| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the formation, disbandment, reformation, finance, administration, performances and activities of the Oxford and Cambridge Players (OCP) with the assistance of Dartington Hall and the formation, finance, administration, performances and activities of the Elizabethan Theatre Company (ETC) by the London Mask Theatre in association with the Trustees of Dartington Hall.
Subjects include: an invitation to the OCP to Dartington Hall for a period of rest, rehearsal and performance; meetings; arrangements for performances by the OCP; applications for membership to the OCP; arrangements for a Shakespearean Festival sponsored by the ETC in association with the Arts Department; arrangements for performances including a open air performance by the ETC; the future organisation of the ETC; and an apology by John Barton for watching a performance without a shirt on his back.
Correspondents include: Peter Cox; Dorothy Elmhirst; Toby Robertson, R W Saunders and Yolande Bird, OCP; Nevill Coghill; Glen Byam Shaw, Shakespeare Memorial Theatre; L H Mitchell; Leonard Elmhirst; Doris Crump; Michael MacOwan; Thane Parker, Westminster Theatre; David Webster, Royal Opera House; John Barton; and Charles Landstone.
Additional material includes: programmes for performances by the OCP and the ETC; a 'Plan' and 'Proposal' for the OCP; Biographical details for the OCP; Arts Department memorandum from Peter Cox including 'Shakespearean Festival' and 'The Elizabethan Theatre Company' (1953); a press release regarding the ETC; a letter of invitation to the opening performances of Henry V and Julius Caesar from Chairman of Trustees, with list of addressees; press cuttings; ETC 'Balance sheet, and Income and Expenditure Account' (1953); Management Report from David Webster to members of the ETC (1954); report for the ETC 'Aim of the Company'; and OCP headed notepaper. |