| Description | Includes:
File of copy minutes and other material (1936 - 1959) -
Minutes for Director's meetings - 1953 (13 January, 07 May, 09 May, 06 July, 10 November, 08 December), 1954 (19 January, 02 March, 06 April, 04 May, 29 June, 05 October, 02 November, 30 November), 1955 (03 January, 21 February, 22 March, 27 April, 16 May, 21 June, 25 July, 06 September, 04 October, 22 November, 20 December), 1956 (19 July), 1958 (25 November), 1959 (06 January);
Minutes for Sub-Committee considering how present repertory system could be made more flexible (07 January 1958, 24 April 1958, 04 June 1958, 22 October 1958, 06 December 1958, 16 February 1959);
Also with various reports for meetings including recommendations by the Finance Sub-Committee for the consideration of the Board of Directors (1955), report by John Henderson on systems used by London managements to encourage interest in the theatre (1955), two schemes for seating plans, Rep accounts (29 March 1958), estimated costs and accounts for various productions, correspondence from Bache Matthews to Edward Wood (1936 - 1947).
File of correspondence on grants [from City Council] and the new theatre (1951- 1962) [file created by Rep Administrator Nancy Burman] -
Correspondence and minutes including on applications for grants for repairs and to help with production of 'Julius Caesar' during 1956 Festival Of Entertainment;
Minutes of meetings with City Council, the Council's General Purposes (Entertainments) Sub-Committee and the Joint Conference meetings regarding the future of the Rep - also with papers concerning costs, the site, comparisons with other theatres, appointment of Graham Winteringham as architect of new building, notes accompanying plans for new building giving details of rooms etc.
File on repairs etc. (1969 - 1970) - includes correspondence with the Arts Council, e.g. concerning alterations to the foyer.
File on appointment of Peter Dews as Director of The Rep (1966) - includes list of those interviewed for the post and those who the Board approached to see if they were interested [job at first offered to Ronald Eyre, who accepted but then changed his mind].
File 'Midlands circuit - for one night stands at small theatres' (1966 - 1968) - correspondence with various organisations and theatres about visits by The Rep to stage one-off productions, invitations to perform.
Loose correspondence and material (1959 - 1968) -
Printed minutes of Parliamentary sub-committee (of Estimates Committee) meeting held at Birmingham University (13 May 1968) to discuss problems of the subsidised theatre outside London - witnesses included Rep staff Sir Robert Aitken (Chairman of Board of Directors), Humphrey Stanbury (General Manager), Peter Dews (Artistic Director), Professor Richard Hoggart (Director), J. Mayers (Secretary of Board of Directors);
Two press cuttings on resignation of Peter Dews (1972);
Correspondence concerning The Rep asking City Council for increase in annual grant;
Copy letter to The Rep (July 1961) noting that the Committee of the Actors' Benevolent Fund (residuary legatees of the estate of Sir Barry Jackson) have agreed that certain articles belonging to Jackson should be handed over to The Rep with the proviso that articles are not disposed of without permission of the Fund. Articles noted in attached schedule [not attached] and in possession of Tom English;
Correspondence between Rep and the Board of Directors;
Letter giving dates of Rep tour of continent and locations (May - June 1965);
Letter about formation of a Theatre Club for youngsters and inviting comments from headmasters and headmistresses (1965);
Concerns over costs and possibility of over-spending leading to closure;
List of members of Soviet touring group expected for Shakespeare Quartercentenary from Society for Cultural relations with the USSR;
Report by Dr Stanley Wells of The Shakespeare Institute on books held in Peter Dews' office at The Rep. |