LEADING ACTORS G - K

JOHN GIELGUD (1904 - 2000)

1924: ROMEO AND JULIET (Regent)
John Gielgud (aged 20), Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, dir:Ayliff [8pp; lightly secured with cellotape; most unusual early souvenir of Gielgud] (£10) SOLD

1925 (Oct): THE SEA-GULL (Little Theatre, John Street, Adelphi, Strand)
John Gielgud (as Konstantin), Miriam Lewes, Valerie Taylor, Randolph McLeod, Hubert Harben, Ralph de Rohan, Margaret Swallow, Alexander Sarner, James Whale (as Medvedenko); produced by A.E.Filmer, entire production overseen by Philip Ridgeway; scenery (and Miss Taylor's costume in Act 1) designed by James Whale; Business Manager: Hugh Beaumont, "Man Cook" and Assistant Stage Manager: Noel Goodwin; seagulls supplied by Watkins & Doncaster [8pp; most uncommon, especially in this condition; VG] £10

1928: FORTUNATO and THE LADY FROM ALFAQUEQUE - Quintero (Royal Court)
John Gielgud (as Alberto and Felipe Rivas), O.B.Clarence, Ann Trevor, Margaret Webster, John Fernald, Anthony Ireland, dir:James Whale [20pp; a few light folds; another unusual early souvenir of Gielgud] (£7) SOLD

1930: HAMLET (Queen's Theatre)
The Old Vic Company: John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Adele Dixon, Francis James, Brember Wills, Gyles Isham, Peter Taylor-Smith, John Wyse, Esmond Knight, John Killner, Eric Adeney, Margaret Webster, Powell Lloyd, Richard Riddle; dir:Harcourt Williams [8pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, credits; minor edge damage; an uncommon programme; 28/5/30 and 23/6/30 written on cover, else VG] £7

1932: MUSICAL CHAIRS - MacKenzie (Criterion)
John Gielgud, Carol Goodner, Frank Vosper, Finlay Currie, dir:Komisarjevsky [24pp; 4 photos] (£6) SOLD

1932: RICHARD OF BORDEAUX - Gordon Daviot (New Theatre)
John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, George Howe, Donald Wolfit, Walter Hudd, Ben Webster, Clement McCallin, Margaret Webster; dir:John Gielgud [24pp, 5.4x8.4; cast list, synopsis of scenes, notes, credits etc.; 2 photos; 23/2/32 faintly written on cover, else VG] £6

1934 (2nd to 7th April): RICHARD OF BORDEAUX - Gordon Daviot (King's Theatre, Edinburgh)
John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, George Howe, Richard Ainley, Ben Webster, Eric Portman, Clement McCallin; dir:John Gielgud [6 page triplefold, 5.8x11.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; most uncommon; flimsy, slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1934: HAMLET (New)
John Gielgud, Frank Vosper, Laura Cowie, Jessica Tandy, George Devine, Jack Hawkins, William Devlin, Glen Byam Shaw, George Howe, Richard Ainley, Anthony Quayle, Alec Guinness (aged 20, as 3rd Player and Osric), Sam Beazley (as 2nd Player), Geoffrey Toone, Frith Banbury; dir:John Gielgud [24pp, 5.5x8.5; 4 production photos; minor marks, 3/12/34 faintly written on cover, else else VG] £6
1935 Theatre World 'Hamlet' Souvenir
1935 Theatre World Souvenir: HAMLET (New)
John Gielgud, Frank Vosper, Laura Cowie, Jessica Tandy, Glen Byam-Shaw, George Howe, George Devine, Jack Hawkins, William Devlin, Anthony Quayle, Alec Guinness (aged 20, as Osric), Ben Field, Geoffrey Toone, dir:Gielgud [20pp, 8.8x11.75; lavish photographic record of the production, with 36 vivid photos, all captioned; light vertical bend, slightly rumpled, else VG] (£11) SOLD

1935: NOAH (New)
John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, George Devine, Marius Goring, Harry Andrews, Alec Guinness, dir:Michel Saint-Denis [24pp; 3 production photos; VG] £5

1935: NOAH (New)
John Gielgud, Jessica Tandy, George Devine, Marius Goring, Harry Andrews, Alec Guinness, Ena Burrill; dir:Michel Saint-Denis [4pp; w.newsclipping review, minor marks; VG] £6

1935: ROMEO AND JULIET (New)
John Gielgud (as Romeo), Peggy Ashcroft, Laurence Olivier (as Chorus and Mercutio), Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Glen Byam Shaw, Alan Napier, Sam Beazley (as Paris), George Devine, George Howe; dir:John Gielgud, des:Motley [28pp, 5.4x8.5; 6 production photos (portraits of Gielgud, Olivier, Evans, Ashcroft and two scenes from the play); VG] (£9) SOLD

