The Archive Collection

The trust maintains an archive of heritage materials stored in a safe environment.

Please contact the Trust's Archivist at archive@unitytheatre.org.uk if you wish to request access to the Archive or materials.

 

The collection is divided into the following groups of papers:

Series 1   Albums of photographs and press cuttings (THM/9/1/1 to THM/9/1/2)

Series 2   Management papers and accounts (THM/9/2/1 to THM/9/2/3)

Series 3   Periodicals (THM/9/3/1)

Series 4   Documents, manuscripts and publications recording the history of the Unity Theatre (THM/9/4/1)

Series 5   An alphabetical series of subject files dealing with aspects of Unity Theatre’s organisation or history (THM/9/5/1 to THM/9/5/3)

Series 6   Files on individual Unity Theatre productions, organised chronologically, covering the period 1936-1994 (THM/9/7/1 to THM/9/7/25)

Series 7   Scripts for plays and other work produced by Unity Theatre, arranged alphabetically (THM/9/8/1 to THM/9/8/23)

The following box list briefly describes the contents of each of the sections. For fuller details of the collection’s contents, a card index was prepared by Unity Theatre’s Honorary Archivist, Clive Gehle, and is available for consultation.

Series 1   Albums of photographs and press cuttings

Box 1   -   THM/9/1/1      -     three photograph albums, plus a folder of loose “unidentified” photographs

Box 2   -   THM/9/1/2      -     Three albums of press cuttings

Series 2   Management papers and accounts

Box 1   -   THM/9/2/1      -     Management Committee minutes for 1956, 1957

Box 2   -   THM/9/2/2      -     Balance Sheets and Reports, 1937-69 (Incomplete)

Box 3   -   THM/9/2/3      -     Balance Sheets and Annual Reports, 1970-83, Statements of accounts 1965, 1966, 1970, 1971

Management committee minutes 1936-1939

General purpose Committee minutes 1943-44, 1945

Forms of contract

Membership list, 1935

Personnel Sub-Committee file

Rule books (6) plus amendments

Series 3   Periodicals 

Box 1   -   THM/9/3/1      -     The Active Member, February 1951, New Theatre: Official organ of the Unity Theatre Club and Left Book Club Theatre Guild

No.2    -           February 1937

No.3    -           January 1938

No.4    -           February 1938

No.5    -           March/April 1938

New Theatre

No.1    -           August 1939

No.2    -           September 1939

No.1    -           December 1945

-           February 1946 (unnumbered)

Vol. III No. II     -   May 1947

Unity Theatre Bulletin 1938 - 1939

Unity Newsletters 1937 - 1938 (photocopies)

Unity Newsletters 1942 - 46, 1956, 1965, 1967 - 68, 1970 - 72

Unity News 1 & 2, January and February 1947

Unity Theatre Call Issues 1 - 11 c.1943 - 45

Series 4   Documents, manuscripts and publications recording the history of the Unity Theatre

Box 1   -   THM/9/4/1      -     Photographs of plaque unveiling ceremonies 1975, 1982, 1984

                                                Two typescript letters (6pp & 7pp) from Norman Draper to Colin Chambers regarding the history and activities of                                                                     Cardiff Unity

                                                Photocopy of a thesis by Ronald Frederick Travis The Unity Theatre of Great Britain, 1936 - 1946: a decade of                                                               production (Wisconsin State University, 1968)

                                                Album of photographs of Unity productions, mainly featuring Una Brandon-Jones (and presented to the archive by                                                                 her)

                                                Typescript memoirs of the Unity Theatre by Una Brandon-Jones High Lights and Low Lights

                                                Batch of Unity Theatre leaflets (membership, fundraising, publicity, etc.)

