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Major accessions to repositories in 2015 relating to Cinema, Drama and the Performing Arts |
Local
- Young Mens Christian Association, Barnsley: minutes, programmes and photographs of the Association's 'Amateur Operatic Society' 1956-1974 (A/3663/G)
- Bargain and sale of the Bath Theatre Royal 1807 (0028U)
- ACE Dance and Music, contemporary African and Caribbean dance company, Birmingham: records 1996-2005 (MS 4720)
- Northwich and District Festival Choir: programmes, photographs, musical scores, corresp and recordings 1947-2001 (D 8735)
- Albert John Coles (1876-1965), author, playwright, actor and Devon dialect authority: biographical papers 1917-1979 (ZADH)
- Colway Theatre Trust: plays, reviews, reports, translations and notes 20th cent (D-2717)
- Arthur Clarkson Rose (1890-1968), entertainer: diaries (3) with published works 1938-1964 (C9843)
- Dudley Little Theatre Company: records incl minutes, photographs, programmes, news cuttings and sound effects recordings 1947-2007 (Acc 9855)
- Bob Gunnell (fl 1955-2000), manager, Radio Brighton: papers and theatre programmes c1955-2000 (ACC 12253)
- Chelmsford Festival of Music and Drama: syllabi and programmes 1961-2013 (A14207)
- Southend on Sea Operatic and Dramatic Society: programmes and photographs 1947-1963 (S3367)
- Audio recordings of The Warm and Toasty Club at Colchester Arts Centre incl interviews with Essex residents 2014-2015 (SA747)
- York Musical Theatre Company: records 1958-2014 (MTC)
- York Operatic and Dramatic Societies: programmes 1948-1969 (MTC)
- Stanley Llewellyn Stennett (1925-2013), entertainer: papers incl scrapbooks, photographs, scripts, programmes, posters and newscuttings c1940-2013 (D1235)
- Cowbridge Amateur Dramatic Society: programmes, photographs, newsletters, news cuttings, stage designs and photographs 1947-2009 (D1211)
- Pat Webley (fl 1944-2015), of Gloucester: personal papers rel to the Three Choirs Festival and church and school music and dance in Gloucester 1944-2015 (D11702)
- Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: additional programmes, corresp and papers 1940-2009 (D6978)
- City of Gloucester Mummers: photographs and papers 1969-2013 (D13863)
- Gloucester Operatic and Dramatic Society: additional programmes, photographs and papers 1970-2014 (D12641)
- Scrapbooks and papers of Vernon Morse rel to Cheltenham Little Theatre 1943-2007 (D13908)
- Greater Manchester Sound Archives: oral history, radio and music recordings c1910-2015 (GB124. Various)
- Dance Up, The Hampshire Dance Trust: records incl minutes, photographs, press cuttings, audio-visual recordings of performances 1991-2014 (36A15)
- Hereford Concert Society: additional minutes, committee papers and concert details 2005-2014 (CW22)
- Oxhey Hall Community Players: photographs of plays performed at local theatres of community halls 1951-1955 (Acc 5712)
- Amateur Dramatic Company of Inverness: minute book 1879-1884 (D1446)
- Duckie: HLF supported project, incl interviews with Paul O'Grady and others associated with the Royal Vauxhall Tavern 2014 (ARC/2015/01)
- Ludus Dance, arts charity and dance studio, Lancaster: records incl administrative records, material rel to individual performances, teaching resource packs, photographs and promotional material 1978-2007 (DDX 3125)
- Papers rel to libel case around the film 'Five Nights', incl court papers, film summaries, newscuttings and film stills 1915 (CBP)
- Kirby Muxloe Players: records incl player files, programmes and emphemera c1950-1999 (DE9082)
- George Garrett (1896-1966), merchant seaman, playwright: personal papers incl play scripts c1920-1939 (ACC 6750)
- Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool: programmes, flyers and DVDs 1970-2001 (ACC 6703)
- Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society: vinyl recordings and subscription books 1944-2006 (ACC 6748)
- Cyril Ewart Lionel Grant (1919-2010), Guyanese actor, musician, writer and poet: additional papers rel to World War Two c1940-2010 (B15/041, B15/163)
- Manchester International Arts Festival: posters, programmes, photographs and ephemera 1990s-2009 (GB127.M849)
- Moors family of Croydon: family papers 1919-2014 (AR1120)
- Croydon Performing Arts Festival: records incl financial records, annual general meeting minutes, programmes, syllabuses and photographs 1924-2014 (AR1118)
