| Level | File |
| Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure) | DSH1/11/1/1 |
| Title | Early production photographs, Open Air Theatre |
| Extent | 33 items |
| Date | 1930-1960 |
| Description | Some photographs have details on the back. Square brackets indicate the date has been taken from another source of information.
Original deposit:
/1 Margaretta Scott, Leslie French and Nigel Playfair in ‘Androcles and the Lion’, 1934
/2 ‘The Six of Calais’, [1934]
/3 Anna Neagle in ‘As You Like It’, 1934
/4 ‘As You Like It’, [1934]
/5 Leslie French as Puck and Robert Eddison as Oberon in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, [1939]
/6 D. A. Clarke Smith as Benedick and Cathleen Nesbitt as Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’. Monochrome postcard, signed by Clarke Smith. July 1939.
/7 John Laurie and Margaretta Scott in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Undated. [?1933]
/8 ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. Undated.
/9 ‘As You Like It’. Undated. [?1934]
New deposit (2024):
/10 Ben Greet in 'As You Like It' [c1910]. Possibly with his company The Ben Greet Players.
/11 Sydney Carroll, joint founder of the Open Air Theatre, and an unidentified women [on an outside stage?]. 2 copies. 1932.
/12 ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Robert Atkins as Bottom. 1933.
/13 ‘The Tempest’ Leslie French and John Drinkwater. 1933.
/14 Ben Greet as Friar Laurence 'Romeo and Juliet' [1934]
/15 ‘Twelfth Night’ Margaretta Scott and Anna Neagle. [1934]
/16 ‘Twelfth Night’ Jack Hawkins and Anna Neagle. 1934.
/17 ‘Psyche’ Nini Theilade. 1934.
/18 ‘During the Ball’ Nini Theilade and Robert Helpmann. 1934
/19 ‘As You Like It’ Anna Neagle. 1934.
/20 ‘Androcles and The Lion’ George Bernard Shaw, with Leslie French and Phyllis Neilson-Terry. 1934. A larger version of this photograph is at DSH1/11/2/1 captioned as Andrew Leigh, not Leslie French.
/21 George Bernard Shaw, with Margaretta Scott in costume for ‘Twelfth Night’. 1934.
/22 Sydney Carroll and Vivien Leigh. Captioned 'circa 1936' but probably later. [?1950s]
/23 ‘Henry VIII’ Vivien Leigh as Anne Boleyn and Lyn Harding as King Henry VIII. 1936.
/24 ‘As You Like It’ one image of Nini Theilade (top right) and two images of Margaretta Scott. 1936.
/25 ‘As You Like It’ Anna Neagle and Hubert Gregg. 2 copies. [1936]
/26 ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’. 1937.
/27 ‘Lysistrata’ Gladys Cooper and Ellen Pollock. 1938.
/28 ‘Twelfth Night’ Jessica Tandy as Viola. 2 copies. 4 August 1939.
/29 ‘The Merchant of Venice’ rehearsal, Robert Atkins as Shylock and Leslie Crowther as Solanio. 1950.
/30 ‘As You Like It’, rehearsal. With Gordon Honey, Peter John, Robert Atkins and Diana Poulton. 1958. |
| Location | This material is held at the Shakespeare Institute Library, Stratford-upon-Avon |
| Access Status | Open |
| Related Material | Photograph of the stage and audience at 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 1938; different photographs of 'Androcles and the Lion' and of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' 1939; a rehearsal photograph of 'Cymbeline' 1952; Mary Kerridge as Rosalind in 'As You Like It' 1952 are in DSH1/5/5/7; backstage 'Twelfth Night', 1933, Fay Compton as Titania in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 1936; Mary Honer backstage 'Twelfth Night', 1947, Basil Hoskins and Mary Kerridge in 'As You Like It', 1952; Anthony Sharp in 'Much Ado About Nothing', 1958 are in DSH1/5/5/4 |