                                                People’s Theatre: the story of Unity Theatre (n.d. l2pp)

                                                Unity Theatre Handbook (n.d. 28pp, illus)

                                                Here is Drama: Behind the scenes at Unity Theatre, London ([1963] 16PP)

                                                Notebook with accounts for the printing and sales of Here is Drama Unity Theatre Presents: the story of a                                                                                     people’s movement  (n.d.18pp) - photocopy

                                                Typescript text of Living Newspaper No.2 Crisis (a.k.a. “Czechoslovakia”)

 


 

Series 5   Alphabetical series of subject files dealing with aspects of Unity Theatre’s organisation or history

 

Box 1   -   THM/9/5/1      -     Subject files on the following:

                                                Architects’ Plans

                                                Banner

                                                Britannia Street

                                                Cambridge Progressive Players

                                                Classics of the Cinema

                                                Concerts at the Unity Theatre

                                                Ephemera

                                                Film File (Unity Theatre)

                                                Glasgow Unity

                                                Goldington Street Theatre

                                                Leaflets

                                                Leaflets 1973

                                                Left Book Club Theatre Guild

                                                Mailing List 1955

                                                Manchester Theatre of Action (became Theatre Workshop)

                                                Merseyside Unity Theatre

                                                Mobile Shows Material

 

Box 2   -   THM/9/5/2      -     Subject files on the following:

                                                Music (for Unity Theatre productions)

                                                Music hail songs, sketches, etc

                                                New Theatre - Australia

                                                Nothing is Lost - pamphlet published as a tribute to Ann Lindsay, 1914 - 1954, Unity Theatre actor and worker

                                                Opening night at Goldington Street, 25 November 1937 – personal recollections of Unity Theatre by Vic West

                                                Oxford Unity Theatre

                                                Playwrights Workshop

                                                Dick Polling material (Unity company member)

                                                Professional Company

 

Box 3   -   THM/9/5/3      -     Subject files on the following:

                                                Sheffield         -           Left Book Club Theatre Guild

                                                The stage through the ages (series of murals)

                                                STGRU (Socialist Theatre Groups for Rebuilding Unity)/Friends of Unity

                                                Summer Schools

                                                Teeside Unity

                                                Theatre School

                                                Unity Theatre Trust (Deed of Variation)

                                                Workers Theatre Movement

 


 

Series 6   Files on individual Unity Theatre productions, organised chronologically, covering the period 1936-1994

                  A full listing of the contents of this series is provided as an appendix to this list

 

Box 1   -   THM/9/6/1      -     Production dates 1936-1938

Box 2   -   THM/9/6/2      -     Production dates 1939-1942

Box 3   -   THM/9/6/3      -     Production dates 1943-1945 (A-Ju)

Box 4   -   THM/9/6/4      -     Production dates 1945 (Sw-Z) - 1946

Box 5   -   THM/9/6/5      -     Production dates 1947-1948 (A-Si)

Box 6   -   THM/9/6/6      -     Production dates 1948 (St-Z) - 1950 (A-Bu)

Box 7   -   THM/9I6/7      -     Production dates 1950 (Ci-Z) - 1952 (A-Ca)

Box 8   -   THM/9/6/8      -     Production dates 1952 (Ch-Z) - 1954 (A-Mo)

Box 9   -   THM/9/6/9      -     Production dates 1954 (Re-Z) - 1957

Box 10 -   THM/9/6/10   -     Production dates 1958

Box 11 -   THM/9/6/11   -     Production dates 1959-1960 (A-Dr)

Box 12 -   THM/9/6/12   -     Production dates 1960 (Dr-Z) - 1961 (A-An)

Box 13 -   THM/9I6/13   -     Production dates 1961 (Be-Z)

Box 14 -   THM/9/6/14   -     Production dates 1963

Box 15 -   THM/9/6/15   -     Production dates 1964

Box 16 -   THM/9/6/16   -     Production dates 1965 - 1966

Box 17 -   THM/9/6/17   -     Production dates 1967 - 1968

Box 18 -   THM/9/6/18   -     Production dates 1968 - 1970

Box 19 -   THM/9/6/19   -     Production dates 1971

Box 20 -   THM/9/6/20   -     Production dates 1972

Box 21 -   THM/9/6/21   -     Production dates 1973

Box 22 -   THM/9/6/22   -     Production dates 1974 (A-Me)

Box 23 -   THM/9/6/23   -     Production dates 1974 (Ne-Z)

Box 24 -   THM/9/6/24   -     Production dates 1975-1980

Box 25 -   THM/9/6/25   -     Production dates 1982-1994

 


 

Series 7   Scripts for plays and other work produced by Unity Theatre, arranged alphabetically

