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Plays: 1950

1950: THE GREEN BAY TREE - Mordaunt Shairp (Playhouse) Henry Hewitt, Hugh Williams, Jack Watling, Brenda Bruce, Walter Fitzgerald; dir:Anthony Pelissier [8pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes , credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1950: MISTER ROBERTS - Heggen/Logan (Coliseum)
Tyrone Power, Jackie Cooper, dir:Logan [8pp; 5x7.5; date written on cover] £5

1950: WILL ANY GENTLEMAN? - Vernon Sylvaine (Strand) Robertson Hare, Arthur Riscoe, Constance Lorne; dir:Richard Bird [8pp; VG] £2

1950: BONAVENTURE (Vaudeville) Fay Compton, Mary Kerridge, Nell Ballantyne, John Crocker, Ballard Berkeley, Colin Douglas; dir:Charles Hickman [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY - Philip Barry (Duchess) Margaret Leighton, Hugh Sinclair, Wilfred Hyde White, Ann Stephens, Meriel Forbes, Robert Beatty, Anthony Forwood, Percy Marmont, Richard Pearson [8pp; "Miss Leighton dressed by Molyneux"; minor marks, else VG] £3

1950: A LADY MISLAID - Kenneth Horne (St.Martin's) Hugh Latimer, Gwendoline Watford, Joan Sanderson, Avice Landone, Ronald Ward; dir:Anthony Hawtrey [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950: PARTY MANNERS - Val Gielgud (Embassy) Jill Esmond, Allan Cuthbertson, Clive Morton [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, slight edge damage, else VG] £2

1950: THE LADY PURRS (Embassy) Eleanor Summerfield, Dandy Nichols, Viola Lyel, Joss Ackland, Charles Heslop; dir:Henry Kendall [6pp triple-fold; tatty] £1

1950: THE MAN WITH A LOAD OF MISCHIEF (Embassy) Heather Stannard, Jane Mapley, Griffith Jones, Clement McCallin [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR (Embassy) Yvonne Mitchell, Karel Stepanek, Charles Lloyd Pack, Jean Anderson, Oscar Quitak; dir:Ngaio Marsh [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1950: SHALL WE JOIN THE LADIES? and THE BOY WITH A CART (Lyric, Hammersmith) Richard Burton, Mary Jerrold, Noel Willman, Eileen Beldon, Nan Munro, Hazel Terry, Paul Daneman; dir:John Gielgud [6pp triple-fold; minor marks, else VG] £4

1950: THE WAY THINGS GO - Frederick Lonsdale (Phoenix) Ronald Squire, Glynis Johns, Michael Gough, Kenneth More [8pp; 3 cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950: HIS EXCELLENCY - Dorothy and Campbell Christie (Princes Theatre) London Mask Theatre production: Eric Portman, Sebastian Shaw, John Wood, Ian Fleming, Linda Gray, Joss Clewes, Arnold Bell, Derek Sydney, Philip Leaver, Annabel Maule, Owen Fellowes; dir:Charles Hickman [8pp, 5.5x8.5; cast, synopsis of scenes, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1950: THE COCKTAIL PARTY - T.S.Eliot (New) Irene Worth, Hugh Sinclair, Donald Houston, Ian Hunter, Eileen Peel, Freda Gaye; dir:E.Martin Browne [8pp; small bite out of cover, else VG] £2

1950: MURDER AT THE VICARAGE - Agatha Christie (Playhouse) Reginald Tate, Barbara Mullen [8pp] £2

1950: THE OLD LADIES - Hugh Walpole adapt.Rodney Ackland (Lyric, Hammersmith) Mary Jerrold, Mary Clare, Jean Cadell; dir:Frith Banbury [4pp] £2

1950: QUEEN ELIZABETH SLEPT HERE - Rothwell/Kaufman/Hart (Strand) Jimmy Hanley, Rosalyn Boulter, Kenneth Connor [8pp; VG] £3

1950: TO DOROTHY, A SON - MacDougall (Savoy) Richard Attenborough, Yolande Donlan, Sheila Sim [12pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1950: ON MONDAY NEXT... - King (Comedy) Henry Kendall, Olga Lindo, Leslie Phillips, Richard Goolden [8pp; rumpled, else VG] £2

1950: TOP OF THE LADDER - Tyrone Guthrie (St.James's) John Mills, Rachel Kempson, Alison Leggatt, Mary Kerridge, Miles Malleson, Esme Church, James Ottaway, Una Venning; presented by Laurence Olivier [8pp] £2

1950: CAPTAIN CARVALLO - Denis Cannan (St.James's) Peter Finch, Diana Wynyard, Richard Goolden, Thomas Heathcote, James Donald, Jill Bennett; dir:Laurence Olivier [8pp; cast, credits, 6 cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1950: CAPTAIN CARVALLO - Denis Cannan (Garrick) Peter Finch, Diana Wynyard, Richard Goolden, Thomas Heathcote, James Donald, Jill Bennett, Anthony Pelley; dir:Laurence Olivier [8pp; 7 cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1950: RED DRAGON - Hastings ("Q" Theatre) Richard Pearson, Kenneth Connor [6pp, triple fold] £1

1950: ANNA CHRISTIE - Eugene O'Neill ("Q" Theatre) Frederick Valk, Freda Jackson [6pp] £2

1950: THE HOLLY AND THE IVY - Browne (Duchess) Jane Baxter, Herbert Lomas, Bryan Forbes; dir:Frith Banbury [8pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1950: THE LITTLE HUT - Roussin/Mitford (Lyric) Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel, David Tomlinson; dir:Peter Brook [8pp; 3 photos] £3

1950: THE SILVER CURLEW - Eleanor Farjeon (Fortune) Daniel Mayer Company: Gwen Cherrell, Basil Hoskins, Michael Turner, Richard Warner, Denys Blakelock, Brian Wilde, Dorothy Reynolds, Alec McCowen; dir:John Fernald, music:Clifton Parker [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1950: TO DOROTHY A SON (Opera House, Manchester) Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Yolande Donlan [12pp, 5.75x9; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950 (Mch): CRY LIBERTY - Esther McCracken (Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Joyce Barbour, Julia Braddock, Dan Cunningham, Anthony Sharp; dir:Richard Bird [12pp, 5.75x9; minor marks, else VG] £2

