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Description: | The collection consists of items relating to the career of Hugh Hunt (1911-1993), theatre director and playwright. It contains files on plays produced at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin (including three plays jointly written by Hugh Hunt and Frank O'Connor), the Sydney Opera House, the Bristol Old Vic Company and the London Old Vic Company; volumes of press cuttings concerning the Brisol Old Vic and London Old Vic; programmes from the Abbey Theatre and English provincial theatres; correspondence relating to Hunt's appointments with the Bristol Old Vic, 1945-49, the London Old Vic, 1949-53, and the Australian Elizabethan Theatre, 1954-58; miscellaneous articles and newsletters; and a photograph album for the Oxford University Dramatic Society production of "King John" in 1933.; Handlists and catalogues are available for the papers of Horniman, Dean, Hunt, Joseph, Slade, Nicholson, Pettitt, Monkhouse, Montague, Thrale-Piozzi, North West Playwrights, Donat and "Manchester Guardian". Allardyce Nicholl Collection recorded on on-line catalogue of printed books.
John Rylands University Library of Manchester, Special Collections Division, University of Manchester, | Format: | Correspondence Documents (production) Press cuttings Playtexts (typescripts) Periodicals Photographs (production) Programmes | Subjects: | Play production Drama 20th century; Dramatic criticism; Theater history 20th century; Theater production and direction Great Britain; Theatrical producers and directors; Theater management Great Britain | Temporal: | 1920 1980 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | 150 Deansgate, Manchester,,
M3 3EH | Creator: | Hugh Hunt | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Correspondence Documents (production) Press cuttings Playtexts (typescripts) Periodicals Photographs (production) Programmes | Go to resource |
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