                  A full listing of the contents of this series is provided as an appendix to this list

 

Box 1   -   THM/9/7/1      -     Texts A-Arm

Box 2   -   THM/9/7/2      -     Texts Aro-Bure

Box 3   -   THM/9/7/3      -     Texts Bury-Casef

Box 4   -   THMI9/7/4      -     Texts Caseo-Cind

Box 5   -   THM/9/7/5      -     Texts Cind-Comp

Box 6   -   THM/9/7/6      -     Texts Comp-D

Box 7   -   THM/9/7/7      -     Texts E-Foc

Box 8   -   THM/9/7/8      -     Texts Fou-Go

Box 9   -   THM/9/7/9      -     Texts Gu-He

Box 10 -   THM/9/7/10   -     Texts Hi-L

Box 11 -   THM/9/7/11   -     Texts J-La

Box 12 -   THM/9/7/12   -     Texts Le-Maj

Box 13 -   THM/917/13  -     Texts Man-Min

Box 14 -   THM/9/7/14   -     Texts Mis-Of

Box 15 -   THM/9/7/15   -     Texts On-P

Box 16 -   THM/9/7/16   -     Texts Ra-Re

Box 17 -   THM/9/7/17   -     Texts Ro-Rop

Box 18 -   THM/9/7/18   -     Texts Sa-Si

Box 19 -   THM/9/7/19   -     Texts Sk-Sw

Box 20 -   THM/9/7/20   -     Texts T-Tm

Box 21 -   THIM/9/7/21  -     Texts To-Tu

Box 22 -   THM/9/7/22   -     Texts U-W

Box 23 -   THM/9/7/23   -     Texts Wo-Z


 

Additional unsequenced boxes (later donations by Clive Gehle?)

 

Box 1   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

Box 2   -   Unity Theatre     -           Unidentified Photographs

Box 3   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

Box 4   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

Box 5   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

Box 6   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

Box 7   -   Unity Theatre     -           Revival 1989 - 1994 Various files

 

APPENDIX Full listing of contents of Series 6  Files on individual Unity Theatre productions, organised chronologically, covering the period 1936 - 1994

 

Box 6.1

 

Private Hicks (1936)

Waiting for Lefty (1936), Photographs

Where’s that Bomb? (1936), includes 1 Photograph

Opening of new Workers Theatre Programme (1937)

Plant in the Sun (1937), Photographs Included

Not for us (1937)

Cannibal Carnival (1937), Photographs Included

Aristocrats (1937), Photographs included

Plant in the Sun/Bury the dead (1938)

Busmen (1938), Photographs included

Babes in the Wood (1938), Photographs included

Case of the Baffled Boss (1938)

Trial of a Judge (1938)

Senora Carrars Rifles (1938), Photographs included (some crumpled cuttings)

Bury the Dead (1938), Photographs included.  Also torn sheet with typed list of characters

Folder for a play called “Crisis Czechoslovakia” (1938), photographs included

 


 

Box 6.2

 

Give me Liberty (1939)

Harvest in the North (1939), photographs included

Colony (1939), photographs included

Orchestral concert (1939), programme for unity string orchestra

Sandbag Follies (1939), photographs included

Turn up the lights (1939), photographs included

Jack the Giant Killer (1940), photographs included

Distant Point (1940)

MatchGirls (1940)

“Old Time Music Hall” (1940), 1 photograph

4th Anniversary Fair (1940)

Distant Point (1941)

Till the Day I Die (1941)

In the Spirit of the Revolution (1941)

Sabotage (1942)

Get Cracking (1942)

Let’s be Offensive (1942)

 

Box 6.3

 

Buster (1943), includes very poor condition programme

Grand Review (1943) Poster

Folder marked “India Speaks” (1943) - contains cuttings (photocopy) commenting on The Lisbon Story

One Third of a Nation (1943)

Sword of the Spirit (1943)

Salute to the Gentle Sex (1943), 1 photograph

Spanish Village (1943), photographs included

All Change Here (1944), includes 1 photograph

Green and Pleasant Land (1944)

The Rochdale Pioneers (1944)

