Add MS 88985/1/4

Contains:

• Photographs taken at the Royal Court in 1959 by Roddy Maude-Roxby (who played Kirkby Groomkirby in the original 1959-60 production). With one official photograph of Maude-Roxby from the BBC’s 1961 production.
• Photographs (poor quality reproduction) and two playbills for The Birmingham Repertory Theatre’s 1960 production of One Way Pendulum. Directed by Bernard Hepton. Cast: Ian Frost (Kirby Groomkirby), John Carlin (Robert Barnes), Elizabeth Spriggs (Mabel Groomkirby), Rosemary Leach (Sylvia Groomkirby), Brenda Jones (Aunt Mildred), Hilary Liddell (Myra Gantry), Arthur Pentelow (Arthur Groomkirby), Derek Jacobi (Stanley Honeyblock), Peter Wyatt (Judge), Bernard Kilby (Prosecuting Counsel), John Rolfe (Defending Counsel), Ronald Falk (Usher), John Forgham (Clerk of the Court), Brian Blessed (Policeman).
• “GSL Brochure – One Way Pendulum”. Contains: Angus McBean’s 1959 production photograph of Douglas Wilmer as the Judge; two copies of a section of a Royal Court pamphlet or retrospective containing Roger Mayne’s photograph of Nigel Davenport, Sheila Ballantine, and Wendy Craig in full production of Tinkle (1959), along with Mayne’s 1959 photograph of Philip Locke, Robert Stephens, Ballantine, and Avril Elgar in The Hole, John Haynes’ 1965 photograph of Sebastian Shaw, Elgar, and Timothy Carlton in The Cresta Run, and McBean's photograph of Wilmer as the Judge; photographs by D. Simm/OBS Camera Press London of George Benson, Alison Leggatt, Patsy Byrne (?), and Wilmer; and an unidentified cut out from a Royal Court retrospective, headed 'Some Royal Court Designers of the 1958/59 Seasons' showing Stephen Doncaster’s set for One Way Pendulum.
• Correspondence, programme note and drafts, a guide note on how best to perform One Way Pendulum for the benefit of RADA students, October 1977, and Simpson’s own blurb for the play.