1935: ROMEO AND JULIET (New)
Laurence Olivier (as Romeo), Peggy Ashcroft, John Gielgud (as Chorus and Mercutio), Edith Evans, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Glen Byam Shaw, Alan Napier, Sam Beazley (as Paris), George Devine, George Howe; dir:John Gielgud, des:Motley [28pp, 5.4x8.5; 4 portraits of Gielgud, Olivier, Evans, Ashcroft; minor marks, very slightly rumpled, else VG] £7

1936: THE SEAGULL (New)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Peggy Ashcroft, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness (as "A Workman"), dir:Komisarjevsky [24pp, 5.4x8.5; 3 portraits and 2 production photos; VG] £7

1937: HE WAS BORN GAY Emlyn Williams (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Glen Byam Shaw, Sydney Fairbrother, Carol Goodner, Frank Pettingell, Emlyn Williams [4pp card programme; uncommon; foxing to cover, else VG] £4

1937: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Dorothy Green, Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson, Athene Seyler, George Devine, Michael Redgrave, Harry Andrews, Leon Quartermaine, Harcourt Williams, Dennis Price, dir:Guthrie [24pp; 5 photos; centre pages loose, else VG] (£5) SOLD

1937: RICHARD II (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Leon Quartermaine, Dorothy Green, Anthony Quayle, Alec Guinness, Dennis Price, Harry Andrews, Peggy Ashcroft, Harcourt Williams, George Devine, Glen Byam Shaw, George Howe, Merula Salaman; dir:John Gielgud [20pp, 5.4x8.5; 4 photographic portraits; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £8

1938: THREE SISTERS - Chekhov/Garnett (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Peggy Ashcroft, Carol Goodner, Michael Redgrave, Angela Baddeley, Glen Byam Shaw, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, George Devine, Leon Quartermaine, dir:Michel Saint-Denis [28pp, 5.4x8.5; 7 photographic portraits; printed on heavyweight paper; VG] £7

1938: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Leon Quartermaine, Richard Ainley, Angela Baddeley, George Devine, Glen Byam Shaw, George Howe, Dennis Price, David Tomlinson, John Justin, Merula Salaman; dir:John Gielgud and Glen Byam Shaw [20pp, 5.4x8.5; 5 photographic portraits; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £8

1938: SPRING MEETING - M.J.Farrell and John Perry (Ambassadors)
Joyce Carey, Betty Chancellor, Arthur Sinclair, Margaret Rutherford, Niall Macginnis, Roger Livesey, W.G.Fay, Zena Dare, Nicholas Phipps; dir:John Gielgud [20pp, 5.4x8.5; 6 photographs; "25/8/38" lightly pencilled on cover, minor corner fold, else VG] £5

1938: DEAR OCTOPUS (Queen's)
John Gielgud, Marie Tempest, Leon Quartermaine, Angela Baddeley [20pp; 13 pencil portraits of cast; slight damage to spine] £7
1939: HAMLET (Lyceum)
1939 (June-July): HAMLET (Lyceum)
John Gielgud, Fay Compton, Laura Cowie, Jack Hawkins, Harry Andrews, Andrew Cruikshank, Marius Goring [32pp; 7.5x10; 20 photos; spectacular; glossy heavyweight programme for 6 special 'Farewell to the Lyceum' performances, before this production went to Elsinore; the previous owner has pencilled the date he attended on the inside cover: "On the closing night of the Lyceum, with Chas. and P., July 1st 1939"; cover grubby and slightly knocked, else VG] (£8) SOLD

1939: HAMLET (Elsinore)
John Gielgud, Jack Hawkins, Laura Cowie, Fay Compton, dir:Gielgud [52pp; 5x7; photographic cover, photos, lots of text, nice souvenir] (£12) SOLD

1939 (Oct): THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Streatham Hill)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Jack Hawkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Margaret Rutherford, George Howe [20pp; a classic production!; rumpled] (£3) SOLD

