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GERTRUDE LAWRENCE (1898 - 1952)

1931: CAN THE LEOPARD...? - Ronald Jeans (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Gertrude Lawrence, Kay Hammond, Ian Hunter, Kathleen Harrison [4pp; slightly rumpled and creased, else VG; uncommon] £2

1948 (Nov): SEPTEMBER TIDE - Daphne du Maurier (New Theatre, Oxford)
Gertrude Lawrence, Cyril Raymond, Dandy Nichols, Anne Leon, Michael Gough, Bryan Forbes; dir:Irene Hentschel [8pp, 5.5x8.75; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1948: SEPTEMBER TIDE - Daphne du Maurier (Aldwych)
Gertrude Lawrence, Cyril Raymond, Dandy Nichols, Anne Leon, Michael Gough, Bryan Forbes; dir:Irene Hentschel [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

VIVIEN LEIGH (1913 -1967) see also OLIVIER

1942: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA - Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Vivien Leigh (as Mrs Dubedat), Courtney Bromet, Margaret Murray, Frank Allenby, Paul Demel, Morland Graham, John Turnbull, Austin Trevor (as Sir Ralph Bloomfield Bonington), George Relph, Peter Glenville (as Louis Dubedat), Joan Lang, William Murray, Peter Jones (as The Newspaper Man); dir:Irene Hentschel [4pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; rumpled copy - but sought after] £4

1945: THE SKIN OF OUR TEETH - Thornton Wilder (Phoenix)
Vivien Leigh (as Sabina), Sidney Monckton, Joan Young, Michael Lynd, Roger Braban, John Grange, Pamela Conroy, Terry Morgan, Cecil Parker (as Mr Antrobus), Peter Lord, Anthony Wallis, Maurice Bannister, Norman Webb, Meg Maxwell-Lyte, Jessie Spencer, Daphne Newton, Geoffrey Barrie, Leonard Maguire, Hugh Stewart, Eve Moore, Penelope Shaw, Ena Burrill (as Fortune Teller), William Gillespie, John Murphy, Wallas Eaton, David Carr, Charles Doran, Ann Wilton; dir:Laurence Olivier [4pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, etc.; horizontal bend, else VG] £3

1956: SOUTH SEA BUBBLE - Noel Coward (Lyric)
Vivien Leigh (as Lady Alexandra Shotter), Arthur Macrae, Peter Barkworth, Ian Hunter, Alan Webb, William Peacock, John Moore, Joyce Carey, Nicholas Grimshaw, Daphne Newton, Eric Phillips, Ronald Lewis (as Hali Alani); dir:William Chappell [8pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1958: DUEL OF ANGELS - Jean Giraudoux, translated by Chrstopher Fry (Lyric)
Vivien Leigh (as Paola), Derek Nimmo, Peter Wyngarde, Fiona Duncan, Basil Hoskins, Claire Bloom (as Lucile), Pauline Jameson, Beaufoy Milton, Freda Jackson, Brian Harrison, Robin Bailey, Lawrence Davidson, John Hart Dyke, Sylvia Kay, Sally Home, Barbara Bolton, David Maxwell, Lawrence Brooks; dir:Jean-Louis Barrault [8pp, 5x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; large photo of Vivien Leigh and Claire Bloom; VG] £4

ALFRED LUNT (1893 - 1977) and LYNN FONTANNE (1887 - 1983)

1934: REUNION IN VIENNA - Robert E Sherwood (Lyric)
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, May Chevalier, Cecil G Calvert, Cecil Parker, Betty Freeman, Philip Morant, Clive Currie, Bertha Belmore, Cherry Hardy, Charles Maunsell, George Zucco, Aladar Sio, Herman Levy, Leo Von Pokorney, Clarence Bigge, Dennis Wyndham, Hedley Fenner, Renee Macredy, Arthur Young, Frederick Culley, Hilda Bruce-Potter, Stanley Groome, Colin Gent, John Harvey, Alfred Ayre, George Haswell, Eugene Quinn, E Affentranger, H Kobi; dir:Alfred Lunt [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenery, 5 company photos, credits etc.; stylish programme; VG] £5

1936: IDIOT'S DELIGHT - Robert E.Sherwood (Sam S.Shubert Theatre, New York)
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Sydney Greenstreet, Richard Whorf; dir:Bretaigne Windust [36pp, 6.75x9.25 (Playbill programme); cast list, credits, biographies, large photos (of Lunt and Fontanne, and Sherwood), theatre plan and much else; minor marks else VG] £4

1943: THERE SHALL BE NO NIGHT - Robert E.Sherwood (Aldwych)
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Frederick Lloyd, Muriel Pavlow; dir:Alfred Lunt [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, cerdits etc.; rumpled] £1

1944: LOVE IN IDLENESS - Terence Rattigan (Lyric)
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Margaret Murray, Peggie Dear, Brian Nissen, Kathleen Kent, Mona Harrison, Antionette Keith (sic), Frank Forder; dir:Alfred Lunt [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3

1952: QUADRILLE - Noel Coward (Phoenix)
Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Griffith Jones, Marian Spencer, Joyce Carey, dir:Noel Coward, des:Cecil Beaton [12pp; photo] £3

1960: THE VISIT - Friedrich Durenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency (Royalty)
Alfred Lunt (as Anton Schill), Lynn Fontanne (as Claire Zachanassian), Henry McCarthy, Ralph Nossek, Robin Chapman, David Nettheim, Ian Wilson, George Rose, Brian Wilde, Richard Dare, Howard Douglas, Richard Scott, Myles Eason, John Wyse, Michael Browning, Richard Huggett, Keneth Thornett, Irene French, Valerie Newbold, Terry Richards, Bruce Wells, Harry Ross, Alfred Hoffman, Nuna Davey, Daphne Newton, Diana Beevers, Philip Lowrie, Trevor Barnett, Nicholas Grimshaw, Madge Brindley, Roy Pattison, Clinton Grey; dir:Peter Brook [24pp, 6.75x9; photos; interesting programme with 17 facsimile signatures, wishing the theatre well: Olivier, Ashcroft, Coward etc.; VG] £3

IAN McKELLEN (b.1939)

1964: A SCENT OF FLOWERS (Duke of York's)
Jennifer Hilary, Phyllis Calvert, Mark Dignam, Ian McKellen, Derek Bond; dir:Shirley Butler [16pp; cast photos and biographies; Ian McKellen's West-End debut; VG] £4

1965: A LILY IN LITTLE INDIA - Donald Howarth (St.Martin's)
Ken Jones, Jill Bennett, Leslie Handford, Jessie Evans, Ian McKellen, Raymond Mason, David Cook, Vernon Dobtcheff; dir:Donald Howarth [24pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, cast photos and biographies, credits, articles etc.; VG] £4

1965: A LILY IN LITTLE INDIA - Donald Howarth (St.Martin's)
Ken Jones, Jill Bennett, Alan Foss, Jessie Evans, Ian McKellen, Raymond Mason, David Cook, Vernon Dobtcheff; dir:Donald Howarth [24pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, cast photos and biographies, credits, articles etc.; VG] £4

1966: THE MAN OF DESTINY and O'FLAHERTY VC - George Bernard Shaw (Duchess)
Ian McKellen, Bill Wallis, Timothy Carlton, Sian Phillips, Marie Kean; dir:Robert Kidd, Peter Gill [32pp; illustrated articles, notes etc.; stains on cover, else VG] £2

1967: THE PROMISE - Aleksei Arbuzov, translated by Aridane Nicolaeff (Fortune)
Oxford Playhouse production: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Bryan Hunt; dir:Frank Hauser [32pp; cast photos and biographies etc.; VG] £4

1968: THE WHITE LIARS and BLACK COMEDY - Peter Shaffer (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
Ian McKellen, Dorothy Reynolds, James Bolam, Angela Scoular, Robert Flemyng, Ken Wynne, Liz Fraser; dir:Peter Wood [20pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3

1968: THE WHITE LIARS and BLACK COMEDY - Peter Shaffer (Lyric)
Ian McKellen, Dorothy Reynolds, James Bolam, Angela Scoular, Robert Flemyng, Ken Wynne, Liz Fraser; dir:Peter Wood [24pp; cast photos and biographies; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1968: RICHARD II (Grand Theatre, Leeds)
Prospect Theatre Company: Ian McKellen (as Richard II), Paul Hardwick (as John of Gaunt), John Byron, Neil Stacy (as Bolingbroke), Terence Wilton, Keith Buckley, Richard Morant, David McKail, Andrew Robertson, Peter Rocca, Sylvester Morand, Ronald Adam (as Bishop of Carlisle), Luke Hardy, Harry Meacher, Raymond Burke, Thomas Chesleigh, Nigel Lambert, Andrew McCulloch, Christopher Whitehouse, Peter Davies, Richard Kingston, Amanda Reiss, Wynne Clark, Kathleen Moffatt, Lyn Dickeson; dir:Richard Cottrell [12pp, 7.25x9.25; cast list, programme notes, biographies, credits etc.; VG] £3