Comrade Detective (1944), photographs included

One more Mile (1944), photographs included

Winkles and Champagne (1943) photographs included

Shop Window (1944), rather poor condition poster

Alice in Thunderland (1944) rather poor condition poster

Yellow Star (1945), photographs included

Late Extra (1945)

Juno and the Paycock (1945), photographs included

 

Box 6.4

 

Swinging to the Left (1945), photographs included

They came to a City (1945)

God Bless the Guv’nor (1945), photographs included

Gold is where you find it (1946)

Lower Depths (1945) includes one photograph

Citizen Kane (1945)

Buster (1945)

The Star turns Red (1946), photographs included

Boy meets Girl (1946), photographs included

All God’s Chillun Got Wings (1946), photographs included

Awake and Sing! (1946)

Casey Jones (1946), photographs included, also a poster, rather poor condition

Star Parade (1946)

Pardon my Greek (1946)

This Trampled Earth (1946)

The Shepherd and the Hunter (1946) includes one photograph, also poster in poor condition “a Season of Great Films” programme (1946)

 


 

Box 6.5

 

Dragnet (1947), includes one photograph

Out of the Dust (1947)

What Happens to Love (1947)

Golden Boy (1947), includes one photograph

Enemies (1947), photographs. Also includes poster in very poor condition

Stars on Parade (1947)

The MatchGirls (1947), photographs included. Also poster in very poor condition

The Russian Question (1947), photographs included

Black Magic (1947), photographs included

The Star Turns Red (1948), photographs included

What’s Left (1948), photo included

 

Box 6.6

 

All Star Variety Show (1948)

Winkles and Champagne (1948) photographs included

The Whole World Over (1948), includes one photograph, U

Lions After Slumber (1948)

Six Men of Dorset (1948), photograph included

All Star Concert (1948)

The Townshends (1949), photographs included

Cousin Elwyn (1949), includes rather poor condition poster

Plant in the Sun/Where’s That Bomb (1949)

The Jolly George (1949)

Thirteenth Anniversary Variety Concert (1949):

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (1949) photographs included

The Circling Dove (1950)

 


 

Box 6.7

 

Buster (1950), photographs included

Hell is what you make It (1950), photographs included

Winkles and Champagne (1950), photographs included

How I Wonder (1950), photographs included

Longitude (1950), photographs included

The World of the King (1951), photographs included

Here  Goes!” (1951), photographs included

Hawthorne Grove (1951)

Mother Goose (1951), photographs included (2 stuck on brown paper)

The Germans (1951), photographs included aAA US

The Cradle will Rock (1951), photographs included

Barrier Across Europe (1952), Photographs included (has programme stuck on badly crumpled brown paper)

The Wages of Eve (1952), photographs included

The Candy Story (1952), photographs included

 

Box 6.8

 

Strangers in the Land (1952)

Mild and Bitter (1952)

Christmas Bridge (1952), photographs included

The Bridge of Life (i952)

Three in a Row (1953), photographs included u

Turn it up (1953), includes one photograph

No! (1953) includes one photograph

The Rosenbergs (1953),

Cinderella (1953)

Timid People (1954), photographs included

Reedy River (1954), photographs included

Shoemakers Holiday (1954)

 


 

Box 6.9

 

The Land of the living (1954)

The Dockers Tanner (1954), includes one photograph

Montserrat (1954)

The Road to Life (1955)

Pillars of Society (1955), photographs included

The Shadow of the Swastika (1955), photographs included

The Russian For Yes (1955), photographs included

The Women of Troy (1955)

Peace Meal (1955)

Othello (1956)

Nekrassov (1956), includes one photograph

Widowers Houses (1956)

Polly (1956), photographs included

World on Edge (1956) r

The Exception and the Rule (1956), photographs included

Hold the Line (1956)

Burlesque (1957), photographs included

Paul Robeson Concert (1957)

Mind the Baby (1957)

Cyanamide (1957), photographs included

 

Box 6.10

 

The Ganze Macher by Ephraim Kishon (April 1958)

The Crucible by Arthur Miller (February 1958)

Tripe and Onions/The Green Eyed Monster (1958)

Match Girls by Robert Mitchell, September (1957)

TV & Labour Movement Conference (1957)

The Biggest Thief in Town (1957)

Wally Pone by Lionel Bart (1957)

Robin Hood and His Merry Men (Pantomime) (1958)

Call me not Naomi (1958)

Heartbreak House June (1958)

Mother Courage (1958?)

