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Plays: 1970
1970: THE APPLE CART (Mermaid) Carmen Munroe, John Neville, Ken Parry, Ian Lavender, Maurice Denham, Gillian Raine [28pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £3
1970: EXILES - James Joyce (Mermaid) John Wood, Vivien Merchant, David Parfitt, Timothy West, Lynn Farleigh; dir:Harold Pinter [16pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4
1970: THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET - Besier (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Ronald Adam, Elizabeth Bell; dir:Philip Dudley [16pp; cast photos, notes; light vertical bend, else VG] £3
1970: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD - Stoppard (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) James Hazeldine, Keith Drinkel, Gordon Gostelow; dir:Michael Simpson [16pp; photos; light vertical bend, else VG] £3
1970: THE DANDY DOLLS - Fitzmaurice, and THE WELL OF THE SAINTS - Synge (Old Vic) Eamonn Keane, Joan O'Hara, John Kavanagh, Pat Layde, Eamon Kelly, Maire Ni Dhomhnail; dir:Hugh Hunt [8pp; under the auspices of the National Theatre; minor marks, else VG] £2
1970: LULU - Wedekind/Barnes (Apollo) Julia Foster, Douglas Wilmer, Michael Byrne, Jonathan Cecil, John Grillo, Sheila Ballantine, Marshall Jones, Leonard Kavanagh; dir:Peter Barnes and Stuart Burge [24pp, 5.75x9; photos, articles; VG] £4
1970: VIVAT! VIVAT REGINA! - Bolt (Piccadilly) Sarah Miles, Eileen Atkins, Richard Pearson [24pp; photos] £3
1970: THE TWO OF US - Frayn (Garrick) Richard Briers, Lynn Redgrave; dir:Mark Cullingham [16pp; biographies, photos etc.; minor mark on cover, light vertical crease, else VG] £2
1970: SLEUTH (St.Martin's) Anthony Quayle, Keith Baxter [16pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £4
1970: POOR HORACE - Fairchild (Lyric) John Woodvine, John Barron, Richard Heffer, Colin Farrell, Ian Pigot, Roger Hammond [24pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1970: COME AS YOU ARE - John Mortimer (Strand) Glynis Johns, Denholm Elliott, Joss Ackland, Celia Bannerman [24pp; cast photos; light vertical bend, else VG] £3
1970: IT'S A TWO-FOOT-SIX-INCHES ABOVE-THE-GROUND WORLD (Wyndham's) Prunella Scales, Stephen Moore, Angharad Rees, Christopher Hancock, Antony Webb, Ralph Arliss [24pp; cast photos; VG] £4
1970: FLINT (Criterion) Michael Hordern, Vivien Merchant, Moira Redmond, Julia Foster, James Grout [28pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1970: LADY FREDERICK - Somerset Maugham (Duke of York's) Margaret Lockwood, Tony Britton, Raymond Francis, Heather Chasen, Dermot Walsh [16pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1970: UBU - Jarry, ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM, CINQUE - Leonard Melfi, and RATS MASS - Adrienne Kennedy (Royal Court) Cafe La Mama Company: Lou Zeldis, Sabin Epstein, Michele Collison, Arthur Hill, William Griffin Duffy, Lamar Alford; dir:Andres Sherban and Ching Yeh [20pp; photos; VG] £4
1970: GIRLFRIEND (Apollo) Margaret Leighton, John Standing, Alan MacNaughtan, Michel Des Barres [24pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1970: THE HAPPY APPLE - Pulman (Apollo) Paul Rogers, Pauline Collins, John Normington, James Villiers [24pp; photos; light vertical bend, else VG] £2
1970: HOW THE OTHER HALF LOVES - Alan Ayckbourn (Lyric) Robert Morley, Joan Tetzel, Heather Sears, Donald Burton [24pp; photos] £2
1970: THREE MONTHS GONE - Howarth (Duchess) Jill Bennett, Diana Dors, Alan Lake, Richard O'Callaghan; dir:Ronald Eyre [24pp; cast photos; light vertical bend, else ] £4
1970: ABELARD AND HELOISE - Ronald Millar (Wyndham's) Diana Rigg, Keith Michell, Timothy West, Elspeth March, David Robb, Terence Wilton, Rosalind Atkinson; dir:Robin Phillips [28pp, 6x9; cast, credits, biographies w.photos etc.; VG] £4
1970: BLITHE SPIRIT- Coward (Globe) Phyllis Calvert, Patrick Cargill, Amanda Reiss, Beryl Reid [24pp; photos] (£4) SOLD
1970: CANCER - Michael Weller (Royal Court) Martin Shaw, Al Mancini, Seth Allen, Karen Ludwig, Richard Portnow, Chris Malcolm, David Healy; dir:Roger Hendricks Simon [24pp; World Premiere production; photos, biographies; VG] (£4) SOLD
1970: LULU - Wedekind/Barnes (Royal Court) Julia Foster, John Phillips, Michael Byrne, Edward Petherbridge, John Justin, Sheila Ballantine, John Turner, Leonard Kavanagh; dir:Peter Barnes and Stuart Burge [24pp; photos, articles; light horizontal bend, else VG] (£3) SOLD
1970: THE PHILANTHROPIST - Hampton (Royal Court) Alec McCowen, Dinsdale Landen, David Ashton, Jane Asher, Charles Gray, Penelope Wilton, Tamara Ustinov; dir:Kidd [24pp; 5.25x9; photos; lightly creased] (£4) SOLD
1970: THE PHILANTHROPIST - Hampton (May Fair) George Cole, Edward de Souza, Andrew Neil, Annabel Leventon, William Job, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Elisabeth Sladen; dir:Kidd [12pp; 5.25x9; photos; lightly creased] (£2) SOLD
1970: THE FRIENDS - Wesker (The Roundhouse) John Bluthal, Anna Cropper, Susan Engel, Lynn Farleigh, Victor Henry, Ian Holm, Roy Marsden; dir:Arnold Wesker, des:Nicholas Georgiadis [8pp; VG] (£2) SOLD
1970: AC/DC - Heathcote Williams (Royal Court) Henry Woolf, Tony Shear, Deborah Norton, Sheila Scott Wilkinson, Victor Henry [single folded sheet, 11.5x17; VG] (£2) SOLD
1970: FORWARD, UP YOUR END - Ken Hill (Theatre Royal, Stratford) Jean Boht, Pam St.Clement, Bill Wallis; dir:Joan Littlewood [single sheet, folded origami-style; a highly attractive and unusual programme!; VG] (£4) SOLD
1970: COME TOGETHER (Royal Court) Programme for the whole festival, featuring The Alberts, The Brighton Combination (in THE N.A.B. SHOW), Stuart Brisley, The Ken Campbell Roadshow, The Freehold (in ANTIGONE), The Pip Simmons Theatre Group (in THE PARDONER'S TALE and SUPERMAN), N.F.Simpson, The Theatre Machine, The Theatre Upstairs (in AC/DC, BECKETT 3, and CHRISTIE IN LOVE), Victoria Theatre Stoke-on-Trent (in 1861 WHITBY LIFEBOAT DISASTER), etc. etc.; performers included Jim Carter, Christina Jones, John Turner, Stephen Rea, Dinah Stabb, Neil Johnstone, Richard Morgan, Ben Benison, Roddy Maud-Roxby, Keith Johnstone, Warren Hooper, Sue Watson, Henry Woolf, Queenie Watts, Stanley Lebor, Kenneth Cranham, Edward Clayton, Alan David, and many more ... [36pp; fascinating programme, packed with illustrations and information; VG] (£6) SOLD
1970: THE BLACKS - Jean Genet (Oxford Playhouse) Souvenir Brochure
Nina Baden-Semper, Harry Baird, Bernard Boston, Nadia Cattouse, Frank Cousins, Lee Davis, Jumoke Debayo, Glenna Fortster-Jones, Charles Hyatt, Horace James, Bloke Modisane, Jason Rose; dir:Minos Volanakis, des:Yolande Sonnabend [28pp, 8.4x11.75; large size souvenir programme; biographies of Volanakis and Sonnabend w.photos, Director's Notes, 4 large costume designs, 6 large production photos, company biographies (w.photos), etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD
Plays: 1971
1971: JOHN BULL'S OTHER ISLAND - G.B.Shaw (Mermaid) Antony Brown, Christopher Benjamin, Patrick Duggan, Edward Petherbridge, P.G.Stephens, Anna Cropper, Patrick McAlinney, Ivan Beavis; dir:Alan Strachan [16pp; illustrated articles; light vertical bend, else VG] £3
1971: THE GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT - Joe Orton (Soho Theatre at the King's Head) Edna Dore, John Rutland, Juliet Aykroyd, Adrian Shergold; dir:Frederick Proud [4x16 large sheet; folded into 4, else VG] £2
1971: SEPARATE TABLES - Terence Rattigan (Apollo) John Mills, Jill Bennett, Margaret Courtenay, Rose Hill, Raymond Huntley, Ambrosine Philpotts, Zena Walker; dir:Michael Blakemore [20pp; production photos; VG] £4
1971: A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford) Norman Wooland, Jimmy Thompson, Berwick Kaler, David Davenport, Wendy Allnutt, Nikolas Simmonds, Anna Wing [20pp; illustrated articles, cast photos; VG] £3
1971: THE FOURSOME - E.A.Whitehead (Fortune) James Hazeldine, Sharon Duce, Paul Angelis, [20pp; rehearsal photos; VG] £3
1971: THE BUTTON (Sadler's Wells) Theatre on the Balustrade, Prague: Ladislav Fialka [24pp; 5 photos; VG] £3
1971: MAN IS MAN - Brecht (Royal Court) Henry Woolf, Bob Hoskins, Susan Williamson, Barrie Rutter, Oliver Cotton, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Trevor Peacock, Georgis Brown, Tim Curry, Mark McManus, Antony Milner; dir:William Gaskill [28pp; notes and attractive line drawings; VG] £4
