Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCVIII-CCCXI. Anastasia, by ‘Marcelle-Maurette’ (alias of the Countess de Becdelievre), adapted by Guy Bolton; 1953-1962. First performance at the Theatre Royal, Windsor; 1953, and in London at the St James’s, 5 August 1953.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXIII-CCCXV. Waiting for Gillian (previous title “The crossroads”), by Ronald Millar; adapted from Nigel Balchin’s novel A way through the wood; 1953-1960. First performed at the Opera House, Manchester; 12 April 1954, and in London at the St James’s, 21 April 1954.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXVI-CCCXVIII. Meet a body (previous titles “The green man” and “The body was well nourished”), by Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat; 1950-1957. First performed at the New Theatre, Oxford, 28 June 1954, and in London at the Duke of York’s, 20 July 1954
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXIII-CCCXXIV. Summer of the seventeenth doll, by Ray Lawler; 1956-1960. A St James’s Players production, with cast from the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust first performed at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, 8 April 1957, and in London at the New Theatre, 30 April 1957, and subsequently on tour to New York.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXVI-CCCXXVIII. One more river, by Beverley Cross. First performed at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle; 14 September 1959, and in London at the Duke of York’s, 6 October 1959. Production accounts and invoices only.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXIX-CCCXXX. A lodging for a bride, by Patrick Kirwan; 1959-1960. First performed at the Gaiety, Dublin, February 1960, and in London at the Westminster; 18 April 1960.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXXXIX-CCCXLII. New and existing plays submitted to Laurence Olivier Productions, L.O.P., or Olivier himself, for comment, possible production, or acting. Mostly arranged by title, but by play where the play is unnamed, or chronologically where no play or more than two plays are named. Some have comments by Laurence Olivier Productions’ readers, “P.A.” (Phyllis Anderson), “C.T.”, “K.G.” (Kate Griffin), and “K.A.” (Kate L. Astbury), some are readers’ reports only;...
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCXLIII-CCCLX. Reports and correspondence, mostly of Lovat Fraser, on scripts submitted unsolicited to Laurence Olivier Productions and L.O.P.; 1946-1962. Includes proposals for films as well as plays. The reports are mostly filed alphabetically by title of play. Collected or untitled plays are listed in the alphabetical sequence under their authors’ names. This sequence (Add. MSS 80108-80125) preserves the original order of the papers as far as possible, but it...
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCLXI-CCCLXV. Reports and correspondence on scripts submitted unsolicited to Laurence Olivier Productions and L.O.P., and considered to be, according to the file originally containing one copy of readers’ reports, the subject of ‘Good or promising play reports’; 1949-1954. Most reports are signed ‘K.A.’ (Kate Astbury), and some bear notes by Charles Tennant and Ronald Adams. Arranged alphabetically by title of play.
Olivier Archive. Vols. CCCLXVI-CCCLXVIII. Script books: the alphabetical record books of plays submitted unsolicited to Laurence Olivier Productions and L.O.P.; 1949-1955. Includes proposals for films as well as plays. Three vols.