77' - notes on dressing rooms, props, cast list, call sheets, stage manager's reports;

Production file for 'The Seed - Studio Oct 1977' - similar to above but also including cast addresses, cast list, props, rehearsal notes;

Copy of script for unknown play (first 14 pages missing) - has characters Antony, Carmen, Abbie, Leo, Eva, Eli, Julie, Richard, Veronica, Alan;

List on card titled 'Susanna' with cues [for Le Mistere Du Viel Testament?] (needs cleaning);

Photos for publicity (1981) involving redecorating and reupholstering programme at Rep - interior of the auditorium showing where seats have been removed ready for upholstering, dressing room corridor being repainted, new sinks ready to be installed in the Rep Arts Shop, contact sheet showing interior and exterior shots, Rosemary Ashe as Cunegonde and William Relton as Candide in Rep's 1981 Edinburgh Festival production of 'Candide';

Sheffield Playhouse audience survey - example of questionnaire for possible Rep use;

Evening Mail article (05 April 1971) 'looking in on the last night at The Rep' with photo of final curtain and Peter Dews talking to actor Alfred Burke;

Invitation for official opening of Birmingham Repertory Theatre by Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret Countess of Snowdon on Wednesday 20 October 1971 followed by gala performance of 'First Impressions';

Draft text? for invite to gala performance of 'Candide' on 11 September 1981 to celebrate 10th anniversary of New Rep;

Handwritten music score for 'The Devil is An Ass';

Photocopy of production file notes on 'Rookery Nook' - props list, dressing list, Assistant Stage Manager cues, personal props, setting list, stage settings (1979);

Draft text on main and studio theatre productions and visiting companies (1971 - 1976) including typed notes with annotations, design mock-up, proofs? (for publication);

Bookplate label for Bache Matthews;

Part of design drawing for floor or ceiling?

Note

Finding No.: Unsorted Box 7

Held by
Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service
Physical description
1 small box
Access conditions

Closed until assessed

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/c027bf73-bff5-4496-bc99-674d0c4eccde/

Series information

MS 2339/4

Box list of unsorted New Repertory Theatre material

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Within the fonds: MS 2339

Material relating to the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Broad Street

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Within the series: MS 2339/4

Box list of unsorted New Repertory Theatre material

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Old Rep and New Rep material including production file notes (unsorted box 7)