 

Box 6.11

 

Take it as Red (Revue) (1959)

Puerto Franco (1958)

God Bless the Guv’nor (1959)

Anna Christie (1959)

The Risen People (?)

Rocket for the Governor (1959)

Shakespeare’s Lovers (1960)

Lady Audley’s Secret/Music Hall (1960)

Androcles and the Lion (1960)

Bloomsday (1960)

The Offshore Island (1960)

 

Box 6.12

 

The Big Win with Cage Productions (1960), photographs on cardboard

Drama in the Making (3 plays) (1960)

The Seagull (1960)

You Won’t Always be on Top (1960)

Ragged Trousered Philanthropist (1960)

Misadventures of Mr Pickwick (Musical), (1960)

The Visions of Simone Machard (1961)

 

Box 6.13

 

Beer and Skittles (1961)

The Lower Depths (1961)

The Recruiting Officer (1961)

And him Stretched (1961)

Affluent Athenian (1961)

Aladdin (1962)

Spring ‘71 by Adamov (World Premiere) (1963)

Away (1963), photographs included

Circus (1963)

 

Box 6.14

 

The Man who bought a Battlefield (1963)

All Star Charity Show (at the Adelphi), (October 1963)

All Star Charity Show (at Metropolitan, Edgware Rd) (May 1963)

Gala Cabaret and Dance (1963)

The Fury of Philip Hotz/The Scavengers (1963)

Unity Theatre and the Unions (1963)

The Caucasian Chalk Circle and poster (1964)

Large Photograph from unknown production (?)

Its Ours (to make purchase of Unity Theatre by its members 9 May 1964)

See a Man falling (1963)

Port and Lemon + poster (Jan 1963)

Good Woman of Setzuan (1963)

 

Box 6.15

 

Life of Kaggs (1963)

Three in One (1963)

High Jinks of Bishop Saull (1963)

School of Wives (1963)

Earoles (?)

Hedda Gabler (1962)

East Lynne and Music Hall (1963)

A Doll’s House (1963)

People Like Us (1963)

A Memorey of Two Mondays/Oh Freedom poster only

The Glass Menagerie (1964)

Everything in the Garden (1964)

The Licence (1964)

Chicken Soup with Barley (1965

The Deviates (1963)

 

Box 6.16

 

Squaring the Circle (1964)

Little Malcolm and his struggle against the Eunuchs (1965)

Yegor Bulichov (1965)

Julius Caesar (1965)

There’s a Megabutton on my Living-room Floor (1965)

Christmas Palace of Varieties (1965).

God Bless the Guv’nor (1965)

Death of a Salesman (1966)

Sweeney Todd and Music Hall (1965)

Playboy of the Western World (1966)

Inherit the Wind (1966)

 

Box 6.17

 

John D Muggins is Dead (1967)

The Country Wife (1967)

Gala Performance (1967)

The Don’t Just Sit There Show & 2 plays by David Campton (1967)

Antigone (Brecht) (1967)

The Feather Pluckers (1967)

Armoured Train 14.69 with large poster in Russian (1967)

The Rent (1968)

Vietreview ‘68 (1968)

Harold Muggins is a Martyr (1968)

Say Uncle (1968)

Billy Liar (1968)

Dirty Work at the Crossroads (1968)

 

Box 6.18

 

The Diamond, Bone and Hammer and Along the Shoughs of Ulster (1969)

Strike (1969)

Rag to the Bull (1969)

The Frogs and Co... Axed (1969)

Epitaph for George Dillon (1969)

The Mother (1969)

Festival Music Hall (1969)

Cinderella (1969)

Unity Theatre Artists/The Co-operation (1970)

Triple Bill (1970)

Jack and the Beanstalk (1970)

A Case for Euthanasia (1970)

The Agony (1970)

The Demonstration (1970)

The Bolsheviks (1970)

South Africa 70 (1970) .

