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MS 978 - Papers of Sir Barry Jackson and the Birmingham Repertory Theatre - c.1870s - 1971

1 - Birmingham Repertory Theatre

2 - Plays - 1911 - 1971

1 - Licences for performance of plays - 1913 - 1968

2 - Agreements for production of plays - 1923 - 1960

3 - Press releases re production of plays - 1948 - 1959

1 - Press release for 'The Comedy of Errors' by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Searle - 1948

2 - Press release for 'The Bears of Bay - Rum' adapted by Barry Jackson - 1948

3 - Press release announcing the appointment of Michael Langham - 1949

4 - Press release for the theatre's Spring Season - 1949

5 - Press release for 'The Modern Everyman' by Michael Burn, directed by Michael Langham - 1949

6 - Press release for 'The Cassilis Engagement' by St John Hankin, produced by Michael Langham - 1949

7 - Press release for 'Richard III' by William Shakespeare, produced by Michael Langham and 'The Romantic Young Lady' adapted by Helen and Harley Granville - Barker, produced by Douglas Seale - 1949

8 - Press release for 'The Romantic Young Lady' adapted by Helen and Harley Granville - Barker, produced by Douglas Seale - 21 April 1949

9 - Press release for 'The Marvellous History of Saint Bernard' by Henri Gheon, translated by Barry Jackson - 1949

10 - Press release for 'The Marvellous History of Saint Bernard' by Henri Gheon, translated by Barry Jackson - 1949

11 - Press release for 'The Diary of a Scoundrel' adapted by Rodney Ackland - 1949

12 - Press release for the Autumn Season 1949 - 1949

13 - Press release announcing the appointment of Miss Nancy Burman as assistant director - 04 August 1949

14 - Press release for 'A Phoenix Too Frequent' by Christopher Fry - 1949

15 - Press release for 'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams, produced by Michael Langham - 1949

16 - Press release for 'Tomorrow's Child' by John Coates, produced by Michael Langham - 1949

17 - Press release for 'Doctor's Delight', by Moliere, adapted by Barry Jackson, produced by Michael Langham - 1949

18 - Press release announcing the company tour to Holland and the production of 'Shadow and Substance' by Paul Vincent Carroll - 08 November 1949

19 - Press release for 'Doctor's Delight' by Moliere, adapted by Barry Jackson - 01 December 1949

20 - Press release announcing Spring Season 1950 and change of producer - 1950

21 - Press release for 'The Importance of Being Ernest' by Oscar Wilde - 1950

22 - Press release for 'The Return of the Prodigal' by St John Hankin, produced by Douglas Seale - 09 February 1950

23 - Press release for 'Mary Rose' by J M Barrie, produced by Douglas Seale - 07 March 1950

24 - Press release for 'Love in a Labyrinth' by Charles Bertin, translated by Barry Jackson - 04 April 1950

25 - Press release for 'Hobson's Choice' by Harold Brighouse, produced by Douglas Seale - 1950

26 - Press release for 'The Doctor's Dilema' by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Douglas Seale - 1950

27 - Press release for 'School' by T W Robertson, produced by Douglas Seale, Lanchester Marionettes and Ballet Rambert - 21 June 1950

28 - Press release announcing appointment of John Henderson as new theatre manager - 01 July 1950

29 - Press release for Lanchester Marionettes - 26 July 1950

30 - Press release for the Ballet Rambert - 04 August 1950

31 - Press release announcing the Autumn Season 1950 - 04 August 1950

32 - Press release for 'A Summer's Day Dream' by J B Priestley, produced by Douglas Seale - 16 August 1950

33 - Press release for 'The Male Animal' by James Thurber and Elliot Nugent, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 September 1950

34 - Press release for 'The Blue Bird' by Maurice Maeterlinck, produced by Douglas Seale - 02 October 1950

35 - Press release for 'Ardele' by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill, produced by Douglas Seale - 11 October 1950

36 - Press release for 'The New Gossoon' by George Shiels, produced by Douglas Seale - 08 November 1950

37 - Press release for 'The Blue Bird' by Maurice Maeterlinck, produced by Douglas Seale - 06 December 1950

38 - Press release announcing new plays for the Spring Season 1951 - 23 January 1951

39 - Press release for 'Thieves' Carnival' by Jean Anouilh, translated by Lucienne Hill, produced by Douglas Seale - 20 February 1951