1969: RICHARD II (Assembly Hall, Edinburgh)
Prospect Theatre Company: Ian McKellen, Paul Hardwick, Robert Eddison, Timothy West, Terence Wilton, Stephen Greif, Richard Morant, Trevor Martin, David Calder, Peter Bourne, James Laurenson, Jeremy Nicholas, Lucy Fleming, Charmian Eyre; dir:Richard Cottrell [16pp, 4x10; biographies, quotations, notes, family tree, photo of McKellen as Richard; VG] £4

1969: EDWARD II - Christopher Marlowe, and RICHARD II (Mermaid)
Prospect Theatre Company: James Laurenson (as Gaveston / Exton), Andrew Crawford, Michael Howarth, John Cording, Ian McKellen (as Edward II / Richard II), Peter Bourne, Trevor Martin, Michael Spice, Timothy West (as Mortimer / Bolingbroke), Paul Hardwick (as Warwick+Maltravers / John of Gaunt), Michael Godfrey, Robert Eddison (as Archbishop of Canterbury+Lightborn / Duke of York), Diane Fletcher, Stephen Greif, Luke Hardy, David Calder, Lucy Fleming, Colin Fisher, Myles Reithermann, Richard Morant, Jeremy Nicholas, Terence Wilton, Nigel Crewe, Nigel Havers, David Nicholas, Nicolas Olivier, William Smith, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Charmian Eyre; dir:Richard Cottrell, Toby Robertson [32pp, 5x8; cast lists, extensive biographies, production photos, extensive illustrated articles, forthcoming tour dates, credits etc.; a full programme; VG] £4

1970: EDWARD II - Christopher Marlowe, and RICHARD II (Piccadilly)
Prospect Theatre Company: James Laurenson (as Gaveston / Exton), Christopher Whitehouse, Michael Howarth, Andrew Crawford, Ian McKellen (as Edward II / Richard II), Peter Bourne, Trevor Martin, Michael Spice, Timothy West (as Mortimer / Bolingbroke), Paul Hardwick (as Warwick+Maltravers / John of Gaunt), Michael Godfrey, Robert Eddison (as Archbishop of Canterbury+Lightborn / Duke of York), Diane Fletcher, Stephen Greif, David Strong, David Calder, Lucy Fleming, Colin Fisher, Myles Reithermann, Richard Morant, Jeremy Nicholas, Terence Wilton, Nigel Crewe, Nicol Gordon, Nigel Havers, Jeremy Nicholas, Nicolas Olivier, William Smith, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Charmian Eyre; dir:Richard Cottrell, Toby Robertson [24pp, 6x9; cast, credits, biographies, articles; VG] £4

1970: EDWARD II - Christopher Marlowe, and RICHARD II (Piccadilly) Souvenir Brochure
Prospect Theatre Company: Ian McKellen, Timothy West, Andrew Crawford, Robert Eddison, Diane Fletcher, Paul Hardwick, James Laurenson, Trevor Martin, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Peter Bourne, David Calder, Charmian Eyre, Colin Fisher, Lucy Fleming, Michael Godfrey, Stephen Greif, Richard Morant, Myles Reithermann, Michael Spice, David Strong, Terence Wilton; dir:Richard Cottrell, Toby Robertson [24pp, 11.5x8.25; 17 production photos of Edward II and Richard II, company biographies w.photos, illustrated commentaries on the plays, House of Plantagenet Family Tree, 6 costume designs (in colour), 3 photos of previous Prospect productions, brief history of Prospect, Here's a prospect for the future by John Barber, company lists, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £6

1970: BILLY'S LAST STAND - Barry Hines (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs)
Ian McKellen, John Barrett; dir:Michael Wearing [single 13x8 sheet; cast list, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £1

1971: HAMLET (Nottingham Playhouse)
Prospect Theatre Company: Kit Jackson, Tim Pigott-Smith (as Barnardo / First Player), Terence Wilton, Julian Curry, Ronald Lewis (as Claudius), Stuart Wilson (as Laertes), Geoffrey Chater (as Polonius), Faith Brook (as Gertrude), Ian McKellen (as Hamlet), Susan Fleetwood (as Ophelia), James Cairncross (as Reynaldo / Gravedigger), William Ellis, Simon Prebble, Richard Beale, Colin Kaye, Nickolas Grace, Stephen O'Rourke, Russell Hunter (as Osric), Clare Shenstone, Marcia Warren, Jonathan Brooke, Chris Walsh; dir:Robert Chetwyn [16pp, 5.6x9; cast list, programme notes, biographies, credits etc.; slightly grubby, else VG] £2

1971: HAMLET (Cambridge Theatre)
Prospect Theatre Company: David Ashton, Robert Grange, Eric Carte, Julian Curry, John Woodvine (as Claudius), Tim Pigott-Smith (as Laertes / First Player), James Cairncross (as Polonius), Faith Brook (as Gertrude), Ian McKellen (as Hamlet), Susan Fleetwood (as Ophelia), Duncan Preston, Terence Wilton, Simon Prebble, Alan Bennion, Colin Kaye, Ian Pigot, Stephen O'Rourke, Christopher Morley, Terence O'Dougherty, Brendan Barry, Anna Barry, Clare Shenstone, Roger Adamson, Ian Bamford, Roy Montague; dir:Robert Chetwyn [28pp, 5.25x9; cast, credits, biographies w.photos, notes; VG] £5

1972 (Oct): RULING THE ROOST (Le Dindon) - Georges Feydeau, translated by Richard Cottrell (Arts Theatre, Cambridge)
Opening Production of The Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Page Boy), Tenniel Evans, Moira Redmond, Ronnie Stevens, Marian Diamond, Robin Ellis, Caroline Blakiston, Robert Eddison, Margery Mason, Frank Middlemass, Sheila Reid, Edward Petherbridge, Felicity Kendal, Jack Shepherd, Juan Moreno, Matthew Long, John Tordoff, Andrea Addison, Annette Badland, Hamish Patrick, Saul Reichlin, John Vine; dir:Richard Cottrell [16pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, programme note, company photo, repertoire list, credits etc.; VG] £3

1973 (Sep): THE WAY OF THE WORLD - William Congreve, and THE WOOD DEMON - Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Lady Wishfort's Footman / The Wood Demon), Caroline Blakiston (as Millamant), Robert Eddison, Marian Diamond, Robin Ellis, Paola Dionisotti, Tenniel Evans, Sharon Duce, Matthew Long, Margery Mason (as Lady Wishfort / Mme Voynitsky), Sheila Reid, Juan Moreno, John Tordoff, Edward Petherbridge (as Mirabell / Simon), John Woodvine (as Sir Wilfull Witwould / Orlovsky), Robert Davey, Elaine Strickland; dir:David William, David Giles [8pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, programme notes, production photo, biographies, credits etc.; VG] £4

1973 (Oct): THE WAY OF THE WORLD - William Congreve, and THE WOOD DEMON - Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley (Opera House, Manchester)
Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Lady Wishfort's Footman / The Wood Demon), Caroline Blakiston (as Millamant), Robert Eddison, Marian Diamond, Robin Ellis, Paola Dionisotti, Tenniel Evans, Sharon Duce, Matthew Long, Margery Mason (as Lady Wishfort / Mme Voynitsky), Sheila Reid, Juan Moreno, John Tordoff, Edward Petherbridge (as Mirabell / Simon), John Woodvine (as Sir Wilfull Witwould / Orlovsky), Robert Davey, Elaine Strickland; dir:David William, David Giles [8pp, 6x9; cast, credits, biographies; light vertical bend, else VG] £2

1974: RULING THE ROOST (Le Dindon) - Georges Feydeau, translated by Richard Cottrell (Wimbledon Theatre)
Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Page Boy), Tenniel Evans, Sheila Reid, John Woodvine, Marian Diamond, Robin Ellis, Caroline Blakiston, Robert Eddison, Margery Mason, John Bennett, Paola Dionisotti, Edward Petherbridge, Sharon Duce, Ronald Radd, Juan Moreno, Matthew Long, John Tordoff, Patrick Cadell, Milton Cadman, Peter Holt, Elaine Strickland; dir:Richard Cottrell [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, programme note, company photos and biographies, repertoire list, credits etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £3

1974: THE WOOD DEMON - Anton Chekhov, translated by Ronald Hingley (Wimbledon Theatre)
Actors' Company: Sharon Duce, Juan Moreno, John Woodvine, Tenniel Evans, John Tordoff, Robin Ellis, Milton Cadman, Robert Eddison, Marian Diamond, Sheila Reid, Margery Mason, Ian McKellen (as The Wood Demon), Elaine Strickland, Edward Petherbridge; dir:David Giles [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, programme note, company photos and biographies, production photos, credits etc.; VG] £3

