| Collection | University of Kent Archive |
| Description | Theatre Programme for performance of "The First 500" - described as a light-hearted anthology being by way of a welcome to the University of Kent at Canterbury. Proceeds going to the University of Kent Foundation Appeal. Presented by Barry Campbell and starring Jessie Evans, Michael Baxter, Donald Bain, Carole Boyer, Ellis Dale, and Richard Cornish. With music performed by Ronald Barnes, Ronald Coleman, David Riceman, and Donald Wynn. Directed by Ann Stutfield. Stage Manager Michael Reese. Music arranged by Ronald Sheppard. Research by Janet Campbell. Lighting by Geoffrey Thurley.
The performace was divided into two parts Part 1: "Those Awful Students", and Part 2: "Dons and Other Strange Places" and involved readings and performances from a variety of plays, novels and essays - including: "Nottingham University" by DH Lawrence, Extract from "Summoned by Bells" by John Betjeman, "A Student Party" adapted from 'The Pickwick Papers' by Charles Dickens, and including a Round Song; "Canterbury" by Henry Arthur Jones; Extract from "Oxford in the Vacation" by Charles Lamb; Extract from "A Single Man" by Christopher Isherwood. |