40 - Press release for 'Henry the Sixth, Part 11' by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 21 March 1951

41 - Press release for 'The Princess of Pandemonia' by Cicely Hamilton, produced by Douglas Seale - 18 April 1951

42 - Press release for 'Venus Observed' by Christopher Fry, produced by Douglas Seale and Saltzburg Marionette Theatre - 16 May 1951

43 - Press release for 'The Rent Day' by Douglas Jerrold, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 June 1951

44 - Press release announcing plays for the Autumn Season 1951 - 27 June 1951

45 - Press release for Salzburg Marionettes - 28 June 1951

46 - Press release for Cilli Wang, dancer and mime artist - 25 July 1951

47 - Press release for the Ballet Rambert - 15 August 1951

48 - Press release for 'Release' by Alfred Shaughnessy, produced by Douglas Seale - 24 August 1951

49 - Press release for 'The Confederacy' by Sir John Vanbrugh, produced by Douglas Seale - 20 September 1951

50 - Press release for 'The Wild Duck' by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Max Faber, produced by Douglas Seale - 17 October 1951

51 - Press release for 'Oliver Twist' by Charles Dickens, adapted by Russell Thorndike, produced by Douglas Seale - 08 November 1951

52 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring Season 1952 - 06 December 1951

53 - Press release for 'Beauty and The Beast' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 December 1951

54 - Press release for 'Sherlock Holmes' by Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette, produced by Douglas Seale - 20 February 1952

55 - Press release for 'King Henry the Sixth, Part Three' by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 19 March 1952

56 - Press release for 'A Penny for a Song' by John Whiting, produced by Douglas Seale, Hima Kesarcodi, Hindu dancer and Paris Theatre De Mime - 17 April 1952

57 - Press release for 'Point of Departure', by Jean Anouilh, translated by Kitty Black, produced by Douglas Seale - 14 May 1952

58 - Press release for 'South Wind', adapted by Stafford Byrne from Norman Douglas, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 June 1952

59 - Press release announcing plays for the Autumn Season 1952 - 18 June 1952

60 - Press release for 'The Cocktail Party, by T S Elliot, produced by Douglas Seale - 21 August 1952

61 - Press release for 'A Month In The Country', by Ivan Turgenev, produced by Douglas Seale - 11 October 1952

62 - Press release for 'Emmy' by P A Breal, translated by Barry Jackson, produced by Douglas Seale - 04 November 1952

63 - Press release for 'The Tinder Box' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, from Hans Christian Anderson, produced by Douglas Seale - 01 December 1952

64 - Press release for 'The Miser' by Moliere, adapted by Miles Malleson, produced by Douglas Seale - 05 February 1953

65 - Press release for 'The Boy David' by J M Barrie, produced by Douglas Seale - 04 March 1953

66 - Press release for 'King Henry The Sixth, Parts 1, 2 and 3', by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 04 March 1953

67 - Press release for 'Winter Journey' by Clifford Odet, produced by William Avenell - 02 April 1953

68 - Press release for 'The Critic' by R B Sheridan, produced by Douglas Seale - 05 May 1953

69 - Press release for 'King Henry The Sixth, Parts 1, 2 and 3', by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 26 May 1953

70 - Press release announcing plays for the Autumn Season 1953 - 22 July 1953

71 - Press release for Cilli Wang, dancer and mime artist - 05 August 1953

72 - Press release for 'The River Line', by Charles Morgan, produced by Douglas Seale - 26 August 1953

73 - Press release for 'Iphigenia In Aulis and Iphigenia In Tauris' by Euripides, translated by Robert Potter, produced by Douglas Seale - 24 September 1953

74 - Press release for 'The Loving Heart' by Shirland Quin, produced by Douglas Seale - 20 October 1953

75 - Press release for 'Gas Light' by Patrick Hamilton, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 November 1953

76 - Press release for 'The Princess and the Swineherd' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, from Hans Christian Anderson, produced by Douglas Seale - 08 December 1953

77 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring Season 1954 - 20 January 1954

78 - Press release for 'Yellow Sands', by Eden and Adelaide Phillpotts, produced by William Avenell - 24 February 1954

79 - Press release for 'The Private Life of Helen' by Andre Roussin and Madeleine Gray, translated by Arthur Macrae, produced by Douglas Seale - 24 March 1954