1950: QUEEN ELIZABETH - Hugh Ross Williamson (Arts Theatre Club) Catherine Lacey, Louise Hampton, Wolfe Morris; dir:Alec Clunes, music:John Hotchkis [4pp, 6x10; folds, else VG] £1

Plays: 1951

1951: WHO IS SYLVIA? - Terence Rattigan (Criterion) Robert Flemyng, Esmond Knight, Roland Culver, Roger Maxwell, Joan Benham, Athene Seyler; dir:Anthony Quayle [8pp; cast, synopsis of scenes, credits; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1951: THE HAPPY FAMILY - Hutton (Duchess) Thora Hird, Henry Kendall [8pp] £1

1951: TO DOROTHY, A SON - MacDougall (Savoy) Richard Attenborough, Yolande Donlan, Sheila Sim, Alastair Hunter, Philip Holles [12pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1951: INTIMATE RELATIONS [Les Parents Terribles] (Strand) Fay Compton, Ballard Berkeley, Cicely Paget-Bowman, Robin Lloyd, Sarah Lawson [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1951: THE DISH RAN AWAY (Vaudeville) Betty Paul, Frank Leighton, Emma Treckman, Winifred Evans, Blanche Fothergill, Gordon Tanner, Shelagh Furley; dir:Leslie French [12pp; date on cover, else VG] £2

1951: THOR WITH ANGELS and A PHOENIX TOO FREQUENT - Fry (Lyric, Hammersmith) Diana Churchill, Jack Hawkins, Dorothy Tutin, George Cole, Eric Porter, Jessie Evans [6pp] £2

1951: THE WHITE SHEEP OF THE FAMILY - L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay (Piccadilly) Jack Hulbert, Joyce Carey [4pp] £1

1951: ARDELE - Anouilh (Vaudeville) Isabel Jeans, Versonica Hurst, Ronald Squire, Nicholas Phipps, Patrick Macnee; dir:Anthony Pelissier [8pp] £2

1951: THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS - Ustinov (Wyndham's) Theodore Bikel, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Jessel [8pp] £2

1951: THE MADWOMAN OF CHAILLOT - Giraudoux (St.James's) Martita Hunt, Marius Goring, Richard Johnson, Angela Baddeley, Veronica Turleigh; dir:Robert Speaight [8pp] £3

1951: RELATIVE VALUES - Coward (Savoy) Gladys Cooper, Richard Leech, Angela Baddeley, Judy Campbell; dir:Coward [16pp] £3

1951: WILL ANY GENTLEMAN? - Sylvaine (Strand) Robertson Hare, Arthur Riscoe, Constance Lorne [12pp; VG] £2

1951: WILL ANY GENTLEMAN? - Sylvaine (Strand) Robertson Hare, Brian Reece, Constance Lorne [8pp; minor marks, staple rusted and gone, else VG] £1

1951: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH - Ustinov (Adelphi) Eric Portman, Brian Wilde, Cyril Luckham, Josephine Griffin; dir:John Fernald [8pp; VG] £3

1951: THE BIGGEST THIEF IN TOWN - Dalton Trumbo (Duchess) Liam Redmond, Ann Zane; dir:Peter Cotes [8pp; VG] £1

1951: THE BIGGEST THIEF IN TOWN - Dalton Trumbo (Fortune) Bernard Braden, Ann Zane; dir:Peter Cotes [4pp; slight edge damage, else VG] £1

1951: MAN AND SUPERMAN - Shaw (New Theatre) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Allan Cuthbertson, Barbara Everest, Michael Medwin, Arthur Hill, Milton Rosmer [8pp; slight edge damage, else VG] £2

1951: WHO GOES THERE! - John Dighton (Vaudeville) Nigel Patrick, Geraldine McEwan, Anthony Sharpe; dir:John Counsell [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1951: THE FIRST LEGION (Gateway) George Bishop, Richard Shayne, John Rae, Kynaston Reeves, Sidney Monckton, Barry Phelps, Julian d'Albie, William Strange; dir:Vyvian Hall [4pp, flimsy; minor marks, else VG] £2

1951: HIS EXCELLENCY - Dorothy and Campbell Christie (Piccadilly) London Mask Theatre production: Eric Portman, Sebastian Shaw, John Wood, Ian Fleming, Linda Gray, Joss Clewes, Arnold Bell, Derek Sydney, Philip Leaver, Annabel Maule, Richard Littledale; dir:Charles Hickman [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1951: FIGURE OF FUN - Andre Roussin adapt.Arthur Macrae (Aldwych) John Mills, Peter Bull, Arthur Macrae, Viola Lyel, Brenda Bruce, Natasha Parry; dir:Peter Ashmore, music:John Hotchkis [8pp; minor marks, date written on cover, else VG] £2

1951: THE SEVENTH VEIL - Muriel and Sydney Box (Princes) Ann Todd, Leo Genn, Herbert Lom, Ralph Michael [8pp; 3 photos; minor marks, else VG] £3

1951: A SLEEP OF PRISONERS - Christopher Fry (Festival of Britain) Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Hugh Pryse, Leonard White; dir:Michael Macowan, stage manager:Peter Vaughan [16pp, 5.5x8.5; date on cover, photo of Christopher Fry, articles by Bishop of Chichester, E.Martin Browne, Christopher Fry, Michael Macowan etc.; cover illustration by Ronald Searle; minor marks, else VG] £4

Plays: 1952

1952: THE TROUBLEMAKERS - George Bellak (Strand) Robert Sansom, Thora Hird, Joseph Tomelty, Maurice Kaufmann, Gaylord Cavallaro [8pp; VG] £2

1952: THE YOUNG ELIZABETH (Criterion) Mary Morris, Joseph O'Conor, Margaretta Scott, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Godfrey Kenton, Margaret Scudamore, Basil Dignam; dir:Charles Hickman [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: AFTER MY FASHION (Ambassador's) Sonia Dresdel, Richard Johnson, Valerie White, Michael Shepley, Diana Morgan [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: MURDER MISTAKEN (Vaudeville) Patricia Burke, Anthony Marlowe, Derek Farr, Brenda de Banzie [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: RELATIVE VALUES - Noel Coward (Savoy) Gladys Cooper, Richard Leech, Angela Baddeley, Judy Campbell; dir:Coward [12pp; VG] £3

1952: THIEVES' CARNIVAL - Jean Anouilh (Arts Theatre Club) John Laurie, Harold Lang, Robin Bailey, Wyndham Goldie, Judith Furse, Maxine Audley, David Bird, Gerald Harper, Tutte Lemkow; dir:Roy Rich, music:John Hotchkis [8pp, 6x4.8; minor marks, else VG] £3