1974: THE WAY OF THE WORLD - William Congreve (Wimbledon Theatre)
Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Lady Wishfort's footman), Edward Petherbridge (as Mirabell), Robin Ellis, Robert Eddison, Milton Cadman, John Tordoff, Juan Moreno, Matthew Long, Marian Diamond, Paola Dionisotti, Caroline Blakiston (as Millamant), Sheila Reid, Tenniel Evans, Sharon Duce, Margery Mason (as Lady Wishfort), Elaine Strickland, John Woodvine; dir:David William [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, programme notes, company photos and biographies, production photo, repertoire list, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1974: KING LEAR (Wimbledon Theatre)
Actors' Company: Ian McKellen (as Edgar), John Woodvine, Ronald Radd, Matthew Long, Robert Eddison (as King Lear), Caroline Blakiston, Sharon Duce, Sheila Reid, Robin Ellis, Juan Moreno, John Tordoff, John Bennett, Tenniel Evans, Edward Petherbridge, Peter Holt, Margery Mason, Marian Diamond, Paola Dionisotti, Elaine Strickland, Patrick Cadell, Milton Cadman; dir:David William [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, biographies w.photos, production photos, programme notes, credits; VG] £3

1975: ASHES - David Rudkin (Young Vic)
Ian McKellen (as Colin), Gemma Jones (as Anne), Paul Shelley, Ann Mitchell; dir:Ron Daniels [8pp, 6.5x8.1; cast list, biographies, credits; minor marks else VG] £3

1979: BENT - Martin Sherman (Royal Court)
Ian McKellen (as Max), Jeff Rawle, Simon Shepherd, Haydn Wood, Jeremy Arnold, Ken Shorter, Roger Dean, Richard Gale, Tom Bell (as Horst), Gregory Martyn, John Francis, Peter Cellier; dir:Robert Chetwyn [8pp quadruple-fold, 5.9x9.75; cast, biographies, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1979 (Sep): BENT - Martin Sherman (Criterion)
Ian McKellen (as Max), Jeff Rawle, Terence Suffolk, Haydn Wood, Jeremy Arnold, Ken Shorter (as Greta), Roger Dean, Richard Gale, Tom Bell (as Horst), John Francis, Jeremy Arnold, Peter Cellier; dir:Robert Chetwyn [32pp, 5.25x8.5; cast, biographies, photos, credits; VG] £4

1981: AMADEUS - Peter Shaffer (Broadhurst Theatre, New York) Souvenir Brochure
Ian McKellen (as Salieri), Peter Firth (as Mozart), Amy Irving (as Constanze), Gordon Gould, Patrick Hines, Nicholas Kepros, Jonathan Moore, Louis Turenne, Edward Zang; dir:Peter Hall [32pp, 9x12; Large-size Souvenir Brochure; 17 excellent production photos, cast and company biographies w.photos, 3 illustrated articles: Who was Mozart? by Bernard Levin, Who was Salieri? by Harold C Schonberg, and Altering Amadeus by Peter Shaffer; VG] £6

1982: EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR (Barbican)
Ian McKellen, Jim Broadbent, Jeremy Dimmick, Patrick Stewart, David Suchet, Thelma Whiteley; dir:Trevor Nunn; London Symphony Orchestra c:Andre Previn [32pp; cast photos and biographies, illustrated articles; minor marks on cover, else VG] £4

1983: SHORT LIST - Michael Rudman (Hampstead Theatre)
Ian McKellen, Barbara Flynn, Maxine Audley, Susan Engel, Bernard Hill, Glyn Owen, Philip Voss; dir:Mike Ockrent [20pp; cast, biographies etc.; VG] £2

1983: COWARDICE - Sean Mathias (Richmond Theatre)
Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Nigel Davenport; dir:Anthony Page [24pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, company biographies w.photos, credits etc.; VG] £2

1983: COWARDICE - Sean Mathias (Ambassadors)
Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, Nigel Davenport; dir:Anthony Page [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, 10 cast and production photos, biographies, credits etc.; VG] £4

1987: ACTING SHAKESPEARE (Playhouse)
Ian McKellen [12pp, 5.75x8.25; photo and biography; VG] £2

1987: ACTING SHAKESPEARE (Playhouse) Souvenir Brochure
This spectacular souvenir consists of a long biographical essay by McKellen, profusely illustrated with 18 splendid photographs (many unusual) and line-drawings (incl. The Macbeths with Judi Dench). This fascinating booklet is an account of Ian McKellen's acting career, told in his own words - and with captions in his own handwriting. It contains no advertisements, so all 32 pages are packed with information and interest. This is a beautifully produced souvenir, printed on quality heavy-weight paper. [36pp, 8.25x11.75; very minor marks, else VG] £5

1988: HENCEFORWARD - Alan Ayckbourn (Richmond Theatre)
Ian McKellen, Robin Herford, Serena Evans, Suzy Newman, Victoria Horsfield, Jane Asher, Michael Simkins, Emma Chambers; dir:Alan Ayckbourn [24pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, cast photos and biographies, illustrated articles, credits etc.; VG] £3

1988: HENCEFORWARD - Alan Ayckbourn (Vaudeville)
Ian McKellen, Robin Herford, Serena Evans, Suzy Newman, Victoria Horsfield, Jane Asher, Michael Simkins, Emma Chambers; dir:Alan Ayckbourn [28pp, 6x8.4; cast list, 10 cast and production photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

2003: DANCE OF DEATH - August Strindberg (Lyric)
Ian McKellen, Frances de la Tour, Owen Teale, Hayley Jayne Standing, Ann Firbank; dir:Sean Mathias [20pp, 8.5x11.75; cast list, biographies, extensive illustrated articles (with many colour photos), credits etc.; VG] £4

2003: DANCE OF DEATH - August Strindberg (Lyric)
Ian McKellen, Frances de la Tour, Jason Griffiths (for Owen Teale), Hayley Jayne Standing, Ann Firbank; dir:Sean Mathias [20pp, 8.5x11.75; cast list, biographies, extensive illustrated articles (with many colour photos), credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

2004: ALADDIN - Bille Brown (Old Vic)
Roger Allam (as Abbanazar), Joe McFadden (as Aladdin), Owen Sharpe, Joanna Page, Maureen Lipman (as Dim Sum), Ian McKellen (as Widow Twankey), Cat Simmons, Sam Kelly, Ramon Tikaram, Marina Abdeen, Madalena Alberto, Peter Caulfield, Simon Clark, Nina French, Julia Hinchcliffe, Gavin Keenan, Daniel Redmond, Leah Sheldrick, Lee William-Davis, Matthew Woolfenden; dir:Sean Mathias [36pp, 8x10.75 on sturdy paper; colour illustrations, songs, orchestra list, credits, extensive illustrated articles, biographies, 30+ photos, children's games, Old Vic articles etc. etc.; minor marks, else VG] £5

2005: ALADDIN - Bille Brown (Old Vic)
Roger Allam (as Abbanazar), Neil McDermott (as Aladdin), Matthew Woolfenden, Andrew Spillett, Frances Barber (as Dim Sum), Ian McKellen (as Widow Twankey), Kate Gillespie, Paul Grunert, Tee Jaye, Marina Abdeen, Madalena Alberto, Gary Amers, Alistair David, Steve Fortune, Emma Harris, Victoria Hinde, Stuart Neal, Zak Nemorin, Daniel Redmond, Leah Sheldrick; dir:Sean Mathias [36pp, 8x10.75; cast list, 7 production photos, c20 rehearsal photos, cast biographies, children's games, orchestra list, credits, Old Vic articles etc. etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £5

2006: THE CUT - Mark Ravenhill (Donmar)
Ian McKellen, Jimmy Akingbola, Bindu de Stoppani, Deborah Findlay, Emma Beattie, Tom Burke; dir:Michael Grandage [28pp, 5.5x11.75; cast list, biographies w.photos, rehearsal photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

2009: WAITING FOR GODOT - Samuel Beckett (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow, Ronald Pickup; dir:Sean Mathias [44pp, 6.75x9.6; extensive illustrated articles, colour rehearsal and production photos, biographies; a very smart programme; VG] £4

2013: NO MAN'S LAND - Harold Pinter, and WAITING FOR GODOT - Samuel Beckett (Cort Theatre, New York)
Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Billy Crudup, Shuler Hensley, Colin Critchley, Aidan Gemme; dir:Sean Mathias [52pp, 5.5x8.5, Playbill Programme October 2013; cast lists, biographies w.photos, articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

2021: HAMLET (Theatre Royal, Windsor)
Ian McKellen (as Hamlet), Jenny Seagrove (as Gertrude), Jonathan Hyde (as Claudius), Francesca Annis (as Ghost), Frances Barber (as Polonius), Ben Allen, Llinos Daniel, Alis Wyn Davies (as Ophelia), Ashley D Gayle (as Laertes), Alison Halstead, Nick Howard-Brown, Asif Khan, Lee Knight, Missy Malek; dir:Sean Mathias [28pp, 5.8x8.25; cast list, biographies w.photos, illustrated articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

HELEN MIRREN (b.1946)

1981 (Apr-May): THE DUCHESS OF MALFI - John Webster (The Roundhouse)
Royal Exchange Theatre Company: Helen Mirren, Bob Hoskins, Julian Curry, Mike Gwilym, Robert Reynolds, George Raistrick, Bosco Hogan, Sorcha Cusack, Diana Hardcastle, Peter Postlethwaite, Albie Woodington; dir:Adrian Noble [16pp, 8.25x11.75; 16 biographies w.photos, illustrated articles etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1989: TWO-WAY MIRROR - Arthur Miller (Young Vic)
Helen Mirren, Bob Peck; dir:David Thacker [12pp, 8.25x11.75; cast list, 3 rehearsal photos, further photos, illustrated articles, credits etc.; date on cover (23/1/89), else VG] £3

