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 Age Concern Drama Group Allen, Michael
Anderson, Ian Noel
Aveline, Joe
Abstract Comments on theatre in Sheffield in the 1950s and 1960s Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, Richard 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 Stage worker. Brighton theatres, cinema, 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 Production Manager. A Flea in Her Ear, As 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
Interviewer Alan Lane
Date of Interview 22/03/2004
Disc no. 26
Tom Dymond
17/07/2006
71
Jennifer Ball
December 2006
106
Francesca Soper
08/01/2007
93
Interviewee Ayliff, David
Ayres, Geoffrey
Banbury, Frith Barlow, Thelma
Bartlett, Peter
Abstract Interviewer Matthew Comras Director and Stage Manager. Actors, H.K. 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 Emma Nolan Theatre-goer. Amateur dramatics, British 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 Ewan Jeffrey Actress. Bristol Old Vic, Birmingham Rep, Gregory Povey critics, Edinburgh Festival, female theatre managers, Liverpool, Glasgow, Nottingham, repertory, repertoire, theatre grants, Theatre Workshop, touring, West of England Theatre Company Actor. Auditions, BBC drama, George Ewan Jeffrey & Kate 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
Date of Interview 18/12/2006
Disc no. 95
10/11/2006
101
14/03/2005 14/03/2006
62 64
20/10/2005
35
Interviewee Baugh, Christopher Bench, Frank Boxer, Elizabeth Bramley, Philip
Brooks, Dorien Brown, Kenneth
Brown, Ross
Abstract On the Society for Theatre Research, censorship, Liverpool Everyman, theatre design Theatregoer. Theatre-in-Education, The Winslow Boy Actor, on training at LAMDA, working with Jack Hulbert, repertory theatre in the 1950s and 1960s Theatre-goer. 1950s society, accents, 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 Theatregoer, London: Noel Coward, Priestley, Look Back in Anger Theatre-goer. Alan Ayckbourne’s plays, Bertolt Brecht, Blackpool Tower Circus, incidental music, Manchester theatres, Frank 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 Interview with Ross Brown, who talks about sound design in theatre productions
Interviewer Lynsey Jeffries
Date of Interview 20/11/2003
Disc no. 42
David Miller
12/02/2004
24
Ewan Jeffrey
10/03/2005
58
Alison Parry
10/11/2006
104
Simon Finnegan
04/12/2003
21
Steve Nicholson
07/04/2008
139, 140
2 CDs
Emma Johnson
16/03/2004
29
Interviewee Budworth, David
Burke, Alfred
Burman, Lionel
Burrows, Tony
Abstract Theatre-goer. Actors, Alexandra Theatre, 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 Actor Alfred Burke on his memories of The 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 Theatre-goer 1945-68. Absurdist theatre, audiences, Samuel Beckett, censorship, Club theatres, Eugene Ionesco, London theatregoing, Look Back in Anger, Spike Milligan, Merseyside Unity, musicals, Luigi Pirandello, The Playhouse, Liverpool, production styles, ticket prices, Theatre Workshop Audience member Tony Burrows on his 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
Interviewer Sarah Strachan
Date of Interview 10/11/2006
Disc no. 102
Kate Harris
29/11/2005
9
Kavita Naker
27/06/2005
33
Ewan Jeffrey
16/03/2005
63
Interviewee Cawley, Robert
Cecil, Jonathan
Chambers, Colin Chapple, Freda
Chater, Elizabeth
Abstract Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, censorship, 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, theatregoing, theatre in the round, ticket price, Kenneth Tynan, verse speaking Actor. Amateur Dramatics, Ambrosine 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 Theatre worker. Formerly an Assistant Stage Manager at Sydney Opera House, now teaches drama in the Institute for Lifelong Learning Actor, working for the King’s Theatre, Gainsborough, ‘outreach’ theatre for Holloway prison in the 1950s, acting in repertory
Interviewer Sophie Lightfoot
Date of Interview 04/12/2007
Disc no. 125
Daniel Buckley
13/12/2006
110
Kate Dorney Kate Harris
2005? 12/01/2004
17 27
Ewan Jeffrey
10/03/2005
58
Interviewee Cheeseman, Peter Chivers, David
Clayton, Barry
Cole, Austin
Cooper, George
