Victoria & Albert Museum, Theatre Museum: 1995 Accessions

Victoria & Albert Museum, Theatre Museum

• Sir Peter Saunders, theatrical producer: material incl the original prompt copy of The Mousetrap, A P Herberts notebook rel to The Water Gypsies and photographs and posters rel to plays produced by him
• Renaissance Theatre Company: records
• David Palmer, dance publicist: administrative files incl publicity files for the opening of the National Theatre, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Australian Ballet, Dutch National Ballet, National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Teater and Stuttgart Ballet (RP 93/2283)
• Millie Howe, music hall artiste: full script, designs, score and production notes for the music hall sketch The Devil Bird performed by her (RP 95/718)
• Empire, Leicester Square, London: complete run of programmes (RP 95/607)
• John Blythe, comedian: notebooks (6) rel to gags created John Blythe (RP 95/183)
• Frank Matcham, theatre architect: architectural plans and blueprints
• Noël Coward: letters to his childhood friend Esme Wynne (Stodge), incl details of his work (RP 95/1489)
• Osiris Players, all-women theatre group: archive 1930s-70s (RP 95/901)
• Unity Theatre, left-wing theatre company, London: papers from 1930s (RP 95/110)
• Time Out, magazine, London: photographs of fringe and West End productions and venues 1970s-80s (RP 95/2362)
• Prudence Hyman, ballet dancer: photographs (action pictures) rel to several dances in sequence (RP 95/2002)
• Anton Dolin, dancer: photograph and cuttings albums rel to his early career from school shows to the late 1920s (RP 95/2114)
• H M Tennent, producer: administrative files and papers rel to productions 1930s-60s (RP 95/2363)