80 - Press release for 'The Moon in the Yellow River' by Denis Johnston, produced by Douglas Seale - 21 April 1954

81 - Press release for 'Tartuffe' by Moliere, translated by Miles Malleson, produced by Douglas Seale - 19 May 1954

82 - Press release for 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre' by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 16 June 1954

83 - Press release announcing the Autumn Season 1954 - 16 July 1954

84 - Press release for the Ballet Rambert - 04 August 1954

85 - Press release for 'Carrington V.C.' by Dorthy and Campbell Christie, produced by Douglas Seale - 24 August 1954

86 - Press release for 'Murder Will Speak!' by Michael Hutton Squire, produced by Douglas Seale - 22 September 1954

87 - Press release for 'Uncle Vanya' by Anton Chekhov, translated by Josephine Nicoll, produced by Douglas Seale - 19 October 1954

88 - Press release for 'Family Album', 'Still Life' and 'Red Peppers', a triple bill of Noel Coward plays, produced by Douglas Seale - 16 November 1954

89 - Press release for 'The Silver Curlew' by Eleanor Farjeon, produced by Douglas Seale - 08 December 1954

90 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring Season 1955 - 12 January 1955

91 - Press release for 'Noah' by Andre Obey, produced by Douglas Seale - 16 February 1955

92 - Press release for 'The Confidential Clerk' by T S Eliot, produced by Julian Amyes - 16 March1955

93 - Press release for 'You Never Can Tell' by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Julian Amyes - 13 April 1955

94 - Press release for 'The Enchanted' by Jean Giraudoux, adapted by Maurice Valency, produced by Douglas Seale - 11 May 1955

95 - Press release for 'Richard the Second' by William Shakespeare, produced by Douglas Seale - 09 June 1955

96 - Press release announcing plays for the Autumn Season 1955 - 27 July 1955

97 - Press release for 'The Long Sunset' by R C Sherriff, produced by Bernard Hepton - 18 August 1955

98 - Press release for 'The Indifferent Shepherd' by Peter Ustinov, produced by Bernard Hepton - 14 September 1955

99 - Press release for 'Beauty in the Wood' by Jules Supervielle, translated by Lucienne Hill, produced by Douglas Seale - 12 October 1955

100 - Press release for 'Caste' by Tom Robertson, produced by Douglas Seale - 06 November 1955

101 - Press release for 'The Marvellous Story of Puss in Boots' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, produced by Douglas Seale - 06 December 1955

102 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring and Summer Season for 1956 - 09 January 1956

103 - Press release for 'The Clandestine Marriage' by George Colman and David Garrick, produced by Douglas Seale - 08 February 1956

104 - Press release for 'Anatol' by Arthur Schnitzler, adapted by Fay and Michael Kanin, produced by Bernard Hepton - 06 March 1956

105 - Press release for 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare, produced by Bernard Hepton - 05 April 1956

106 - Press release for 'Anne Boleyn' by Peter Albery, produced by Douglas Seale - 02 May 1956

107 - Press release for 'Caesar and Cleopatra' by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Douglas Seale - 29 May 1956

108 - Press release for 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett, production from the Criterion Theatre, London - 27 June 1956

109 - Press release for 'Samson Agonistes' by John Milton, produced by Eric Salmon - 10 July 1956

110 - Press release for 'Happy As Larry' by Donagh MacDonagh, produced by Bernard Hepton - 24 August 1956

111 - Press release for 'The Lady's Not For Burning' by Christopher Fry, produced by Bernard Hepton - 11 September 1956

112 - Press release for 'Coriolanus' by William Shakespeare, produced by Bernard Hepton - 10 October 1956

113 - Press release for 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' adapted by Lance Sieveking from Robert Louis Stevenson, produced by Bernard Hepton - 06 November 1956

114 - Press release for 'The Emperor's New Clothes' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, from Hans Christian Anderson, produced by Douglas Seale - 05 December 1956

115 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring and Summer Season 1957 - 15 January 1957

116 - Press release announcing the appointment of Bernard Hepton as director of productions - 13 November 1957

117 - Press release for 'The Imperial Nightingale' by Nicholas Stuart Gray, from Hans Christian Anderson, produced by Alan Bridges - 04 December 1957

118 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring Summmer Season 1958 - January 1958

