Audition Lists for "The Importance of Being Earnest"
Scope & Content:
One undated handwritten list and several typed audition lists (June-July 2007) for “The Importance of Being Earnest” (performed at Theatre Royal, Bath between September 2007 and April 2008);
Six undated computer-generated A3 colour plans for interior and exterior stage sets for "The Importance of Being Earnest" (2007-8), with possible inspiration: a colour image of a photograph of a preserved Victorian interior at the Linley Sambourne House in London.
Correspondence (some of which is undated) from friends and relations: including letters from playwright Peter Nichols, actress Wendy Nottingham, actress Belinda Lang, consultant psychiatrist Dr Maurice Lipsedge, Right Honourable Nick Raynsford MP, Bernard Quaritch Ltd and Jonathan Croall with an...
Cards and postcards from friends, family, colleagues and admirers of thanks and good wishes for various productions (2003/5/6/7/8, though mostly undated); two cards of congratulations on the book Actors Speaking from playwright David Hare (undated) and actor John Nettleton (Nov 2007); one letter...
Fan mail (2005/6/7) and requests for help from individuals and organisations (2004/5/6/8); black and white paper copies (c.2000) of portrait photographs of Peter Gill from 1960’s by Sandra Lousada; a copy of The Owl Journal (Issue 12, autumn 2007) which includes an interview with Peter Gill.
File contains copies of press reviews from The York Press, Northern Echo and National Independent Magazine for Amateur Theatre of “The York Realist” performed at York’s Theatre Royal (2006-7); a copy of a feature on Gill from the Western Mail prompted by the performance in Cardiff of “Small Chan...