1994: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn (Albery)
Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Joseph Fiennes, Polly Adams, John Standing, Gawn Grainger, John Brillo, Trevor Ray, Anna Livia Ryan, Peter Sproule, Biddy Hodson, Gillian Raine; dir:Bill Bryden [44pp; 30+ photos, lots in colour; biographies, articles; smart programme; VG] £5

1999: COLLECTED STORIES - Donald Margulies (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Helen Mirren, Anne-Marie Duff; dir:Howard Davies [44pp; 15+ photos (many in colour), biographies; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

2000: ORPHEUS DESCENDING - Tennessee Williams (Donmar)
Helen Mirren, Kristin Marks, Sandra Dickinson, Tom Hunsinger, Jason Salkey, Saskia Reeves, Janet Henfrey, Anne Ridler, Ilario Bisi-Pedro, Stuart Townsend, Julia Swift, Richard Durden, William Hootkins, Lolly Susi, Martin Potter; dir:Nicholas Hytner [32pp, 6x9; cast list, biographies w.photos, illustrated articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

LAURENCE OLIVIER (1907-1989)

1925: HENRY VIII (Empire Theatre, Leicester Square)
Laurence Olivier (as 1st Serving Man/Assistant Stage Manager), Lewis T Casson (as Prologue / Griffith), Arthur Wontner (as Buckingham), Eugene Leahy, John H Moore, E Lyall Swete (as Wolsey), Harold Scott, Lawrence Anderson, Chris Walker, H Reyner Barton, Norman V Norman (as Henry VIII), William Fazan, Hubert Carter, O B Clarence (as Cranmer), William J Miller, Charles Bond, Osborne Adair, Stockwell Hawkins, Matthew Forsyth, H R Hignett, Cyril Hardingham, Desmond Deane, Bruce Winston, Philip Clowes, Sybil Thorndike (as Queen Katherine), Angela Baddeley (as Anne Bullen), Ada King, Doris Kealy, Mrs Arthur Whitby, Beatrice Smith, Iris Baker, Eva Jefferson, Brenda Cleather, Gwen Harter, Agnes Lauchlan, Vere Shepstone, Peggy Webster, Ronald Bayne, Holland Bennett, R Caton-Woodville, John Clifford, Ernest Fosbrooke, H Hesslegrave, Ronald Kerr, Michael Logan, Wilfred Lyndon, Frank Macrae, H Melrose, David Olive, James Parish, Sam Pickles, Cecil Rayne, Terence Ranson, Carol Reed, B Russell, Richard Turner, J Henry Twyford, Guy Vivian, Eileen Archer, Mudah Findlay, Betty Gwynne, Joan Halls, Dorothy Holliday, Margaret Neeson, Dorothy Rickinson, Rosalind Snow; dir:Lewis T Casson, designed by Charles Ricketts [12pp, 7.5x9.6; cast list, synopsis of scenes, ticket prices, credits etc.; light horizontal bend, minor foxing, else VG] £8

1928 (4 Nov): THE DARK PATH - Evan John (Savoy) Sunday Evening performance
The Lyceum Club Stage Society: Laurence Olivier (as Graham Birley), Colin Clive (as James Havilland), Charles Lefeaux, Helen Goss, Dorothy Holmes-Gore, Robert Speaight (as The Dainyo of Kuroshima), Esmond Knight (as Kamayoshi), Richard Goolden, Stephen Jack; dir:Evan John [4pp, 8.25x10.4; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, subscription terms, previous productions, list of patrons etc; folded, tatty, a reading copy only - but uncommon] £1

1934: THEATRE ROYAL - Edna Ferber and George Kaufman (Lyric)
Laurence Olivier, Marie Tempest, Madge Titheradge, George Zucco; dir:Noel Coward [20pp; cast list, 3 full-page photographic portraits; stapled rusted away, somewhat tatty; a reading copy] £2

1950: VENUS OBSERVED - Christopher Fry (St.James's)
Laurence Olivier, Denholm Elliott, George Relph, Robert Beaumont, Valerie Taylor, Brenda de Banzie, Fred Johnson, Thomas Heathcote, Rachel Kempson, Heather Stannard; dir:Laurence Olivier [8pp, 5.1x8; w.7 cast portraits; ] £3

1951: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (St.James's)
Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Robert Helpmann, Norman Wooland, Desmond Llewellyn, Maxine Audley, Peter Cushing, Wilfrid Hyde White, Jill Bennett, Richard Goolden, Niall MacGinnis, Esmond Knight, Clifford Williams, Edmund Purdom, Cy Grant, Timothy Bateson; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp, 5x8; cast list, credits etc.; VG] £5

1951: CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA - Bernard Shaw (St.James's)
Laurence Olivier (as Julius Caesar), Vivien Leigh (as Cleopatra), Esmond Knight, Edmund Purdom, Timothy Bateson, Lyndon Brook, Clifford Williams, Derrick Penley, Colin Kemball, Terence Owen, Cy Grant, Peter Cushing, Elizabeth Kentish, Jill Welchman, Teresa Moore, Renee Goddard, Jessie Barclay, Elspeth March (as Ftatateeta), Maxine Audley (as Charmian), Jill Bennett (as Iras), Thomas Heathcote, Michael Godrey, Alexander Davion, John Dunbar, Noel Coleman, Desmond Llewelyn, Paul Homer, Max Gardiner, Henry Oscar, Richard Goolden, Alaric Cotter, Dan Cunningham, Marjorie Gresley, Niall MacGinnis, Wilfrid Hyde White (as Britannus), Norman Wooland, Robert Helpmann (as Apollodorus), Anthony Pelly, Ronald Adam, Harold Kasket; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; centre pages loose, else VG] £5

1953: THE SLEEPING PRINCE - Terence Rattigan (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
Laurence Oliver (as The Regent), Vivien Leigh (as Mary), Richard Wattis, Paul Hardwick, Jeremy Spencer, Martita Hunt (as The Grand Duchess), Rosamund Greenwood, Daphne Newton, Elaine Inescort, Nicola Delman, Peter Barkworth, Angus Mackay, Terence Owen; dir:Laurence Oliver [16pp, 4.4x5.4; cast list, synopsis of scenes, charming photo of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, credits etc.; much rumpled, else VG] £2

1953: THE SLEEPING PRINCE - Terence Rattigan (Phoenix)
Laurence Oliver (as The Regent), Vivien Leigh (as Mary), Angus Mackay, Terence Owen, Richard Wattis, Paul Hardwick, Peter Barkworth, Jeremy Spenser, Martita Hunt (as The Grand Duchess), Rosamund Greenwood, Daphne Newton, Elaine Inescort, Nicola Delman; dir:Laurence Oliver [12pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, 2 production photos, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £5

1960: RHINOCEROS - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Derek Prouse (Royal Court)
English Stage Company: Laurence Olivier, Monica Evans, Duncan Macrae, Henry Woolf, Margery Caldicott, Hazel Hughes, Geoffrey Dunn, Michael Bates, Will Stampe, Joan Plowright, Alan Webb, Miles Malleson, Peter Sallis, Gladys Henson, Philip Anthony; staged and designed by Orson Welles [24pp, 4.85x7.3; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, sketches by Ionesco; VG] £4

1960: RHINOCEROS - Eugene Ionesco, translated by Derek Prouse (Strand)
English Stage Company: Laurence Olivier, Monica Evans, Duncan Macrae, Henry Woolf, Margery Caldicott, Hazel Hughes, Geoffrey Lumsden, Michael Bates, Will Stampe, Maggie Smith, Michael Gough, Miles Malleson, Peter Sallis, Gladys Henson, Philip Anthony; staged and designed by Orson Welles [20pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, sketches by Ionesco; VG] £4

1962: SEMI-DETACHED - David Turner (Saville)
Laurence Olivier, James Bolam, Mona Washbourne, Eileen Atkins, John Thaw, Patsy Rowlands, Kenneth Fortescue, Joan Young, Newton Blick; dir:Tony Richardson [16pp, 6.5x9; 6 excellent photos; somewhat tatty] £1

PETER O'TOOLE (1932 - 2013)