1971: TONIGHT AT 8 - Noel Coward (Fortune) Millicent Martin, Gary Bond, Alan MacNaughtan, Joyce Grant, Oliver Ford-Davies [20pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1971: ONE AT NIGHT - Denis Cannan (Royal Court) Roy Dotrice, June Jago, Ralph Nossek, Rudolph Walker, FrancesCuka; dir:Roger Williams [24pp; with flyer; VG] £3
1971: LOOT - Orton (Library Theatre, Manchester) Brian Poyser, Jacqueline da Costa, Alan Moore; dir:Paul Webster [16pp; VG] £2
1971: VIVAT! VIVAT REGINA! - Bolt (Piccadilly Theatre) Sarah Miles, Eileen Atkins, Richard Pearson [24pp; photos; VG] £3
1971: SLEUTH - A.Shaffer (St.Martin's) Paul Rogers, Donal Donnelly, Stanley Rushton, Robin Mayfield, Liam McNulty [16pp; photos] £2
1971: SLAG - Hare (Royal Court) Lynn Redgrave, Anna Massey [24pp; photos; VG] £3
1971: THE CHANGING ROOM - Storey (Royal Court) Brian Glover, Peter Schofield, Warren Clarke, Alun Armstrong, John Barrett, Matthew Guinness, Jim Norton, Edward Judd, Paul Dawkins, Michael Elphick, Mark McManus, Edward Peel; dir:Lindsay Anderson [32pp; photos; date on cover, else VG] £4
1971: THE CHANGING ROOM - Storey (Globe) Brian Glover, Peter Schofield, Warren Clarke, Alun Armstrong, John Barrett, Matthew Guinness, Jim Norton, Edward Judd, Paul Dawkins, Michael Elphick, Mark McManus, Edward Peel; dir:Lindsay Anderson [24pp; photos; VG] £3
1971: THE SECRETARY BIRD - Home (Savoy) Jeremy Hawk, Muriel Pavlow, Michael Fleming [28pp; production photos] £2
1971: GETTING ON - Bennett (Queen's) Kenneth More, Mona Washbourne, Gemma Jones; dir:Patrick Garland [28pp; photos; VG] £4
1971: NO SEX PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH - Marriott/Foot (Strand) Michael Crawford, Evelyn Laye, Simon Williams [28pp; photos; VG] £4
1971: FORGET-ME-NOT LANE - Nichols (Apollo) Anton Rodgers, Michael Bates, Joan Hickson; dir:Michael Blakemore [24pp; photos; VG] £4
1971: LEAR - Edward Bond (Royal Court) Harry Andrews, Matthew Guinness, Struan Rodger, Bob Hoskins, Rosemary McHale, George Howe, Gareth Hunt, Mark McManus, Oliver Cotton, Marjorie Yates, Diana Quick; dir:William Gaskill [28pp; 5.25x9; photos, illustrations, articles; VG] £4
1971: KEAN - Sartre (Globe) Alan Badel, Felicity Kendal, Philip Voss, Ken Wynne, Roderick Horn; dir:Frank Hauser [24pp, 5.75x9; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £3
1971: THE CHALK GARDEN - Bagnold (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Gladys Cooper, Joan Greenwood, Michael Goodliffe, Peter Bayliss, Vanessa Miles, Joy Shelton; dir:William Chappell [24pp, 5.25x9; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £3
1971: BUTLEY - Gray (Criterion) Alan Bates, Richard O'Callaghan, Colette O'Neil, Michael Byrne, George Fenton, Mary Wimbush; dir:Harold Pinter [28pp, 5.25x9; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £4
1971: FORGET-ME-NOT LANE - Nichols (Greenwich) Anton Rodgers, Michael Bates, Joan Hickson, Stephanie Lawrence; dir:Michael Blakemore [6pp triple-fold, 5.5x11.75; VG] £2
1971: THE GLASS MENAGERIE - Tennessee Williams (Greenwich Theatre) Helen Cherry, Steven Berkoff [6pp triple-fold; 5.5x11.75] £1
1971: FISH OUT OF WATER - Feydeau/Sherrin/Brahms (Greenwich Theatre) Aubrey Woods, Fenella Fielding, Gerald Harper [6pp triple-fold; 5.5x11.75] £1
Plays: 1972
1972: EDUCATING RITA - Willy Russell (Greenwich Theatre) Bill Simpson, Tina Marian; dir:Peter farago [16pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1972: THE MIDDLE WATCH - Ian Hay/Stephen King-Hall (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Christopher Saul, Sarah Stephenson, Donald MacIver, Ian Lindsay, Sheila Brownrigg, Robert Aldous, Alec Heggie; dir:Christopher Denys [40pp; illustrated articles, cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1972: THE CARETAKER (Gaiety Theatre, Dublin) Jack MacGowran, Nigel Anthony, Frank Barrie [12pp, 4x8.75; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1972: THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR - Frank Harvey (Lyric) Deborah Kerr, Julia Foster, Duncan Lamont, Avice Landon [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1972: NOTES ON A LOVE AFFAIR - Frank Marcus (Globe) Irene Worth, Nigel Davenport, Julia Foster [16pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1972: A PAGAN PLACE - Edna O'Brien (Royal Court) Veronica Quilligan, Donal Cox, Declan Mulholland, David Burke, Struan Rodger, Avril Elgar, David Daker, Brenda Fricker; dir:Ronald Eyre [24pp; 19 cast and rehearsal photos; VG] £4
1972: A SENSE OF DETACHMENT - John Osborne (Royal Court) Nigel Hawthorne, John Standing, Denise Coffey, Rachel Kempson, Hugh Hastings, Ralph Michael, Terence Frisby; dir:Frank Dunlop [24pp; survey of "Osborne at the Royal Court" (13 photos), various additional photos; VG] £4
1972: WHEN WE ARE MARRIED - Priestley (Strand) Peggy Mount, Hugh Paddick, Frank Thornton, Fred Emney [24pp; photos; minor marks, else VG] £2
1972: KABUKI (Sadler's Wells) Shochiku Company in 'Kanadehon' and 'Sumidagawa' [28pp; 5.25x9; photos, cast, synopses; w.ticket] £3
1972: ALPHA BETA - Whitehead (Royal Court) Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts; dir:Anthony Page [32pp; 5.25x9; photos, articles, biographies etc.; VG] £4
1972: ALPHA BETA - Whitehead (Apollo) Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts; dir:Anthony Page [20pp; 5.25x9; photos] £3
1972: MOVE OVER MRS.MARKHAM - Cooney/Chapman (Vaudeville) Cicely Courtneidge, Tony Britton, Moira Lister; dir:Ray Cooney [24pp; 15 photos; marks on cover, else VG] £3
1972: TIME AND TIME AGAIN - Ayckbourn (Comedy) Tom Courtenay; dir:Eric Thompson [20pp; photos; VG] £3
1972: CROWN MATRIMONIAL - Ryton (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Wendy Hiller, Peter Barkworth; dir:Peter Dews [28pp; photos; VG] £4
1972: I CLAUDIUS - John Mortimer/Robert Graves (Queen's) David Warner, Sara Kestelman, Warren Clarke, Freda Jackson; dir:Tony Richardson [24pp, 5.25x9; notes, photos; VG] £3
1972: CONDUCT UNBECOMING - England (Liverpool Playhouse) Colin Baker, Neil Daglish, Ian Redford; dir:Andrew Dallmeyer [20pp, 7.25x9.5; pictorial cover; VG] £3
1972: THREE MONTHS GONE (Liverpool Playhouse) Geraldine Newman, James Hazeldine, Robert Grange, June Watson, Anthony Baird, Geoffrey Bateman; dir:Ian McKellen [20pp, 7.25x9.75; 20+ cast and production team photos; unusual programme in the form of an "Album belonging to Anna Bowers", a character in the play; "Liverpool" written on cover, else VG] £4
1972: CRETE AND SERGEANT PEPPER - John Antrobus (Royal Court) Bill Maynard, James Hazeldine, Stephen Rea, Bernard Gallagher, Anthony Douse, Leonard Fenton, Nicholas Smith; dir:Peter Gill [16pp, 3.75x10; cast photos, illustrations, articles etc.; VG] £3
1972: BIG WOLF - Harald Mueller (Royal Court) Nigel Terry, Leon Vitali, Michael Kitchen; dir:William Gaskill and Pam Brighton [16pp, 3.75x10; cast, credits, 13 pages of children's comments on war, reproduced in their own handwriting; VG] £3
1972: SLEUTH (St.Martin's) Marius Goring, Anthony Valentine; dir:Clifford Williams [24pp; cast photos; one staple missing, else VG] (£3) SOLD
1972: JOURNEY'S END - Sherriff (Cambridge) James Maxwell, Peter Egan, Harry Landis [24pp; photos including production shots] (£2) SOLD
1972: THE HOSTAGE - Brendan Behan (Theatre Royal, Stratford) Theatre Workshop Production: Ken Hill, Maxwell Shaw, Eileen Kennally, Jean Boht, Celia Salkeld, Ron Hackett, Dudley O'Sutton, Brian Murphy, Patience Collier, James Booth, Philip Davis; dir:Joan Littlewood [4pp, 8.25x11.75; cover photo of Brendan Behan; notes, credits etc.; minor marks, else VG] (£4) SOLD
Plays: 1973
1973: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK - Sean O'Casey (Mermaid) Siobhan McKenna, Niall Buggy, Dermot Crowley [20pp; illustrated articles, biographies; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1973: HELLO AND GOODBYE - Athol Fugard (King's Head) Janet Suzman, Ben Kingsley [4pp; VG] £2
1973: LOOT - Orton (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Nick Brimble; dir:John Dove [6pp triple-fold; VG] £2
