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. 'The charge of the Light Brigade'; screenplay by Charles Wood. Title page dated 31 March 1967, and further annotated by Gielgud 'New script April 1967'. There are loosely inserted leaves headed 'Script alterations July 1967' and 'Weather cover', relating to the technical...
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.
John Gielgud Archive. 'Variation on a theme', by Terence Rattigan. Gielgud has added the names of the cast in pencil to the page listing the dramatis personae.