| Collection | Watkins-Marlowe Collection |
| Description | Programmes (many signed) collected by Sue Watkins, pertaining to productions at the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, between 1962 and 1993. Where individual programmes lack clear dates, these have been ascertained using the promotional material held in the collection.
The productions represented are as follows:
A man for all sesaons by Robert Bolt (22-25 Aug [1962])
The brides of March by John Chapman (19-22 Sep 1962)
Guilty party by George Ross and Campbell Singer (26-29 Sep 1962)
Verdict by Agatha Christie (10-13 Oct 1962)
Robinson Crusoe, book, lyrics and music by Henry Marshall (26 Dec 1962 - 12 Jan 1963)
Don't tell father by Harold Brooke and Kay Bannerman (06-09 Feb 1963)
The reluctant debutante by William Douglas Home (20-23 Feb 1963)
Grand national night by Dorothy and Campbell Christie (27 Feb - 02 Mar 1963)
Clutterbuck by Benn W. Levy (06-09 Mar 1963)
Love in a mist by Kenneth Horne (13-16 Mar 1963)
The crucible by Arthur Miller (20-30 Mar 1963)
The boy friend by Sandy Wilson (13-27 Apr 1963)
The cocktail party by T. S. Eliot (01-04 May 1963)
The tunnel of love by Joseph Fields and Peter de Vries (08-18 May 1963)
Dear delinquent by Jack Popplewell (22-25 May 1963)
A guardsman's cup of tea by Thomas Browne (12-22 Jun 1963)
Not enough tragedy by Val Gielgud, and Not in the book by Arthur Watkyn (05-19 Aug 1963)
Signpost to murder by Monte Doyle (28-31 Aug 1963)
Out of bounds by Arthur Watkyn (05-14 Sep 1963)
Goodnight, Mrs. Puffin by Arthur Lovegrove (18-28 Sep 1963)
Spider's web by Agatha Christie (02-12 Oct 1963)
Richard III by William Shakespeare (16-26 Oct 1963)
Lucky strike by Michael Brett (30 Oct - 02 Nov 1963)
Wanted one-body by Raymond Dyer (06-09 Nov 1963)
Semi-detached by David Turner (20-30 Nov 1963)
The physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, translated by James Kirkup (04-07 Dec 1963)
Charley's Aunt by Brandon Thomas (11-21 Dec 1963)
Dick Whittington, the book written by Frank Hatt (26 Dec 1963 - 11 Jan 1964)
Trespass by Emlyn Williams (04-08 Feb 1964)
Trap for a lonely man by Robert Thomas, translated by Lucienne Hill and John Sutro (04-14 Mar [1964])
Next time I'll sing to you by James Saunders (18-21 Mar [1964])
Expresso Bongo by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, music by David Heneker and Monty Norman, lyrics by Julian More, David Heneker and Monty Norman (28 Mar - 11 Apr [1964])
Come blow your horn by Neil Simon (21 Apr - 02 May [1964])
Breaking point by William Fairchild (05-09 May [1964])
Friends and neighbours by Austin Steele (12-23 May [1964])
Ten little Niggers [later retitled And then there were none] by Agatha Christie (26 May - 06 Jun [1964])
The circle by Somerset Maugham (09-20 Jun [1964])
Sweet lavender, a domestic drama by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero (14-25 Jul [1964])
French without tears by Terence Rattigan, and The amarous prawn by Anthony Kimmins (03-08 Aug 1964)
Amber for Anna by Arthur Watkyn (25 Aug - 05 Sep 1964)
Simple spymen by John Chapman (08-19 Sep 1964)
The queen and the rebels by Ugo Betti, translated by Henry Reed (22-26 Sep 1964)
Mary Mary by Jean Kerr (29 Sep - 10 Oct 1964)
A midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare (13-24 Oct 1964)
A shot in the dark by Marcel Achard, adapted by Harry Kurnitz (27 Oct - 07 Nov 1964)
Where angels fear to tread by Elizabeth Hart (10-21 Nov 1964)
The more the merrier by Ronald Millar (24 Nov - 05 Dec 1964)
Great expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens (08-19 Dec 1964)