1956: MAJOR BARBARA - George Bernard Shaw (Old Vic)
Bristol Old Vic company: Peter O'Toole (as Peter Shirley), Marie Burke, Michael Meacham, Antony Tuckey, Phyllida Law, Moira Shearer (as Barbara), Derek Godfrey (as Adolphus), Graham Cowden, Joseph O'Conor (as Andrew Undershaft), Phillada Sewell, Edward Hardwicke, Sonia Fraser, Alan Dobie, Eve Watkinson, Patrick Blackwell; dir:John Moody [8pp, 5x7.25; cast list, producer's note, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1958: THE HOLIDAY - John Hall (Cambridge Arts Theatre)
Peter O'Toole (as Roger Muir), John Moffatt, Sian Phillips, John Merivale, Sylvia Syms, Nicholas Meredith, Colin Jeavons, John Stratton, Mary Hinton; dir:Frank Dunlop [16pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1959: THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL - Willis Hall (Royal Court)
English Stage Company production: Peter O'Toole, Robert Shaw, Edward Judd, Ronald Fraser, David Andrews, Alfred Lynch, Bryan Pringle, Kenji Takaki; dir:Lindsay Anderson [24pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, company photos, biographies etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1959: THE LONG AND THE SHORT AND THE TALL - Willis Hall (New)
English Stage Company production: Peter O'Toole, Robert Shaw, Edward Judd, Ronald Fraser, David Andrews, Alfred Lynch, Bryan Pringle, Kenji Takaki; dir:Lindsay Anderson [16pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, 5 photos, biographies etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1963: BAAL - Bertolt Brecht, translated by Peter Tegel (Phoenix)
Peter O'Toole (as Baal), Harry Andrews, James Mellor, Bernard Kay, Vivian Pickles, Harold Goodwin, Henry Woolf, Guinevere Roberts, Terry Bale, Tim Preece, Declan Mulholland, Morgan Sheppard, Oliver MacGreevy, Gemma Jones, Kate Binchy, Annette Robertson, Marie Kean, Mary Miller, Arthur O'Sullivan, Trevor Martin; dir:William Gaskill [12pp, 6.75x9.5; cast list, credits, 5 production photos, etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1965: RIDE A COCK HORSE - David Mercer (Piccadilly)
Peter O'Toole, Barbara Jefford, Sian Phillips, Wendy Craig; dir:Gordon Flemyng [16pp; 5 cast photos] £4

1973: THE APPLE CART - George Bernard Shaw (Bristol Old Vic)
Peter O'Toole (as King Magnus), Judy Parfitt (as Orinthia), David Ryall, Nigel Stock, John Warner, Timothy Kightley, June Barrie, Thelma Whiteley, Edward Hardwicke; dir:David Phethean [20pp; biographies, articles; rumpled] £2

1973: PLUNDER - Ben Travers (Bristol Old Vic)
Peter O'Toole, Nigel Stock, Sara Kestelman, Marie Kean, Edward Hardwicke, Penelope Wilton, Timothy Kightley, June Barrie, David Ryall; dir:Nat Brenner [20pp; biographies, illustrated articles; VG] £2

1980: MACBETH (Old Vic)
Peter O'Toole, Trudie Styler, Jane Cussons, Jackie Smith-Wood, Bernard Archard, Clive Wood, Christopher Fulford, Gerald Sim, John Hug, Philip Sully, David Sumner, Brian Blessed, Frances Tomelty (as Lady Macbeth), Hilary Reynolds, Dudley Sutton, Timothy Ackroyd, Kevin Quarmby, Peter Roberts, John Tordoff, Jack Allen, Christopher Chittell, Bob Hewis, Stephen Jenn, Cajetan Baptista, Marjorie Bland, Kevin Doyle, William Hart, Rob Macdonald, David Williamson; dir:Brian Forbes [36pp, 5.4x8.9; cast list, extensive illustrated notes, biographies, extract from Edith Douglass's diary, 1912; a substantial programme for this famously disastrous production; VG] £6

1982: MAN AND SUPERMAN - George Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Peter O'Toole, Lisa Harrow, James Grout, Michael Byrne, John Moulder-Brown, Robert Beatty, Joyce Carey; dir:Patrick Dromgoole [28pp; cast list, 8 production photos, biographies; VG] £4

1986: THE APPLE CART - George Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Peter O'Toole, Susannah York, Paul Rogers, Michael Denison, Marius Goring, David Waller, Geoffrey Keen, David King, Dora Bryan, Moira Lister, Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Braden; dir:Val May [28pp; cast photos and biographies; w.flyer; VG] £4

1989: JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL - Keith Waterhouse (Apollo)
Peter O'Toole, Timothy Ackroyd, Sarah Berger, Annabel Leventon, Royce Mills; dir:Ned Sherrin [44pp; 40+ cast and production photos, biographies; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1992 (Nov): OUR SONG - Keith Waterhouse (Apollo)
Peter O'Toole, Tara FitzGerald, Lucy Fleming, Cara Konig, Jack Watling, William Sleigh, Donald Pickering; dir:Ned Sherrin [48pp; 35+ excellent photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1999: JEFFREY BERNARD IS UNWELL - Keith Waterhouse (Old Vic)
Peter O'Toole, Timothy Ackroyd, Sarah Berger, Annabel Leventon, Royce Mills; dir:Ned Sherrin [28pp, 8.25x11.75; extensive illustrated articles, production photos, illustrated career synopsis of Peter O'Toole, biographies w.photos; w.newsclipping review; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

MICHAEL REDGRAVE (1908 - 1985)

1938 (w/c 14 Nov): THE WHITE GUARD - Bulgakov, adapted by Rodney Ackland (Phoenix)
Michael Redgrave (as Alexei), Basil C Langton, Peggy Ashcroft (as Yeliena), George Devine, Stephen Haggard, George Hayes, William Devlin, Marius Goring, John Rae, James Donald, Thomas Heathcote, Pierre Lefevre, Peter Whitehead, James Cairncross, Alan Hamilton; dir:Michael Saint-Denis [24pp, 5.5x8.5 (Magazine Programme No.1239); cast list, synopsis of scenes, programme notes, 8 cast photos, credits etc.; with a 5"x8" flyer announcing a production of Twelfth Night by the same company, to open on Thursday, December 1st; very uncommon (lasted only three weeks); date on cover, spine split, pages loose else VG] £4

1942: THE DUKE IN DARKNESS - Patrick Hamilton (St.James's)
Michael Redgrave, Leslie Banks, Hugh Burden, D.J.Williams, Fred Groves, Walter Fitzgerald, Richmond Nairne, Charles Deane, Humphrey Heathcote, Spencer Moore; dir:Michael Redgrave [4pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; slightly edge damage, else VG] £3

1944: UNCLE HARRY - Thomas Job (Garrick)
Michael Redgrave, Ena Burrill, Beatrix Lehmann, Susan Richards, Rachel Kempson, Ian Colin, Keith Campbell, Grace Denbeigh-Russell, Arthur Davis, John Garside, Robert Young, Hugh Stewart, Lee Fox, Donald Finlay, John Clevedon, Harrop Allin, Margery Bryce; dir:William Armstrong and Michael Redgrave [6pp, 3.3x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

Michael Redgrave, 1946 Postcard
Stars of the Stage: Series 1 [6"x4" BBC Hulton Picture Library postcard HPL 720; VG] £1

1947: MACBETH (Aldwych)
Michael Redgrave (as Macbeth), Paul Stephenson, Leonard White, Paul Hansard, Michael Goodliffe (as Banquo), Clement McCallin (as Macduff), Douglas Wilmer, Hector MacGregor, William March, Leslie Sands, Roger Braban, Paul Hardwick, Clement Ashby, Ena Burrill (as Lady Macbeth), Elizabeth Kentish, Keith Lloyd, John Blatchley (as Wounded Sergeant / Porter), Stephen Darlot, Alan Hood, Rupert Davies, Wilfrid Carter, Margot Van Der Burgh, Richard Bebb Williams (AKA Richard Bebb, aged 20), Gillian Webb, Paddy Green, Janet Joye, Peter Bartlett, Lesley Merritt, Richard Wightman, Olivier Ford; dir:Norris Houghton [4pp, 5x8; cast list, credits etc.; rumpled, else VG] £2

1949: THE FATHER - August Strindberg (Duchess)
Michael Redgrave, Liam Gaffney, Nigel Arkwright, Martin Wyldeck, Freda Jackson, Philip Ray, Lilly Kann, Jill Raymond; dir:Dennis Arundell [8pp, 5x7; cast list, credits etc.; VG] £2

1952: WINTER JOURNEY - Clifford Odets (St.James's)
Michael Redgrave, Guy Kingsley Poynter, Robert Perceval, Sam Wanamaker, Arthur Hill, Hazel Penwarden, Googie Withers, Ian Main; dir:Sam Wanamaker [8pp, 5x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1955: TIGER AT THE GATES - Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry (Apollo)
Michael Redgrave, Barbara Jefford, Leueen MacGrath, June Rodney, Leo Ciceri, Nicholas Hannen, John Laurie, Catherine Lacey, Frederick Farley, Mary Holland, Margaret McCourt, Diane Cilento, Patrick Horgan, Peter Kerr, Duncan Lewis, Wyndham Goldie, Christopher Rhodes, Walter Fitzgerald, Robert Shaw, Norman Rossington, Coral Fairweather, Henry Milton, Howard Loxton; dir:Harold Clurman [8pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, credits, photo of Michael Redgrave as Hector etc.; VG] £4