119 - Press release for 'Macbeth' by William Shakespeare, produced by Bernard Hepton - 29 January 1958

120 - Press release for 'The Teahouse of the August Moon' by John Patrick, produced by Bernard Hepton - 04 March 1958

121 - Press release for 'Dagger's Point' by Joseph O'Conor, produced by Bernard Hepton - 10 April 1958

122 - Press release for 'The Curious Savage' by John Patrick, produced by Bernard Hepton - 30 April 1958

123 - Press release for 'The Potting Shed' by Graham Greene, produced by Bernard Hepton - May 1958

124 - Press release for 'Hedda Gabler' by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by Max Faber, produced by Bernard Hepton - 27 May 1958

125 - Press release for 'The Potting Shed' by Graham Greene, produced by Bernard Hepton - 25 June 1958

126 - Press release announcing a more flexible approach to runs of plays for the Autumn Season 1958 - 07 July 1958

127 - Press release for 'A Dead Secret' by Rodney Ackland, produced by Bernard Hepton - 20 August 1958

128 - Press release for 'Three Elizabethan Rarities' by authors uncertain, produced by Bernard Hepton - 17 September 1958

129 - Press release for 'Fear Came To Supper' by Rosemary Anne Sisson, produced by Bernard Hepton - 07 October 1958

130 - Press release for 'When We Are Married' by J B Priestley, produced by Bernard Hepton - 04 November 1958

131 - Press release for 'The Royal Astrologers' by Willis Hall, produced by Bernard Hepton - 03 December 1958

132 - Press release announcing plays for the Spring Season 1959 - 20 January 1959

133 - Press release for 'Hamlet' by William Shakespeare, produced by Bernard Hepton - 28 January 1959

134 - Press release announcing the repertory company's participation in the Edinburgh Festival performing two plays, produced by Bernard Hepton - 09 February 1959

135 - Press release for 'The Elder Statesman' by T S Eliot, produced by Bernard Hepton - 24 February 1959

136 - Press release for 'The Duenna' by R B Sheridan, produced by Bernard Hepton - 06 March 1959

137 - Press release for 'The Duenna' by R B Sheridan, produced by Bernard Hepton - 21 March 1959

138 - Press release for 'The Kidders' by Donald Ogden Stewart, produced by Bernard Hepton - 31 March 1959

139 - Press release for 'Who's Who' by Terence Lodge, produced by Bernard Hepton - 19 May 1959

140 - Press release announcing the last two plays of the Summer Season 1959 - 28 May 1959

141 - Press release for 'The Importance of Being Ernest' by Oscar Wilde, produced by Arthur Pentelow - 10 June 1959

142 - Press release for 'The Living Room' by Graham Greene, produced by Bernard Hepton - 30 June 1959

143 - Press release announcing plays for the Autumn Season 1959 - 10 August 1959

144 - Press release for 'Thorn in the Flesh' by Andrew Cruickshank, produced by Paul Lee - 10 August 1959

145 - Press release for 'Creditors' by August Strindberg, translated by Elizabeth Sprigge, produced by Bernard Hepton - 08 September 1959

146 - Press release for 'The Long and The Short and The Tall' by Willis Hall, produced by Bernard Hepton - 30 September 1959

147 - Press release for 'You Can't Take It With You' by Moss Hart and George S Kaufman, produced by Bernard Hepton - 18 November 1959

148 - Press release for 'The Enchanted Forest' by Anthony Woodhall, produced by Bernard Hepton - 04 December 1959

4 - Correspondence concerning plays and rights to plays - 1911 - 1964

5 - Licences to use theatres - 1924 - 1932

7 - Touring companies - 1950 - 1963

8 - Programme volumes (including for Malvern Festival) - 1913 - 1966

9 - Seasonal programmes and advance publicity material - 1913 - 1970

A - Programmes

B - Photos of productions - 20th Century

C - Prompt Books - 20th Century

D - other / unknown

N - No material held

3 - Artists - 1931 - 1980s

4 - Sir Barry Jackson (including box 27)

5 - Sir Barry Jackson and Old Rep material (including boxes 29 - 30) - 1872 - 2005

6 - Unsorted material from 'The Sir Barry Jackson/Old Rep Archive' in ISG

7 - Miscellaneous

8 - Sir Barry Jackson's Library

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