Jack and the beanstalk by John Moffatt (26 Dec 1964 - 09 Jan 1965)
White Horse Inn, freely adapted from Blumenthal and Kadeburg's play "Im Weissen Rössl" by Hans Müller and Erik Charell; music by Ralph Benatzky with interpolated songs by Robert Stolz; original lyrics by Robert Gilbert; English book and lyrics by Harry Graham; adapted for Amateur Operatic Societies by Eric Maschwitz and Bernard Grun (18-27 Mar 1965)
Time remembered by Jean Anouilh, translated by Patricia Moyes (30 Mar - 10 Apr 1965)
The hollow crown devised by John Barton [13 Apr 1965]
Victorian music hall (followed by Lady Audley's secret; A sister to assist 'er, and The bells) devised by John Moffatt (17 Apr - 01 May 1965)
Kind sir by Norman Krasna (04-15 May 1965)
The hostage by Brendan Behan (18-29 May 1965)
The big killing by Philip Mackie (01-12 Jun 1965)
The way to keep him by Arthur Murphy (15-26 Jun 1965)
The relapse, or virtue in danger by Sir John Vanbrugh, and The white sheep of the family by L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay (02-07 Aug 1965)
One for the pot by Ray Cooney and Tony Hilton (10-21 Aug 1965)
No no Nanette, music by Vincent Youmans, book and lyrics by Frank Mandel, Otto Harbach and Irving Caesar (24 Aug - 04 Sep 1965)
Under milk wood by Dylan Thomas (07-18 Sep 1965)
Rattle of a simple man by Charles Dyer (21 Sep - 02 Oct 1965)
The taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare (12-23 Oct 1965)
Face to face by Peter Coke (26 Oct - 06 Nov 1965)
Lock up your daughters, music by Laurie Johnson, lyrics by Lionel Bart, adapted by Bernard Miles from Henry Fielding's comedy, Rape upon rape (09-20 Nov 1965)
The visit by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, adapted by Maurice Valency (26 Nov - 04 Dec 1965)
Past imperfect by Hugh and Margaret Williams (07-18 Dec 1965)
Harlequin ballet (copyright 1965)
A murder has been arranged by Emlyn Williams (15-19 Feb 1966)
Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton (17-19 Mar 1966)
An ideal husband by Oscar Wilde (09-23 Apr 1966)
Busman's honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers and M. St. Clare Byrne (26 Apr - 07 May 1966)
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee (10-21 May 1966)
Bless the bride, book by A. P. Herbert, music by Vivian Ellis (by arrangement with Emile Littler) (24 May - 04 Jun 1966)
All in good time by Bill Naughton (07-18 Jun 1966)
Luther by John Osborne (21 Jun - 02 Jul 1966)
Hotel Paradiso by Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres, translated by Peter Glenville (05-16 Jul 1966)
Harlequin ballet (25-30 Jul 1966)
The affair by Ronald Millarm from the novel by C. P. Snow, and Dear childre by Jack Popplewell (01-06 Aug 1966)
Home and beauty by W. Somerset Maugham (09-20 Aug 1966)
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum, book by Burt Shevelove & Larry Gelbard, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim (23 Aug - 03 Sep 1966)
A severed head by Iris Murdoch and J. B. Priestley, adapted from the novel by Iris Murdoch (06-17 Sep 1966)
On approval by Frederick Lonsdale (20 Sep - 01 Oct 1966)
Romanoff and Juliet by Peter Ustinov (01-12 Nov 1966)
Aladdin and his wonderful lamp by John Moffatt (24 Dec 1966 - 14 Jan 1967)
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, dramatised by Helen Jerome (14-18 Feb 1967)
Ballet Rambert [incorporating Night island, Judgment of Paris, Dark elegies, and Façade] (02-04 Mar 1967)
Lady Windermere's fan by Oscar Wilde (25 Mar - 08 Apr 1967)
Busybody by Jack Popplewell (12-22 Apr 1967)
