MS 509 01 07
MS 509 01 07
Alec Clunes: Miscellaneous theatre papers
Sub-series
1935-1953
1 box containing 9 files
Containing various papers relating to Clunes’s acting career. The papers predominantly relate to notable performances he gave, such as in ‘Ridgeway’s Late Joys’ at the Player Theatre.
It includes costume designs, typescripts, correspondence, reviews and contracts for his work.
It includes costume designs, typescripts, correspondence, reviews and contracts for his work.
The files are arranged chronologically
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Acting contracts between Alec Clunes and the Old Vic theatre, and the Stratford theatre, MS 509 01 07 01, (1935-1940)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Material used by Alec Clunes when playing Bassett-Laneworthy-Figg, Players Theatre, MS 509 01 07 02, (1938)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Corrected typescript for ‘Lecture of Etiquette’ performed by Alec Clunes as Roderick Figg, at the Players’ Theatre, MS 509 01 07 03, (1938)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Monologues and other material used by Alec Clunes when playing Bassett Laneworthy-Figg in ‘Ridgeway’s Late Joys’, Player Theatre, MS 509 01 07 04, (1938)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Typescript entitled ‘Alterations to the text of “The Constant Couple”’, MS 509 01 07 05, ([c.1942-1943])
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Costume design for Alec Clunes as Hamlet, MS 509 01 07 06, (1945)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Correspondence and typescript review of Alec Clunes’s performance in ‘The Lady’s not for Burning’, MS 509 01 07 07, (1948)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Correspondence relating to Gerd Pierer, MS 509 01 07 08, (1950-1951)
- Alec Clunes theatre papers: Correspondence between Alec Clunes and Ray Rigby, MS 509 01 07 09, (1952-1953)