1973: DRUMS IN THE NIGHT - Bertold Brecht, and A NIGHTINGALE IN BLOOMSBURY SQUARE - Maureen Duffy (Hampstead Theatre Club) Stephen Rea, Ken Morley, Christopher Martin, Petra Markham, Eleanor Bron, Sian Phillips, Richard Wilson; dir:Roland Rees, Michael Rudman [20pp; cast photos, notes etc.; VG] £4
1973: OLD TIMES (Pitlochry Festival Theatre) Roger Forbes, Denise Hirst, Madeleine Newbury [36pp; 16 cast photos and biographies, notes etc.; VG] £3
1973: THE LETTER (Watford Palace Theatre) Jill Bennett, Edward Hardwicke, Sean Barrett, Jeffry Wickham, Burt Kwouk, Zoe Hicks; dir:John Tydeman [16pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1973: THE APPLE CART (Bristol Old Vic) Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfitt, David Ryall, Nigel Stock, Paul Imbusch, John Warner, Timothy Kightley, June Barrie, Thelma Whiteley, Edward Hardwicke [20pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1973: BINGO - Bond (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Paul Jesson; dir:Jane Howell/John Dove [16pp; photos, articles; VG] £2
1973: THE POPE'S WEDDING - Bond (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Alison Steadman, Nick Brimble; dir:John Dove [12pp; VG] £2
1973: THE HOSTAGE - Behan (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Janet Dale, Nick Brimble; dir:Jane Howell [16pp; illustrated articles; VG] £2
1973: THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT WENT TO SEE... - Wood/Ruskin (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Robert O'Mahoney, Margot Leicester, Bob Peck; dir:Kevin Robinson [4pp; VG] £1
1973: MRS.WARREN'S PROFESSION - Shaw (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Ann Windsor, Sarah Stephenson, Martin Duncan; dir:Rhys McConnochie [16pp; illustrated articles; VG] £2
1973: JUDGE JEFFREYS - Chris Bond (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Martin Duncan, Paul Jesson, Margot Leicester; dir:Chris Bond/Jane Howell [16pp; illustrated articles; VG] £2
1973: ARMSTRONG'S LAST GOODNIGHT - Arden (Northcott Theatre, Exeter) Bob Peck, Martin Duncan, Paul Jesson, Margot Leicester; dir:John Dove/Rhys McConnochie [16pp; illustrated articles; VG] £2
1973: RELATIVE VALUES - Coward (Westminster) Margaret Lockwood, Joyce Blair, Gwen Cherrell; dir:Charles Hickman [16pp; photos; minor marks on title page, else VG] £3
1973: CROMWELL - David Storey (Royal Court) Albert Finney, Alun Armstrong, Brian Cox, Mark McManus, Anne Dyson, Frances Tomelty, Pete Postlethwaite (as Peter Postlethwaite), Kenneth Colley, Colin Bennett, Colin Douglas, Mike Melia; dir:Anthony Page [28pp; cast list, notes, feature on 'Storey at the Royal Court' (w.11 photos); slight vertical bend, else VG] £3
1973: THE MERRY-GO-ROUND - D.H.Lawrence (Royal Court) Ann Dyson, Mary Miller, George Howe, Gabrielle Daye, David Daker, Marjorie Yates, Susan Tracy, Michael Melia; dir:Peter Gill [28pp; extensive illustrated articles; VG] £3
1973: THE REMOVALISTS - David Williamson (Royal Court) Ed Devereaux, Struan Rodger, Darlene Johnson, Carole Mowlam, Mark McManus, Brian Croucher; dir:Jim Sharman [24pp; extensive illustrated articles; VG] £3
1973: IN PRAISE OF LOVE - Rattigan (Duchess) Donald Sinden, Joan Greenwood, Richard Warwick, Don Fellows; dir:John Dexter [28pp; 5 production photos, cast photos; VG] £4
1973: MAGNIFICENCE - Howard Brenton (Royal Court) Michael Kitchen, Kenneth Cranham, Carole Hayman, Dinah Stabb, Pete Postlethwaite (as Peter), James Aubrey, Leonard Fenton, Geoffrey Chater, Robert Eddison, Nikolaj Ryjtkov; dir:Max Stafford-Clark [24pp; rehearsal photos; VG] £4
1973: KRAPP'S LAST TAPE, and NOT I - Beckett (Royal Court) Albert Finney, Billie Whitelaw, Brian Miller; dir:Anthony Page [28pp; cast photos and biographies, 'Beckett at the Royal Court' (w. 8 photos); VG] £4
1973: PRIVATE LIVES (Globe) John Standing, Jill Bennett, Pinkie Johnson, Geoffrey Palmer; dir:John Gielgud [16pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1973: SMALL CRAFT WARNINGS - Tennessee Williams (Comedy) Elaine Stritch, Peter Jones, George Pravda, Edward Judd, Frances de la Tour; dir:Vivian Matalon [20pp; cast and production photos; VG] £4
1973: A PRIVATE MATTER - Ronald Mavor (Vaudeville) Alastair Sim, Derek Fowlds, Peter Cellier, Dorothy Reynolds; dir:Ian McKellen [28pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1973: THE SEA - Edward Bond (Royal Court) Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Alan Webb, Diana Quick; dir:William Gaskill [28pp; notes, poems, excellent line drawings; VG] £3
1973: DEAR BRUTUS - J.M.Barrie (Oxford Playhouse) Helen Cotterill, Gwen Nelson, Barbara Jefford, Sheila Ballantine, George Selway, Richard Goolden, Donald Layne-Smith, Philip Voss, John Turner; dir:Edgar Wreford [24pp, 7.25x9.75; cast photos and biographies; illustrated history of the Oxford Playhouse company, illustrated articles; minor marks, else VG] £4
1973: MOTHER ADAM - Dyer (King's Theatre, Edinburgh) Peter Wyngarde, Hermione Baddeley; dir:Charles Dyer [16pp, 8x10; VG] £3
1973: A PRIVATE MATTER - Ronald Mavor (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Alastair Sim, Dorothy Reynolds, Derek Fowlds, Peter Cellier; dir:Ian McKellen [16pp; photos, biographies etc.; VG] £3
1973: THE FARM - David Storey (Royal Court) Bernard Lee, Doreen Mantle, Frank Grimes, Patricia Healey, Prunella Gee, Lewis Collins; dir:Lindsay Anderson [28pp; photos, extensive illustrated articles; VG] £3
1973: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR - Ayckbourn (Criterion) Bridget Turner, Richard Briers, Michael Aldridge, Sheila Hancock, Anna Calder-Marshall, David Burke; dir:Eric Thompson [24pp; photos] (£3) SOLD
1973: THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY - Brian Friel (Royal Court) Stephen Rea, Carmel McSharry, Basil Dignam, Matthew Guinness, Alex McCrindle, Louis Haslar, Nick Llewellyn, David Atkinson, Peter Adair, Michael O'Hagan, Bob Sherman, dir:Albert Finney [32pp; extensive illustrated articles and notes; VG] (£4) SOLD
Plays: 1974
1974: SNAP! - Charles Laurence (Vaudeville) Adrienne Corri, Geoffrey Palmer, Tony Bickley, Elspeth March, Belinda Low; dir:William Gaskill [28pp; 8 production photos, biographies; small scuff on cover, minor marks, else VG] £3
1974: HAPPY AS A SANDBAG - Ken Lee, and LEAVE HIM TO HEAVEN - Ken Lee (Leicester Haymarket) Linal Haft, Lesley Duff, Darryl Kavann, Brian Protheroe; dir:Philip Hedley/Rhys McConnochie [28pp; good articles; rumpled, else VG] £2
1974: EQUUS (Bristol Old Vic) Alan Dobie, Jonathan Darvill, June Barrie, Malcolm Sinclair [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1974: DANGEROUS CORNER (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford) Rachel Gurney, Barbara Jefford, Gerald Flood, Christopher Good [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1974: OTHER PEOPLE - Mike Stott (Hampstead Theatre Club) Julian Curry, Ian Holm, Tom Conti, Janet Key, Anthony O'Donnell, Stephanie Turner, Abigail Asher; dir:Roland Rees [20pp; cast photos; VG] £4
1974: THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR - Frank Harvey (Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea) Irene Sutcliffe, Simon Brent, Alan Bennion, Anthea Holloway, Susan Macready [16pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1974: THE CONNECTION - Jack Gelber (Hampstead Theatre Club) Bill Wallis, John Ratzenberger, Harry Ditson, Mark Russel, Richard Moore, Phillip Hinton; dir:Michael Rudman [20pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £3
1974: FALLEN ANGELS (Watford Palace Theatre) Penelope Keith, Roger Hammond, Rose Hill, Eric Dodson, Fenella Fielding, Howard Southern; dir:Kim Grant [16pp; w.two photos of original production; VG] £3
1974: THE GINGERBREAD LADY (Phoenix) Elaine Stritch, Jenny Quayle, Luie Caballero [24pp; cast photos; VG] £4
1974: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS - Ayckbourn (Globe) Tom Courtenay, Penelope Keith, Michael Gambon, Felicity Kendal, Bridget Turner; with substitute slip - Penelope Wilton for Bridget Turner [20pp; 5 production photos; VG] £4
1974: JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK (Nottingham Playhouse) Anne Kristen, Martin Dempsey, Tom Wilkinson, Brenda Fricker, Donald Gee; dir:Richard Eyre [8pp; cast photos; mark on cover, else VG] £2