1939 (September 4th): THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Golder's Green Hippodrome)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Jack Hawkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Margaret Rutherford, George Howe, John Perry (Gielgud's partner) [24pp; pencil marks on cover, else VG] (£6) SOLD
1939: Play Pictorial 446
1939: Play Pictorial, Sep 1939 No.446 - JOHN GIELGUD: Pictorial Record of His Career
This issue of the theatre magazine 'Play Pictorial' is entirely devoted to the career of John Gielgud, and features 40+ excellent photos, all captioned; productions featured include THREE SISTERS/1926, THE CONSTANT NYMPH/1926, HAMLET/1929, ROMEO AND JULIET/1929, RICHARD II/1929, KING LEAR/1930, THE GOOD COMPANIONS/1931, MUSICAL CHAIRS/1932, RICHARD OF BORDEAUX/1933, HAMLET/1934, THE MAITLANDS/1934, NOAH/1935, ROMEO AND JULIET/1935, THE SEAGULL/1936, RICHARD II/1937, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL/1937, THREE SISTERS/1938, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE/1938, DEAR OCTOPUS/1938, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST/1939, and HAMLET/1939; essay by Norman Hast [24pp, 8.75x11.75; very slightly rumpled, else excellent condition] (£8) SOLD

1940: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST - Wilde (Globe)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Jack Hawkins, Peggy Ashcroft, Margaret Rutherford, George Howe, Clive Woods, Kingstone Trollope; dir:Gielgud [20pp; 7 cast photos; a classic production!; staples rusted, a tatty copy] (£5) SOLD

1941: DEAR BRUTUS (Globe)
John Gielgud, Roger Livesey, George Howe, Leon Quartermaine, Ronald Ward, Zena Dare, Mary Jerrold, Margaret Rawlings, Nora Swinburne, Ursula Jeans, Muriel Pavlow [4pp; corner damage] (£3) SOLD

1942: MACBETH (Piccadilly)
John Gielgud, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Leon Quartermaine, Alan Badel, Ernest Thesiger (as 1st Witch!), Dorothy Green, Nicholas Hannen, Emrys Jones, Abraham Sofaer, Frank Thornton; dir:John Gielgud [8pp, 5x3.75; VG] £4

1943: LOVE FOR LOVE (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon Quartermaine, Miles Malleson, Max Adrian, Rosalie Crutchley, Cecil Trouncer, Marian Spencer, Angela Baddeley, Isabel Dean [4pp; VG] £4

1944: HAMLET (Opera House, Manchester)
John Gielgud, Leslie Banks, Marian Spencer, Hazel Terry, Miles Malleson, Max Adrian, John Blatchley, Leon Quartermaine, Richard Johnson; dir:George Rylands [4pp; small edge bite] £3

1944: THE CIRCLE - Maugham (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Yvonne Arnaud, Leslie Banks, Cecil Trouncer, Rosalie Crutchley, John Blatchley; dir:William Armstrong [4pp; VG] (£4) SOLD

1944: LOVE FOR LOVE (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Max Adrian, Yvonne Arnaud, Leon Quartermaine, Miles Malleson, George Howe, Rosalie Crutchley, Cecil Trouncer, Marian Spencer, Angela Baddeley, Isabel Dean [4pp; VG] £4

1944: HAMLET (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Leslie Banks, Marian Spencer, Peggy Ashcroft, Miles Malleson, Richard Johnson; dir:George Rylands [4pp; excellent condition] £6

1944: HAMLET (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Abraham Sofaer, Marian Spencer, Peggy Ashcroft, Miles Malleson, Richard Johnson; dir:George Rylands [4pp; slightly creased] £5

1945: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Max Adrian, Leon Quartermaine, Miles Malleson, Leslie Banks, John Blatchley, Rosalie Crutchley, Isabel Dean, Marian Spencer, Richard Johnson; dir:Nevill Coghill [4pp; VG] £4

1945: THE DUCHESS OF MALFI - Webster (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft, Leon Quartermaine, Leslie Banks, Max Adrian, Cecil Trouncer, Miles Malleson, John Blatchley, Marian Spencer, Richard Johnson; dir:George Rylands [4pp; VG] £4

1945: THE CIRCLE - Somerset Maugham (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Cecil Trouncer, Leslie Banks, Yvonne Arnaud, Rosalie Crutchley, John Blatchley [4pp; small edge tear, else VG] £2

1946 (May): CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Dostoievsky/Ackland (Theatre Royal, Newcastle)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Audrey Fildes, Jessie Evans, Sebastian Cabot, Ferdy Mayne, Rosalind Atkinson, Peter Jones, Peter Ustinov; dir:Anthony Quayle [4pp; rumpled] £3

1946: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Dostoievsky/Ackland (New)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Audrey Fildes, Jessie Evans, Sebastian Cabot, Ferdy Mayne, Rosalind Atkinson, Peter Jones, Peter Ustinov; dir:Anthony Quayle [8pp, 5x7.25; VG] £4

1946: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Dostoievsky/Ackland (Globe)
John Gielgud, Rosalind Atkinson, Audrey Fildes, Jessie Evans, Sebastian Cabot, Ferdy Mayne, Betty Sinclair, Peter Jones, George Hayes; dir:Anthony Quayle [8pp, 4.75x7.25; small bite out of back page, else VG] £4