- Croydon Players: scrapbook and letters belonging to Barry and Grace Robinson, co-founders of the Players 1923-1969 (AR1100)
- Great Hall Players, theatre group, Norwich: AGM and committee minutes, programmes, production photographs, corresp, newspaper cuttings, other papers 1964-2003 (Acc 2015/24)
- Hucknall Entertainments Ltd: cinema ledgers 1954-1969 (8752)
- Sutton in Ashfield Dramatics Society: accounts, memorandum, articles of association, membership records, production files 1952-2001 (8852)
- Peterborough Arts Theatre: production files, programmes, photograph albums, publications c1970-2015 (2015/4)
- Theatre Royal Society, Portsmouth: records incl minutes, newsletters and cuttings, collected by Jean Salisbury 1980-2008 (2953A)
- Ilford Operatic and Dramatic Society: records incl photographs, news cuttings, programmes, posters, tickets, flyers 1919-2015 (320)
- Mitchells & Butlers Ltd, brewers, Smethwick: drama group records incl scrap books, posters and publicity stills 1933-1998 (2015/34)
- Royal Shakespeare Company: programmes, cast lists, production records and audio-visual performance records, with administrative records, musical scores, costume records 1988-2015 (RSC)
- Shakespeare on the Road Project: records of collaborative project documenting Shakespeare's place in contemporary American culture incl programmes, prompt books, cuttings and photographs of productions in the USA 2014-2015 (DR1414)
- Arrow Theatre, Sheffield: scrapbook of photographs, news cuttings with reviews and theatre programmes 1947-1953 (2015/66)
- Shrewsbury Theatre Guild, amateur dramatic society: records incl minutes, accounts and production files 1972-2015 (8974)
- John Constable (b 1952), poet and dramatist: personal papers incl records rel to Crossbones Burial Ground 1984-2015 (2015/18)
- Newcastle Players, Newcastle-under-Lyme: minutes, accounts, performance files and papers rel to Theatre Workshop 1935-2015 (D7427)
- Stafford Players: additional minutes, programmes, news sheets and play competitions 1988-2015 (D7416)
- Weston Coyney and Caverswall Film Society: contributed memories of cinemas in North Staffordshire, following a newspaper appeal 1984-1985 (SD 1694)
- Lakenheath Amatuer Dramatic Society: minute books (10) 1953-2015 (GC742)
- Worlingham Drama Group: scripts, photographs, constitution, committee minutes, financial accounts, audit records 1970-2014 (2359)
- Radio Lion, Guildford: recordings of shows, minutes, newsletters, photographs and publicity material c1980-2014 (9414)
- Tees Valley Arts, Middlesbrough: business records, commissions and project documents 1974-2013 (7430)
- Turner Visuals Ltd, film makers, Newcastle upon Tyne: publicity and sales material, newsletters, newspaper cuttings and photographs c1930-1999 (DT.TUR)
- Mumbles Community Radio: oral history interviews broadcast by the station c1960-2015
- Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds: financial records, film record and daily return books 1914-1958 (WYL2359)
- James Hilton (1900-1954), actor and writer: papers incl screenplays, newspaper cuttings, magazine articles and some copy documents rel to his life 1920-1954 (Acc. 2015/36)
National
- Jenny Beavan (b1950), costume designer: working archive incl mood boards, research material, scripts, other production papers and corresp c1984-2014 (JBE)
- Penny Eyles (b 1938), script supervisor: volumes (41) of continuity scripts, covering 30 films worked on as script supervisor 1980-2013
- Jill Hyem (1937-2015), writer: papers rel to work in film and television, incl scripts, photographs, publicity materials, corresp, press cuttings and related paperwork c1970-1999
- Michael Miles (1919-1971), television presenter: papers rel to work in television, namely on Take Your Pick, incl scripts, photographs and paperwork c1950-1969
- Alan Parker (b 1944), director, writer and producer: papers rel to career as a director and early work in advertising, incl scripts, production and promotional paperwork, Polaroids, posters, novelisations of Parker's films, and art department artworks 1964-2003 (PKR)
- Peter Sasdy (b 1935), film and television director: scripts, papers, photographs c1950-1999
