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Description: | J.C. (John Courtenay) Trewin (1908-1990) was the London theatre critic for the Birmingham Post from 1958 until his death, and also contributed theatrical reviews and articles to many other papers. He was the author of many books on the theatre, including biographies of several noted actors. The collection contains both personal papers and material collected by Trewin relating to the English stage. The latter includes theatre programmes 1906-1989, theatre posters 1783-1936, photographs (original and reproduction) of productions 1905-1970, issues of theatrical periodicals 1906-1986, albums of press cuttings, and other miscellaneous material. There are also letters collected by Trewin relating to Constance and Frank Benson, and eighteen letters and postcards (three original and fifteen facsimile) from George Bernard Shaw.
The personal material includes many letters written to Trewin over the course of his career on theatrical and literary subjects. Major correspondents (with more than ten letters) include Enid Bagnold, Guy Boas, Charles Causeley, Christopher Fry, Val Gielgud, Paul Scofield, Robert Speaight and Ben Travers. Other correspondence includes letters of congratulation on the presentation of Trewin?s OBE in 1981, and letters of condolence written to Wendy Trewin on the death of her husband. There is also material relating to Trewin's biography of Robert Donat and a legal dispute with the playwright Veronica Haigh which arose from it. The collection contains over fifty notebooks, drafts and typescripts of some of Trewin's work, and drafts of an account by Trewin?s father of his early years at sea; Samuel Beckett Collection: Beckett at Reading : catalogue of the Beckett manuscript collection at the University of Reading (Whiteknights Press and the Beckett International Foundation, 1998). | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Written / typed ephemera Press cuttings Periodicals Posters Ephemera, e.g. tickets Photographs (production) Programmes Photographs (portrait) Documents (personal) | Subjects: | Dramatic criticism; Theater-Reviews; Theater critics; Actors | Temporal: | 1780 1990 | Source: | Backstage | Creator: | J.C. Trewin | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Format: | Playbills Correspondence Written / typed ephemera Press cuttings Periodicals Posters Ephemera, e.g. tickets Photographs (production) Programmes Photographs (portrait) Documents (personal) | Go to resource |
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