1947: CRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Dostoievsky/Ackland (National Theatre, New York)
John Gielgud, Lilian Gish, Vladimir Sokoloff, Alice John, Sanford Meisner, E.A.Krumschmidt, Dolly Haas; dir:Theodore Komisarjevsky [36pp, 6.5x9; seating plan, cast list, biographies, credits VG] £5

1949: THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING - Fry (Globe)
Pamela Brown, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Harcourt Williams, Esme Percy; dir:John Gielgud and Esme Percy [8pp; VG] £4

1951 (28 June): THE WINTER'S TALE (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Flora Robson, Virginia McKenna, Brewster Mason, Lewis Casson, John Moffatt, John Whiting, Paul Hardwick, George Howe, George Rose, Richard Gale; dir:Peter Brook [4pp; special invitation programme to the second performance on 28 June 1951; slightly rumpled] £4

1951: THE WINTER'S TALE (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Flora Robson, Virginia McKenna, Brewster Mason, Lewis Casson, John Moffatt, John Whiting, Paul Hardwick, George Howe, George Rose, Richard Gale; dir:Peter Brook [4pp; slightly rumpled] £2

1952: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Paul Scofield, Dorothy Tutin, Lewis Casson, Robert Hardy, Brewster Mason, Paul Hardwick, George Rose, John Moffatt, John Whiting; dir:Gielgud [4pp; cast, credits; VG] £3

1952: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING 'Theatre World' Souvenir (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Diana Wynyard, Paul Scofield, Dorothy Tutin, Lewis Casson, Robert Hardy, Brewster Mason, Paul Hardwick, George Rose, John Moffatt, John Whiting; dir:Gielgud [12pp; 22 photos; very nice souvenir - a complete record of the production; VG] (£5) SOLD

1953: THE WAY OF THE WORLD (Lyric Hammersmith)
John Gielgud, Margaret Rutherford, Paul Scofield, Eric Porter, Eileen Herlie [8pp] £4

1953: VENICE PRESERV'D (Lyric Hammersmith)
John Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Eileen Herlie, Pamela Brown, Eric Porter, dir:Brook [8pp; minor fold, else VG] £4

1953 (2-7 Nov): A DAY BY THE SEA - N.C.Hunter (Opera House, Manchester)
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Irene Worth, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson; dir:Gielgud [12pp; cast, credits; date on cover, rumpled and creased but uncommon] £3

1953 (Nov): A DAY BY THE SEA - N.C.Hunter (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Irene Worth, Sybil Thorndike, Lewis Casson; dir:John Gielgud [4pp; cast, credits; VG] £4

1956: NUDE WITH VIOLIN - Coward (Globe)
John Gielgud, Joyce Carey, David Horne, Kathleen Harrison [8pp; VG] £4

1957: THE TEMPEST ‘Theatre World' Souvenir (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane) transfer from Stratford
John Gielgud, Richard Johnson, Robert Harris, Alec Clunes, Clive Revill, dir:Brook [12pp; 13 photos; very nice souvenir but with some slight damp damage] (£4) SOLD

1958: THE POTTING SHED - Greene (Globe)
John Gielgud, Irene Worth, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies; dir:Michael Macowan [8pp; VG] £4

1958: KING HENRY VIII (Old Vic)
John Gielgud, Edith Evans, Harry Andrews, Barrie Ingham, Ronald Fraser, Paul Daneman, Edward Hardwicke, Derek Godfrey, David Waller, Harold Innocent, Derek Francis, Margaret Courtenay, and Judi Dench, Barbara Leigh-Hunt (as Attendants, Ladies) [8pp; 3 cast photos; minor marks else VG] £4

1959: AGES OF MAN (Queen's)
John Gielgud [16pp; Gielgud's solo Shakespeare recital; w.newsclipping; VG] £4

1960: AGES OF MAN (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud [16pp; 4 photos; Gielgud's solo Shakespeare recital; VG] £4

1960: THE LAST JOKE - Bagnold (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Anna Massey, Robert Flemyng, Ernest Thesiger [12pp; 6.75x9.25; 5 photos; lightly creased] £4

1962: THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL - Sheridan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Geraldine McEwan, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Laurence Naismith, Richard Easton, Peter Barkworth, Benjamin Whitrow, Lewis Fiander, Meriel Forbes, Pinkie Johnstone, Malcolm Keen; dir:Gielgud [12pp, 5.5x8.5; 8 photos; VG] £4

1963: THE IDES OF MARCH - Kilty/Wilder (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
John Gielgud, Irene Worth, Marie Lohr, John Stride, Julian Glover; dir:Gielgud+Kilty [16pp; biographies and photos; VG] £4