- Annie Symons (b 1960), costume designer: costume production files incl annotated scripts, sketches, swatches, costume fitting photographs, budgets, research material and mood boards c1990-2014
- S John Woods (1915- 1997), advertising director and artist: scrapbooks of articles and press cuttings, corresp, photographs and working papers c1930-1979
- Ada Margaret "Biddy" Crozier (1915-2004), actress, teacher and staff director at Sadler's Wells: corresp with poet David Gascoyne c1851-1973 (Add MS 89145)
- Derek Harold Granger (b 1921), theatre and television producer: papers rel to his official biography of Laurence Olivier 1948-2011 (Add MS 89150)
- Barrie Gavin (b 1935), television director: scripts, programme ideas and documents, music scores marked up for television coverage c1955-2015 (Music Deposit 2015/35)
- Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900), composer: autograph full scores of 'The Sorcerer', 'The Grand Duke', 'Ivanhoe', 'The Merry Wives of Windsor', 'Henry VIII' and 'Iolanthe' c1862-1900 (Music Deposit 2015/21 and 2015/22)
- Alan Donald Whicker (1921-2013), journalist, television presenter and broadcaster: photograph album, prints, etc 1942-1945 (2015-12-01)
- Channel Television Ltd, St Helier: film reels, scripts and papers 1960-2009 (JA/2763)
- First Tower School of Dancing Ltd, St Peter: photographs, posters and papers 1974-2013 (JA/2814)
- Green Room Club, Jersey: programmes, posters and papers rel to the theatre and sports events 1941-2011 (JA/2848)
- Jersey Amateur Dramatic Club: programmes, posters and papers 1939-2007 (JA/2797)
- Valerie Cottle (fl 1970-1980), journalist and author: playscripts of broadcasts on Manx Radio 1970s-1980s (MS 13947)
- Ronald William Sutherland Frame (b 1953), author and playwright: further literary papers c1960-2014 (Acc.13654)
- Southern Light Opera Company, Edinburgh: minutes, accounts, etc, of drama section 1946-2012 (Acc.13586)
- Ted Breeze Jones (1929-1997), Welsh naturalist and broadcaster: diaries, notes and scripts, with slides (13000) (NLW ex 2901)
- Dorothy Renee Ascherson (1915-2014), actress: personal papers c1910-2014 (THM/458)
- Edgar Hockley (1860-1938), theatre designer: drawings of theatre productions assumed to be produced by Hockley from live performances c1890-1910 (THM/459)
- Society for Theatre Research: records 1949-2015 (THM/466)
Special
- Robert Hylton (fl 1999-2014), dancer, choreographer and educator: performance videos (22) 1993-2007 (AC2015/22)
- Rudy Loewe (fl 2007-2016), artist: comic "Claude McKay: Queer, Black and Radical" 2014 (AC2015/16)
- Tavaziva Dance: material relating to the Tavaziva Dance Company 2004-2014 (AC2015/01)
- Carl Campbell Dance Company 7: various dance material c1978-1999 (AC2015/36)
- State of Emergency: various performance material c1980-2014 (AC2015/30)
- Greater Manchester Theatre Ltd, publisher: records incl corresp, accounts, papers, publicity and artwork 1989-2005 (2015-2007)
- Mike Harris (fl 1980-2015), playwright: playscripts 2013-2015 (ACC240)
University
- Man Mela Theatre Company, theatre company, London: records rel to productions and community work 1993-2003 (MM)
- Frank Humphrey Sinkler Jennings (1907-1950), film-maker, painter and writer: academic and literary papers 1929-1938 (MS Add. 10097)
- John Theobald Clarke (1926-2013), director, producer, screenwriter and actor, as Bryan Forbes: corresp with prominent Conservatives c1970-2010 (FRBS)
- Adrian Howells (1962-2014), theatrical performer: papers c2003-11 (STA AHC)
- The Arches, arts venue, Glasgow: records 1993-2015 (STA)
- Untitled Projects, theatre company, Glasgow: scripts, drawings, film and marketing material (STA UPC)
- Orpheus Club, Glasgow: records 20th cent (STA (AG06 d-f))
- Mikron Theatre Company: administrative papers, programmes, publicity and performance materials, photographs c1964-2014 (MKN)
- Alan Frederick Plater (1935-2010), author and playwright: records and ephemera 1961-2010 (U DPR)
- Out of Joint Ltd, touring theatre company: papers rel to promotion and publicity, tour diary, reviews 1995 (U DOJ)
- David Hare (b 1947), playwright: playscripts, corrsp, research papers inclu ref to Richard Boon and Howard Brenton 1980-2000 (SPCOLL/2015/11)
- African Theatre, Leeds, theatre company: playscripts, newspaper cuttings, corresp, ephemera 1967-2015 (MS 1748/3)
- Merseyside Unity Theatre: additional records 20th cent