1952: THE INNOCENTS - Henry James adapt.William /Archibald (Her Majesty's) Flora Robson, Barbara Everest, Carol Wolveridge, Jeremy Spenser [8pp; w.production photo; VG] £4

1952: COLOMBE - Anouilh/Cannan (New) Yvonne Arnaud, Michael Gough, Joyce Redman; dir:Peter Brook [8pp; one staple misplaced, else VG] £2

1952: THE FIRSTBORN - Christopher Fry (Winter Garden) Alec Clunes, Barbara Everest , Mark Dignam, Tony Britton, Cyril Luckham, Dorothy Reynolds; dir:John Fernald, music:John Hotchkis [8pp; large photo of Alec Clunes as Moses; bite out of back cover, else VG] £3

1952: THE FIRSTBORN - Christopher Fry (Winter Garden) Alec Clunes, Barbara Everest , Mark Dignam, Tony Britton, Cyril Luckham, Dorothy Reynolds; dir:John Fernald, music:John Hotchkis [4pp] £2

1952: HANGING JUDGE - Raymond Massey/Hamilton (New) Godfrey Tearle, John Le Mesurier; dir:Michael Powell [8pp] £2

1952: THE LOVE OF FOUR COLONELS - Ustinov (Wyndham's) Peter Ustinov, Patricia Jessel, Theodor Bikel, Moira Lister; dir:John Fernald [8pp; VG] £3

1952: DEAR CHARLES - Melville/Sauvajon/Jackson (New Theatre) Yvonne Arnaud, Noel Howlett [8pp; VG] £2

1952: THE HAPPY MARRIAGE - Clements/Luc (Duke of York's) John Clements, Kay Hammond [8pp; VG] £3

1952: THE PERFECT WOMAN - Geoffrey/Mitchell (New Cross Empire) Andrew Laurence, Bruce Gordon, Jacqueline Boyer [8pp; VG] £2

1952: THE MILLIONAIRESS - George Bernard Shaw (New) Katharine Hepburn, Cyril Ritchard, Robert Helpmann, Meriel Forbes, Nora Nicholson; dir:Michael Benthall [8pp, 5x7.25; light vertical bend, else VG] £3

1952: THE MERCHANT OF YONKERS - Thornton Wilder (Embassy) Raymond Lovell, Robert Eddison, Sophie Stewart, Alfie Bass, Jessie Evans, Esma Cannon, Peter Baylis, Nigel Hawthorne, Henrietta Watson; dir:Andre Van Gyseghem [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1952: THE GOLDEN GRAIN (Embassy) Dinah Sheridan, Patsy Ann Hedges, Betty Balfour, Ken Marshall; dir:Peter Copley [8pp; rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: THE COCKTAIL PARTY ("Q" Theatre) John Justin, Heather Stannard, Robert Eddison, Gladys Boot, Terence Alexander, Freda Gaye; dir:Kenneth Fraser [8pp; minor marks, slightly tatty, else VG] £2

1952: NIGHT OF MASQUERADE ("Q" Theatre) Jack Watling, Patricia Hicks, Robert Eddison, Joan White; dir:Wendy Toye [8pp; minor marks, light fold, else VG] £2

1952: THE MOMENT OF TRUTH - Peter Ustinov (Adelphi) Eric Portman, Anthony Marlowe, Donald Eccles, Noel Hood, Brian Wilde, Cyril Luckham, Harry Gwyn-Davies; dir:John Fernald [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: THE STEP FORWARD - Anne Trego (Golder's Green Hippodrome ) Sheila Keith, Frances Hyland, Alexis France, Guy Rolfe, Gillian Lind, Derek Farr [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: RED LETTER DAY (Garrick) Fay Compton, Jimmy Verner, Hugh Williams, Mary Marvin, June Thorburn, Terence Longdon, Nora Swinburne, Dorothy Dickson, Donald Sinden [8pp; photo of Miss Compton; minor marks, else VG] £3

1952: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and THE PRINCESS AND THE SWINEHERD - Nicholas Stuart Gray (Mercury) Flyer Carol Marsh, Tony Britton, Marianne Hamilton, Diane Cilento, Zoe Randall, Ruth Atkinson, Julie Somers, Nicholas Gray, Cecil Trouncer, Jane Griffiths, Shaun O'Riordan, Rosemary Wallace, Elizabeth Regan, Donald Finlay, Christine Finn, Hugh Pryse [4pp; schedule of performances, letter to children from "Mikey"; minor marks, else VG; uncommon] £2

1952: WILD HORSES (Aldwych) Robertson Hare, Ralph Lynn, Constance Lorne, Colin Douglas [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1952: AFFAIRS OF STATE - Louis Verneuil (Cambridge) Coral Browne, Wilfred Hyde White, Hugh Williams, Joyce Redman, Austin Trevor [8pp; photographic cover; VG] £3

1952: MARIA MARTEN - The Hon. ????? (Arts Theatre) Mark Dignam, Andrew Downie, William Dickie; dir:Clunes; music:Donald Swann [4pp; "period" programme; slightly tatty but attractive] £2

Plays: 1953

1953-54: L'ALOUETTE - Anouilh (Theatre Montparnasse Gaston Baty) Suzanne Flon, Michel Bouquet, Michel Etcheverry, Maurice Jacquemont, Marcel Peres, Claude Richard, Henry Grange [48pp, 4.75x6.25; 19 cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1953: FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE... - Arthur Watkyn (Comedy) Geraldine McEwan, Leslie Phillips; dir:John Counsell [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1953: THE BIG KNIFE - Clifford Odets (Westminster) John Harrison, Sam Wanamaker, Renee Asherson, Frederick Valk, George Coulouris, Heather Stannard, Joseph O'Conor, Diane Cilento [8pp; photo of Miss Asherson; minor marks, else VG] £3

1953: THE MOON IS BLUE (Duke of York's) Diana Lynn, Robert Flemyng, Biff McGuire [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1953: RED HEADED BLONDE - Val Guest (Vaudeville) Arthur Lovegrove, Jerry Desmonde, Naunton Wayne, Yolande Donlan, Lionel Blair, Margot Lister [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1953: BIRTHDAY HONOURS (Criterion) Marian Spencer, Hugh Latimer, Moira Lister; dir:Nigel Patrick [8pp; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £2