Abstract Former Artistic Director of the Victoria Theatre, Staffprdshire, talking about his experiences with the Lord Chamberlain Actor and Stage Manager. A Breath of Spring, 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 Actor. Arden of Faversham, audiences, 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 Theatre-goer. Frank Adie, Tommy Cooper, 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 Actor. Lindsay Anderson, Arden of Faversham, audiences, Billy Liar, John Bury, The Dutch Courtesan, commercial Theatre, critical reception, The Good Soldier Schweik, Harry Greene, Rudolf Laban, Joan Littlewood,
Interviewer Kate Dorney
Date of Interview 11/11/2004
Disc no. 46
Sarah Tough
10/11/2006
99
Kate Harris
08/10/2007
127
Dominic Shellard
06/11/2007
118
Kate Harris
17/04/2007
145, 146
2 CDs
Interviewee
Cottis, Eileen
Coulter, David
Cox King, Joyce
Abstract 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 Theatre-goer. The Bells, Brecht’s plays, 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, theatregoing, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan, Arnold Wesker Actor. Accent, actor-managers, audiences, 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 Theatre-goer. Amateur acting, Birmingham theatres, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Matt Willis
10/11/2006
100
Poonam Ganglani
12/05/2008
143
Philippa Wilson
Autumn 2005
1
Interviewee
Crow, William Cruickshank, Graeme
Davies, David
De Lannoy, John
Abstract My Fair Lady, play-goers clubs, theatre-going, ticket prices, Variety, well-made plays Theatregoer 1945-68, on censorship, Irish Theatre, the influence of European theatre, visiting the first runs of Harold Pinter’s plays Stage Manager and Actor. James Bolam, Richard Burnett’s Penguin Players, Agatha Christie’s plays, Carl Clopet, Company 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 Actor, Pinter’s The Room. Bristol Old Vic, 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 Stage Manager and Director. Peter Bridge, George Formby, Bruce Forsyth, foreign touring, Grand Theatre, Halifax, An Ideal Husband, Emile Littler, pantomime, Ian Paul,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Ewan Jeffrey
27/06/2005
31
Marie-Claire Wyatt
04/09/2006
80, 81
2 CDs
Jamie Andrews
25/02/2008
141
Charlotte Chelsom Pill
30/01/2007
113
Interviewee
Dennis, Johnny
Detmer, Sarah Digby Day, Richard
Diss, Eileen
Dorney, Tony
Draper, Colin
Abstract rehearsals, repertory, scenery, stage management, Stephen D, John V. Trevor, twice-nightly shows, touring, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford Actor. An Ideal Husband, Maria Callas, censorship, Charlie Chaplin, critics, image, Tito Gobbi, Bernard Miles, music hall, Laurence Olivier, opera, preparation, rehearsals, stardom, television, theatre atmosphere, theatre etiquette, theatregoing, RSC, Tosca Audience member talking about her recollections of Richardson, Gielgud and Olivier, and the World Theatre seasons Freelance director and Artistic Director of Northcott Theatre 1978-80, on taining in RADA, Wesker’s plays, Kenneth Tynan and censorship Designer. The Basement, BBC, Central School of Arts and Crafts, design developments, Ealing Studios, The Mermaid Theatre, Harold Pinter, sets, special effects Music Hall and London theatre 1950-68, meeting David Mercer, Olivier at the Old Vic, premiere of Oh, What a Lovely War! Stage Manager of the Richmond Theatre, on changes in lighting technology, repertory stage management, the impact of ‘Realism’, repertory prop acquisition
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Mathew Webb
04/12/2007
122
Kate Dorney
01/02/2005
53
Ewan Jeffrey
17/06/2003
40
Ewan Jeffrey
15/03/2005
64
Kate Dorney
25/11/2004
47
Ewan Jeffrey
08/12/2004
48
Interviewee Dunn, Tony
Dynevor, Shirley
Engel, Susan
Ewing, Elizabeth
Farquhar, Malcolm
Abstract Theatre-goer. Berthold Brecht, Early 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 dresscode, Monica Vitti, The Wars of the Roses Actress. Audiences, audition, A Christmas 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, twicenightly rep, West End Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Audience, Bristol University Drama Department, Samuel Beckett, characterisation, DramSoc, drama school, Harold Hobson, production, props, Harold Pinter, reviews, the script, Raphael Shelly, Jimmy Wax Began her theatregoing career in 1945, early experiences in Sheffield, musical theatre in London 1956, premiere of Separate Tables Actor and former Artistic Director of the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham. On repertory, theatregoing 1945-68, secrets of successful direction, post-war star system of the West End.