- Fuse, New Theatre for Young People, Liverpool: additional records 1987-2014
- Liverpool Biennial: additional records 2002-2012
- The Other Cinema, London, major distributor of radical film in the UK: records c1960-1999 (TOC)
- Robert Lucas (1904-1984), writer: personal papers, photographs, corresp, radio scripts 1890-1995 (RLU)
- Theatre Royal and Playhouse Theatre, Nottingham: programmes (6 boxes) c1900-2015 (MS 965)
- Ron Shuttleworth (b 1930), Morris Ring Folk-Play Archive curator: archive curated by Ron Shuttleworth relating to mumming and folk play incl books, booklets, articles, theses, essays, audio and video recordings 20th cent (MS 456)
- Enquirer Printing Company, printing press, United States of America: sideshow and freak show posters c1930-1949 (NFA0125)
- Colin Thomas (fl 1990-1996), documentary film producer and script writer: scripts and corresp rel to Thomas, Teliesyn and Gwyn Alf Williams c1990-1996 (2015/5)
- Collected corresp, newspaper cuttings, drama programmes and photographs rel to Cyril Jenkins, railwayman, drama teacher, director and actor 1937-2008 (2015/21)
- John Banville (b 1945), novelist, dramatist and journalist: additional papers 21st cent (IE TCD MS 11517)
- Louis Lentin (1933-2014), film producer and director: professional and personal papers 20th cent (IE TCD MS 11496)
- New Shakespeare Company: additional records comprising programmes of productions, press cuttings, marketing files, photographs and recordings of production held at the Open Air Theatre, Regent's Park 1932-2013 (DSH1)
- Robin Archer (fl 1970), costume and set designer: set and costume designs, related records 20th cent (2015/031)
- Joe Aveline (fl 1950-1999), theatre production manager: records rel to history of lighting design in theatres 20th cent (2015/009)
- Honor Blackman (b 1925), actor: scripts, photographs and publications 20th cent (2015/050)
- Stephanie Cole (b 1941), actress: programmes, records rel to 'Cabin Pressure' 'This May Hurt a Bit' 'Still Open All Hours' and other productions 21st cent (2015/007; 2015/024)
- John Alfred Louden Croall (1898-1979), actor: research papers, interview transcripts, corresp, family papers 20th cent (2015/036)
- Rosemary Davis (1926-2014), actor and writer: programmes, ephemera, photographs, scrapbooks 20th cent (2015/035)
- Phyllis le Grand (b 1888-1981), actor and singer: records rel to career 20th cent (2015/015)
- Christopher Clifford Harris (1942-2014), actor, writer and director: research notes, photographs, sound and a/v recordings 20th cent (2015/048)
- Hannah Murray (b 1989), actor: scripts and ephemeral rel to Game of Thrones, Welcome to our Village, Please Invade Carefully and others 2010-2015 (2015/051)
- Phil Smith (fl 1977-2015), academic and performance artist: notes, corresp, scripts and publications rel to career 21st cent (2015/033)
- Carole Woddis (fl 1960-2015), theatre journalist and critic: programmes, playscripts, research notes 21st cent (2015/034)
- Bath Theatre Royal Co Ltd: posters, programmes, corresp 1996-2014 (2015/021; 2015/026)
- Shakespeare's Globe, London, theatre: prompt copies and theatre programmes 1918-2015 (2015/027; 2015/032; 2015/043)
- Medieval Players: records incl show reports and recordings of performances c1970-1993 (2015/019)
- Women's Playhouse Trust: records 20th cent (2015/040)
- Snoo Wilson (1948-2013), playwright, screenwriter and director: papers incl corresp, photographs, printed diaries, plays, film scripts and prose works 1966-2015 (SW)
- Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989), author and dramatist: letters and postcards to Aldo Tagliaferri and David Warrilow 1968-1989 (MS 5549 & MS 5555)
- Donald Landels Henderson (c1905-1947), author and playwright: papers incl corresp, photographs, a typescripts of plays and his autobiography "The Brink" c1938-1947 (MS 5565)
- Victor F Perkins (b 1936), film critic: drafts and notes for 'Film as Film' c1970 (MS 5557)
- Billie Honor Whitelaw (1932-2014), actress: annotated scripts, notebooks, corresp rel to theatrical work with Samuel Beckett c1970-1989 (MS 5546)
- Writers' Guild of Great Britain: committee minutes, negotiations and agreements with production companies and publishers, files rel to individual plays and screenplays, scripts submitted for registration 20th-21st cent (1042)
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