The government inspector by Nikolai Gogol, adapted by D. J. Campbell (26 Apr - 06 May 1967)
The collection and the lover by Harold Pinter (10-20 May 1967)
The dancing years by Ivor Novello, lyrics by Christopher Hassall (24 May - 10 Jun 1967)
Lord Arthur Saville's crime dramatised by Constance Cox from a short story by Oscar Wilde, and The whole truth by Philip Mackie by arrangement with Evans Plays (07-12 Aug 1967)
Lady by good, book by Guy Bolton and Fred Thompson, music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, by arrangement with Macdonald & Young (16 Aug - 02 Sep 1967)
The confidential clerk by T. S. Eliot (14-24 Jun 1967)
A streetcar named desire by Tennessee Williams (05-16 Sep 1967)
The anniversary by Bill MacIlwraith (19-30 Sep 1967)
The clandestine marriage by George Colman and David Garrick (03 Oct - 17 Nov 1967)
The knack by Ann Jellicoe (10 Oct - 10 Nov 1967)
Edward II by Christopher Marlow (07-18 Nov 1967)
Robert and Elizabeth, book and lyrics by Ronald Miller, music by Ron Grainer; from an original idea by Fred G. Morritt, based on Besier's The Barretts of Wimpole Street (17 Oct - 04 Nov 1967)
Say who you are by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (21 Nov - 02 Dec 1967)
Vanity fair by W. M. Thackeray, adapted by Constance Cox (05-16 Dec 1967)
An evening of Gilbert and Sullivan (27 Jan 1968)
The importance of being earnest by Oscar Wilde (23 Mar - 06 Apr 1968)
Relatively speaking by Alan Ayckbourn (09-20 Apr 1968)
The homecoming by Harold Pinter (23 Apr - 04 May 1968)
Bitter sweet by Noel Coward (08-25 May 1968)
Tom Jones, adapted by Joan MacAlpine from the novel by Henry Fielding (28 May - 08 Jun 1968)
Serjeant Musgrave's dance by John Arden (11-22 Jun 1968)
The millionairess by Bernard Shaw (25 Jun - 06 Jul 1968)
Liz, book and lyrics by Peter Myers (17-31 Aug 1968)
Wait until dark by Frederick Knott (02-14 Sep 1968)
A day in the death of Joe Egg by Peter Nichols (17-26 Sep 1968)
Four European classics in repertoire [The servant of two masters by Carlo Goldoni, translated by Edward Dent, Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, translated by Elsaveta Fen, The misanthrope by Moliere, translated by Richard Wilbur, A good night's sleep by Georges Feydeau, translated by Caryl Brahms and Ned Sherrin, and Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Michael Meyer] (03 Oct - 09 Nov 1968)
The court of Luxembourg, by Franz Lehar, original book and lyrics by A. M. Willner and R. Bodansky, translated and adapted by Eric Maschwitz, music arranged and adapted by Bernard Grun, performed by arrangement with Glocken Verlag Ltd., London (13-30 Nov 1968)
Portrait of a queen, edited and arranged as a play by William Francis (03-14 Dec 1968)
Mother Goose by John Crocker (21 Dec 1968 - 11 Jan 1969)
Utopia limited, or "the flowers of progress" by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (10-15 Mar 1969)
Let's get a divorce by Victorien Sardou and Emile de Najac, adapted by Angela and Robert Goldsby (Apr 1969)
The killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus (22 Apr - 03 May 1969)
The private secretary by Sir Charles Hawtrey (20-31 May 1969)
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Jay Presson Allen from the novel by Muriel Spark (03-14 Jun 1969)
Black comedy, and The white liars by Peter Shaffer (17-28 Jun 1969)
Kiss me Kate, music by Cole Porter, book by Sam and Bella Spewack (01-12 Jul 1969)
When we are married by J. B. Priestley (18-30 Aug 1969)
Dead silence by Monte Doyle (02-13 Sep 1969)
The ghost train by Arnold Ridley (16-27 Sep 1969)
