| Collection | Shirley Programme Collection |
| Description | Programmes for productions at the New Theatre, Oxford, as follows:
* Plays and music, by Noel Coward, produced on 11 Nov 1940. Programme includes the following notice: 'No admittance without gas mask'.
* Blithe spirit, by Noel Coward, produced on 08 Feb 1943. Starring Noel Coward.
* The ivory tower, by William Templeton, produced on 10 Apr 1950.
* And so to bed, by J B Fagan, produced on 08 Oct 1951. Starring Denis Quilley.
* Call me madam, by Irving Berlin, produced on 04 Mar 1952. Starring Arthur Lowe.
* The Mortimer touch, by Eric Linklater, produced on 21 Apr 1952. Starring William Mervyn.
* To Dorothy, a son, by Roger MacDougall, produced on 25 Aug 1953.
* King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare, co-produced with the Old Vic Company on 27 Jul 1953.
* Wrestler's honeymoon, by Gerald McLarnon, produced on 14 Sep 1953. Starring Bernard Bresslaw and Alfred Burke.
* A question of fact, by Wynyard Browne, produced on 21 Sep 1953. Starring Paul Scofield and Gladys Cooper.
* Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, produced on 07 Nov 1953. Starring Paul Scofield and Harry Corbett.
* The gates of summer, by John Whiting, produced on 11 Sep 1956. Starring Lionel Jeffries and Dorothy Tutin.
* The entertainer, by John Osborne, produced on 18 Nov 1957. Starring Joan Plowright and Laurence Olivier.
* Duet of angels, by Jean Giraudoux, produced on 07 Apr 1958. Starring Derek Nimmo, Vivien Leigh and Claire Bloom.
* Candide by Voltaire, adapted by Bernstein, produced on 30 Mar 1959. Starring Denis Quilley.
* Vanity Fair, adapted from William Makepiece Thackeray, produced on 29 Oct 1962. Starring Sybil Thorndike.
* Queen B, by Judith Guthrie, produced on 28 Oct 1963. Starring Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson.
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| Admin history | Collection accumulated by Shirley's parents and grandparents. |