1974: THE SPECKLED BAND (Nottingham Playhouse) Donald Gee, Roger Sloman, Paul Dawkins, Ralph Nossek, Louise Breslin, Brenda Fricker, Tom Wilkinson; dir:Richard Eyre [16pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £2
1974: THE ISLAND, SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD, and STATEMENTS AFTER AN ARREST UNDER THE IMMORALITY ACT (Royal Court) John Kani, Winston Ntshona, Yvonne Bryceland, Ben Kingsley, Wilson Dunster; dir:Athol Fugard [24pp; 'A South African Season'; production photos, extensive notes; VG] £4
1974: SIZWE BANSI IS DEAD, and THE ISLAND (Ambassadors) John Kani, Winston Ntshona; dir:Athol Fugard [24pp; production photos, extensive notes; VG] £3
1974: PYGMALION (Albery) Diana Rigg, Alec McCowen, Jack May, Simon MacCorkindale, Hilda Fenemore, Bob Hoskins, Ellen Pollock; dir:John Dexter [28pp; photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1974: JOHN, PAUL, GEORGE, RINGO ... AND BERT - Willy Russell (Lyric) Antony Sher (as Ringo Starr), Bernard Hill (as John Lennon), Trevor Eve (as Paul McCartney), Phillip Joseph (as George Harrison), George Costigan (as Bert), Robin Hooper (as Brian Epstein), Elizabeth Estensen, Barbara Dickson; dir:Alan Dossor [20pp; photos, production photo; VG] £5
1974: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR - Ayckbourn (Criterion) Bridget Turner, Richard Briers, Michael Aldridge, Sheila Hancock, Anna Calder-Marshall, David Burke; dir:Eric Thompson [20pp; photos; w.3 tickets (27 Mch '74); VG] £4
1974: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR - Ayckbourn (Criterion) Angela Scoular, Peter Blythe, Paul Eddington, Fenella Fielding, Marty Cruickshank, Paul Shelley; dir:Sam Walters [28pp; photos; cover slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1974: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - Williams (Piccadilly) Claire Bloom, Martin Shaw, Joss Ackland; dir:Edwin Sherin [24pp; 6 production photos; VG] £4
1974: BLOOMSBURY - Luke (Phoenix) Yvonne Mitchell, Daniel Massey, Moyra Fraser, Penelope Wilton, John Hart
Dyke, Clive Francis, Simon Jones; dir:Richard Cottrell [28pp; photos; VG] £4
1974: WHAT IF YOU DIED TOMORROW? - Williamson (Comedy) Ron Haddrick, Ruth Cracknell; dir:Lovejoy [20pp; photos; with ticket (2 Sep '74); VG] £2
1974: KNUCKLE - Hare (Comedy) Edward Fox, Kate Nelligan; dir:Michael Blakemore [20pp; photos; marks on back and front cover, else VG] £2
1974: PLAY MAS - Matura (Royal Court) Stefan Kalipha, Rudolph Walker, Norman Beaton, Charles Pemberton, Ed Bishop; dir:Donald Howarth [24pp; 20+ photos; very minor mark on cover, else VG] £3
1974: LIFE CLASS - Storey (Royal Court) Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Stephen Bent, Frank Grimes, Paul Kelly, Gabrielle Lloyd, Brian Glover, Gerald James; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; 8 photos; VG] £4
1974: LIFE CLASS - Storey (Duke of York's) Alan Bates, Bob Peck, Stephen Bent, Frank Grimes, Paul Kelly, Gabrielle Lloyd, Brian Glover, Gerald James; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; 10 production photos; VG] £4
1974: THE MALE OF THE SPECIES - Owen (Piccadilly) Edward Woodward, Michele Dotrice, Colin Farrell, Donald Pickering; dir:Val May [20pp, 5.25x8.75; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £4
1974: TOAD OF TOAD HALL - A.A.Milne/Kenneth Grahame (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Martin Friend, Richard Goolden, Richard Cornish, David King, Hugh Ross, Alec Bregonzi; dir:Peter Watson [12pp, 5.25x8.75; charming line drawings, production photo, biographies etc.; VG] £4
1974: MY FAT FRIEND (Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York) Lynn Redgrave, George Rose, John Lithgow, James Ray Weeks [32pp; cast photos and biographies; slight spotting, slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1974: THE FANTASTICAL FEATS OF FINN MACCOOL - McCarthy (Haymarket Ice Rink, Edinburgh) Tony Haygarth, Patrick Malahide, Dermot Crowley, Alex Norton, Bill Paterson; dir:Ian Ireland [12pp, 4x10; VG] £2
1974: THE ICEMAN COMETH - O'Neill (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Ian Bannen, J.G.Devlin, James Grant, Oscar James, Leonard Maguire, James Cairncross, Henry Woolf, Niall Tobin; dir:Bill Bryden [16pp, 8x10 w.decorative card cover; biographies, articles etc.; VG] £4
1974 (Aug-Oct): OXFORD THEATRE FESTIVAL 1974 Souvenir Brochure
Oxford Theatre Festival, presented for the University Theatre by Ray Cooney in association with Gyles Brandreth: SPRINGTIME FOR HENRY - Benn Levy, THE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE - devised by Peter Coe, SAINT JOAN - Bernard Shaw, THE LITTLE HUT - Andrew Roussin, adapted by Nancy Mitford, THE DAME OF SARK - William Douglas Home; with Ian Carmichael, Moray Watson, Barbara Murray, Cheryl Kennedy, Tom Baker, Anthony Woodruff, Nigel Stock, Gerald Cross, Aubrey Woods, Jack Galloway, Stephen Whittaker, Jeremy Anthony, Charles Little, Stephen Riddle, Julia Foster, Charles Dance, John Standing, James Villiers, Brian Hayes, Noel Willman, Charles Lloyd Pack, Kevin Elyot, David Sulkin, Geraldine McEwan, Gerald Harper, Olu Jacobs, Celia Johnson, George Pravda, Tony Britton, Nicholas Courtney, Hugh Wooldridge; directed by Robert Chetwyn, Peter Coe, John Clements, Philip Dudley, Charles Hickman [44pp, 8.5x11; 30+ photographs and line-drawings, cast photos, illustrated articles; slightly rumpled, else VG] £5
Plays: 1975
1975: FIVE FINGER EXERCISE (Harlow Playhouse) Hywel Bennett, Patricia Lawrence, Jeff Rawle, John Paul, Lynn Smith; dir:John Dryden [16pp; biographies, notes; VG] £2
1975: THE DOCTOR'S DILEMMA (Mermaid) Simon Callow, Derek Godfrey, Tony Jay, Frank Thornton, Nigel Hawthorne, James Villiers, James Cairncross, Lynn Farleigh, Ken Cranham; dir:Robert Chetwyn [6pp triple-fold; VG] £2
1975: THE FOOL - Bond (Royal Court) Tom Courtenay, David Troughton, Isabel Dean; dir:Peter Gill [6pp triple-fold, 4x8.25; w.small quadruple-fold insert of 'Clare Poems' by Edward Bond] £2
1975: HOBSON'S CHOICE (Bristol Old Vic) Roger Hume, Isla Blair, Timothy Kightley, Jonathan Darvill, Paul Imbusch; dir:David Phethean [20pp; 12 cast photos, notes; VG] £3
1975: ROGER'S LAST STAND - Dimitri Frenkel Frank (Duke of York's) Leslie Phillips, Roy Kinnear, Elspet Gray, Anna Dawson; dir:Charles Ross [24pp; 9 production photos; VG] £3
1975: SPOKESONG, or The Common Wheel - Stewart Parker (King's Head) Robert Bridges, Niall Buggy, Valerie Hermanni, Annabel Leventon, Don Maciver, Patrick Waldron; dir:Robert Gillespie [8pp; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1975: GHOSTS - Wolfgang Bauer (Hampstead Theatre Club) John Shrapnel, John McEnery, Lynda Marchal, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Carol Drinkwater, Toby Salaman; dir:Max Stafford-Clark [16pp; biographies; VG] £2
1975: THE ECSTASY OF RITA JOE - George Ryga (Hampstead Theatre) Donald Burton, Jon Croft, Frederick Farley, Don Fellows, Eileen Way; dir:Nicholas Renton [16pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1975: A MAN'S A MAN - Bertold Brecht (Hampstead Theatre) Foco Novo Production: Jestyn Phillips, Peter Marinker, Stefan Kalipha, Tricia Thorns, Terry Jackson, Hans Brown, Sheila Reid; dir:Roland Rees [16pp; cast and production photos; minor marks, else VG] £3
1975: OUT ON THE LAWN - Don Taylor (Watford Palace) Jennie Linden, Edward Hardwicke, Dinah Sheridan, Rosemary Leach, T.P.McKenna, Frank Middlemass, Kevin Costello, Tim Brierley; dir:Stephen Hollis [16pp; cast photo; VG] £4
1975: DEAR JANET ROSENBERG, DEAR MR KOONING - Stanley Eveling (Hampstead Theatre Club) Anna Calder-Marshall, Freddie Jones; dir:Jon Amiel [16pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, minor marks, else VG] £2
1975: ALPHABETICAL ORDER - Michael Frayn (MayFair Theatre) Barbara Ferris, A.J.Brown, James Cossins, Dinsdale Landen, Billie Whitelaw, June Ellis, Bernard Gallagher; dir:Michael Blakemore [24pp; 8 production photos; VG] £4
1975: ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD (Criterion) Christopher Timothy, Richard O'Callaghan, William Squire, Darien Angadi; dir:Bernard Goss [16pp; VG] £3
1975: LITTLE RED HEN - John McGrath (7:84 Tour) Dave Anderson, Nadia Arthur, John Bett, John McGrath, Elizabeth MacLennan, William Riddoch [12pp; VG] £2
1975: DOUBLE EDGE - Darbon/Whelan (Vaudeville) Margaret Lockwood, Barrie Ingham, Paul Daneman [24pp; photos] £2