Interviewer Dominic Shellard
Date of Interview 17/07/2006
Disc no. 75
Rachael Leo
27/03/2008
139
Jamie Andrews
17/10/2007
128
Kate Dorney
07/08/2004
45
Ewan Jeffrey
02/02/2004
25
Interviewee Field, Anthony
Foster, Richard
Francis, Pat Fraser, Sonia
Frayn, Michael Gaffin, Jean
Abstract Theatre Producer, Theatre Project 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 Theatre-goer and amateur actor. Acting, censorship, The Caretaker, musicals, Music Hall, Oklahoma!, Harold Pinter, protest plays, Sheffield theatre, television, theatre-going, touring Theatregoer, on East Ham Palace, Joan Littlewood, seeing Brendan Behan’s plays, Chekhov Actress and Director. Accent, A Taste of Honey, audiences, Bristol Old Vic School, censorship, directing, Ibsen, Look Back in Anger, modern plays, repertory, rehearsing, RSC, Shakespeare, theatre-going habits, theatre training. Playwright and novelist: influences Theatre-worker. Actors, Arts Council grant, Bertolt Brecht, censorship, critics, The Good
Interviewer Kate Harris
Date of Interview 14/03/2007
Disc no. 109
Sarah Burbridge
11/12/2006
105
Rosie Taylor
06/01/2005
51
Vicki Carey
January 2007
88
Ursula Canton Kate Harris
27/02/2004 25/04/2007
28 70
Interviewee
Gardner, Jacci Gardner, Viv Gaunt, Pauline
George, Colin
Abstract 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
On British Drama League, theatregoing in the 1960s, regional theatre, impact of Brecht Actress. Accommodation, audiences, Binkie 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 Actor and Director. A Man for All Seasons, audiences, Birmingham Rep, children’s theatre, Coventry Belgrade Theatre, The 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,
Liz Sowden
20/02/2004
27 26
Dominic Shellard
06/11/2007
124
Kate Harris
21/11/2005
6
3 CDs
Interviewee Gill, James
Girling, David
Goddard, Renee & Fry, Hano
Goodman, Pearl
Abstract television Actor and Stage Manager. Audiences, JeanLouis 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, WebberDouglas Theatre School Theatregoer 1945-68, on original run of Waiting for Godot, John osborne’s Luther, george Devine, John Gielgud and the Oxford University Drama Society Renee Goddard professional actress, stage manager, script reader 1943-1954, Glyndebourne Children's Theatre, Salome, 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 Actress and singer. Audiences, digs, domestic service, The Flying Doctor, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Johnny Noble, Gerry Raffles, rehearsals, David Scase, Theatre Workshop,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Elena Thompson
04/12/2007
125
Kate Dorney
15/12/2004
49
Kate Harris
26/10/2005
7, 8
2 CDs
Kate Harris
26/03/2007 2 CDs
147, 148
Interviewee Gould, Leila & Gerald
Gould, Mervyn
Gray, Frances
Gray, Ronald
Green, Peter
Abstract touring, training, Uranium 235 Secretary to Theatre Workshop and her husband. Authors, Big Rock Candy Mountain, George Cooper, drama techniques, East London Theatres, Howard Goorney, Joan Littlewood, money, plays, politics, theatregoing, Theatre Royal, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, the Theatre Workshop cast Theatre Worker. Decline of theatre business, 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 Senior lecturer in English Literature at Sheffield University talking about her experiences at Chichester Festival Theatre and the RSC in the 1960s and 1970s Theatre-goer. Alfie Bass, Samuel Beckett, 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 Actors' Agent, Actors, agency routine, celebrity, The Entertainer, Equity, John Gielgud, London theatre, Laurence Olivier, Manager of the Vaudeville Theatre, London,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Sarah Burbridge
12/01/2008
134
Tom Shallaker
04/12/2007
133
Kate Dorney
27/06/2005
89, 90
2 CDs Payam Hosseinian
04/05/07
149
Ewan Jeffrey & Kate Harris
20/10/2005
35
Interviewee
Green, Yvonne Greene, Harry
Griffiths, Trevor Haffenden, John Hamilton, Jacci Hampton, Antony
Hancock, Philip
Abstract modern drama, Regional theatre, Repertory, Setting up an Actors' Agency, television, Richard Wilson Theatregoer 1945-68, on musicals, Ionesco, dressing up for theatre visits Actor. Amateur drama, actors, John Bury, George Cooper, critics, ensemble, Equity, lighting, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, New 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 Professor of Drama at London Metropolitan University. Birmingham Rep during the 1960s Professor at Sheffield University, RSC during the 1960s Theatregoer at Golders Green Hippodrome and Sheffield Playhouse during the late 1950s and early 1960s Chairman of the Sheffield Playhouse and Artistic Director of the Crucible, on the construction of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and press reaction Actor, list of theatre experience, education at drama school, sound in the theatre (music and effects), working with Peter Hall, experience with repertory theatre, idols and
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Claire Fayers
28/09/2004
46
Kate Harris
20/09/2006
154, 155, 156
3 CDs
Kimberley Whitehead
22/01/2003
39
Elena Parissi
25/11/2003
19
Alan Lane
25/03/2004
5
Sue Fulton
19/11/2003
41
Jörg Pomplun
11/11/2005
1
Interviewee
Hardwicke, Edward