The Misadventures of Mr Pickwick (1970)

 

Box 6.19

 

The Chinese Machine (1971)

Robert Owen (1971), including photographs

It’s Never too Late (1971)

The Farmworker (1971)

Captain Swing at the Penny Gaff (1971), including photographs

The Dragon (1971)

In Place of Strife (1971), including photographs

They made a present of Mornington Crescent (1971), including photographs

 


 

Box 6.20

 

Waiting for Lefty (1972)

Bull Durham or the Great Turd and How to Keep it Rolling (1972) including photographs

Summerfolk (1972), including photographs

Rent or Caught in the Act (1972)

Pins and Needles (1972)

Burlesque (1972), including photographs

Huis Clos and A Matter of Convenience (1972)

“Festival of Poets” (1973)

L’Avare Et Cie (1973)

The Concert at Saint Ovide (1973), including photographs

 

Box 6.21

 

Partitions (1973)

“C.A.A. Showcase” (1973)

One Way Trip (1973)

The Way of the World (1973)

By my Life (1973)

At Enormous Expense… (1973)

Tom Barker of Camden - and the World (1973) Including Photographs

“Old Time Music Hall” (1973)

The Reign of Terror and the Great Money Trick (1973)

New Positions (1973), including photographs

 

Box 6.22

 

“…And play on the flutes of their own vertebrae” (1973)

How we knocked ‘em in the Old Kent Road (1973), including photographs

Widower’s Houses (1974), including photographs

The Tolmer Square Show (1974) folder marked Will Somers Show

Case for a Rebel (1974), including photographs

Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning and The Inhabitants (1974) (folder marked ‘openhouse’)

The Recruiting Officer (1974)

Vietnam - “The Post-War’ War (1974)

The Jump (1974), including Photographs

 

Box 6.23

 

Storm Warning (1974)

The Tigers are Coming O.K. ? (1974) including photographs

The Police and Saxon (1974), including photographs (folder marked ‘appeals’)

Memories (1974)

“The Collier Laddie” A Legend of the Coalfields (folder marked Colony)

Before your very eyes (1974), including photographs

Ten Nights in a Bar Room (1974)

“NCCL 40th Anniversary Show” (1974)?

Common will against the Giant (1974), including photographs.

Right Turn Triple Bill (1975), including photograph

The Bureaucracy Show (1975)

The Nuns (1975)

The Cocoa Party (1975)

“God’s Just a Copper” (1977)

Waiting for Lefty (undated - no year noted, a rehearsed reading May 1st)

God Bless The Guv’nor (1979-80)

The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1980)

Mad Tom or the Man of Rights (1980), including photographs.

 

Box 6.25

 

Then and The Clyde is Red (1981

“Reminiscences of Unity Theatre” (1982)

Then/Bikini Fable (1982)

New Positions (1982), including photographs

Come Fry with me (1983)

Comprehensive Cuts (1983), including photographs

“A Tribute to Laurie Davies” (1984), including photographs

“Workers Theatre - National Theatre - Platforms at the National”

“May Day Social” (1990) + (1991)

“Unity Social” (1990)

What’s Left Now (1991)

Major Minor a Topical Revue, with A Small Price (1992), including photographs, also posters

Horseman Pass by (1994)

 

APPENDIX: Full listing of contents of Series 7 Texts of individual Unity Theatre productions, organised alphabetically by title

 

Box 7.1

 

According to Law by Noel Houston

The Affluent Athenian by Derek M Hall

Aladdin

Alice in Thunderland by Bill Rowbotham

All Aboard by Ben Bengal

All Change Here by Ted Willis

The Amazons

And Play on Flutes of their own vertebrae by Bethani Travis

Antigone Ad. Brecht

Armoured tram 14.69 by Vsevold Ivanov

 

Box 7.2

Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne, Ad. Pavel Kohout

A.R.P. by Vance Marshall (2 folders; 1 marked 1st script with revisions, 2nd marked revised script)

Babes in the Wood by Robert Mitchell

The Bargain

Barrier Across Europe

The Bells are Ringing by Ted Willis

Bikini Fable by Gadfan Morris

Black Madonna by Roger Smith

Black Mass by C Romilly

Black on White by Ephraim Kishon, Tr. L Small

Bull Durham by Jeremy Newton (2 folders)

Bureaucracy Show by Jack Bingham

 