1975: ABSENT FRIENDS - Ayckbourn (Garrick) Richard Briers, Peter Bowles, Phyllida Law; dir:Eric Thompson [24pp; photos; VG] £3
1975: OTHERWISE ENGAGED - Gray (Queen's) Alan Bates, Julian Glover, Ian Charleson, Nigel Hawthorne; dir:Harold Pinter [20pp; photos; VG] £4
1975: RAINDOG - Yamashta (Roundhouse, London) Stomu Yamashta's Red Buddha Company: Akiko Komaki, Andrew Bradford, Kuniyuki Oghari, David Yip [24pp; photos; VG] £2
1975: BETSY - Home (Yvonne Arnaud) Herbert Lom, David Robb, Nigel Stock, Briony McRoberts; dir:Kim Grant [20pp; photos; VG] £3
1975: TONIGHT AT 8.00 - Coward (Watford Palace) Peter John, Kate Williams, Michael Troughton, Anita Dobson; dir:Stephen Hollis [16pp; photos; VG] £2
1975: A TOUCH OF SPRING - Tayler (Comedy) Hayley Mills, Francis Matthews, Leigh Lawson, Julian Fellowes; dir:Allan Davis [20pp, 5.75x8.25; biographies, photos, articles etc.; VG] £3
1975: MURDERER - Anthony Shaffer (Garrick) Robert Stephens, Caroline Blakiston, Patricia Quinn, Warren Clarke; dir:Clifford Williams [20pp; cast and production photos; photos of eight murderers; VG] £4
1975: THE CASE IN QUESTION - Ronald Millar (Haymarket) John Clements, Zena Walker, Margaret Courtenay, Peter Cellier, Donald Pickering, Simon Cadell, Brian Hayes, Charles Lloyd Pack; dir:John Clements [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1975: HAPPY END - Brecht/Weill (Lyric) Colin Bennett, Amanda Knott, Arthur Cox, Bob Hoskins, Veronica Clifford, Angela Richards; dir:Gordon McDougall [16pp; cast photos; rumpled, else VG] £3
1975: CLARENCE DARROW - David W.Rintels (Piccadilly) Souvenir Brochure
Henry Fonda; dir:John Houseman [16pp, 8.25x11.75; 16 photographs; splendid illustrated features on Henry Fonda, Clarence Darrow, Henry Fonda's films, credits etc.; VG] £5
1975: CLARENCE DARROW - David W.Rintels (Piccadilly) Henry Fonda; dir:John Houseman [16pp, 5.25x8.75; two photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2
1975: ARDELE (Queen's) Vincent Price, Coral Browne, Charles Gray, Allan Cuthberton, Anita Dobson; dir:Frith Banbury [16pp; cast photos; VG] £4
1975: THE MOUSETRAP - Christie (St.Martin's) Brian Spink, Mary Law, Brian McDermott; dir:Joan Knight [28pp; photos; marks on cast page, else VG] £2
1975: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS - Ayckbourn (Globe) Tom Courtenay, Felicity Kendal, Michael Gambon, Penelope Keith, Mark Kingston, Penelope Wilton (for Bridget Turner) [24pp; photos; insert sheet with Penelope Wilton's credits; rumpled] £4
1975: THE NORMAN CONQUESTS - Ayckbourn (Globe) Ronald Pickup, Sheila Ballantine, Ivor Danvers, Brigit Forsyth, Julian Holloway, Julia McKenzie [20pp; photos; slightly rumpled] £3
1975: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Liverpool Playhouse) Natasha Parry, Tom Chadbon, Jenny Oulton, Philip Guard; dir:David Kelsey [16pp, 7.25x9.75; cast photos and biographies, notes, articles etc.; light vertical bend, else VG] £3
1975: THE VOYSEY INHERITANCE - Granville-Barker (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Andre Morell, Timothy Carlton, Patrick Malahide, Frances Tomelty; dir:Robert Kidd [16pp, 8x10 w.stiff cover; biographies, articles etc.; VG] £3
1975: THE PLUMBER'S PROGRESS - C.P.Taylor/Sternheim (Prince of Wales) Harry Secombe, Simon Callow, Roy Marsden; dir:Mike Ockrent [24pp; photos; date written on cover, else VG] (£3) SOLD
1975: THE APPLE CART - Shaw (Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh) Graham Crowden, Patricia England, Vivien Heilbron, James Cairncross, Patrick Malahide, John Grieve, Alec Heggie, Rikki Fulton; dir:Tom Fleming [16pp, 8x10 w.stiff cover; biographies, articles etc.; rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD
1975: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW - Orton (Royal Court) Michael Medwin, Betty Marsden, Valentine Dyall; dir:Lindsay Anderson [28pp; photos, articles; interesting programme] (£4) SOLD
1975: ENTERTAINING MR.SLOANE - Orton (Royal Court) Beryl Reid, Malcolm McDowell [20pp; photos, articles; interesting programme] (£4) SOLD
1975: LOOT - Orton (Royal Court) Jill Bennett, Arthur O'Sullivan, David Troughton, James Aubrey, Philip Stone; dir:Albert Finney [20pp; photos, articles; interesting programme] (£4) SOLD
1975: THE BED BEFORE YESTERDAY - Travers (Lyric) Joan Plowright, John Moffatt, Helen Mirren; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; photos] (£3) SOLD
Plays: 1976
1976: EAST - Steven Berkoff (Greenwich Theatre) London Theatre Group: Steven Berkoff, Mathew Scurfield, David Delve, Anna Nygh, Barry Philip; dir:Steven Berkoff [6pp triplefold; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1976: SCRIBES - Barrie O'Keefe (Greenwich Theatre) Leslie Sarony, Donald Sumpter, Terrence Hardiman, Richard Kane, Jonathan Kent, Edward Judd, Ewan Hooper; dir:Keith Hack [20pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1976: RELUCTANT HEROES - Colin Morris (Greenwich Theatre) Bill Treacher, Jeremy Child, Bernard Bresslaw, Andrew Sachs, Ewan Hooper, Vivienne Johnson, John Clegg; dir:Wallace Douglas [20pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1976: HEAVEN AND HELL: The Fear of Heaven and The Prince of Darkness - John Mortimer (Greenwich Theatre) Denholm Elliott, Peter Woodthorpe, Eleanor Bron, Trevor Baxter, Hana-Maria Pravda; dir:John Tydeman [20pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1976: TREATS - Christopher Hampton (Royal Court) Jane Asher, Stephen Moore, James Bolam; dir:Robert Kidd [6pp triple-fold; rehearsal photos; VG] £2
1976: COMEDIANS - Griffiths (Wyndham's) Jimmy Jewel, Kenneth Cranham; dir:Richard Eyre [24pp; photos, articles; w.review] £3
1976: DONKEYS' YEARS - Frayn (Globe) Peter Barkworth, Penelope Keith, Peter Jeffrey; dir:Michael Rudman [16pp; photos; VG] £3
1976: SLEUTH - Anthony Shaffer (Richmond Theatre) Richard Todd, Peter Byrne; dir:Jan Butlin [16pp; jottings on title page, else VG] £2
1976: ROOKERY NOOK - Travers (Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead) John Warner, Maggie Jones; dir:Hazel Vincent Wallace [20pp; photos; VG] £2
1976: DIRTY LINEN & NEW-FOUND-LAND - Stoppard (Arts Theatre)
Peter Bowles, Edward de Souza, Richard Goolden, Stephen Moore, Benjamin Whitrow; dir:Ed Berman [16pp; Inter-Action Production; photos, articles, biographies] £2
1976 (Jul): THE BED BEFORE YESTERDAY - Travers (Lyric) Joan Plowright, John Moffatt, Susie Blake; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; photos] £3
1976 (Dec): THE BED BEFORE YESTERDAY - Travers (Lyric) Sheila Hancock, John Moffatt, Susie Blake; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; photos] £3
1976: CONFUSIONS - Ayckbourn (Apollo) Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Derek Fowlds, Sheila Gish, James Cossins; dir:Alan Strachan [16pp; photos] £3
1976: OTHERWISE ENGAGED - Gray (Queen's) Michael Gambon, Ian Charleson, Nigel Hawthorne, Julian Glover, Benjamin Whitrow, Jacqueline Pearce, Mary Miller; dir:Harold Pinter [20pp; cast photos; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1976: OTHERWISE ENGAGED - Gray (Comedy) Hywel Bennett, Caroline Mortimer, Edmund Kente, Brian Smith, Douglas Nottage; dir:Harold Pinter [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1976: DUSA, FISH, STAS & VI - Pam Gems (Hampstead) Brigit Forsyth, Alison Fiske, Diane Fletcher, Mary Maddox; dir:Nancy Meckler [20pp, 5.75x8.4; biographies etc.; VG] £3
1976: BANANA RIDGE - Ben Travers (Savoy) Robert Morley, George Cole, Joan Sanderson, Jan Holden, Vivienne Martin; dir:Val May [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 7 photos etc.; VG] £4
1976: ON APPROVAL - Lonsdale (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Edward Woodward, Geraldine McEwan, Jennie Linden, Edward Hardwicke; dir:Frank Hauser [20pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £4
1976: 13 RUE DE L'AMOUR - Feydeau (Phoenix) Glynis Johns, Louis Jourdan, James Grout, David Stoll, Margaret Courtenay; dir:Peter Dews [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £3
1976: BUS STOP - William Inge (Phoenix) Keir Dullea, Lee Remick, Alfred Marks, Miriam Karlin, Don Fellows; dir:Vivian Matalon [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £4