1963: THE IDES OF MARCH - Kilty/Wilder (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
John Gielgud, Irene Worth, Marie Lohr, John Stride, Julian Glover; dir:Gielgud+Kilty [16pp; biographies and 4 photos; folded, else VG] £3

1965: IVANOV - Chekhov/Gielgud (Phoenix)
John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Roland Culver, Yvonne Mitchell, Angela Baddeley, Richard Pasco [12pp; 7x9.5; 5 excellent photos; lightly creased] £5

1968: FORTY YEARS ON - Bennett (Apollo)
John Gielgud, Alan Bennett, Paul Eddington, Robert Swann, Anthony Andrews, George Fenton, Freddie Foot; dir:Patrick Garland [24pp; 12 photos, biographies, articles; VG] £5

1970: THE BATTLE OF SHRIVINGS - Shaffer (Lyric)
John Gielgud, Patrick Magee, Wendy Hiller, Martin Shaw, dir:Peter Hall [24pp;7 photos] £4

1970: HOME - Storey (Royal Court)
John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Dandy Nichols, Mona Washbourne; dir:Lindsay Anderson [28pp; interview with Gielgud and Richardson; 10 photos, biographies; VG] £5

1972: VETERANS - Wood (Royal Court)
John Gielgud, John Mills, Gordon Jackson, Frank Grimes, Bob Hoskins, James Bolam; dir:Ronald Eyre [28pp; photos, biographies, articles; VG] £5

1974: BINGO - Bond (Royal Court)
John Gielgud, Arthur Lowe, Gillian Martell, Ewan Hooper, Oliver Cotton, Paul Jesson; dir:Jane Howell and John Dove [28pp; extensive notes and poems by Edward Bond, credits etc.; VG] £4

1988: THE BEST OF FRIENDS - Whitemore (Apollo)
John Gielgud, Rosemary Harris, Ray McAnally; dir:James Roose-Evans [44pp, 6.1x8.5; cast, credits, biographies w.photos, 25 photos of the cast, illustrated articles etc.; Gielgud's last stage play; VG] £5

ALEC GUINNESS (1914 - 2000)

1940: card flyer for THUNDER ROCK (Arts)
Alec Guinness, Frederick Valk, Bernard Miles, dir:Herbert Marshall [4x6 single sheet; poster-style front, reviews on reverse; "direct from the Globe Theatre, and prior to re-opening at the Haymarket Theatre"; unusual wartime survivor] (£3) SOLD

1946: VICIOUS CIRCLE (Huis Clos) - Sartre (Arts Theatre Club)
Alec Guinness, Donald Pleasance, Beatrix Lehmann; dir:Peter Brook, des:Rolf Gerard [5.25x4.25, 8pp; unusual] (£4) SOLD

1951: HAMLET (New)
Alec Guinness, Walter Fitzgerald, Lydia Sherwood, Ingrid Burke, Alan Webb, Michael Gough, Peter Wyngarde, Robert Shaw, Ken Tynan (as 1st Player), Juliet Byam-Shaw; dir:Alec Guinness and Frank Hauser [8pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1952: UNDER THE SYCAMORE TREE (Golder's Green Hippodrome)
Alec Guinness, Diana Churchill, Ernest Thesiger, Eric Porter [8pp; VG] £2

1954: THE PRISONER (Globe)
Alec Guinness, Noel Willman, Colin Douglas, Wilfrid Lawson, Richard Easton [8pp; minor crease, else VG] £3

1956: HOTEL PARADISO (Winter Garden)
Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, Irene Browne, Douglas Byng, Kenneth Williams [8pp; VG] £4

1960: ROSS - Rattigan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Alec Guinness, Harry Andrews, Mark Dignam; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [12pp; photo] £4

1960: ROSS - Rattigan (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Alec Guinness, Brewster Mason, Mark Dignam; dir:Glen Byam Shaw [12pp; photo] £4

1963: EXIT THE KING - Ionesco (Royal Court)
Alec Guinness, Googie Withers, Eileen Atkins, Natasha Parry, Graham Crowden; dir:George Devine [20pp; photos; VG] £4

1966: INCIDENT AT VICHY - Miller (Phoenix)
Alec Guinness, Anthony Quayle, Nigel Davenport [12pp; 6 cast photos] £4

1966: MACBETH (Royal Court)
Alec Guinness, Simone Signoret (!), Gordon Jackson, dir:William Gaskill [20pp; notorious production!] (£5) SOLD

1967: WISE CHILD - Simon Gray (Wyndham's)
Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Gordon Jackson, Cleo Sylvestre; dir:John Dexter [32pp; biographies w.photos, ] £4

