John Gielgud Archive. 'The cherry orchard', by Anton Chekhov; 'corrected copy', adapted by Gielgud himself and used for the production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith in 1954, and the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at the Aldwych in 1961. The annotations on this script are not by Gielgud.
A, B. John Gielgud Archive. 'The cherry orchard', by Anton Chekhov; 1954 production with Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies as Andreyevna and Trevor Howard as Lopakhin, directed by Gielgud at the Lyric, Hammersmith.
John Gielgud Archive. 'The cherry orchard', by Anton Chekhov. Script used for the Royal Shakespeare production at the Aldwych in December 1961, directed by Michel Saint-Denis,with Peggy Ashcroft as Andreyevna and Gielgud in the role of Gaev. For Saint-Denis’s own scripts of this productions, ...
John Gielgud Archive. 'Forty years on', by Alan Bennett. Early draft copy, with pages from at least two different typed versions, and numerous inserts, attachments, and annotations.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Half life', by Julian Mitchell. Used for the production at the National Theatre from October 1978 and the West End production at the Duke of York’s.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Home', by David Storey. Royal Court production, June 1970. The text is made up from at least two different typewritten versions, liberally annotated and excised.
John Gielgud Archive. 'The Ides of March', by Jerome Kilty, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. Produced August 1963 at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket. Text very extensively annotated and altered by Gielgud in ballpoint pen.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Irene'; adapted by Harry Rigby from the play by James Montgomery, with music by Harry Tierney and words by Joseph McCarthy, and book by Hugh Wheeler. Second draft, 1972. Gielgud was sacked as director after the try-outs and before the play reached New York.