Box 7.3

 

Bury the Dead by Irwin Shaw

Busmen

Buy me a House by Bernard Rickman

Caliban Lives by Richard Drain

Call me not Naomi by Ruth Messinger,

The Candy Story by Barnard Rubm

Cannibal Carnival by Herbert Hodge

The Case of the Baffled Boss

 

Box 7.4

 

Case for Euthanasia by John Clarke (extremely shabby folder)

The Chalk Line by Wilson John Haire

Children of the Shadow by Ben Zion Tomer

Cinderella (Hardback pad containing typed text, on cover it’s marked Stage Managers Book)

Cinderella (1958)

Cinderella Colin Semel

 

Box 7.5

 

Cinderella (1970)

Cinderella Bill Franklin

Cinderella/Colony by Geoffrey Trease

Comprehensive Cuts by Vic Jones (7 Orange folders in total)

 

Box 7.6

 

Comprehensive Cuts Con’td

The Cradle will Rock by Mark Blitzstein

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Defence Regulation 18-B Teeside Unity Theatre

The Diamond, Bone and Hammer and Along the Shoughs of Ulster by Wilson John Haire

The Dragon by Yevgeny Schwartz

 

Box 7.7

 

Earoles by Michael Feld

East Lynne by Mrs Henry Wood

Enough of All This! Simon Blumenfeld

Ericka Takes Over by William Shand

The Fall of the House of Slusher (3 folders comprising original manuscript, 1937 version, 1939 version)

The Feather Pluckers by John Peter Jones

Finland - A Living Newspaper presented to Unity Theatre by Andy Croft

Fire within these Ashes by Francis Butler (requires replacement folder)

Focus on Germany by Eric Paice

Focus on Peace by Eric Paice

 

Box 7.8

 

Four Scenes:      The Gonk and Butter Play

                                    The Play or an Author in Search of his Play

                                    Didn’t we all

                                    Come to dine tonight

Frau Kremer had a husband Teeside Unity housed in an envelope

“The Fruits of Philosophy”

The Queen –v- Bradlaugh + Besant

Concerning a charge of obscenity by Thomas Pasmore (pseud Bill Owen)

The Germans by Leon Kruckzowski

Get cracking compiled by Geoffrey Parsons

God Bless the Gu’vnor by Ted Willis

The Good Soldier Schweik by Ewan MacCoil, adapted from the novel by Jaroslav Hasek

 

Box 7.9

 

Gulf Play - The Gulf, a documentary Revue by Unity Theatre Writers Workshop.

Hanging Laws of Old England (in very poor condition)

Harvest in the North by James Lansdale Hodson

Hell is What you Make it (typed script in rather poor condition)

Here Goes by Geoffrey Parsons and Berkley Fase

 

Box 7.10

 

High Jinks of Canon Saull by Victor Jones (typed script in rather poor condition)

Hold On! by K Iskayev and A Galitz, translated by Ruth Kisch

Homage to Vatutin “Mass Declamation” by Jack Lindsay

Horseman pass by by Daniel Magee

I Can’t sleep by Clifford Odets

In Place of Strife Phil Woods, (typed script in poor condition)

Italian Love Story by Cohn Morris

 

Box 7.11

 

Jack and the Beanstalk by Raymond Cross, Bert Bennett and Cyril Elliot (contained in a hardback notebook, also another typed copy in poor condition)

Jack and the Giant Killer by Geoffrey Parsons, Berkley Fase, Peter Quince

The Jump by Aifredo Bei

Johnny Noble by Ewan MacColl

Just Two Questions (Loot on my hands) by Neville C. Labastide

Keep the Gallows Ready

Land of the living by Leonard Irwin

 

Box 7.12

 

Lets be Offensive!