Haynes, John
Heayes, Neil
Abstract geniuses (working with famous actors) , life as an actor, drama vs. comedy, role of music in the theatre Actor. Acting styles, Berthold Brecht, Bristol 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, theatregoing habits, Kenneth Tynan, Robert Wagner, the West of England Theatre Company Photographer. Samuel Beckett, Edward 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 Theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, Robert Atkins, 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Kate Harris
06/11/2007
136
Tom Dymond
28/07/2008
144
Natalie Dunton
16/01/2008
138
Interviewee
Hedley, Philip
Hemmingway, William
Hepton, Bernard
Hern, Nick
Abstract Shepherd, Alistair Simm, Streatham Hill Theatre, the Travelling Repertory Theatre, ticket prices, Rex Whistler, Donald Wolfit Actor, Theatre-goer and Director Emeritus, 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 Theatre-goer and actor. Audiences, Burnley 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. Actor and Director. Samuel Beckett, 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 Publisher, academic and theatre-goer. Actors, Bristol Old Vic, Bristol University Drama Department, Chips With Everything, Glasgow University Drama Department,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Alec Patton
06/11/2007
130
Chris Furness
27/04/2006
68
Kate Harris
06/04/2006
68
Alec Patton
25/06/2007
163
2 CDs
Interviewee
Hobson, Harold Holt, John
Hornick, Neil
Howard, Pamela
Abstract 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 Harold Hobson interviewed by Professor Dominic Shellard as part of DS’s research Theatre-goer. A Taste Of Honey, audience 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 Actor and Theatre-goer. Jean Anouilh, Arts Lab., The Blue Lamp, Butlins, The Crazy Gang, critics, Jack Gelber, the Golders Green Hippodrome, interval music, Danny Kaye, The London Palladium, The Mousetrap, musicals, Oklahoma!, programmes, school plays, Shakespeare, theatre-going, well-made plays Scenographer and director Pamela Howard 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,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Dominic Shellard
09/06/1995
18
Sinead Gray
10/11/2006
102
Katherine Lofthouse
24/01/2008
132, 133
2 CDs
Kate Harris
09/11/2005
11
Interviewee
Hunnings, Neville
Iveson, Richard
Jackman, Margaret
Abstract 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 Theatre-goer. Alan Badel, amateur theatre, 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 Theatre-worker. Tommy Bradley, The Diary of Anne Frank, Frank Formby, lighting, nudity, recording equipment, special effects, ticket prices, variety. Actress and theatre worker. Against the 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Marie-Claire Wyatt
04/09/2006
83
Marc Le Deroff
04/12/2006
103
Alec Patton
06/11/2007
120
Interviewee Jackson, Glenda
Jeffries, Ursula
Jellicoe, Ann
Jolley, Joyce
Jones, Julia
Abstract management, wardrobe Actress. Arts funding, Peter Brook, censorship, Equity, Look Back in Anger, The Marat/Sade, new writing, Laurence Olivier, politics in theatre, RADA, repertory, RSC, Workers Revolutionary Party Theatregoer, on theatre in the 1960s, Waiting for Godot, audience response to Beckett’s plays, the end of censorship and radio drama Playwright. Censorship, Central School of 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 Actress and theatre-goer. Christopher Fry, 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 Actress, playwright and theatre-goer. Alice in Wonderland, auditioning, Harry H. Corbett,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Ben Sneddon
16/04/2007
164
Ewan Jeffrey
10/05/2005
36
Kate Dorney
27/06/2005
32
Louise Harrison
10/11/2006
97
Helen Temple
30/03/2007
98
Interviewee
Kellerman, Julia
Kersley, Leo
King, Colette
Abstract digs, The Dutch Courtesan, lighting, Joan 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 Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Audience, Bristol 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 Dancer and Choreographer. Frederick 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 Director. Bill Gaskill, Central School of 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,
Interviewer
Date of Interview 2 CDs
Disc no.
Alec Patton
25/02/2008
142
Tom Dymond
17/07/2006
74
Cerian Jones
January 2007
94
Interviewee
Kingston, Mark & Marigold Sharman
Kirk, David Knight, Rosalind
Lambert, Peter
Landis, Harry
Abstract Interviewer Strawberry Hill College, teaching, Waiting for Godot. Rebecca Marriott Actors. Accent, Alec Guinness, Binkie 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 Ewan Jeffrey Alec Patton Actress. ’59 Theatre Company, ’69 Theatre 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 SaintDenis, the Young Vic Theatre Director. Acting style, Christopher Kate Harris Fry, Manchester Library Theatre, method acting, realism, rehearsal process, repertoire, The Royal Court Theatre, London, David Scace, television, theatre criticism Actor, director. Accent, Bertolt Brecht, Dean Meehan Richard Burton, censorship, Central School of Speech and Drama, Equity, The Kitchen, Joan Littlewood, Sean O’Casey, Harold
Date of Interview
Disc no.