1958: A TOUCH OF THE SUN - N C Hunter (Saville)
Michael Redgrave, James Sutherland, Diana Wynyard, Ronald Squire, Dinsdale Landen, Vanessa Redgrave (aged 21), Anthony Oliver, Louise Allbritton, Martin Miller, David Langton; dir:Frith Banbury [12pp, 5.5x8.75; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1959: THE ASPERN PAPERS - Henry James, adapted by Michael Redgrave (Queen's)
Michael Redgrave, Pauline Jameson, Olaf Pooley, Beatrix Lehmann, Nancy Nevinson, Flora Robson; dir:Basil Dean [12pp, 4.8x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1960: THE TIGER AND THE HORSE - Robert Bolt (Queen's)
Michael Redgrave, Catherine Lacey, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Wright, Alan Dobie, Kynaston Reeves; dir:Frith Banbury [12pp, 6.75x9.2; cast list, 6 photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

1962 (Oct): OUT OF BOUNDS - Arthur Watkyn (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
Michael Redgrave, Graham Armitage, Pauline Jameson, A J Brown, Brandon Brady, Peter Stephens, Michael Balfour, Anton Diffring, Charles Rea, Michael Bates, Lionel Gamlin, Charles Heslop; dir:Harold French [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, credits, biographies etc.; VG] £4

1962: OUT OF BOUNDS - Arthur Watkyn (Wyndham's)
Michael Redgrave, Graham Armitage, Pauline Jameson, A J Brown, Brandon Brady, Peter Stephens, Michael Balfour, Anton Diffring, Charles Rea, Michael Bates, Lionel Gamlin, Charles Heslop; dir:Harold French [16pp, 5x7.4; cast list, biographies w.photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

1966: A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - Ivan Turgenev, version by Emlyn Williams (Cambridge)
Michael Redgrave, Frederick Schiller, Fay Compton, Margaret Gordon, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Beltram, Jeremy Brett, Roy Purcell, Emlyn Williams, Joanna Dunham, Geoffrey Chater, Kate Lansbury, Peter Pratt; dir:Michael Redgrave [16pp; 6.75x9.5; 6 cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1971: A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER - John Mortimer (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Michael Redgrave, Barry Justice, Jane Baxter, Amanda Murray, Jason Kemp, Jack May, Colin Jeavons, Rosalind Knight, Andrew Sachs, Richard Fraser, Tilly Tremayne, Connie Merigold, Gloria Connell, Jeremy Burring, Melanie Wallis, Michael Elwick, Keith Watson, dir:Ronald Eyre [24pp, 5.25x9; cast list, biographies w.photos, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

VANESSA REDGRAVE (b.1937)

1958: A TOUCH OF THE SUN - N C Hunter (Saville)
Michael Redgrave, James Sutherland, Diana Wynyard, Ronald Squire, Dinsdale Landen, Vanessa Redgrave (aged 21), Anthony Oliver, Louise Allbritton, Martin Miller, David Langton; dir:Frith Banbury [12pp, 5.5x8.75; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £3

1958: MAJOR BARBARA - George Bernard Shaw (Royal Court)
English Stage Company: Vanessa Redgrave (as Sarah Undershaft), Frances Rowe, Simon Carter, Peter Birrel, Joan Plowright, Paul Daneman (as Adolphus), Philip Locke, Alan Webb (as Andrew Undershaft), Hilda Barry, Alfred Lynch, Jacqueline Hussey, Toke Townley, Alan Dobie, Lala Lloyd, Robert Gillespie; dir:George Devine [24pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, programme note, credits etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £3

1960: LOOK ON TEMPESTS - Joan Henry (Comedy)
Vanessa Redgrave, Gladys Cooper, Ian Hunter, Gwen Williams, Miranda Connell, Brewster Mason, Basil Henson; dir:Lionel Harris [16pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, credits, biographies, 4 cast photos; VG] £4

1960: THE TIGER AND THE HORSE - Robert Bolt (Queen's)
Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Redgrave, Catherine Lacey, Jennifer Wright, Alan Dobie, Kynaston Reeves; dir:Frith Banbury [12pp, 6.75x9.2; 6 photos; light vertical bend, else VG] £3

1961: THE LADY FROM THE SEA - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Ann Jellicoe (Queen's)
Vanessa Redgrave (as Boletta), Esmond Knight, Richard Pasco, Joanna Dunham, Andrew Cruickshank, Michael Gwynn, Margaret Leighton, John Neville; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [12pp, 6.75x9.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, cast photos, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1961: THE LADY FROM THE SEA - Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Ann Jellicoe (Golder's Green Hippodrome)
Vanessa Redgrave (as Boletta), Esmond Knight, Richard Pasco, Joanna Dunham, Andrew Cruickshank, Michael Gwynn, Margaret Leighton, John Neville; dir:Glen Byam Shaw[12pp, 4.9x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £2

1964: THE SEAGULL - Anton Chekhov (Queen's)
English Stage Company: Vanessa Redgrave (as Nina), Peggy Ashcroft (as Arkadina), Peter Finch, Peter McEnery, George Devine, Ann Beach, Paul Rogers, Rachel Kempson, Philip Locke, Mark Dignam, Kate Binchy, Malcolm Taylor, Reginald Gillam, Derek Fuke; dir:Tony Richardson [12pp, 7x9.6; 5 cast photos, biographies; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1966: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - Muriel Spark and Jay Presson Allen (Wyndham's)
Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Thawnton, Mary Ann Talbot, Vickery Turner, Olivia Hussey, Alison Blair, Jane Carr, Dorothy Reynolds, Andrew Crawford, William Squire, Ann Martin, Andrea Brett, Janet Connelly, Candy Glendinning, Lynn Kemp, Lavinia Lang, Susan Murcar, Teresa O'Dell, Julie Ross, Pauline Sarson, Ann Weston, Sheila Whitmill; dir:Peter Wood [12pp, 5x7.25; cast list, credits, 4 biographies w.photos etc.; VG] £4

1966: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - Muriel Spark and Jay Presson Allen (Wyndham's)
Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Thawnton, Mary Ann Talbot, Vickery Turner, Olivia Hussey, Alison Blair, Jane Carr, Dorothy Reynolds, Andrew Crawford, William Squire, Ann Martin, Andrea Brett, Candy Glendinning, Jacqueline Lewis, Susan Murcar, Teresa O'Dell, Jean Porter, Veronica Purnell, Paula Smyczok, Marilyn Wade, Ann Weston, Sheila Whitmill; dir:Peter Wood [12pp, 5x7.25; cast list, credits, 4 biographies w.photos etc.; ticket stapled to cover, else VG] £3

1966: THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE - Muriel Spark and Jay Presson Allen (Wyndham's)
Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Thawnton, Edith Macarthur, Vickery Turner, Olivia Hussey, Alison Blair, Jane Carr, Dorothy Reynolds, Andrew Crawford, William Squire, Ann Martin, Andrea Brett, Janet Connelly, Jacqueline Lewis, Teresa O'Dell, Veronica Purnell, Pauline Sarson, Paula Smyczok, Marilyn Wade, Ann Weston, Sheila Whitmill, Julie Ross, Lyn Kemp, Lavinia Lang, Janet Lewis; dir:Peter Wood [40pp, 6x9; 4 photos, biographies etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £4

1972: THE THREEPENNY OPERA - Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, translated by Hugh MacDiarmid (Prince of Wales)
Vanessa Redgrave, Joe Melia, Ronald Radd, Annie Ross, Barbara Windsor, Diana Quick, Miriam Margolyes, Hermione Baddeley, Lon Satton, Arthur Mullard, Henry Woolf; dir:Tony Richardson [28pp; cast, credits, biographies w.photos, list of musical numbers etc.; VG] £4

1972: TWELFTH NIGHT (Shaw Theatre)
Dolphin Theatre Company: Vanessa Redgrave (as Viola), John Turner (as Orsino), Norman Eshley, Lewis Jones, David Neville, Brian Stirner, Windsor Davies (as Sir Toby Belch), Jonathan Cecil (as Sir Andrew Aguecheek), Peter Jeffrey (as Malvolio), Gareth Armstrong (as Fabian), Oscar Quitak, Robert Swales, Nyree Dawn Porter (as Olivia), Ann Beach, Paul Gale, Benjamin Gaule, Edmund Thomas, Elisabeth Day, Sheila Dunion; dir:Michael Bakewell [10pp, five 8"x8" sheets in envelope; cast list, biographies, credits, NYT and Shaw Theatre information etc.; slightly rumpled, minor edge damage, else VG] £4

1973: DESIGN FOR LIVING - Noel Coward (Phoenix)
Vanessa Redgrave, Peter Bayliss, Jeremy Brett, John Stride, Hazel Hughes, Neil Wilson, Mark Dowse, Yolande Turner, Christopher Malcolm, Connie Booth, Willie Jonah; dir:Michael Blakemore [24pp, 5.25x9; cast list, credits, biographies, 9 production photos; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1979: THE LADY FROM THE SEA - Henrik Ibsen (New Round House)
Royal Exchange Theatre Company: Vanessa Redgrave (as Ellida), Graham Crowden, Sherrie Hewson, Lynsey Baxter, John Franklyn-Robbins, Christopher Good, Ronald Herman, Terence Stamp; dir:Michael Elliott [24pp, 8.25x11.5; photos; substantial programme; with contemporary newspaper clipping review] £5