1971: A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Alec Guinness, Jeremy Brett, Nicola Pagett, Phyllida Law, Andrew Sachs, Jack May, Leueen MacGrath; dir:Ronald Eyre [24pp; cast photos] £4

1973: HABEAS CORPUS - Bennett (Lyric)
Alec Guinness, Margaret Courtenay, Christopher Good, Phyllida Law, Patricia Hayes, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Joan Sanderson, Madeline Smith, Andrew Sachs, John Bird, Mike Carnell; dir:Ronald Eyre [20pp; signed on the cover: "Good wishes Alec Guiness"; VG] £4

1975: A FAMILY AND A FORTUNE - Julian Mitchell (Theatre Royal, Brighton)
Alec Guinness, Margaret Leighton, Nicola Pagett, Rachel Kempson, Anthony Nicholls; dir:Alan Strachan [16pp; biographies w.photos; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1975: A FAMILY AND A FORTUNE - Julian Mitchell (Apollo)
Alec Guinness, Margaret Leighton, Nicola Pagett, Rachel Kempson, Anthony Nicholls; dir:Alan Strachan [16pp; 7 production photos; VG] £5

1977: THE OLD COUNTRY - Bennett (Queen's)
Alec Guinness, Rachel Kempson [20pp; 7 photos] £5

1988: A WALK IN THE WOODS - Blessing (Comedy Theatre)
Alec Guinness, Edward Herrmann; dir:Ronald Eyre [20pp; 9 photos] £5

REX HARRISON (1908 - 1990)

1936: HEROES DON'T CARE (St.Martin's)
Rex Harrison, Carol Goodner, Coral Brown, Boris Ranevsky, Marguerite Allen, Felix Aylmer [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1936: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Criterion)
Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Trevor Howard, Guy Middleton, Roland Culver, Robert Flemyng [8pp; VG] £2

1936: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS (Criterion)
Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Trevor Howard, Guy Middleton, Roland Culver, Robert Flemyng [40pp; 7 nice cast photos; date written on cover, else VG] £5

1941: NO TIME FOR COMEDY - Behrman (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Rex Harrison, Diana Wynyard, Lilli Palmer, Elisabeth Welch, Walter Fitzgerald, Denys Blakelock; dir:Harold French, des:Gladys Calthrop [4pp; cast, credits; w.air raid warning; VG] (£3) SOLD

1950: THE COCKTAIL PARTY - T.S.Eliot (New)
Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton [8pp] (£3) SOLD

1954: BELL BOOK AND CANDLE - van Druten (Phoenix)
Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Athene Seyler, Wilfred Lawson, dir:Harrison [12pp; photo] £4

1960: PLATONOV - Chekhov/Makaroff (Royal Court)
Rex Harrison, Rachel Roberts, Graham Crowden, Ronald Barker, Nicholas Selby, Frank Finlay, Rosalind Knight, Elvi Hale, George Murcell, James Bolam, Peter Bowles, Susan Engel; dir:George Devine and John Blatchley [20pp; insert: "Music specially composed by Dudley Moore"; cast, photo, credits, notes etc.; VG] £4

1974: HENRY IV - Pirandello (Her Majesty's)
Rex Harrison, Yvonne Mitchell, James Villiers [16pp; photos] £4

1983: HEARTBREAK HOUSE (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Rex Harrison, Rosemary Harris, Diana Rigg, Simon Ward, dir:Dexter [24pp; 10 photos] (£5) SOLD

1984: AREN'T WE ALL? - Lonsdale (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Rex Harrison, Claudette Colbert, Nicola Pagett, Francis Matthews; dir:Clifford Williams [28pp; 15 photos; VG] £5

1988: THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Rex Harrison, Edward Fox, Niamh Cusack, Steven Pacey, Martin Clunes, Margaret Courtenay; dir:Frith Banbury [36pp; substantial programme; 17+ photos, including production shots, illustrated articles; VG] (£5) SOLD

GLENDA JACKSON (b.1936)

1973: COLLABORATORS - John Mortimer (Duchess)
Glenda Jackson, John Wood, Joss Ackland [24pp; photos and biographies, illustrated articles; VG] £3

1976: THE WHITE DEVIL - John Webster (Old Vic)
Glenda Jackson, Jonathan Pryce, Jack Shepherd, Frances de la Tour, Patrick Magee, John Kane, James Villiers, Miriam Margolyes; dir:Michael Lindsay-Hogg [4pp, 5.8x8.25] (£4) SOLD

1977: STEVIE - Whitemore (Vaudeville)
Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Peter Eyre; dir:Clifford Williams [24pp; 9 production photos; VG] £4