1953: RAIN (Embassy) Phyllis Montefiore, Ronald Wilson, Deryck Barnes, Robert Ayres, Alastair Hunter, Marjory Hawtrey, Miriam Karlin [8pp; small tear in cover, minor marks, else VG] £1

1953: PYGMALION (St.James's) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Nicholas Hannen, Phyllis Relph, Athene Seyler [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1953: MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Library Theatre, Manchester) John Brooking, Ralph Nossek, John Saunders, Michael Robbins, Diane Cilento, Peter Lambert, Frederick Bartman, Alec Gunn, Colin Trevor; dir:Stuart Latham [16pp; VVG] £3

1953: STARCHED APRONS (Embassy) Paula Byrne, Renee Goddard, Miriam Karlin, Diana Calderwood, Freda Jackson, Alfie Bass, Dennis Ramsden [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1953 (Summer): THE MOUSETRAP - Agatha Christie (Ambassadors) Richard Attenborough, Jean Harvey [8pp] £2

1953 (Nov): THE PRIVATE LIFE OF HELEN - Erskine/Roussin/Gray/Macrae (Globe) Diana Wynyard, Cecil Parker, Arthur Macrae, Janette Scott, Thelma Holt [8pp] £2

1953 (Jan): ESCAPADE - Roger MacDougall (St.James's) Phyllis Calvert, Michael Aldridge, Nigel Patrick, Ernest Clark, Alec McCowen, Hugh Griffith [4pp; tatty] £1

1953: ESCAPADE - Roger MacDougall (Strand) Phyllis Calvert, Michael Aldridge, Nigel Patrick, Ernest Clark, Alec McCowen, Hugh Griffith [8pp; VG] £2

1953: ESCAPADE - Roger MacDougall (Strand) Patricia Marmont, Michael Aldridge, Nigel Patrick, Ernest Clark, Alec McCowen, Hugh Griffith [12pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1953: ESCAPADE - Roger MacDougall (Strand) Patricia Marmont, Michael Aldridge, Nigel Patrick, Ernest Clark Alec McCowen, Cameron Hall [12pp; VG] £2

1953: DEAR CHARLES - Melville/Sauvajon/Jackson (New) Yvonne Arnaud [8pp] £2

1953: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION - Agatha Christie (Winter Garden) Patricia Jessell, David Horne, Derek Blomfield [8pp; 4 photos] £3

1953: THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK - T.S.Eliot (Lyric) Margaret Leighton, Isabel Jeans, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb, Denholm Elliott, Peter Jones [8pp] £2

1953: AS LONG AS THEY'RE HAPPY - Sylvaine (Garrick) Jack Buchanan, Dorothy Dickson, David Hutcheson [8pp; marks on cover] £1

1953: THE RETURN - Boland (Duchess) Flora Robson [8pp; VG] £2

1953: AFFAIRS OF STATE - Verneuil (Cambridge) Coral Browne, Hugh Williams, Joyce Redman, Austin Trevor [12pp; 12 photos; tiny edge tear, else VG] £3

1953: CARRINGTON, V.C. - Christie (Westminster Theatre) Alec Clunes, John Wood, John Garside, Allan Cuthbertson, Lionel Jeffries, Rachel Gurney; dir:Michael MacOwan [8pp, 5.3x8.6; cast biographies, photo; VG] £3

1953: THIS OTHER EDEN - D'Alton (Queen's Theatre, Dublin) Seathrun O Goilf, Micheal O Briain, Harry Brogan, Christopher Casson; dir:Ria Mooney [8pp; very light folds, else VG] £2

Plays: 1954

1954: THE PARTY SPIRIT (Piccadilly) Robertson Hare, Ralph Lynn, Vera Pearce, Margot Lister, Frank Thornton, Constance Lorne; dir:Charles Hickman [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1954: ALL FOR MARY (Duke of York's) David Tomlinson, Ferdy Mayne, Kathleen Harrison, Betty Paul, Michael Shepley, Neil Hallett [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1954: THE LITTLE GLASS CLOCK (Aldwych) Kay Hammond, John Clements, George Relph, Basil Sydney, George Curzon [8pp; date on cover, light fold, minor marks, else VG] £2

1954: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR- Pirandello (Arts Theatre Club) Dudley Foster, Edward Hardwicke, Reginald Tate, Ralph Michael, Marda Vanne, Mary Morris; dir:Royston Morley [8pp, 6x5; Arts Theatre production] £2

1954: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR - Pirandello (St.James's) Dudley Foster, Edward Hardwicke, Reginald Tate, Ralph Michael, Marda Vanne, Mary Morris; dir:Royston Morley [4pp; Arts Theatre production] £2

1954: THE CONFIDENTIAL CLERK - T.S.Eliot (Lyric) Margaret Leighton, Isabel Jeans, Paul Rogers, Alan Webb, Denholm Elliott, Peter Jones [8pp] £2

1954: ACCOUNTING FOR LOVE - de Flers/Caillvet/Rey (Saville) Per Aabel, Leslie Phillips, Mary Clare [8pp; photo] £1

1954: THE IMMORALIST - Gide (Arts Theatre Club) Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Gough, George Howe, Wolfe Morris; dir:Peter Hall [8pp] £2

1954: HIPPO DANCING - Morley (Lyric) Robert Morley, Zena Howard, Wilfred Hyde White, Mona Washbourne; dir:Peter Ashmore [8pp; photo; VG] £3

1954: SEPARATE TABLES - Rattigan (St.James's) Eric Portman, Margaret Leighton, Phyllis Neilson-Terry, Basil Henson; dir:Peter Glenville [8pp; 2 photos; light horizontal fold, VG] £3

1954: THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON - Patrick (Her Majesty's) Eli Wallach, William Sylvester, Marlene; dir:Robert Lewis [8pp; VG] £4

1954: THE MATCHMAKER - Thornton Wilder (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Ruth Gordon, Sam Levene, Prunella Scales, Alec McCowen, Eileen Herlie; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [4pp] £2

1954: CARRINGTON, V.C. (Playhouse, Hulme) Robert Eddison, Roland Curram, Peter Barker, Joy Wood [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1954: THE LITTLE HUT (Opera House, Manchester) Hugh Sinclair, Diane Hart, Peter Gray, James Coats, Leslie Le Roy; dir:Peter Brook, decor: Oliver Messel [12pp, 5.75x9; tatty] £1

