Arts Theatre and Unicorn Theatre Archive 1902-1982

Webster, Margaret, 1905-1972

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Margaret Webster was born in New York City, the daughter of two famous actors, Ben Webster and Dame May Whitty. She was their second child, her older brother died in infancy. Her birth was announced on stage at the theatre her father was performing in during a Shakespeare play. The family travelled extensively during her formative years as her parents moved between the USA and UK with various touring theatre companies. At 13 she became a boarder at Queen Anne's School, Caversham, an independent ...

Frisby, Terence.

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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593

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Little, George

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Rylands, George, 1902-1999

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Unicorn Theatre for Children

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Hart, John, 1921 July 4-

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Epithet: MD; Professor of Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000218.0x0000d7 The Royal Ballet is based at the Royal Opera House in London, England. It was founded in 1931 and is world renowned for its performances. From the guide to the Ballet programs collection, 1934-1970, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah) Epithet: of Add MS 35788 ...

Harvey, Wilfred

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Adler, Larry, 1939-

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Born in White Plains, N.Y. in 1939, Larry Adler works as an advertising copywriter and freelance author. His books for children focus primarily on sports. From the description of Larry Adler papers, 1979-1980 [manuscript]. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 703421477 Robert Russell Bennett was an American composer, orchestrator and conductor. From the guide to the Robert Russell Bennett papers, 1911-1981, (Music Library) ...

Abicair, Shirley

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Ibsen, Henrik, 1828-1906

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Epithet: dramatist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000765.0x0002bc Henrik Ibsen, playwright. W.L. Turner, translator. From the description of Rosmersholm: typescript, 1998. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122430738 Playwright. From the description of A doll home : playscript, 1879. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79454948 Norwegian poet and dramatist. ...

Brahms, Caryl, 1901-1982

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Orton, Joe

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John Kingsley (Joe) Orton (1933-1967), playwright. From the guide to the Joe Orton Collection, 1950-1990, (University of Leicester) ...

Daintree, Josephine

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Arts Theatre

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The Arts Theatre opened in 1927 and operated as an eating and drinking club, thus deliberately falling outside the censorship restrictions. It put on notable productions and ground-breaking works, as well as playing host to foreign companies. In the early 1960s the Royal Shakespeare Company resided at the theatre with a daring experimental season of plays. In 1967 the Arts Theatre became home to Caryl Jenner's Unicorn Theatre for Children, providing 8 shows a year of its...

Melwood, Mary

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Tey, Josephine, 1896 or 1897-1952

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Josephine Tey (b. Elizabeth MacKintosh, 25 July 1896, Inverness, Scotland–d. 13 February 1952, London, England) was a Scottish author best known for her mystery novels. She also wrote as Gordon Daviot. She attended Anstey Physical Training College and taught physical training before writing. Her first published work was in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the name Gordon Daviot. Her best-known books were written under the name of Josephine Tey, which was the name of her great-great grandm...

Jenner, Caryl

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Emile de Najac

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Wood, Charles, 1866-1926

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Charles Wood was a contemporary of Jane, Lady Franklin (1792-11875) From the guide to the Charles Wood collection, 1857, (Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge) Irish composer and teacher. From the description of Autograph letters signed (21), dated : Cambridge, 1911-1922, to Mr. [R.F. Martin] Akerman [of The Year Book Press], 1911 July 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270679359 Epithet: Major British Library Archives and ...

Speight, Johnny, 1920-1998

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Rayner, Joan

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Unicorn Theatre

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Heaps, Leo.

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Hart, Elizabeth

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Griffiths, Leon

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Hellman, Lillian, 1905-1984

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Dramatist. From the description of The autumn garden : playscript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71131544 Lillian Hellman (1905-1984), playwright and screenwriter. From the description of These three : (Hellman story), 1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702193196 Lillian Hellman, America’s most significant woman playwright of the twentieth century, was born on June 20, 1905, in New Orleans to Max and Julia Newhouse Hellman. Her e...

Feiffer, Jules

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Jules Feiffer was born January 26, 1929 in the Bronx, NY. He attended Art Student's League and Pratt Institute. He is married with two daughters. He is a play writer, cartoonist and satirist. His cartoons have appeared in the Village Voice>, New York City, Observer>, London and others. His cartoons are syndicated and distributed to more than one hundred newspapers in the United States and abroad. He is a member of the faculty of Yale University Drama School. Mr. Feiffer has won numberous a...

Fugard, Atholl

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James Lynne Broome

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Royal Shakespeare company

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The papers were accumulated by (John) Philip Brocklebank (1922-1989), Professor of English, Saarbr cken, 1953-54; Assistant Lecturer, University of Cambridge, and College Lecturer, Jesus College, 1954-58; Senior Lecturer, University of Reading, 1958-62; Professor of English, University of York, 1962-79; Professor of English and Director, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 1979-88. He was also General Editor, New Cambridge Shakespeare, from 1978. His other publications ...

Hans Rothe

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Sadoff, Fred, 1926-1994

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Mary Kennedy

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Chadwick, Theodora

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Henry, Claudine

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Pinter, Harold

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Johnson, Philip

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Epithet: Reverend British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000356.0x000219 ...

Marcus, Frank

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Epithet: playwright and critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000499.0x000243 ...

Sherrin, Ned.

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Tanner, Tony

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Doran, James

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Spark, Muriel

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Epithet: writer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x0001c5 ...

Rothfield, Tom.

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Caryl, Jenner

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Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908

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Louis Verneuil (1893-1952), French playwright, actor, director, and dramatist, was the author of such works as "La vie merveilleuse de Sarah Bernhardt" and "Affairs of state." From the description of Théâtre complet : [tome] 2, Patrie!, L'espionne, Théodora : prompt book / Victorien Sardou. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68944675 French dramatist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Paris, to Monsieur Nenniam, 1890 Sept. 2...

Rene Tholy

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Bloch, Pedro

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Minoli, Ben

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Edna O'Brien

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Rayner, Betty

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Aragno, Ricardo

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Achard, Marcel

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Royal Shakespeare Theatre Company.

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Schisgal, Murray, 1926-....

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Murray Schisgal, playwright. From the description of Knit one, pearl two: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122575709 ...

James Ambrose Brown

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Shaw, Robert

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Epithet: Merchant at Marseilles British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d0 Epithet: of Ballinodoe, near Sligo British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000d1 Epithet: Colonel; MP; lst Baronet 1821 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000878.0x0000cf ...

Strindberg, August, 1849-1912

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Strindberg was a Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Lycko Pers resa, ca. 1882. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612373374 Swedish dramatist and novelist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Dornach, to a French literary colleague, 1894 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270872330 August Strindberg, playwright. Richard Greenberg, adapter. From the description of The dance of death: typescript, 200...

Rigby, Ray

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English author. From the description of Ray Rigby collection, 1964-1974. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70969337 ...

Wim Van Leer

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Thomas Middleton

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Milton Hood Ward

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Cooper, Giles

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Popular English playwright, radio and television dramatist, and novelist. He was born in 1918 and died in 1966. From the guide to the Giles Cooper Papers, ca.1945-1984, (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library.) Epithet: author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001085.0x000144 ...

Gill, Richard T. (Richard Thomas), 1927-2010

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Duberman, Martin B.

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Martin Bauml Duberman (1930- ), American historian and playwright, has taught history at Yale University, Princeton University and Herbert Lehman College, City University of New York. He wrote biographies of Charles Francis Adams, James Russell Lowell and Paul Robeson as well as historical studies, plays, essays, and reviews. His plays include In White America (1963) about the struggle of African-Americans for freedom and civil rights. Since 1972 he has been active in th...