1984: THE ASPERN PAPERS - Henry James, adapted by Michael Redgrave (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Vanessa Redgrave, Francine Morgan, Toby Robins, Christopher Reeve, Wendy Hiller, Joseph Long; dir:Frith Banbury [32pp; 10+ production photos; VG] £5

1985: THE SEAGULL - Anton Chekhov (Queens)
Vanessa Redgrave (as Arkadina), Peter Wight, Julia Swift, Alfred Burke, John Lynch, Kenneth Keeling, Natasha Richardson (as Nina), Christopher Harvey, Jean Rimmer, Ronald Hines, Joseph Brady, Jonathan Pryce (as Trigorin), Clare David; dir:Charles Sturridge [44pp, 6x8.5; cast list, biographies w.photos, articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

1985: CHEKHOV'S WOMEN (Lyric)
Vanessa Redgrave, Frances de la Tour, Julia Swift, Peter Wight, Rachel Kempson; dir:David Leveaux [4pp, 5.9x8.25; list of excerpts with casting, sources of material, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £1

1986 (Oct): GHOSTS - Henrik Ibsen (Young Vic)
Young Vic Production: Eve Matheson, Peter Theedom, Tom Wilkinson (as Pastor Manders), Vanessa Redgrave (as Mrs Alving), Adrian Dunbar (as Osvald); dir:David Thacker [8pp, 8.25x11.75; biographies w.photos, notes etc.; VG] £3

1986 (Dec): GHOSTS - Henrik Ibsen (Wyndham's)
Young Vic Production: Andrea Wray, Peter Theedom, Tom Wilkinson (as Pastor Manders), Vanessa Redgrave (as Mrs Alving), Vivian Munn (as Osvald); dir:David Thacker [28pp, 6x8.5; biographies, cast and production photos, articles etc.; "One of the filthiest things ever written in Scandinavia" - Ludwig Josephson; slightly rumpled] £4

1986: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, Ken Bones, Gerald James, Margot Leicester, Kika Markham, Bunny May, Robert O'Mahoney, Sylvester McCoy; dir:Toby Robertson, Christopher Selbie [40pp; 30+ cast and production photos, biographies; VG] £4

1988: ORPHEUS DESCENDING - Tennessee Williams (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Vanessa Redgrave, Paul Freeman, Julie Covington, Jean-Marc Barr, Margery Mason, Miriam Margolyes, Carol Gillies; dir:Peter Hall [36pp, 6.75x9.6; 20+ photos; w.2 newsclipping reviews; VG] £4

1988: A TOUCH OF THE POET - Eugene O'Neill (Young Vic)
William Armstrong, John McEnery, Rudi Davies, Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Dalton, James Berwick, Simon Coady, Shay Gorman, Amanda Boxer, Malcolm Tierney, John Murphy; dir:David Thacker [12pp, large size (8.25x11.75); cast list, biographies w.photos, illustrated articles, sketches of the cast, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1989: A MADHOUSE IN GOA - Martin Sherman (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith)
Vanessa Redgrave, Rupert Graves, Larry Lamb, Arthur Dignam; dir:Robert Allan Ackerman [16pp; 15+ cast and rehearsal photos, biographies; VG] £4

1990: THREE SISTERS - Anton Chekhov, adapted by Nikolas Simmonds (Queen's)
Vanessa Redgrave (as Masha), Lynn Redgrave (as Olga), Jemma Redgrave (as Irena), Stuart Wilson, Phoebe Nicholls, Jeremy Northam, Adrian Rawlins, Aden Gillett, Edna Dore, Michael Carter, Graham Crowden; dir:Robert Sturua [48pp; 20+ photos; VG] £4

1991: WHEN SHE DANCED - Martin Sherman (Globe)
Vanessa Redgrave, Oleg Menshikov, Sheila Keith, Alison Fiske, Frances de la Tour, Michael Sheen, Kevin Elyot, Jodie Scott, Andrew Celli, Michael Shallard; dir:Robert Allan Ackerman [48pp; 17 photos; light vertical fold] £4

1994: BRECHT IN EXILE (Bridge Lane Theatre)
Vanessa Redgrave, Ekkenhard Schall, Rade Serbedzija; dir:Lenka Udivicki [14pp, 8.25x11.75; list of items, texts; VG] £3

1999: SONG AT TWLIGHT - Noel Coward (Gielgud)
Vanessa Redgrave, Corin Redgrave, Kika Markham, Mathew Bose; dir:Sheridan Morley [40pp, 6.8x9.75; cast biographies w.photos, illustrated articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

2002: LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN - Oscar Wilde (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Peter Hall Company: Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Peter Gordon, Jack Davenport, Googie Withers, Clare Swinburne, David Yelland, Philippa Urquhart, Frank Jarvis, Tina James, Roger Hammond, Mary Duddy, Ross Brooks, Pamela Gibson, Amanda Shillabeer, Richard Laing, John McCallum, Robert Hands; dir:Peter Hall [52pp; 25+ cast and rehearsal photos, biographies, extensive illustrated articles; VG] £4

2011: DRIVING MISS DAISY - Alfred Uhry (Wyndham's)
Vanessa Redgrave, James Earl Jones, Boyd Gaines; dir:David Esbjornson [52pp, 6.5x9.5; cast list, biographies w.photos, 7 colour production photos, interview with Alfred Uhry, articles, credits etc.; VG] £4

RALPH RICHARDSON (1902 - 1983)

1929: SILVER WINGS - Dion Titheradge, Douglas Furber, Jack Waller, Joseph Tunbridge (Dominion)
Ralph Richardson (as Gilbert Nash), Lancelot Quinn, Donald Mather (as Philip Marvin), Lupino Lane (as Jerry Wimpole), Mark Stone, Tessa Deane, Emma Haig (as Sadie Cross), Arthur Finn, Ross Fairfax, Art Fowler, Dennis Hoey, Desiree Ellinger (as Inez), Harry Welchman (as Pablo Santos), Iris Darbyshire; dir:William Mollison [24pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, list of musical numbers, prices of admission, 5 large photos (of Harry Welchman, Lupino Lane, Desiree Ellinger, Emma Haig and Donald Mather) etc.; VG] £4

1932: TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD - Bernard Shaw (New Theatre)
Ralph Richardson (as Sergeant Fielding), Ernest Thesiger (as The Monster), Leonora Corbett, Margaret Halstan, Walter Fitzgerald, Ellen Pollock (as The Nurse), Cedric Hardwicke (as The Burglar), Scott Sunderland, Walter Hudd, H K Ayliff; dir:H K Ayliff [24pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3

1933: FOR SERVICES RENDERED - Somerset Maugham (Queen's)
Ralph Richardson, C V France, Louise Hampton, Cedric Hardwicke, Flora Robson, Marjorie Mars, Diana Hamilton, W Cronin-Wilson, S J Warmington, Marda Vanne, David Hawthorne, Phyllis Shand; dir:H K Ayliff [16pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; 3 large photographs (Cedric Hardwicke, Louise Hampton, C V France); minor edge tear, else VG] £3

1939: JOHNSON OVER JORDAN - J B Priestley (New)
Ralph Richardson, Edna Best, Victoria Hopper, Albert Chevalier, dir:Basil Dean, music: Benjamin Britten [24pp; 2 photos; slightly rumpled, pencilled date on cover, else VG] £4

1949: THE HEIRESS - Ruth and Augustus Goetz (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, James Donald, Gillian Lind, Ann Wilton, Madge Compton, Gillian Howell, Donald Sinden, Pauline Jameson; dir:John Gielgud [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; photo not included; VG] £3

1950: HOME AT SEVEN - R C Sherriff (Wyndham's)
Ralph Richardson, Marian Spencer, Cyril Raymond, Philip Stainton, Campbell Singer, Frederick Piper, Meriel Forbes; dir:Murray MacDonald [8pp, 5x7.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3

1951: THREE SISTERS - Anton Chekhov, adapted by Peter Ashmore and Mary Britnieva (Aldwych)
Ralph Richardson (as Vershinin), Michael Warre, Diana Churchill, Celia Johnson (as Olga), Margaret Leighton (as Masha), Renee Asherson, Frances Waring, Walter Hudd, Robert Beaumont, Harcourt Williams, Eric Porter (as Solyoni), Peter Sallis (as Fedotik), Peter Wigzell, Alexis Chesnakov, Terence Longdon, John McDarby, Isolde Denham; dir:Peter Ashmore [8pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1953: THE WHITE CARNATION - R C Sherriff (Globe)
Ralph Richardson, Meg Maxwell, Michael Nightingale, Frances Clare, Peter Wigzell, Margaret Chisholm, Kenneth Edwards, Edith Savile, Campbell Singer, John Boxer, Frederick Piper, Lockwood West, Meriel Forbes, Harcourt Williams, Ann Wilton, Colin Gordon; dir:Noel Willman [8pp, 5x7; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £3

1953: A DAY BY THE SEA - N C Hunter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Lewis Casson, Patricia Laurence, Peter Murphy, Megs Jenkins, Sybil Thorndike, Irene Worth, John Gielgud, Frederick Piper, Lockwood West; dir:John Gielgud [4pp, 5x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; VG] £4