1954: ANGELS IN LOVE (Opera House, Manchester) Barbara Kelly, Christopher Morahan, Heather Stannard, Kynaston Reeves, Miles Rudge; dir:Bernard Braden [12pp, 5.75x9; minor marks, else VG] £2

1954 (Jun): PYGMALION - Bernard Shaw (Theatre Royal, York) York Repertory Company: Adrian Cairns, Pauline Letts, John Harrison, Jeffery Dench, Arthur Rees, June Dawes, Lester Barrett, Margaret Clifton; dir:Geoffrey Staines [4pp; cast list, notes, ticket prices etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

Plays: 1955

1955: LES OEUFS DE L'AUTRUCHE - Roussin, LES GRANDS GARCONS - Geraldy (Theatre de la Michodiere) Pierre Fresnay, Jean-Henri Chambois, Marguerite Cavadaski, Alain Quercy [36pp, 4.75x6; portraits of Yvonne Printemps, Paul Geraldy, Andre Roussin, Pierre Fresnay and 8 cast members, articles etc.; VG] £4

1955: THE WORLD OF SHOLOM ALEICHEM (Embassy) David Kossof, Alfie Bass, Miriam Karlin, Tutte Lemkow, Mark Dignam; dir:Sam Wanamaker [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1955: THE HEARTLESS PRINCESS - Frederick Bartman (Library Theatre, Manchester) Robert Stephens, Shirley Jacobs, Keith Anderson, John Franklyn Robbins, Margaret Clifton; dir:David Scase [12pp; very light fold, minor marks, else VG] £3

1955: THE SIGN OF THE CROSS, ONLY MUGS CARRY GUNS and EAST LYNNE (Palace Theatre , Chelsea) J. Grant Anderson, Heather Canning, Mark Kingston [8pp; minor marks, else VG; most uncommon] £2

1955: SUMMERTIME - Ugo Betti (Streatham Hill Theatre) Geraldine McEwan, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Esma Cannon, Dirk Bogarde, Tony Church, Michael Gwynn; dir:Peter Hall [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1955: THE LARK - Jean Anouilh (Lyric Hammersmith) Dorothy Tutin, Richard Johnson, Laurence Naismith, Leo McKern, Donald Pleasence, Peter Cellier, George Murcell; dir:Peter Brook [8pp; minor marks, somewhat tatty] £2

1955 (Summer): THE MOUSETRAP - Agatha Christie (Ambassadors) Patric Doonan, Heather Stannard [12pp] £2

1955: SEPARATE TABLES - Rattigan (St.James's) Margaret Leighton, Eric Portman, Phyllis Neilson-Terry [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1955: LUCKY STRIKE - Brett (Apollo) Ambrosine Phillpotts, Arthur Lovegrove [8pp] £2

1955: THE COUNT OF CLERAMBARD - Ayme/Denny (Garrick) Alec McCowen, Helen Haye, Clive Brook, Mai Zetterling [8pp] £2

1955: THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON - Patrick/Sneider (Her Majesty's) Dickie Henderson, William Sylvester, John Bushelle, Lionel Murton, Gaylord Cavallaro [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1955: THE RELUCTANT DEBUTANTE - Douglas Home (Cambridge) Wilfred Hyde White, Anna Massey [4pp] £2

1955: KOMUSO - Robert Nichols (Arts Theatre) Marie Burke, Honor Blackman, Peter Copley, Michael Warre, Paul Eddington; dir:Guy Verney [8pp, 5x7.5; cast, credits, Nichols obituary etc.; VG] £4

1955: A KIND OF FOLLY (Duchess) Flora Robson, Wilfrid Hyde White, Jean Kent, Sylvia Sims [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1955: THE SHADOW OF DOUBT (Saville) John Clements, Jane Baxter, Eileen Way, Raymond Huntley, Anne Leon [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1955: THE WHOLE TRUTH (Aldwych) Leslie Philips, Ernest Clark, Faith Brook, Edward Jewesbury, Ellen Blueth [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £1

1955: THE QUEEN AND THE REBELS - Ugo Betti (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Irene Worth, Leo McKern, Patrick Magee, Gwendoline Watford, John Nettleton, Jack Good, Patricia Kneale; dir:Frank Hauser [4pp; light fold, else VG] £2

1955: DEAD ON NINE - Popplewell (Westminster) Andrew Cruickshank, Griffith Jones, Hy Hazell [8pp; slightly rumpled] £1

1955: THE MAN OUTSIDE [Draussen vor der Tur] - Wolfgang Borchert (New Gateway Theatre) Hugh Dickson, Gwenda Williams, Colin Vancao, Dorothy White, George Wood, Henry Milton, Bernadette Canty, Susan Price, Alan Wallace, William Driver, Ann Gordon, Whalley Vowe, Ian Calder; dir:Robert Peake, music:Samuel Akpabot [4pp; A play which no theatre will produce, and no public will want to see... First stage production in England; minor marks, else VG; most uncommon] £4

1955: A LIFE IN THE SUN - Thornton Wilder (Assembly Hall, Edinburgh) Irene Worth, Robert Hardy, Peter Bayliss, Michael Bates, Robert Speaight, Michael David, John Kidd, Geoffrey Dunn, Rupert Davies; dir:Tyrone Guthrie [8pp; minor fold marks, else VG; uncommon] £4

Plays: 1956

1956: LOOK BACK IN ANGER - John Osborne (Royal Court) World Premiere English Stage Company: Kenneth Haigh, Alan Bates, Mary Ure, Helena Hughes, John Welsh; dir:Tony Richardson [12pp, 4.75x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; date written on cover, horizontal fold, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1956: SAILOR BEWARE! - King/Cary (Strand) Peggy Mount [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1956: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE (Winter Garden)
Tyrone Power, Zena Walker, Noel Willman [8pp; photo] £5

1956: A LIKELY TALE (Globe) Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Violet Farebrother, Judy Parfitt, Richard Pearson; dir:Peter Ashmore [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1956: THE CHILDREN'S HOUR - Lillian Hellman (Arts Theatre Club) Clare Austin, Margot Van der Burgh, Patricia Healey [8pp; w.two newsclipping reviews and ticket tipped in; minor marks, else VG] £3