21/03/2006
67
16/03/2005 06/11/2007
63 119
01/12/2005
65
05/12/2007
115
Interviewee
Lawrence, Marjie
Legge, Brian
Levitt, John
Abstract Pinter, repertory theatre, touring, Unity Theatre, variety shows, Arnold Wesker, Ted Willis, West End theatre, working-class movement, writers Actress. Arden of Faversham, auditioning, 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 Theatre technician. Belgrade Theatre, 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 Actor. Accents, backstage team, Caesar and Cleopatra, censorship, child licences, digs, Vivien Leigh, modern writers, musicals, Laurence Olivier, RADA, repertory, South Pacific, television, touring
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Kate Harris
06/12/2007
123
Kate Bullivant
06/01/2007
92
James Morris
10/11/2006
97
Interviewee Lewis Jones, John
Loveday, Ted
Lowe, Mary
Loxton, Howard MacKillop, Ian Mason, George & Mona
Abstract Theatre-goer. Bertholt Brecht, The 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. Scenery designer. Audiences, The Blue Lamp, 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 Theatre-goer. The Duchess of Malfi, N.C. Hunter, intervals, Manchester Library Theatre, Manchester Opera House, Terence Rattigan, regional theatre, Harry Rutherford (artist), The Sleeping Prince, Stratford, theatre-going, three-act plays Interview with Professor Ian MacKillop, who recalls theatre productions from his youth Theatregoers: Vic Theatre, Stoke, from the 1960s to the present
Interviewer Blanche Hammond
Date of Interview 10/11/2006
Disc no. 15
Charlotte Chelsom-Pill
07/12/2007
137
Sian Prosser
12/12/2005
66
Melanie Woodhouse Francesca Baker
18/12/2006 05/12/2003
114 22
Rachel Baxter
26/09/2003
18
Interviewee Mason, Marjery
Mathers, Audrey
McDermot, Julia
McDiarmid, Ian McDonnell, Bill McPherson, Alexander
Melvin, Murray
Abstract Actress. Acting in Working Men’s Clubs, The 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 Daughter of theatre boarding house owner. 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 Actress. Agent, auditioning, digs, dressers, early career, Rory MacDermot (husband), pre-war theatre, repertory, Salberg theatres, theatrical training, touring, Watford rep., Wolverhampton rep Actor. Auditions, censorship, drama school, directing, Scottish theatre Lecturer at Sheffield University and community theatre worker. Recollections of working with CAST during the 1970s Designer. Frith Banbury, Bristol theatres, costume design, designing productions, kabuki drama, Music Hall, pantomime, Rapier Players, scenery, stage management, touring, Trelawney of the Wells, Victorian theatre, weekly rep Actor. 1950s, audience participation, John
Interviewer Tom Dymond
Date of Interview 08/10/2007
Disc no. 121
Alison Norden
04/12/2006
105
Rebecca Sutton & Maggie Speake
23/11/2005
12
Ewan Jeffrey
26/04/2005
61
Michel Reuter
02/12/2003
20
Therese Clutario
14/04/2007
164
Dominic Shellard
07/12/2006
96
Interviewee
Miller, Jean
Moffatt, John
More than just Osborne?
Morgan, Philip
Morris, Grahame Murphy, Brian
Neale, Helen
Abstract Bury, Edward II, Joan Littlewood, stage makeup, Richard II, stage lighting, Stratford East, Theatre Workshop Actress. Bellain’s School of Dancing, costumes, films, Margot Fonteyn, Hermione Gingold, Michael Miller, orchestras, pantomime, salaries, Theatre Royal, Windsor Actor, working with Noel Coward, repertory, psychology of traditional pantomime, working with Tony Hancock, working with Binkie Beaumont for HM Tennents, the Royal Court, acting with John Gielgud Frith Banbury, Anne Piper, Rupert Rhymes
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Emily Blakey
14/05/2008
143
Ewan Jeffrey
13/03/2005
60
Kate Harris & Dominic Shellard Cristina Irving
05/09/2006 2 CDs 26/02/2005
86, 87
26/11/2003
19
08/01/2008
126
04/09/2006
82
Talks of his father’s extensive diary/scrapbook of theatre visits/personal reviews of London and Bristol productions 1945-68, including Separate Tables Ex-chairman of Sheffield Theatres on the Laura White rationale for their programming Actor. Audiences, auditioning, Clive Barker, Alec Patton 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 Actress and theatre-goer. Peggy Ashcroft, As Dominic Shellard You Like It, Richard Burton, Agatha Christie’s
55
Interviewee
Newlove, Jean
Nichols, Peter
Noble, Patricia
Olivier, Laurence