1976: GASLIGHT (Criterion) Anton Rodgers, Nicola Pagett, Peter Vaughan; dir:Robert Young [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1976: BAGGAGE (Vaudeville) Gerald Harper, Hannah Gordon, Una Stubbs, Prunella Gee [20pp; cast photos; minor marks, else VG] £3
1976: MR.LAUREL AND MR.HARDY (MayFair Theatre) John Shedden, Ian Ireland [16pp; production photos; VG] £2
1976: THE SEAGULL (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham) Irene Sutcliffe, John Nolan, Sarah Thomas, Barry Warren; dir:John David [20pp; cast list, notes; scribble on cover, else VG] £2
1976: RELATIVELY SPEAKING (Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham) Harry Waters, Christine Edmonds, Malcolm Farquhar, Irene Sutcliffe; dir:Malcolm Farquhar [20pp; cast list, notes; scribble on cover, else VG] £2
1976: SLEUTH (Liverpool Playhouse) Marius Goring, Barry Andrews; dir:Denis Carey [16pp, 7.25x9.75; cast photos and biographies, two production photos; w.tickets; minor edge damage, else VG] £3
1976: THE DAY AFTER THE FAIR - Frank Harvey (Liverpool Playhouse) Eileen Page, Christine McKenna, John Hart Dyke, Anthea Holloway, Lesley Grayburn, Pip Miller; dir:Leslie Lawton [16pp, 7.25x9.75; cast photos and biographies, notes, articles etc.; w.tickets; minor vertical bend, else VG] £3
1976: THE GHOST TRAIN (Old Vic) Wilfred Brambell, James Villiers, Geoffrey Davies, Allan Cuthbertson, Veronica Strong, Louise Purnell, Gwen Nelson, Judy Buxton; dir:Bill Hays [24pp, 8.25x11.75; 13 rehearsal photos, 10 cast photos and biographies; extensive article on the Old Vic, with 12 illustrations; mark on cover, slightly rumpled, else VG; interesting and unusual programme] £4
1976 (26 May): LAUDER (Royal Lyceum Theatre) Souvenir Brochure
Jimmy Logan; dir:Clive Perry [20pp, 7.4x10; Royal Performance in the presence of H.R.H. Princess Alexandra; large photo of Princess Alexandra, photo and biography of Jimmy Logan, details of the show (a musical review of the life of Sir Harry Lauder); VG] £4
1976 (Jan): THE BED BEFORE YESTERDAY - Travers (Lyric) Joan Plowright, John Moffatt, Helen Mirren; dir:Lindsay Anderson [20pp; photos] (£3) SOLD
1976: ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR (Wimbledon Theatre) John Thaw, Richard Coleman, Josephine Tewson, Paul Greenwood, Barbara Morton, Brenda Cavendish; dir:Paul Eddington [16pp; minor marks, else VG] (£2) SOLD
Plays: 1977
1977: THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON - J.M.Barrie (Greenwich Theatre) Trevor Baxter, Frank Barrie, Timothy Carlton, Jeremy Nicholas, Betty Hardy, Ursula Mohan; dir:Mike Ockrent [20pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1977: THE GOOD PERSON OF SZECHWAN - Bertolt Brecht (Greenwich Theatre) Michael Deacon, Ewan Hooper, Richard Mayes, Brian Gwaspari, Patrick Hannaway, Peter Craze, Peter Guinness, Frank Barrie, Peter Craze; dir:David Thompson [20pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1977: SINGLES - John Bowen (Greenwich Theatre) Frances de la Tour, Ray Brooks, Gwen Watford, Peter Howell, Russell Dixon; dir:Eric Thompson [20pp; articles, biographies w.photos; VG] £2
1977: BARBARIANS - Barry Keefe (Greenwich Theatre) Nick Edmett, Karl Johnson, Jeffery Kissoon; dir:Keith Hack [24pp; articles, biographies; VG] £2
1977: THE CARETAKER - Harold Pinter (Greenwich Theatre) Anthony Higgins, Peter Guinness, Max Wall; dir:Paul Joyce [24pp; articles, biographies; VG] £3
1977: THE IMMORTAL HAYDON - John Wells (Mermaid) Leonard Rossiter; dir:Alan Strachan [16pp; articles, photos, biographies; minor marks, slightly rumpled, else VG] £3
1977: THE OLD LADY SAYS 'NO'! - Johnston (Abbey Theatre, Dublin) Desmond Cave, Maire O'Neill; dir:Tomas Mac Anna [16pp; photos; VG] £2
1977: THE LAST MEETING OF THE KNIGHTS OF THE WHITE MAGNOLIA - Preston Jones (Hampstead) Glyn Owen, Ian Hogg, Leslie Schofield, Thick Wilson; dir:Michael Rudman [20pp, 5.75x8.25; biographies, photo etc.; VG] £3
1977: PINOCCHIO - Morley (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Roy Kinnear, Neil Fitzwilliam, Su Pollard, Tim Swinton, Ian Burford; dir:Tudor Davies [20pp; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £2
1977: PINOCCHIO - Morley (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford) Roy Kinnear, Neil Fitzwilliam, Su Pollard, Tim Swinton, Ian Burford; dir:Tudor Davies [20pp; biographies, photos etc.; VG] £3
1977: HANCOCK'S LAST HALF HOUR (Almost Free Theatre) Henry Woolf [4pp; minor marks, else VG] £2
1977: SLEUTH (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch) Barry Lineham, Doug Fisher [24pp; cast photos; VG] £2
1977: SCHWENCK IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR (Bristol Old Vic) Miles Anderson, Peter Birch, Timothy Kightley, Michael Burrell, Joan Moon, Robert O'Mahoney, June Ritchie, Kit Thacker, Clive Wouters; dir:John David [20pp; VG] £3
1977: ONCE A CATHOLIC (Wyndham's) John Boswall, Jane Carr, Daniel Gerroll, Mike Grady, Pat Heywood, June Page, John Rogan, Jeanne Watts; dir:Mike Ockrent [32pp; production photos; VG] £4
1977: CANDIDA (Albery) Deborah Kerr, Denis Quilley, Maureen Lipman, Simon Jones, Leslie Sands, Patrick Ryecart; dir:Michael Blakemore [32pp; 8 production photos; VG] £4
1977: DONKEY'S YEARS (Globe) Paul Eddington, Amanda Barrie, John Quayle, John Quentin, Ian Hogg; dir:Michael Rudman [28pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1977: SPOKESONG (Vaudeville) Niall Buggy, Annabel Leventon, Robert Bridges; dir:Robert Gillespie [24pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1977: THE BELLE OF AMHERST - Luce (Phoenix) Julie Harris [24pp; photos] £2
1977: SAINT JOAN (Liverpool Playhouse) Prospect Production: Eileen Atkins,
Charles Kay, Frederick Treves, Paul Jesson, John Bowe, Geoffrey Palmer, Emrys James, Robert Eddison, Ronald Lacey; dir:John Dove [24pp; company photos, illustrated articles; w.ticket; VG] £4
1977: THE GOLDEN COUNTRY - Shusaku Endo (Royal Exchange, Manchester) Wolfe Morris, Geoffrey Bateman, Ian Hastings, John Sharp, John Church, Jenny Twigge; dir:Richard Negri [16pp, 7.5x10; cast photos, extensive notes, poems and illustrations; VG] £3
1977: FILUMENA - De Filippo (Lyric) Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Trevor Eve, Patricia Hayes; dir:Franco Zeffirelli [20pp; photos] (£2) SOLD
Plays: 1978
1978: THE IMMORTAL HAYDON - John Wells (Greenwich Theatre) Leonard Rossiter; dir:Alan Strachan [20pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1978: ARMS AND THE MAN - G.B.Shaw (Greenwich Theatre) Felicity Kendal, Lewis Fiander, Norman Eshley, Frank Middlemass, Patricia Lawrence; dir:Robert Chetwyn [28pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1978: THE ACHURCH LETTERS - Don Taylor (Greenwich Theatre) Julian Curry, Sara Kestelman, Gary Watson, Doreen Mantle, Moira Redmond, Victor Lucas; dir:Don Taylor [28pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £2
1978: THE GOLDEN CRADLE: The Rising of The Moon - Lady Gregory, The Cat and The Moon - W.B.Yeats, Purgatory - W.B.Yeats, The Pot of Broth - W.B.Yeats, Riders To The Sea - J.M.Synge (Greenwich Theatre) Kevin Flood, T.P.McKenna, Patrick Waldron, Niall Buggy, James Healey, Kate Binchy, Roisin Donaghy; dir:Siobhan McKenna [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £4
1978: HINDLE WAKES - Stanley Houghton (Greenwich Theatre) Anne Dyson, John Gill, Frances Viner, Clare Kelly, Mark Dignam, Tom Chadbon, Arthur Lovegrove, Jacqueline Tong, Fleur Chandler; dir:Robert Kidd [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £2
1978: AN AUDIENCE CALLED EDOUARD - David Pownall (Greenwich Theatre) David Robb, Susan Hampshire, Jeremy Irons, Stephanie Beacham, David Burke, James Taylor; dir:Alan Strachan [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £4
1978: SEE HOW THEY RUN - Philip King (Greenwich Theatre) David Quilter, Patricia Brake, Josephine Tewson, Terence Hillyer, Trevor Baxter, Rowland Davies; dir:John David [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1978: THE EDITOR REGRETS - William Douglas Home (Greenwich Theatre) Denys Hawthorne, Ballard Berkeley, Anthony Roye, Penny Croft, Caroline Dowdeswell, Robin Marchal, Lawrence Wade, Frank Williams; dir:Anthony Roye [20pp; articles, photos, biographies w.photos; VG] £2