Out of the crocodile by Giles Cooper (30 Sep - 11 Oct 1969)
The seagull by Anton Chekhov (28 Oct - 08 Nov 1969)
The fire raisers by Max Frisch, translated by Michael Bullock (11-22 Nov 1969)
She stoops to conquer by Oliver Goldsmith [25 Nov - 06 Dec 1969]
Hay fever by Noel Coward [1969]
The mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens, dramatised by Michael and Mollie Hardwick (14-25 Apr 1970)
Twelfth night, or 'what you will' by William Shakespeare (28 Apr - 09 May 1970)
Spring and port wine by Bill Naughton (12-23 May 1970)
My dear Gilbert by Donald Cotton (29 May - 13 Jun 1970)
A breach in the wall by Ray Lawler (27 Jun - 11 Jul 1970)
The world of Giselle, devised and written by Peter Brinson, based on 'The Romantic Ballet as seen by Theophile Gautier' by Cyril Beaumont and 'The Romantic Ballet in Paris' by Ivor Guest (14-17 Jul 1970)
Die Fledermaus, music composed by Johann Strauss with English book and lyrics by Phil Park (21-25 Jul 1970)
The duenna by Richard Sheridan, music by John de Grey, and Oh, Clarence by John Chapman, adapted from the Lord Emsworth stories by P. G. Wodehouse (03-08 Aug 1970)
Boeing Boeing by Mark Camoletti, adapted by Beverley Cross (15-26 Sep 1970)
The night of the iguana by Tennessee Williams (29 Sep - 10 Oct 1970)
Children's day by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall (13-24 Oct 1970)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, translated by Michael Meyer (27 Oct - 07 Nov 1970)
The entertainer by John Osborne (10-21 Nov 1970)
The school for scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 Nov - 12 Dec 1970)
Not now darling by John Chapman and Ray Cooney (10-24 Apr 1971)
The hollow by Agatha Christie (27 Apr - 08 May 1971)
Hadrian the Seventh by Peter Luke (11-22 May [1971])
Beyond the fringe by Peter Cook, Alan Bennett, Dudley Moore and Jonathan Miller (25 May - 05 Jun [1971])
Hamlet by William Shakespeare (09-19 Jun [1971])
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead by Tom Stoppard [22 Jun - 03 Jul 1971]
Private lives by Noel Coward (12-21 Aug 1971)
What the butler saw by Joe Orton (21 Sep - 02 Oct 1971)
The lodger by Anthony Skene, from the novel by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes (05-16 Oct 1971)
Play it again Sam by Woody Allen (23 Oct - 06 Nov 1971)
See how they run by Philip King (10-20 Nov 1971)
Opera for all (23rd season) [incorporating Cinderella, Die Fledermaus, La Boheme, Lucia di Lammermoor, The barber of Seville, The fair maid of Perth, The merry wives of Windsor, The seraglio, The tales of Hoffmann] (1971-1972)
Charles Dyer's staircase (25 Feb - 04 Mar 1972)
The second Mrs. Tanqueray by Arthur Wing Pinero (15 Apr 1972)
Spider's web by Agatha Christie (18-29 Apr 1972)
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (02-13 May 1972)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier (16-27 May 1972)
Alfie by Bill Naughton (30 May - 10 Jun 1972)
Irma La Douce, music by Monnot, from the book by Alexandre Breffort (13-24 Jun 1972)
The little hut by Andre Roussin, translated by Nancy Mitford (17-26 Aug 1972)
Bell book and candle by John Van Druten (29 Aug - 09 Sep 1972)
Present laughter by Noel Coward (24 Oct - 04 Nov 1972)
Mother courage by Bertold Brecht, translated by Eric Bentley (07-18 Nov 1972)
There's a girl in my soup by Terence Frisby (21 Nov - 02 Dec 1972)
Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (08-09 Dec 1972)
The secretary bird by William Douglas Home (16-27 Jan 1973)
Rookery nook by Ben Travers (12-23 Jun 1973)