Abstract 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 Movement and dance specialist. Artistic 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 Playwright: theatregoing as child, critical reception, Bristol Old Vic, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, the process of playwriting, censorship and the Lord Chamberlain, Privates on Parade, early Variety performances Script Reader for H.M Tennent. Enid Bagnold, 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 Laurence Olivier interviewed by Kathleen
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Kate Harris
06/11/2007
131
Jamie Andrews
30/09/2005
77, 78
2 CDs
(128, 129 2nd copy)
Kate Harris
18/12/2006
166
Kathleen Tynan
04/03/1983, 16/08/1983
14, 15
Interviewee Orme, Elsie
Ostler, Kathy Ostler, Mike Oxenford, Daphne
Page, Eileen Page, Jocelyn
Paget, Derek
Abstract Tynan Assistant Stage Manager and theatre-goer, 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 Theatregoer. West End, Woolwich Empire and repertory theatre 1945-68 Chairman of the Society for Theatre Research, on working as stage manager in repertory theatre in the 1960s Actress Daphne Oxenford on her memories of touring with ENSA 1945, Working for H M Tennents, Memories of Joyce Grenfell, Doing Listen With Mother on radio, Working at the Library Theatre, Manchester, Touring and theatrical digs, Matinee teas, Auditioning Interview with actress Eileen Page, who contrasts plays from the 1950s with contemporary theatre Actress Jocelyn Page on her memories of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, Working in Repertory Theatre, Memories of Peter Hall and John Barton, Censorship, John Osborne, Working at The Mermaid Theatre Stage Manager. Lionel Bart, Peter Brook’s King Lear, directors, Dynamo, The Hostage, King Lear, King’s Head Theatre, lighting, Joan Littlewood, Oh! What a Lovely War, John
Interviewer
Disc no.
Anneka Shah
Date of Interview 2 CDs 18/01/2005
Roxanne Blakelock
15/10/2003
38
Roxanne Blakelock
15/10/2004
37
Katherine Miller & Liana Koehler
02/10/2005
34
Ewan Jeffrey & Kate Harris
20/10/2005
52
Chloe Ingham
2 interviews 17/03/2004
29
Rachel Rhodes
25/11/2005
5
Hannah Dodd
04/12/2007
116
Interviewee
Pavlow, Muriel
Piper, Anne
Plater, Alan
Plumley, Brenda
Pontac, Perry
Abstract Osborne, Howard Panter, Royal Court Theatre, stage management, Theatre Project Company, Theatre Workshop, touring, West End productions, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Stage and film actor, on working as a child actor with John Gielgud, RSC, theatre and the war, working in ENSA, the crossover from theatre to screen
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Ewan Jeffrey
14/03/2005
61
Novelist and playwright, on Look Back in Anger, George Devine, the Royal Court in the 1950s and 1960s, Oklahoma!, Bertolt Brecht Playwright. Accent, censorship, Peter Cheeseman, Close the Coalhouse Door, dialogue, farce, Alex Glasgow, Joan 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 Actress. Assistant Stage Manager, The 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. Playwright. Absurdist drama, acting styles,
Kate Dorney
12/03/2005
59
Kate Harris
07/09/2007
157, 158
2 CDs
Sarah Cooper
04/12/2007
117
Tom Dymond
08/10/2007
150
Interviewee
Pulford, Richard Purves, Ian Ranger, Joy
Rankin, Peter
Redgrave, Corin
Abstract 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 Chief Executive of the Society of London Theatres/Theatre Management Association, on theatre management in London On Dundee Rep, lighting and set design, the impact of two fires in the Oddfellows Hall in Dundee Actress and theatre-goer. Back-stage, ballet, censorship, digs, Harrogate, Japanese theatre, Vivien Leigh, the National Theatre, Old Vic, RADA, repertory, repertoire, theatregoing, theatres, working in Japan, translations of plays, touring, Turn of the Screw Actor. Audiences, Lionel Bart, Brendan Behan, Peter Brook, Cinderella, critics, dialogue, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, Oh What a Lovely War, playwrights, Gerry Raffles, rehearsals, Royal Court Theatre, Shakespeare, theatre-going, Theatre Workshop, Kenneth Tynan Actor. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Daniel Barenboim, George Devine, The Entertainer, Arthur Miller, modern cabaret, the National
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Ewan Jeffrey
03/02/04
25
Charlotte Barton
09/01/2005
51
Tom Dymond
04/09/2006
79
Helen Temple
09/05/2007
167
2 CDs
Ian MacKillop
16/04/2004
44
Interviewee
Abstract 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, Wolverhampton and Birmingham Rep Rhymes, Rupert
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Neil Redgrave
22/12/2004
49
Kate Dorney
56, 57
Richardson, Ian
Aga Sikora
04/03/2005 2 CDs 29/01/2007
Marie-Claire Wyatt
23/08/2007
159
Kate McNiven
Autumn 2005
1, 2
