| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding performances in the Barn Theatre. Subjects include: an invitation to a performance of Juno and the Paycock in the Barn Theatre and the activities of Basil Langton; arrangements for a performance by Joyce Grenfell; and a score and scripts the comedy 'Mandragola.
Correspondents include: Sean O'Casey; Peter Cox; Aubrey Blackburn; Leonard Bennett; Joyce Grenfell; Florence Burton; Ashley Dukes and Virginia Meddowes, Mercury Theatre.
Additional material includes a programme for Designs for Theatre and Ballets, by Leslie Hurry for the Arts Council of Great Britain (1947) and programmes for performances staged in the Barn Theatre including: the American University Theatre Summer School in 'The Family of Man' (1950); the Stage Group in 'The Women have their Way', The Workhouse Ward', 'The Relapse' and 'Twelfth Night' (1950); Dawlish Repertory Company in 'Everyman' (1951); S John's Players of Budleigh Salterton in 'The Sacrifice of Isaac' (1951); the Middle School in 'Emil and the Detectives' (1950) and 'The Rose and the Ring' (1951); the Carlean Players in 'Macbeth; Plymouth Shakespeare Society in 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' (1951); Crediton Arts Club in 'Too True to be Good' (1951); the Intimate Opera Company (1950); East Devon Festival Drama Group in 'The Shoemaker's Holiday (1951); students from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, 'Ann Veronica' by H G Wells (1951); and the Playreading Group in 'The Happy Journey' by Thornton Wilder. |