Vanity fair by Thackeray, adapted by Constance Cox, and The trial of Mary Dugan by Bayard Veiller (06-11 Aug 1973)
Don't just lie there, say something by Michael Pertwee (11-22 Sep [1973])
The odd couple by Neil Simon (09-20 Oct [1973])
Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen, adapted by Helen Jerome (02-13 Apr 1974)
Love from a stranger by Frank Vosper, based on a story by Agatha Christie (16-27 Apr 1974)
A lot can happen at night, adapted from Anthony Kimms' While parents sleep (30 Apr - 11 May 1974)
L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi (18-20 Jul 1974)
The rape of the belt by Benn W. Levy, and Roar like a dov by Lesley Storm (05-10 Aug 1974)
The constant wife by William Somerset Maugham (20-31 Aug 1974)
Ten little Niggers [later retitled And then there were none] by Agatha Christie (03-14 Sep 1974)
Candida by George Bernard Shaw (17-28 Sep 1974)
Move over Mrs. Markham by Ray Cooney and John Chapman (15-26 Oct 1974)
Roots by Arnold Wesker (29 Oct - 09 Nov [1974])
Time and time again by Alan Ayckbourn (12-23 Nov 1974)
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (04-22 Nov 1975)
The taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare (03-20 Nov 1976)
The late Edwina Black by William Dinner and William Morum (06-23 Sep 1978)
The bed before yesterday by Ben Travers (27 Sep - 14 Oct [1978])
Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice (11 Nov 1978)
The unexpected guest by Agatha Christie (30 May - 16 Jun 1979)
She stoops to conquer (or the mistakes of a night) by Oliver Goldsmith (20 Jun - 07 Jul 1979)
The camel's back by Arnold Helsby (11-12 Apr 1980)
Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice (week commencing 16 Jul 1984)
An inspector calls by J. B. Priestley (week commencing 21 Aug 1984)
Time and time again by Alan Ayckbourn (week commencing 28 Aug 1984)
Under milk wood by Dylan Thomas (week commencing 05 Nov 1984)
The chalk garden by Enid Bagnold (week commencing 19 Nov 1984)
I have been here before by J. B. Priestley (09 Feb 1985)
Cards on the table by Agatha Christie (week commencing 18 Feb 1985)
Children of a lesser god by Mark Medoff (week commencing 04 Mar 1985)
Murder by appointment by Frank Williams (08-13 Apr 1985)
Deadlock by Leslie Sands, based on the French masterpiece by Terese Raquin and Emile Zola (week commencing 13 May 1985)
Coppelia (26 Nov 1986)
Twelfth night (or what you will) by William Shakespeare, She stoops to conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, and Macbeth by William Shakespeare (28 Sep - 03 Oct 1987)
Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice (week commencing 01 Feb 1988)
Alibi for murder by Frank Williams (27 Feb - 04 Mar 1989)
The old country by Alan Bennett (week commencing 28 Mar 1989)
The business of murder by Richard Harris (week commencing 08 May 1989)
Black coffee by Agatha Christie (01-08 Aug 1989)
Murder with love by Francis Durbridge (08-12 Aug 1989)
Murder on the Nile by Agatha Christie (15-19 Aug 1989)
Dangerous corner by J. B. Priestley (22-26 Aug 1989)
Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice (week commencing 06 Nov 1989)
Spider's web by Agatha Christie (12 Apr 1990)
Beyond reasonable doubt by Jeffrey Archer (17-22 Jun 1991)
Verdict by Agatha Christie (22-27 Jul 1991)
The unexpected guest by Agatha Christie (20-24 Aug 1991)
And then there were none by Agatha Christie (27-31 Aug 1991)
Amadeus by Peter Shaffer (21 Oct 1991)
Murder by misadventure by Edward Taylor (23-28 Mar 1992)
Popular classics (12 Sep 1993 - 07 Feb 1994)
An ideal husband by Oscar Wilde (01-06 Nov 1993) |