1980: ROSE - Andrew Davies (Duke of Yorks)
Glenda Jackson, Stephanie Cole, Tom Georgeson, David Daker; dir:Alan Dossor [24pp; 8 photos; VG] £4

1982: SUMMIT CONFERENCE - Macdonald (Lyric)
Glenda Jackson, Gary Oldman, Georgina Hale; dir:Philip Prowse [28pp; 15 photos; VG] £4

1983: GREAT AND SMALL - Botho Strauss (Vaudeville)
Glenda Jackson, Barry Stanton, Marty Cruickshank, Mark Dignam; dir:Keith Hack [32pp; 11 photos, cast list, biographies; VG] £4

1984: STRANGE INTERLUDE - O'Neill (Duke of York's)
Glenda Jackson, Edward Petherbridge, Brian Cox, James Hazeldine, Max Gold, Sheila Burrell; dir:Keith Hack [28pp; photos, biographies etc.; tiny tear on cover, else VG] £3

1984: PHEDRA - Racine (Old Vic)
Glenda Jackson, Tim Woodward, Robert Eddison, Gerard Murphy, Joyce Redman, Georgina Hale, dir:Prowse [28pp; 5.5x8.5; photos; with Press Night ticket for Stalls R17, dated 21 Nov 1984; VG] £5

1985: PHEDRA - Racine (Aldwych)
Glenda Jackson, Tim Woodward, Robert Eddison, Gerard Murphy, Joyce Redman, Georgina Hale, dir:Prowse [32pp; photos, biographies, illustrated articles; minor tear to cover] £3

1986: ACROSS FROM THE GARDEN OF ALLAH - Wood (Comedy)
Glenda Jackson, Nigel Hawthorne, Andy Lucas; dir:Ron Daniels [20pp; 16 photos; VG] £4

1987: THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA - Lorca (Globe)
Glenda Jackson, Joan Plowright, Patricia Hayes, Amanda Root, Deborah Findlay, Joan Heal, Julie Legrand; dir:Nuria Espert [40pp; 10+ photos; VG] £4

1990: SCENES FROM AN EXECUTION - Howard Barker (Almeida)
Glenda Jackson, Kevin McNally, Jonathan Hyde, Jeremy Child; dir:Ian McDiarmid [8pp quadruple-fold; biographies, articles; VG] £2

1990: MOTHER COURAGE - Brecht (Mermaid) Glasgow Citzens Theatre production
Glenda Jackson, dir:Prowse [32pp; 11.75x8.25; substantial programme, with articles, and many photos] £5

DEREK JACOBI (b.1938)

1971: ELECTRA - Euripides/Thompson (Greenwich)
Freda Dowie (for the injured Sarah Badel), Derek Jacobi, Andrew Ray, Yvonne Mitchell, Terence Skelton, Susan Bertish; dir:Hovhanness I Pilikian [40pp, 5.25x9; articles, illustrations etc.; VG] £4

1973: PERICLES (Lyceum, Edinburgh)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Ronnie Stevens, Rupert Frazer, Harold Innocent [12pp; 4x10] (£3) SOLD

1973 (June): PERICLES, THE ROYAL HUNT OF THE SUN - Peter Shaffer, TWELFTH NIGHT (Nottingham Playhouse)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Rupert Frazer, Isla Blair, Willoughby Goddard, Jan Waters, Ronnie Stevens, Marilyn Taylerson, Harold Innocent, Ken Shorter, Jonathan Hyde, Trevor Martin, John Bowe; dir:Toby Robertson, Eleanor Fazan [24pp; cast, credits, biographies, illustrated articles; light vertical fold, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1974 (1 September): THE GRAND TOUR (Duke of York's)
Benefit Performance for Stephanie Bidmead: Derek Jacobi, Isla Blair, Julian Glover, Dorothy Tutin, Timothy West [4pp; credits, details of programme; VG] (£4) SOLD

1975 (Dec): A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY - Turgenev/Nicolaeff, and A ROOM WITH A VIEW - Forster/Cottrell (Albery)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Dorothy Tutin, Timothy West, Jane Lapotaire, John Turner, Lynn Farleigh; dir:Toby Robertson, Timothy West [24pp, 5.25x8.5; cast, credits, biographies, production photos; VG] £4

1977: ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Dorothy Tutin, Alec McCowen, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Frazer, Robert Eddison, Zoe Hicks, Suzanne Bertish; dir:Toby Robertson [36pp; cast, credits, biographies, production photos, designs, articles etc.; minor marks, else VG] £6

1977: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Timothy West, Barbara Jefford, Suzanne Bertish, John Nettleton, Terence Wilton, dir:Toby Robertson [40pp; 4 fine production photos and many others; VG] (£6) SOLD