1956: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (Library Theatre, Manchester) Rosalie Williams, John Franklyn Robbins, Marah Stohl; dir:David Scase [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1956: MORNING'S AT SEVEN (Golders Green Hippodrome) Frederick Leister, Mona Washbourne, Marda Vanne, Peter Jones, Nan Munro, Charles Heslop [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1956: SUMMERTIME (Apollo) Geraldine McEwan, Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Esma Cannon, Dirk Bogarde, Tony Church, Michael Gwynn, Mark Dignam, Ronald Barker; dir:Peter Hall [8pp; w.ticket (3 Jan 1956); minor marks, else VG] £4

1956: THE WALTZ OF THE TOREADORS - Anouilh (Criterion) Hugh Griffith, Beatrix Lehmann, Walter Hudd, Trader Faulkner, Brenda Bruce, Gabrielle Daye; dir:Peter Hall [8pp] £2

1956: A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE - Miller (Comedy) Anthony Quayle, Mary Ure, Ian Bannen, Megs Jenkins, Michael Gwynn, Richard Harris, Brian Bedford; dir:Peter Brook [12pp; VG] £3

1956: THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE - Mills (Duke of York's) Flora Robson, Andrew Cruickshank, Sylvia Coleridge [8pp] £2

1956: WHO CARES? - Lehman (Fortune) Alec Clunes, Denholm Elliott [4pp] £1

1956: THE RAINMAKER - Nash (St.Martin's) Wilfred Lawson, Geraldine Page, Sam Wanamaker; dir:Wanamaker+Minster [8pp] £2

1956: ROMANOFF AND JULIET - Ustinov (Piccadilly) Peter Ustinov, Frederick Valk [8pp] £2

1956: ROMANOFF AND JULIET - Ustinov (Piccadilly) Peter Ustinov, Eric Porter [8pp] £2

1956: LA CUISINE DES ANGES - Husson (Theatre de la Potiniere) Jacques Meyran, Jean-Paul Coquelin, Bernard Andrieu; dir:Christian-Gerard [28pp, 4.75x6; 10+ cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1956: HISTOIRE DE RIRE - Salacrou (Theatre Saint-Georges) Daniele Delorme, Paul Bernard, Yves Robert, Marie Daems; dir:Jean Meyer [pp, 5.4x7; 7 cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1956-57: REQUIEM POUR UNE NONNE - William Faulkner/Camus (Theatre Marcel Herrand) Catherine Sellers, Michel Auclair; dir:Albert Camus [44pp, 5.25x7; 8 cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1956: THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE - Shaw (Winter Garden) Tyrone Power, Zena Walker, Noel Willman; dir:Noel Willman [8pp; VG] £4

1956: PLAINTIFF IN A PRETTY HAT - Williams (St.Martin's) Hugh Williams, Andree Melly, Moray Watson; dir:Jack Minster [8pp; VG] £2

1956: PORT-ROYAL - de Montherlant (La Comedie Francaise, Salle Luxembourg) Aime Clariond, Renee Faure, Louise Conte, Annie Ducaux; dir:Jean Meyer [44pp, 5.4x8; illustrated history of the Comedie Francaise, 7 cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1956: NIGHT OF THE FOURTH - Jack Roffey, Gordon Harbord [from 'Sprechstunde' by H.Bratt] (Westminster) Hugh Sinclair, Michael Shepley, Meier Tzelniker, Peter Vaughan, Isabel Dean, Philip Morant; dir:Jevan Brandon-Thomas [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1956: THE MAIDS - Genet, and THREE MEN AND A CHAIR - Tardieu (New Lindsey Theatre Club) Tutte Lemkow, Aubrey Woods, Selma Vaz Dias, Hazel Penwarden, Betty Stockfield; dir:Peter Zadek [4pp] £1

1956: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF [as 'La chatte sur un toit brulant'] (Theatre Antoine, Paris) Jeanne Moreau, Paul Guers, Antoine Balpetre, Georges Sellier, Monique Melinand, Maurice Dorleac; dir:Peter Brook [48pp, 5.25x8.25; 10 cast photos; feature on the career of Jeanne Moreau (w.8 photos); articles (in French) on Le Theatre Antoine, and Tennessee Williams; minor marks, else VG; very smart programme] £5

1956 (Jul 9): THE MIDDLE WATCH (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre) Leonard Rossiter, Terence Lodge, Michael Anderson, Sonia Graham, Anne Jameson, Tony Steedman [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1956 (Jul 23): LATE LOVE (Wolverhampton Grand Theatre) John Myers, Tony Steedman, Michael Anderson, Anne Jameson, Sonia Graham, Beryl Johnstone [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1956: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA (Saville) Paul Daneman, Ann Todd, Anthony Ireland, Leo Bieber, Lewis Casson, Laurence Hardy, Michael Hordern; dir:Julian Amyes [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1956: THE CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL - Herman Wouk (London Hippodrome) Lloyd Nolan, David Knight, Nigel Stock, Robert Hardy, Esmond Knight, Alec McCowen; dir:Lloyd Nolan [12pp; 4 photos; w.review tipped in; signed on cover by Robert Hardy; slightly grubby, minor marks, else VG] £4

1956: OCCUPE-TOI D'AMELIE - Feydeau (Palace) Madeleine Renaud, Jean-Louis Barrault [14pp; 6.8x9.75; photographic cover] £4

1956: OSCAR WILDE Leslie and Sewell Stokes (Gate Theatre Studio) Robert Morley, John Bryning, Frith Banbury, Reginald Beckwith, Andrew Cruickshank, Harry Hutchinson; dir:Norman Marshall [4pp, 7.4x11; small repaired edge tears, slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

Plays: 1957

1957: PLAINTIFF IN A PRETTY HAT - Williams (St.Martin's) Hugh Williams, Andree Melly, Moray Watson; dir:Jack Minster [8pp; VG] £2

1957: ROAR LIKE A DOVE (Phoenix) John McCallum, Anthony Ireland, Paul McGrath, Evelyn Varden, Anne Kimbell, Ewan Roberts, Peter Barkworth, Shirley Joy [8pp; cast biographies; minor marks, else VG] £2

1957: PADDLE YOUR OWN CANOE (Criterion) Peter Vaughan, Violet Farebrother, Newton Blick, Moira Lister, Roy Purcell, Nigel Stock; dir:Eleanor Fazan [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1957: NO LAUGHING MATTER - Salacrou (Arts Theatre Club) Alec McCowen, Brenda Bruce, Paul Daneman, Faith Brook; dir:Peter Wood [8pp; slight marks] £2

1957: SUMMER OF THE SEVENTEENTH DOLL - Lawler (New) Madge Ryan, Ray Lawler [12pp] £2