Richardson, Maroussia
Rigby, Terence
Actor. 1964 RSC tour, accent, acting 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 Actress. Aldwych Theatre, Arts Theatre, ASM, 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 Actor. Agents, Birmingham Rep., censorship, Covent Garden, Equity, finding jobs, Fings Aint Wot They Used T'Be, working in Ireland, Keswick Century Theatre, Harold Pinter, The
112
Interviewee
Rimmell, Norman
Ritchie, George
Ritson, Bill
Rix, Brian
Abstract Homecoming, regional theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare, Spotlight, television, working in London Theatre-goer. A Taste of Honey, Brendan Behan, farce, Good King Charles’ Golden Days, Old Vic, opera, pantomime, Theatre Workshop, Unity Theatre, variety Actor and teacher. Audiences, The Bofors 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 Theatre-goer. The Birthday Party, Cambridge theatres, celebrity, censorship, Club Theatres, London theatres and productions, Royal Shakespeare Company, theatre-going, Variety, Waiting for Godot Actor-manager, Chairman of Drama at the 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Alec Patton
24/08/2008
169
Steve Nicholson
09/12/2007
135
Ewan Jeffrey
15/03/2005
62
Kate Harris
16/04/2007
151
Interviewee Roberts, Neil
Rose, David
Roy, Donald
Sampson, Peter
Sanders, Brian
Sartain, Donald
Abstract Sylvaine, Whitehall Theatre, Donald Wolfit Professor of English Literature, University of Sheffield. Theatregoer in the 1960s: Peter Brook’s King Lear (1962) Former head of Channel Four Drama. 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 Professor of Drama, theatregoer in the fifties 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 Theatregoer and amateur dramatics actor, on acting and visiting the theatre 1945-68, visiting productions of Pinter, Shaw and O’Casey Actor with the Donald Wolfit Shakespeare Company, recollections on working with Wolfit, performing Shakespeare with ENSA, working in repertory Director and Actor. Barrow, censorship, The
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
T.K. Vincent
10/12/2003
160
Kate Harris
24/10/2005
4
Ewan Jeffrey
22/04/2005
60
Fiona Sagar
04/01/2005
50
Ewan Jeffrey
10/05/2005
30
Kate Harris
26/04/2006
69
Interviewee
Serner, Ruth
Seymour, Michael
Shellard, Christine
Shellard, Marcus
Abstract Caretaker, Designers, Dundee Rep, Ewan McColl, Joan Littlewood, John Berry, Lyme Regis, No Man's Land, rehearsals, Renaissance Theatre Company, Theatre Workshop, repertory, Tonbridge Bristol drama student and theatre worker, 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 Stagehand and stage electrician at the Royal 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 Theatre-goer and musician. Access to the 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 Theatre-goer. Accent, American musicals, Bertolt Brecht, censorship, cinema, class, Tom Courtenay, foreign drama, Joan Littlewood, Look Back in Anger, political background, revues, Theatre Workshop,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Jamie Andrews
01/04/2008
142
Dominic Shellard
17/07/2006
73
Hannah Hassock
18/12/2006
88
Sophie Barnard
10/11/2006
95
Interviewee Sheppard, Barry
Sheppard, John
Simeon, David
Simpson, Michael
Abstract Kenneth Tynan, university Theatre Manager and theatre-goer. Arts Council, censorship, Civic Theatre, Chesterfield, Equity, The Kitchen, musicals, National Theatre, new writing, regional theatre, repertory, Ralph Richardson, Student ASMs, touring, Whirligig Theatre Theatre-goer. Peter Brook’s production of 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 Actor. Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 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 Director. Sir Felix Aylmer, Birmingham Rep.,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Catherine Cheese
07/12/2006
107
Kate Harris
29/11/2005
13
Kate Harris
10/11/2006
111
Clare Davis
07/11/2006
108
Interviewee
Skelton, Felicity
Smith, A.C.H.
Smith, Auriol
Smith, Josephine
Abstract 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 Theatre worker. Actors, Assistant Stage Manager's job, Birmingham Rep., Ian McKellan, Laurence Olivier, modern writing, Prospect Productions, Salary structure, Terry Skelton, Touring in Ireland, working conditions. Playwright. Acting, Samuel Beckett, Bristol Little Theatre, Bristol Old Vic theatre school, critics, T.S. Eliot, Endgame, Ernest 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 Actress, Pinter’s The Room. Advertising, 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 Wardrobe Mistress at Theatre Workshop.