1977: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, John Turner, Barbara Jefford, Suzanne Bertish, John Nettleton, Terence Wilton, dir:Toby Robertson [36pp; 5 production photos and many others; VG] £5

1978: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, John Turner, Barbara Jefford, Jane Wymark, John Nettleton, Terence Wilton, dir:Toby Robertson [36pp; 6 production photos and many others; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1978: IVANOV (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Louise Purnell, Brenda Bruce, Clive Arrindell, Michael Dennison [32pp; substantial] £5

1978: THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING - Fry (Old Vic)
Prospect Theatre Company: Derek Jacobi, Eileen Atkins, Michael Thomas, Kate Nicholls, Clive Arrindell, Brenda Bruce, Michael Dennison, Robert Eddison, John Savident, Ronnie Stevens; dir:George Baker [36pp; rehearsal photos, biographies, articles, photographic history of the Old Vic etc.; VG] £5

1979: HAMLET (Old Vic)
Old Vic Company: Derek Jacobi, Julian Glover, Brenda Bruce, Jane Wymark, Robert Eddison, Terence Wilton, Barry Rutter [28pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1986: BREAKING THE CODE (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford)
Derek Jacobi, Joanna David, Isabel Dean, Dave Hill, Michael Gough [28pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3

1986: BREAKING THE CODE (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Derek Jacobi, Joanna David, Isabel Dean, Dave Hill, Michael Gough [28pp; 30+ photos; VG] £4

1988: RICHARD II (Phoenix) Souvenir Brochure
Derek Jacobi, Robert Eddison, David Rintoul, Pete Postlethwaite, Rachel Gurney, Clive Arrindell, Malcolm Tierney, Jeffery Dench, Kathryn Pogson, Robert Swann, Barbara Jefford; dir:Clifford Williams [20pp, 8.25x11.75; 20 excellent production photos (some in colour), cast, credits, biographies, illustrated articles etc.; VG] £5

1988: RICHARD III (Phoenix) Souvenir Brochure
Derek Jacobi, Malcolm Tierney, Kathryn Pogson, Heather Canning, Pete Postlethwaite, Jeffery Dench, Barbara Jefford, Rachel Gurney, Robert Eddison, David Rintoul, Robert Swann; dir:Clifford Williams [20pp, 8.25x11.75; 20 excellent production photos (some in colour), cast, credits, biographies, illustrated articles etc.; VG] £5

1990 (Aug): KEAN - Jean-Paul Sartre/Hauser (Old Vic)
Derek Jacobi, Eleanor David, Nicholas Farrell, Ian McNeice, Sarah Woodward, Kate Duchene, Christopher Luscombe, Tim Wallers; dir:Sam Mendes [32pp, 5.5x11.75; cast, credits, biographies w.photos, extensive illustrated articles; attractive programme; VG] £5

1991: BECKET - Jean Anouilh (Theatre Royal, Haymarket)
Derek Jacobi, Robert Lindsay, Ken Bones, Dilys Hamlett, Ronnie Stevens [36pp; 20+ production photos, cast biographies; VG] £4

1992: MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW (Ambassadors)
Derek Jacobi, Isla Blair [20pp, 8.25x11.75; 6 pages of illustrated articles about Lord Byron, cast photos and biographies; VG] £4

2005: DON CARLOS - Schiller/Mike Poulton (Gielgud) Flyer
Derek Jacobi, Richard Coyle [6-page triplefold, 4x8.25; colourful flyer with excerpts from reviews, booking details, and 8 production photos; VG] £2

2005: DON CARLOS - Schiller/Mike Poulton (Gielgud)
Derek Jacobi, Richard Coyle, Claire Price, Elliot Cowan, Charlotte Randle, Una Stubbs, Ian Hogg, Peter Eyre [52pp, 6.5x9.25; many excellent production photos, 15+ cast biographies w.photos, illustrated articles; very smart programme; VG] £5

2005: DON CARLOS - Schiller/Mike Poulton (Gielgud)
Derek Jacobi, Richard Coyle, Claire Price, Elliot Cowan, Charlotte Randle, Una Stubbs, Ian Hogg, Peter Eyre [20pp, 8.25x11.75; production photos, cast biographies, illustrated articles; smart programme; VG] £4

2006: A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER (Donmar)
Derek Jacobi, Dominic Rowan, Joanna David, Neil Boorman, Jamie de Courcey, Osmund Bullock, Christopher Benjamin; dir:Thea Sharrock [36pp, 5.5x11.75; rehearsal and cast photos, biographies, illustrated articles; VG] £4

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

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