1978: UNDER MILKWOOD - Dylan Thomas (Mayfair Theatre) Welsh National Theatre Company: Malcolm Taylor, Richard Davies, John Francis, Jennifer Hill, Sharon Morgan, Patricia Mort, Sion Probert, Aubrey Richards; dir:Malcolm Taylor [20pp; articles, photos, biographies w.photos; VG] £2
1978: THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH - Royce Ryton (Phoenix) Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Garden, Jo Kendall, Ivor Roberts, Royce Ryton; dir:Jonathan Lynn [28pp; 11 production photos, biographies; VG] £4
1978: THE CRUCIBLE (Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch) Claire Lewis, John Watts, Alex McCrindle [24pp; notes, articles; VG] £3
1978: WHERE STARS WALK - Micheal mac Liammoir (Gate Theatre, Dublin) Noelle Middleton, Conor Evans, Patrick Bedford, Christopher Casson, Hilton Edwards [12pp; biographies, notes; VG] £3
1978: WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (Teatr Y Werin, Aberystwyth) Oxford Playhouse Company: William Russell, Pauline Yates, Michael Barrington [8pp; notes, biographies; VG] £2
1978: THE SECOND MRS.TANQUERAY (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield) Richard Easton, Christopher Guinee, Irene Sutcliffe, Mel Martin; dir:Peter James [10pp; notes, biographies; VG] £2
1978: EQUUS (Thorndike Theatre, Leatherhead) Richard Easton, Steve Morley [24pp; cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1978: SHADOW PLAY - Winston Graham (Salisbury Playhouse) Gilbert Wynne, Charmian May [20pp; biographies, notes; VG] £2
1978: CLOUDS - Michael Frayn (Duke of York's) Tom Courtenay, Felicity Kendal, Mark Kingston [20pp; cast and rehearsal photos; VG] £4
1978: THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (Bristol Old Vic) Harold Innocent, Elizabeth Counsell, June Barrie, Amanda Redman, Brenda Peters, Peter Postlethwaite, Nicholas Farrell; dir:Richard Cottrell [20pp; cast photos; VG] £3
1978: DIRTY LINEN & NEW-FOUND-LAND - Stoppard (Arts Theatre) Richard Goolden, Michael Low; dir:Ed Berman [16pp; Inter-Action Production; photos, articles] £2
1978: LITTLE FOXES - Hellman (Vanbrugh Theatre, RADA) Michael Simkins, Cassie McFarlane; dir:Andrew Neil [8pp single folded sheet; 6x8.25] £2
1978: SNAPSHOTS - Robinson (Theatre Royal, Stratford) Deborah Findlay, Margot Leicester; dir:Jonathan Chadwick [8pp; VG] £1
1978: MARY BARNES - Edgar (Studio, Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Patti Love, Ann Mitchell, Timothy Spall, Roger Allam, Simon Callow, Thelma Whiteley; dir:Peter Farago [4pp; light vertical fold, else VG] £1
1978: THE ELOCUTION OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN - Spears (May Fair Theatre) Gordon Chater; dir:Richard Wherrett [20pp; photos; VG] £2
1978: DRACULA - Deane/Balderston/Stoker (Shaftesbury) Terence Stamp, Derek Godfrey, Nickolas Grace, Rupert Frazer; dir:Dennis Rosa [20pp; photos; plus 6.5x10.4 flyer, slightly rumpled; programme VG] £3
1978: ARMS AND THE MAN - Shaw (Greenwich) Felicity Kendal, Lewis Fiander, Norman Eshley; dir:Robert Chetwyn [28pp; photos, articles etc.; VG] £2
1978: THE WOMAN I LOVE - Dan Sutherland (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Martin Jarvis, Holly Palance, Ralph Michael, Ellen Pollock; dir:Francois Landry [20pp; photos, articles etc.; VG] £2
1978: MY FAT FRIEND - Charles Laurence (Churchill Theatre, Bromley) Hayley Mills, Ian Lavender; dir:Patrick Lau [20pp; photos, biographies etc.; VG] £2
1978: THE DARK HORSE - Sisson (Comedy) Edward Woodward, Barbara Jefford, Tony Haygarth, Murray Melvin, Stacy Dorning, Peter Woodward; dir:Val May [20pp, 5.75x8.25; biographies, photos, articles etc.; light horizontal crease, else VG] £3
1978: THE DARK HORSE - Sisson (Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford) Edward Woodward, Barbara Jefford, Tony Haygarth, Murray Melvin, Stacy Dorning, Peter Woodward; dir:Val May [20pp; biographies, photos, articles etc.; VG] £3
1978: MURDER AMONG FRIENDS - Barry (Comedy) Moira Lister, Tony Britton, Margaret Courtenay, Dermot Walsh, Barry Stokes, Robert Swales; dir:Roger Redfarn [20pp, 5.75x8.25; signed by Margaret Courtenay, biographies, photos etc.; VG] £4
1978 (Apr): A CUP OF KINDNESS - Ben Travers (Pitlochry) Tim Swinton, Lesley Mackie, Terry Wale, Graham Pountney, Moira Lamb, Ursula Smith, Malcolm McKee, Jonathan Battersby; dir:Andrew McKinnon [48pp, 6x8.25; biographies, photos, articles etc.; w.1978 Pitlochry Repertoire Booklet; VG] £3
1978 (Oct): DEATHTRAP - Ira Levin (Garrick) Denis Quilley, Rosemary McHale, Philip Sayer, David Healy; dir:Michael Blakemore [28pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 10 photos etc.; VG] £4
1978 (Nov): NIGHT AND DAY - Tom Stoppard (Phoenix) Diana Rigg, John Thaw, David Langton; dir:Peter Wood [28pp, 5.25x8.5; cast, credits, biographies, production photos etc.; VG] £4
1978 (Mch): SHUT YOUR EYES AND THINK OF ENGLAND - Marriott/Chapman (Apollo)
Donald Sinden, Patsy Rowlands, Frank Thornton, Willoughby Goddard [20pp; 5 photos; VG] £3
1978: THE MATCHMAKER - Thornton Wilder (Her Majesty's) Maria Charles, Bernard Spear, Jack Klaff; dir:Jonathan Lynn [24pp; VG] £3
1978: VIEUX CARRE - Tennessee Williams (Piccadilly) Sylvia Miles, Karl Johnson, Di Trevis, Richard Kane, Betty Hardy, Jonathan Kent; dir:Keith Hack [32pp; photos; VG] £3
1978 (Mch): FILUMENA - De Filippo (Lyric) Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Larry Noble, Patricia Hayes, Sharon Mughan, Jane Gurnett, Christopher Guard, Trevor Eve, Larry Lamb, David Graham, Linda Polan; dir:Franco Zeffirelli [20pp; 6 production photos] £5
1978 (Sep): FILUMENA - De Filippo (Lyric) Joan Plowright, Frank Finlay, Sydney Bromley, Susan Richards, Bobbie Brown, Felicity Steel, Stuart Fox, Robert O'Mahoney, Pierce Brosnan, Hugh Fraser, Carol Sandy; dir:Franco Zeffirelli [28pp; photos; VG] £5
1978: GLOO JOO (Criterion) Antony Brown, Dave Hill, Oscar James; dir:Michael Rudman [28pp; production photos; VG] £3
1978: TEN TIMES TABLE - Ayckbourn (Globe) Paul Eddington, Julia McKenzie; dir:Ayckbourn [32pp; photos; VG] £4
1978 (Jun): WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? - Brian Clark (Savoy) Tom Conti, Jane Asher, Phoebe Nicholls, Richard Leech, Sebastian Shaw; dir:Lindsay-Hogg [28pp; 5.25x8.5; cast list, biographies, 9 photos] £4
1978: FLYING BLIND - Morrison (Royal Court) Simon Callow, Pete Postletwaite [12pp; photos, articles; a bit mucky] £1
1978: NO SEX PLEASE - WE'RE BRITISH - Marriott/Foot (Strand) Moyra Fraser, Peter Graves, Ian Masters, Hugh Lloyd, Graham Wyles, Tara Soppet [28pp; 5 production photos; VG] £4
1978: THE OLD COUNTRY - Bennett (Queen's) Anthony Quayle, Rachel Kempson, Michael Aldridge, Faith Brook; dir:Clifford Williams [24pp; photos; slight binding fault, else VG] (£2) SOLD
1978 (Jan): ONCE A CATHOLIC - O'Malley (Wyndham's) Pat Heywood, Anna Keaveney, Mike Grady, John Rogan, John Boswell, Janes Carr, Jeanne Watts, Doreen Keogh, June Page, Daniel Gerroll; dir:Mike Ockrent [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 8 production photos etc.; VG] (£4) SOLD
1978: THE MILLIONAIRESS - Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Penelope Keith, Nigel Hawthorne, Charles Kay, Angharad Rees, Ian Ogilvy, Simon Jones; dir:Michael Lindsay-Hogg [28pp, 5.25x8.5x; 7 production photosVG] (£4) SOLD
Plays: 1979
1979: CAST - Hugh Leonard (Greenwich Theatre) Tony Doyle, Kevin Moore, Eamon Kelly, Mary Chester, Mike McCabe, P.G.Stephens, Bernadette Shortt, Anne Robson; dir:Robert Gillespie [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1979: SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR - Pirandello (Greenwich Theatre) Michael J.Jackson, Philip Stone, Mona Bruce, Pauline Moran, Nick Dunning, Claire Davenport; dir:Phil Young [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1979: THE PASSING-OUT PARADE - Anne Valery (Greenwich Theatre) Henrietta Baynes, Jane Booker, Hazel Clyne, Susan Colverd, Janine Duvitski, Polly Hemingway, Pat Keen, Charmian May, Wendy Morgan; dir:Jack Emery [24pp; articles, photos, biographies; VG] £3
1979: I SENT A LETTER TO MY LOVE - Bernice Rubens (Greenwich Theatre) Rosemary Leach, Richard Owens, Rhoda Lewis, Denys Graham, Jan Edwards; dir:Alan Strachan [24pp; articles, photos, biographies w.photos; VG] £3
1979: A LIFE IN THE THEATRE - Mamet (Open Space) Freddie Jones, Patrick Ryecart, Gerramy Quarto; dir:Alan Pearlman [6pp triple-fold; biographies, credits; VG] £2