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Erin Heidrich
26/04/2006
65
Jamie Andrews
04/08/2006
76
2 CDs
Jamie Andrews
27/06/2007
161
Jacky Hall
29/03/2007
152
Interviewee
Spinetti, Victor
Standing, John
Stewart, Maurice
Abstract 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 Actor. Auditions, Brendan Behan, childhood, critics, drama school, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, The Hostage, Irving Theatre, John Lennon, Joan Littlewood, Oh What a Lovely War, Laurence Olivier, rehearsals, reviews, revue, South Pacific, Theatre Workshop, touring in America, Kenneth Tynan Actor John Standing on memories of working 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 Actor and Stage Manager. Audiences, Michael Bentall, Berliner Ensemble, Peter Daubeny, directing Shakespeare, Jack Hylton, Italia Conti Stage School, Look Back in Anger,
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Alec Patton
01/09/2008
169, 170
2 CDs
Kate Harris
24/10/2005
5
Kate Harris
17/07/2006
72
Interviewee
Vance, Charles
Verner, Anthony
Walker, Donald
Wallace, Alan
Abstract new plays, Oklahoma!, Old Vic, repertory, revue, stratification of theatre, television, tours, Sam Wanamaker, World Theatre seasons Actor and Producer. A Glass Menagerie, 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 Actor. The Angry Deep, audiences, Binkie 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 Actor and Director. Doris Buckley, Judi Dench, digs, drama school, The Grand Theatre, Halifax, Look Back in Anger, makeup, scenery, Separate Tables, stage management, Geoffrey Staines, theatre in education, touring, Toynbee Theatre, London, weekly repertory, working with schools, York Citizens’ Theatre Trust Stage Manager. Censorship, drawing room comedies, Equity, Repertory, scenery, Separate Tables, stage managers’ contracts, touring, West of England Theatre Company
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Dominic Shellard
04/09/2006
84
Eleanor Carter
19/04/2007
168
Alistair Keeble
19/04/2007
153
Katherine Pike
15/12/2006
91
Interviewee Wesker, Arnold West, Timothy Weston, Graham
White, Alan
Whyte, Mavis Wilkinson, Christopher
Willett, Ronald
Williams, Connie
Abstract Playwright, born 1932, on his recollections of working in the theatre Actor, born 1934, on his recollections of theatre, 1945-68 Actor. Birmingham Rep, Broadway, Warren Clarke, John Gielgud, Home, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols, Sheffield Playhouse, David Storey, television, Mona Washbourne. Actor. Acting style, actors' mystique, actors' 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 Performer with the Entertainments National Service Association, on working in variety and review acts in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s Actor, 1963 to present day. On Tyrone Guthrie, the Sheffield Playhouse, construction of the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield Musician. Audiences, finance, Geoff Love, Gene Patton, orchestral role, rehearsals, Royal Theatre, Castleford, television, theatre, variety, variety acts Theatre-goer. A Taste of Honey, censorship, Look Back in Anger, modern writing,
Interviewer Ewan Jeffrey
Date of Interview 19/12/2003
Disc no. 23
Catherine Jones
05/01/2004
43
Ewan Jeffrey
17/02/2005
54
Kate Harris
09/11/2005
10
Helen Temple
05/01/2005
50
Sue Fulton
21/10/2003
41
Marc le Deroff & Alison 04/12/2006 Norden
103
Ellie Purkiss
94
15/12/2006
Interviewee
Williams, Tudor
Williamson, Paul
Williamson, Susan Wischhusen, Stephen
Woolf, Henry
Young, Barbara
Abstract musicals, regional theatre, Sheffield theatres, The Crucible, the Lyceum and the Playhouse, theatre design, theatre-going Amateur dramatics actor and theatregoer, on acting in Journey’s End while in the RAF and working in repertory Actor. Albert Finney, audience reaction, Birmingham Rep, casting, characterisation, 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Ewan Jeffrey
03/04/2004
38
Alexis Artaud de la Ferriere
20/10/2005
3
Eleanor Thornton Dominic Shellard
18/09/2007 04/09/2006
162 85
20/07/2007
160
04/12/2007
118
Theatre worker. Donald Albery, audiences, 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 Actor, Pinter's The Room. Audience, Bristol Jamie Andrews University, critics, Eileen Diss, John Lavender, Harold Pinter, production costs, producing plays, The Room, Duncan Ross, set, subsequent productions of The Room Actress. Accent, Bradford Civic Theatre Ruth Lumsden School, Bertold Brecht, censorship, European drama, folksongs, Frank Hauser, Johnny Noble, Rudolf Laban, Joan Littlewood, Ewan MacColl, The Method, playwrights,
Interviewee
Young, Jeremy
Young, Wayland & Elizabeth
Abstract Stratford East, Theatre Workshop, touring, The Travellers, Uranium 235, Welsh audiences Actor. Acting styles, Birmingham Rep, Jack 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
Interviewer
Date of Interview
Disc no.
Kate Harris
07/11/2005
9
Kate Dorney
14/04/2005
16
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