1957: THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK - Goodrich/Hackett (Phoenix) Perlita Neilson, Miriam Karlin, Max Bacon [8pp] £2

1957: THE TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN - Tom Taylor (Arts Theatre Club) George Coulouris; dir:Walter Hudd [8pp] £2

1957: THE RAPE OF THE BELT - Levy (Piccadilly) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Veronica Turleigh, Jimmy Thompson, Nicholas Hannen, Constance Cummings; dir:John Clements [12pp; 5 photos; VG] £3

1957: THE RAPE OF THE BELT - Levy (Piccadilly) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Veronica Turleigh, Richard Attenborough, Nicholas Hannen, Constance Cummings; dir:John Clements [8pp; VG] £2

1957: PAUVRE BITOS - Anouilh (Theatre Montparnasse Gaston Baty) Michel Bouquet, Jean Martinelli, Pierre Mondy, Roland Pietri, Bruno Cremer, Gabriel Gobin, Jean Lagache, Claude Richard, Christian Lude, Anne Guerini, Genevieve Brunet [44pp, 5.25x7; 12+ cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1957: L'OEUF - Marceau (Theatre de l'Atelier) Felicien Marceau, Jacques Duby; dir:Andre Barsacq [28pp, 5.25x7; 2 set designs, 16 cast photos, articles etc.; VG] £4

1957: CAMINO REAL - Tennessee Williams (Phoenix) John Wood (as Don Quixote), Ronald Barker (as Sancho Panza), Hazel Hughes (as Prudence, an old bawd), Harry Andrews (as Casanova), Eileen Way, Freda Jackson, James Bree, Denholm Elliott, Gordon Gostelow, Elizabeth Seal (as Esmeralda), Lally Bowers, Diana Wynyard (as Marguerite Gautier), Robert Hardy (as Byron); dir:Peter Hall [8pp; VG] £5

1957: A HATFUL OF RAIN - Gazzo (Princes) Bonar Colleano, Sally Ann Howes, Sam Wanamaker, Bernard Bresslaw; dir:Wanamaker [12pp; VG] £2

1957: BELL BOOK AND CANDLE (Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton) Barbara Mitchell, Nicholas Selby, Beryl Johnstone, Michael Lomax, John Myers [12pp, 5.5x8.5; minor marks, else VG] £2

1957: THE EGG - Felicien Marceau (Saville) Nigel Patrick, Jack Allen, Miriam Karlin, Austin Trevor, Nigel Green [12pp, 5.5x8.75; minor marks, else VG] £2

1957: THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE (Cambridge) Robert Beatty, Maureen Swanson, Heather Thatcher, Daniel Massey, Leo Maguire; dir:Wallace Douglas [12pp, 6.8x9.25; 9 production photos; somewhat rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £3

1957: THE IRON DUCHESS - William Douglas Home (Cambridge) Athene Seyler, Ronald Squire, Richard Pearson, Jane Downs, William Mervyn, Geoffrey Lumsden [12pp, 6.8x9.25; 3 large production photos; very slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £4

Plays: 1958

1958: THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Tennessee Williams (Theatre Royal, Stratford) Joan Littlewood, Olive McFarland, Robin Chapman, Glynn Edwards; dir:Clifford Williams, sets:John Bury, stage management:Charles Wood [8pp, 5x7.4; cast list, author's production notes, credits; light vertical bend, else VG; uncommon] £4

1958: THE BRASS BUTTERFLY - William Golding (Strand) Alastair Sim, George Cole, Jack Hedley, George Selway, Eileen Moore; dir:Alastair Sim [12pp, 4.9x7.25; cast biographies; date written on cover, else VG] £2

1958: THE RAPE OF THE BELT - Levy (Piccadilly) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Veronica Turleigh, Richard Attenborough, Nicholas Hannen, Constance Cummings, Judith Furse; dir:John Clements [8pp; VG] £2

1958: SPEAKING OF MURDER (St.Martin's) Maxine Audley, Robert Urquhart, Joyce Carey, Jan Holden, James Ray [12pp; 10 biographies w.photos; minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: DRY ROT (Ipswich Theatre) Judith Fisher, John Rye, Brian Hawksley; dir:Jack Payne [12pp; rusty staples, minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER and SOMETHING UNSPOKEN as 'GARDEN DISTRICT' - Tennessee Williams (Arts Theatre Club) Beatrix Lehmann, Beryl Measor, David Cameron, Philip Bond; dir:Herbert Machiz, incidental music by Ned Rorem [12pp; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: NOT IN THE BOOK (Criterion) Wilfred Hyde White, Avice Landon, Sydney Tafler, Charles Heslop, Philip Guard, Martin Wyldeck [16pp; 4 photos; minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: THE HOSTAGE (Theatre Royal, Stratford East) Theatre Workshop: Howard Goorney, Avis Bunnage, Glynn Edwards, Dudley Sutton, Murray Melvin, James Booth, Clive Barker; dir:Joan Littlewood, sets:Sean Kenny, built by John Bury [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £4

1958: HOT SUMMER NIGHT - Ted Willis (New) John Slater, Joan Miller, Andree Melly, Harold Scott, Lloyd Reckford; dir:Peter Cotes [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: DRY ROT (Guildford Theatre) Colin Rix, Clive Goodwin, Geoffrey Wearing, Christopher Guinee, Edward Kelsey [8pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1958: ONE BRIGHT DAY (Apollo) Clive Brook, Renee Asherson, Naunton Wayne, Tony Church, Milton Rosmer, Derek Farr, Margot Boyd, Gerald Case [8pp; small bite out of back cover, minor marks, else VG] £1

1958: THE ICEMAN COMETH - Eugene O'Neill (Arts Theatre Club) Ian Bannen, Lee Montague, Patrick Magee, Tony Church, Michael Bryant, Jack MacGowran, Vivian Matalon, Toby Robertson, Prunella Scales, Margaret Whiting; dir:Peter Wood [4pp; very rumpled] £2

1958: CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF- Tennessee Williams (Comedy) Kim Stanley, Paul Massie, Leo McKern; dir:Peter Hall [12pp, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1958: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT - O'Neill (Globe) Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Anthony Quayle, Alan Bates, Ian Bannen [12pp; 2 photos] £4

1958: PACIFIC PARADISE - Dymphna Cusack (Colchester Repertory Theatre) Frank Woodfield, Arthur Cox, Heather Canning, Pamela Coles, Richard Wilding; dir:Bernard Kelly [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £2