1956: TIMON OF ATHENS (Old Vic)
Old Vic Company: Ralph Richardson, Derek Godfrey, Harry Innocent, Richard Gale, Dudley Jones, Derek Francis, James Booth, Margaret Whiting, Gabriel Woolf; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp, 5x7.25; cast list, credits, 3 cast photos etc.; VG] £4

1957: FLOWERING CHERRY - Robert Bolt (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Andrew Ray, Frederick Piper, Dudy Nimmo, Brewster Mason, Susan Burnett; dir:Frith Banbury [8pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits, 2 cast photos etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1959: THE COMPLAISANT LOVER - Graham Greene (Globe)
Ralph Richardson, Paul Scofield, Phyllis Calvert, Lockwood West, Helen Lowry, Polly Adams, Hugh Janes, Gerald Flood, Oliver Burt; dir:John Gielgud [8pp; cast, credits etc.; VG] £3

1960: THE COMPLAISANT LOVER - Graham Greene (Globe)
Ralph Richardson, Alan Dobie, Phyllis Calvert, Lockwood West, Helen Lowry, Polly Adams, Hugh Janes, Gerald Flood, Ernst Ulman; dir:John Gielgud [8pp; cast, credits etc.; VG] £3

1962: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson (as Sir Peter Teazle), Meriel Forbes, David Evans, John Gielgud (as Joseph Surface), Pinkie Johnstone, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (as Mrs.Candour), Charles Lloyd Pack, Peter Barkworth, Malcolm Keen, Geraldine McEwan (as Lady Teazle), Betty Bowden, Laurence Naismith, Howard Goorney, Richard Easton (as Charles Surface), Donald Pickering, Jonathan Newth, Martin Friend, Michael Kent; dir:John Gielgud [12pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; 8 excellent character photos; vertical bend, else VG] £3

1962: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson (as Sir Peter Teazle), Laurence Naismith, John Gielgud (as Joseph Surface), Richard Easton (as Charles Surface), Charles Lloyd Pack, Peter Barkworth, Malcolm Keen, Howard Goorney, David Evans, Frederick Piper, Benjamin Whitrow, Lewis Fiander, Martin Friend, Michael Kent, Geraldine McEwan (as Lady Teazle), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (as Mrs.Candour), Meriel Forbes, Pinkie Johnstone, Betty Bowden; dir:John Gielgud [12pp, 5.5x8.5; 8 excellent photos; "October 17th 1962" on cover, else VG] £4

1962: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson (as Sir Peter Teazle), Laurence Naismith, John Neville (as Joseph Surface), Daniel Massey (as Charles Surface), Charles Lloyd Pack, Peter Barkworth, Malcolm Keen, Howard Goorney, David Evans, Frederick Piper, Donald Burton, Richard Easton, Benjamin Whitrow, Martin Friend, Michael Kent, Anna Massey (as Lady Teazle), Margaret Rutherford (as Mrs.Candour), Meriel Forbes, Pinkie Johnstone, Betty Bowden; dir:John Gielgud [12pp, 5.5x8.5; 8 excellent character photos; small edge bite out of cover, else VG] £2

1963: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR - Luigi Piandello, adapted by Paul Mayer (May Fair Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Michael O'Sullivan, Eric Dodson, Mary Yeomans, Joyce Hemson, Peter Jesson, Karin Fernald, Denzil Ellis, Janet Lamb, John McGee, Michael Browne, Paul Carson, Barbara Jefford, Megs Jenkins, Michael Johnson, Howard Knight, Gillian Gostling, Ellen Pollock; dir:William Ball [36pp, 6x8.5 (Magazine Programme); cast list, programme notes, biographies w.photos, credits etc.; much extra content in this "Magazine" programme, including an article about the creation of the May Fair Theatre (w.photographs); VG] £4

1966: YOU NEVER CAN TELL - George Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Bannerman, Keith Baxter, Daphne Newton, James Hunter, Judy Campbell, Angela Thorne, Harry Andrews, Cyril Luckham, Malcolm Reid, Ian Ainsley, Moray Watson; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [20pp; cast, credits, biographies, 6 large cast photos; VG] £4

1966: YOU NEVER CAN TELL - George Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Bannerman, Keith Baxter, Daphne Newton, James Hunter, Judy Campbell, Angela Thorne, Jack Gwillim, Cyril Luckham, Malcolm Reid, Ian Ainsley, Moray Watson; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [20pp; cast, credits, 6 large cast photos; VG] £4

1966: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson (as Shylock), Jack Gwillim (as Antonio), Godfrey Kenton, Morris Perry, Geoffrey Whitehead, Paul Shelley (as Lorenzo), Victor Winding, Priscilla Morgan, Angela Thorne (as Portia), Geoffrey King, James Hunter, Edward Caddick, Stanley Lloyd, Karin Fernald (as Jessica), David King, Colin Jeavons, Malcolm Reid, John Rainer, Clive Riches, Stephen Rotchell, Steven Edwards, Liz Holmes, Jill Marlowe, Stanley Lloyd, Robin John, Tony Leary, Murray Noble, Christian Thorogood, Jeffrey Cambell; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £4

1966: THE RIVALS - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Robin Ellis, Moray Watson, Keith Baxter, Geoffrey Toone, James Hunter, David King, Stringer Davis, Margaret Rutherford (as Mrs Malaprop), Marilyn Taylerson, Angela Thorne, Celia Bannerman, Carolyn Sachs, Stanley Lloyd, Daphne Newton, Andrew Carr, David Valla, Albert Honey; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, biographies, synopsis of scenes, credits, 7 photos etc.; VG] £4

1967: THE RIVALS - Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Ralph Richardson, Robin Ellis, Moray Watson, Keith Baxter, Geoffrey Toone, James Hunter, David King, Edward Caddick, Isabel Jeans (as Mrs Malaprop), Marilyn Taylerson, Angela Thorne, Celia Bannerman, Carolyn Sachs, Stanley Lloyd, Daphne Newton, Andrew Carr, David Valla, Adrian Brett; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [20pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, biographies, synopsis of scenes, credits, 7 photos etc.; VG] £4

1967: SON ET LUMIERE IN ST.PAUL'S - Robert Gittings (St.Paul's Cathedral)
Ralph Richardson, John Neville, Alec Guinness, Raymond Mason, Frank Duncan; dir:Christopher Ede [24pp, 6.5x9; many excellent illustrated articles, cast, credits, biographies w.photos, synopsis, notes; VG] £4

1969: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW - Joe Orton (Queen's)
Ralph Richardson (as Dr Rance), Julia Foster, Stanley Baxter (as Dr Prentice), Coral Browne (as Mrs Prentice), Hayward Morse, Peter Bayliss; dir:Robert Chetwyn [24pp, 6x9; cast list, biographies w.photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

1971: WEST OF SUEZ - John Osborne (Royal Court)
Ralph Richardson, Patricia Lawrence, Jill Bennett, Sheila Ballantine, Penelope Wilton, Geoffrey Palmer, Stephen Moore, Willoughby Gray, Nigel Hawthorne, Anthony Gardner, Nicholas Selby, Peter Carlisle, Sheila Burrell, Raul Neunie, John Bloomfield, Bessie Love, Jeffrey Shankley, Leon Berton, Montgomery Matthew; dir:Anthony Page [32pp; photos, biographies; w.3 newsclipping reviews; VG] £4

1972: LLOYD GEORGE KNEW MY FATHER - William Douglas Home (Savoy)
Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, James Grout, David Stoll, Suzan Farmer, Janet Henfrey, Simon Cadell; dir:Robin Midgley [24pp; photos, biographies etc; VG] £4

1972: LLOYD GEORGE KNEW MY FATHER - William Douglas Home (Savoy)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Charles Lamb, James Grout, Janet Henfrey, Suzan Farmer, Simon Cadell, David Stoll; dir:Robin Midgley [28pp, 5.25x9; cast list, biographies w.photos, 2 production photos etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1977 (May): THE KINGFISHER - William Douglas Home (Lyric)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Alan Webb; dir:Lindsay Anderson [24pp, 5.25x8.5; cast list, biographies, 6 production photos, credits etc.; VG] £4

1977: THE KINGFISHER - William Douglas Home (Lyric)
Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Frederick Farley; dir:Lindsay Anderson [24pp, 5.25x8.5; cast list, biographies, 5 production photos, credits etc.; VG] £3

1978: ALICE'S BOYS - Felicity Browne and Jonathan Hales (Richmond Theatre)
Ralph Richardson (as Colonel White), Michael Gambon, Michael Jayston, Sam Davies, Joanna Van Gyseghem, Gary Bond, Geoffrey Keen; dir:Eric Thompson [20pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, biographies, credits etc.; VG] £3

1982: THE UNDERSTANDING - Angela Huth (Richmond Theatre)
Ralph Richardson, Margaretta Scott, Georgine Anderson, Celia Johnson, Sylvestra Le Touzel; dir:Roger Smith [32pp, 5.75x8.25; cast list, biographies w.photos, credits etc.; title written on cover, else VG] £3

Ashcroft - Finney Gielgud - Jacobi Lawrence - Richardson Scofield - Wolfit

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