The Long Winter by Ewan MacCoil

The Lost Letter by Ion Luca Caragiale (replacement folder required)

Love or Money by Charles Ross + Peter Thwaites (replacement folder required)

Major Minor

 

Box 7.13

 

Manchester Square Dance Michael Duke

Map of India (Aka ‘India Speaks) by Mulk Raj Anand (2 folders)

The Match Girls Robert Mitchell

A Matter of Convenience Richard Moss

A Memory of Two Mondays Arthur Miller

Mild and Bitter (Lovers vows) Mrs Inchbald

Mind the Gap Ian Flintoff (3 copies)

 

Box 7.14

 

The Misadventures of Mr Pickwick

Mr Blind I’ The Eye by Donald Douglas

Moonshine Mummer’s Play

Moores Ark by Frank Tilsley

Mother by Ted Willis

Mother Goose by Eric Paice (2 sets of text)

Nekrassov Jean-Paul Sartre

The Offshore Island Marg Laski

 


 

Box 7.15

 

Private Hicks by Albert Maltz

Excerpt from Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell

The Postman only rings Twice (Sketch) by?

Playboy of the Western World

Plant in the Sun by Ben Bengal

Pins and Needles by Harold Rome (adapted)

A Piece about Peace by Jack Lindsay

Philip Hotz’s Prey by Max Frisch

Noah’s Story by Maggie Palm

One More Mile (Revue) by Herbert de Wolfe and Bernard Sarron

On Guard for Spain by Jack Lindsay

 

Box 7.16

 

Rag to the Bull

Rebellion from Eric to Eureka by Rory O’Brian Bell

Reedy River (Musical Play) by Dick Diamond

The Rehearsal by Albert Maltz

Remedies by Maggie Pawn

The Rent by Theodore Roszak

 

Box 7.17

 

The Road to Life

Rhondda Roundabout by Jack Jones

Robin of England by Jack Lindsay

Robert Owen by James R Gregson

Requiem Ernst Toller

Ropes End

A Small Price by Tony Collins

So Long at the Fair by Ewan MacCoil

 

Box 7.18

 

The Tigers are Coming O.K.?

Tom Barker of Camden (and the World)

The Townsends by Leonard Peck

Turn it up! (Revue) by Lionel Bart and Others

Turn up the Lights (Revue)

Unity Revue by Geoffrey Parsons, Robert Mitchell, Berkeley Fase

 

Box 7.19

 

Uranium 235 by Ewan MacCoil

Vietnam - The “Post War” War by Raymond Cross

Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odets

What Happens to Love by Ted Willis

Where’s that Bomb? by Rogert Gillan & Buckley Roberts

Who are the English? by Jack Lindsay

Winkles and Champagne by Terry Newman & William Rowbotham

The Women of Pilleth by Dedwydd Jones

Word of the King by Charles Poulsen

Yegor Bulichov and Others by Maxim Gorki translated Anthony Wixley etc

The Yellow Star by Ted Willis

 


 

Box 7.20

 

Press Cuttings based on GBS

Nekrassov Jean Paul Sartre

A Rocket for the Governor by A Garson and G.G.Kelly

The Sacred Dance of Yellow Thunder Joel Ensana

Sandbag Follies Various Writers

Saxon or United with Daddy in Burma (5 copies) by Dedwydd Jones

 

Box 7.21

 

The Scavengers by Arthur Adamov

The Secret by Ramon Spender

The Shoemaker’s Wife by Federico Garcia Lorca

The Short Life and Small Tunes of Bingo Disco (Musical) script and Lyrics Pete J Neville Havins Score: John Rose and Grenville Hancox

Sigmund and the Weird Sisters by Teeside Unity

Since the World Began by Thomas Vaughan

Six Men of Dorset by Miles Malleson and H Brookes

Various Sketches

 

Box 7.22

 

Sketches 2

The Sphynx of Kiev by Bill Brodev

Spring ‘71 by Arthur Adamov

Stop Press by Mihail Sebastian

Storm Warning by Kao Hung

Strike by Arnold Hinchcliffe

Sunset over Atlantis by Vitealav Neaval

 


 

Box 7.23

 

The Swastika Girl or the Vultures and the Crow by Teeside Unity

The Sword of the Spirit Randall Swinglev

The Tailor by William Stand

A Tale of the Little Hungry People

The Thwarted Prima Donna by UBJ & Bernard Sarron

Temptation of The Irish Emigrant by?

The Theatre is our Weapon 2 1-Act Plays by Andre Von Eyseghem

1381 by Coral Romilly

What’s Left (Revue) by? 1 4

What Next ? by various artists

World on Edge by Woddis and Paice