1958 (May): THE TIME OF THE CUCKOO (Liverpool Playhouse) John Stride, Thelma Barlow, Caroline Blakiston, Irene Sutcliffe, Trevor Baxter, Valerie Miller, Nicholas Hawtrey; dir:Willard Stoker [12pp; minor marks, else VG] £3

1958: NO CONCERN OF MINE - Jeremy Kingston (Westminster) Alan Dobie, John Fraser, Judith Stott, Lally Bowers; dir:Adrian Brown [8pp; signed by Alan Dobie and John Fraser; minor marks, else VG] £3

1958: THE ELDER STATESMAN - T.S.Eliot (Cambridge) Paul Rogers, Anna Massey, William Squire, Eileen Peel, Richard Gale, Alec McCowen; dir:E.Martin Browne [12pp, 7x9.25; biographies, 4 photos; minor marks incl.date on cover, else VVG] £4

1958: BREATH OF SPRING (Cambridge) Athene Seyler, Michael Shepley, Mary Merrall, Joan Sims, Elspeth Duxbury, Hazel Hughes [12pp, 7x9.25; biographies, 6 photos; minor marks, else VG] £4

Plays: 1959

1959 (Feb): LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT - Eugene O'Neill (Norfolk Playhouse, Norwich) Norwich Repertory Company: Anew McMaster, Diana Lincoln, Barry J. Gordon, Roger Rowland, Ann Saker; dir:Anew McMaster [8pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, seat prices; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1959 (Jan): PRINCE GENJI - William Cooper (Oxford Playhouse) Meadow Players: Edmund Bailey, Christopher Hancock, Gawn Grainger, Charles Laurence, David Buck, David Cameron, Michael David, Graham Saunders, Michael Tubb, Natasha Parry, Gwen Nelson, Michael Simpson, Don Taylor, Julian Somers, Noel Dyson, Dione Ewin, Maroussia Frank, Ruth Meyers; dir:Frank Hauser [16pp, 5.5x8.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, credits; staples slightly rusty, else VG] £4

1959: BECKET, or L'Honneur de Dieu (Theatre Montparnasse Gaston Baty, Paris) Daniel Ivernel, Bruno Cremer and large cast; dir:Jean Anouilh and Roland Pietri, des:Jean-Denis Malcles [48pp, 5.25x7; 25+ photos of Jean Anouilh, Gaston Baty, Marguerite Jamois, and company members; articles by Jean Cocteau and Jean Anouilh; minor marks, else VG] £4

1959: GILT AND GINGERBREAD (Duke of York's) John Clements, Kay Hammond, Hugh Sinclair, Eileen Peel, Walter Fitzgerald, Richard Briers; dir:Harold French [8pp; minor marks, slightly folded, else VG] £2

1959: A RAISIN' IN THE SUN - Lorraine Hansberry (Adelphi) Juanita Moore, Earle Hyman, Kim Hamilton, Olga James, Scott Cunningham, Meredith Edwards; dir:Lloyd Richards [16pp; 4 production photos, 6 biographies w.photos; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else else VG] £4

1959: ROOTS - Arnold Wesker (Duke of York's) English Stage Company/Coventry Belgrade Theatre production: Joan Plowright, Patsy Byrne, Charles Kay, Patrick O'Connell, Gwen Nelson, Alan Howard, Brenda Peters; dir:John Dexter [8pp; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1959: ULYSSES IN NIGHTTOWN - James Joyce (Arts Theatre Club) Zero Mostel, Alan Badel [8pp] £3

1959: THE HOSTAGE - Behan (Wyndham's) Howard Goorney, Eileen Kennally, Glynn Edwards, Yootha Joyce, Alfred Lynch, Dudley Sutton; dir:Joan Littlewood [16pp; photos] £3

1959: TREASURE ISLAND - Stevenson (Mermaid) Bernard Miles [32pp; cast photos, interesting articles] £3

1959: THE ROUGH AND READY LOT - Alun Owen (Lyric Hammersmith) Jack MacGowran, Patrick Allen, Ronald Harwood, June Brown, Alan Dobie, Rupert Davies; dir:Caspar Wrede [16pp; extensive biographies and notes; VG] £3

1959: MAN ON TRIAL - Diego Fabbri (Lyric Hammersmith) David Kossoff, Margaret Tyzack, Ronald Harwood, Fulton Mackay, Anthony Newlands, Bernard Kay, Richard Gale, Jean Cadell; dir:Chloe Gibson [20pp; extensive biographies and notes; VG] £2

1959 (Jan): THE SINGING DOLPHIN - Beverley Cross (Oxford Playhouse) Charles Laurence, David Buck, Ruth Meyers, David Cameron, Edmund Bailey, Gilbert Vernon, Christopher Hancock, Stephen Hancock; dir:David Buxton [16pp; minor scribbles on cover, minor marks, else VG] £3

1959: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Queen's Theatre, Dublin) Abbey Theatre Production: Pilib O Floinn (Philip O Flynn), Ria Mooney, Tomas P. Mac Cionaith (T.P.McKenna), Uinsionn O Dubhlainn (Vincent Dowling), Caitlin Ni Bhearain; dir:Frank Dermody [12pp; "First Irish Production"; 21 company photos; two folds, else VG] £3

1959 (23 Mch): SUBWAY IN THE SKY - Ian Main (Northampton Repertory Theatre) Dorothy Wheatley, Zoe Hicks, Matthew Vaughan, Nicholas Courtney; dir:Lionel Hamilton [8pp, 5.5x8.6; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £1

1959 (8 Jun): LITTLE LAMBS EAT IVY - Noel Langley (Northampton Repertory Theatre) Dorothy Wheatley, Nicholas Courtney, Phyllis Montefiore, Philip Lowrie, Michael Rothwell, Peter Wyatt, Ken Macdonald [8pp, 5.5x8.6; minor marks, very light creases, else VG] £1

1959: I RISE IN FLAME, CRIED THE PHOENIX - Tennessee Williams (ANTA Assembly) Alfred Ryder, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary Harris [4pp; w.history of the ABTA Matinee Theatre Series] £1

1959: THE WORLD OF SUSIE WONG - Osborn (Prince of Wales) Tsai Chin, Gary Raymond; dir:Peter Coe [12pp, 6.5x8.75; 3 photos; VG] £4

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