1979: P.S. YOUR CAT IS DEAD - Kirkwood (Open Space) Christopher Gable [6pp triple-fold] £1
1979: CHARLEY'S AUNT (Adelphi) John Inman, Mark Wynter, Andrew Knox, Allan Cuthbertson, Derek Francis, Helen Cherry [24pp; 10+ cast and production photos; punch holes, else VG] £3
1979: NIGHT AND DAY (Phoenix) Diana Rigg, John Thaw; dir:Peter Wood [24pp; 8+ production photos; VG] £4
1979: STAGE STRUCK (Vaudeville) Alan Bates, Sheila Ballantine, Andrew Sharp, Nigel Stock [28pp; cast photos; VG] £4
1979: HAPPY BIRTHDAY (Apollo) Christopher Timothy, Ian Lavender, Elizabeth Counsell, Julia Foster [24pp; 12 production photos; punch holes, else VG] £3
1979: GLOO JOO - Michael Hastings (Criterion) Oscar James, Heather Tobias, Antony Brown, Dave Hill, Edward Halsted, Akosua Busia; dir:Michael Rudman [24pp; 5 production photos, biographies; VG] £3
1979: THE MILLIONAIRESS - Shaw (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Penelope Keith, Nigel Hawthorne, Charles Kay, Angharad Rees, Ian Ogilvy, Simon Jones [24pp; production photos; VG] £4
1979 (Mch): DEATHTRAP - Ira Levin (Garrick) Denis Quilley, Rosemary McHale, Philip Sayer, David Healy; dir:Michael Blakemore [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 10 photos etc.; VG] £4
1979 (Nov): CAN YOU HEAR ME AT THE BACK? - Brian Clark (Piccadilly) Peter Barkworth, Hannah Gordon, Stephanie Beacham, Michael Maloney, Edward Hardwicke; dir:Barry Davis [28pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 6 photos etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4
1979 (Jul): WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? - (Savoy) Bill Paterson, Carol Nimmons, Hugh Quarshie, Richard Leech; dir:Michael Lindsay-Hogg [24pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 9 photos etc.; VG] £4
1979: MIDDLE AGE SPREAD - Roger Hall (Lyric) Richard Briers, Paul Eddington, Tom Chadbon, Judy Loe, Sheila Grant; dir:Robert Kidd [28pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 11 photos etc.; VG] £4
1979: THE GIN GAME - D.L.Coburn (Lyric) Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy; dir:Mike Nichols [32pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 10 photos etc.; VG] £5
1979: OUTSIDE EDGE - Richard Harris (Queens) Julia McKenzie, Maureen Lipman, Richard Kane, John Kane, Julian Curry, Susan Carpenter, Ian Trigger; dir:Robin Lefevre [28pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 10 photos etc.; VG] £4
1979: ONCE A CATHOLIC - O'Malley (Wyndham's) James Ellis, Angela Vale, Kevin Elyot, Janette Foggo, Clare Travers-Deacon, Frank Shelley, Patricia Heneghan, Christopher Ellison; dir:Mike Ockrent [32pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, photos, articles etc.; VG] £4
1979 (Sep): THE CASE OF THE OILY LEVANTINE - Anthony Shaffer (Her Majesty's) Hywel Bennett, Adrienne Posta, Bernard Archard, William Squire, Wolfe Morris, Anna Quayle, Paul Angelis, Gwen Nelson, Roger Leach; dir:Patrick Dromgoole [32pp, 5.25x8.5; biographies, 7 production photos etc.; VG] £4
1979: AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG.. - C.P.Taylor (Queen's) Patricia Routledge, Gemma Jones, Veronica Sowerby, Christian Rodska, Ray Brooks; dir:Mike Ockrent [32pp; 10+ production photos; VG] £4
1979: AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG.. - C.P.Taylor (Wimbledon) Patricia Routledge, Gemma Jones; dir:Mike Ockrent [20pp; plus colourful flyer; VG] £3
1979: AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG.. - C.P.Taylor (Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham) Patricia Routledge, Gemma Jones; dir:Mike Ockrent [20pp; VG] £3
1979: SWEENEY TODD - C.G.Bond (Redgrave Theatre, Farnham) Malcolm Hebden, Mary Griffiths, Ian Bartholemew; dir:David Horlock [24pp; notes, biographies; VG] £3
1979: THE ERPINGHAM CAMP - Joe Orton (King's Head) Peter Vaughan, Patrick Waldron, Rosalyn Elvin, Brian Capron; dir:Stewart Trotter [12pp; biographies; rumpled, else VG] £2
1979: BEDROOM FARCE (Birmingham Repertory Theatre) Robert Flemyng, Irene Sutcliffe [20pp; extensive notes cast photos and biographies; VG] £3
1979: DONKEY'S YEARS (Bristol Old Vic, Theatre Royal) Neil Stacy, Miles Anderson, Ian Mackenzie, Robert O'Mahoney, Bill Wallis, Andrew Hilton, Jack Klaff, June Barrie; dir:John David [20pp; VG] £3
1979: CLOUD NINE - Caryl Churchill (Mac Robert Arts Centre, Stirling) Joint Stock Theatre Group: Antony Sher, Jim Hooper, Julie Covington, Miriam Margolyes, Carole Hayman, Tony Rohr [20pp; photo; light scribbles on back, else VG] £3
1979: HABEAS CORPUS (Crucible, Sheffield) Royce Ryton, Irene Sutcliffe, Penelope Lee, Richard Cottan, Howard Lew Lewis, Peter Wilson, Julie-Christine Young; dir:Mel Smith [12pp; cast photos, articles; VG] £3
1979: FRENCH WITHOUT TEARS - Rattigan (Chester Gateway) Ray McCleary, David Cann, Marianne Sherman; dir:David Thacker [20pp; photos; VG] £2
1979: THE CONSTANT WIFE - Somerset Maugham (Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon) Margaretta Scott, Susan Jameson, Pamela Moiseiwitsch, Trevor Baxter; dir:Sheila Hancock [20pp; photos; VG] £3
1979: SEMI-DETACHED - David Turner (Greenwich) Leonard Rossiter, Gillian Raine, Joan Sanderson, Peter Schofield; dir:Leonard Rossiter and Alan Strachan [24pp; photos, cartoons, articles etc.; VG] £2
1979: THE PLAY'S THE THING - Molnar (Greenwich) John Moffatt, Julia McKenzie, James Cossins, John Tordoff; dir:Alan Strachan [24pp; photos, articles etc.; VG] £2
1979: TEN TIMES TABLE - Ayckbourn (Greenwich) Dandy Nichols, Robert Grange, Clare Clifford, Amanda Barrie; dir:Tenniel Evans [16pp; biographies etc.; VG] £2
1979 (18 Oct): YOU NEVER CAN TELL - Shaw (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) Paul Rogers, Peter Egan, Sian Phillips, Cheryl Campbell, David Waller, Frank Middlemass; dir:David Giles [28pp; Opening Performance in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh; text of Prologue spoken by John Gielgud; photos, biographies, articles; charming period advertisements; VG] £5
1979: YOU NEVER CAN TELL - Shaw (Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) Paul Rogers, Peter Egan, Sian Phillips, Cheryl Campbell, David Waller, Frank Middlemass; dir:David Giles [24pp; photos, biographies, articles; slightly faded, else VG] £3
1979 (Apr): THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Keith Michell, Susan Hampshire, Edward Petherbridge, John Quentin, John Cater, Denis Lill; dir:Paul Giovanni [24pp, 5x8.5, contained in a cardboard slip-case 6x 9.5; A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery; articles, 12+ original Sherlock Holmes line drawings, cast biographies w.charming modern line drawings, etc.; VG] £5
1979 (Sep): THE CRUCIFER OF BLOOD (Theatre Royal, Haymarket) Gerald Harper, Kate O'Mara, Derek Royle, David Horovitch, John Quentin, Gary Raymond; dir:Paul Giovanni [32pp; A New Sherlock Holmes Mystery; articles, 12+ original Sherlock Holmes line drawings, cast biographies w.charming modern line drawings, etc.; VG] £4
1979: OOH LA LA! (Tour) Hull Truck Theatre Company: John Blanchard, Bridget Ashburn, Mark Brignal, Rosalind March, Hamish Reid, Frances Brookes, Stephen Warbeck; dir:Mike Bradwell, music:Stephen Warbeck [16pp, 8.25x11.75; cast and company photos and biographies; 11 photos of past Hull Truck productions; minor marks, else VG] £3
1979: THE FAMILY REUNION - T.S.Eliot (New Round House) Royal Exchange Theatre Company: Edward Fox, Pauline Jameson, Daphne Oxenford, Constance Chapman, Avril Elgar, Joanna David, Esmond Knight; dir:Michael Elliott [24pp, 8.25x11.75; 40+ photos; VG] £5
1979: JOKING APART - Ayckbourn (Globe) Christopher Cazenove, Alison Steadman, Julian Fellowes, Marcia Warren; dir:Ayckbourn [20pp; photos; plus colourful flyer; VG] (£3) SOLD
1979: FILUMENA - De Filippo (Lyric) Joan Plowright, Frank Finlay, Patricia Hayes, Pierce Brosnan; dir:Zeffirelli [20pp; 5.25x8.5; w.4 tickets; cover slightly faded] (£5) SOLD
1979: ECSTASY - Mike Leigh (Hampstead Theatre) Julie Walters, Ron Cook, Jim Broadbent, Stephen Rea; dir:Mike Leigh [20pp; photos; VG] (£4) SOLD
1979: HAPPY DAYS - Beckett (Royal Court) Billie Whitelaw, Leonard Fenton; dir:Samuel Beckett [12pp, 5x9.75; photos; VG] (£5) SOLD
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