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Description: | A collection relating to the career of Peter Cotes, a leading post-war producer and director who, although often remembered as the first director of 'The Mousetrap', had a distinguished career in the little theatres and the West End, and was also one of the first directors of drama on television.
The collection includes: press cutting albums relating to Peter Cotes and Joan Miller's individual careers and joint projects on stage, and in film and television, 1930s to the 1980s; photographs of Cotes and Miller; production photographs; correspondence and papers relating to plays produced and/or directed by Cotes; administrative papers; personal and professional correspondence; agreements; financial papers; scripts, including play, television, and radio scripts, and related correspondence; audio tapes of radio interviews, programmes, and plays; programmes; posters and playbills; paintings of Joan Miller; material relating to court cases involving Cotes.
The collection also contains material relating to Cotes's wife, Joan Miller, who starred in many of his productions on stage, film and television. This includes correspondence; programmes for Stratford productions, 1957; rehearsal schedules; press cuttings.
Also in the archive is material relating to Beatrix Thomson, including portrait photographs, snapshots, production photographs, many of productions at the Alexandra Theatre, Birmingham, 1942-1944; correspondence; contracts; press cuttings. Trained at RADA, Thomson acted in a wide range of roles in the West End and smaller London theatres, and on film. She was the manager of the Grafton Theatre in 1931, and also wrote plays.
Archive number: THM/29 | Format: | Correspondence Documents (production) Set designs Photographs (miscellaneous) Press cuttings Playtexts (typescripts) Vinyl records Documents (business) Audio tapes (cassette) Programmes Photographs (portrait) Documents (personal) Playbills Written / typed ephemera Posters Costume designs Paintings Photographs (production) Scrapbooks Playtexts (printed) Song sheets | Subjects: | Theater - Great Britain - 20th century; Actors - 20th century; Theatrical producers and directors - Great Britain; Radio plays; Television producers and directors | Temporal: | 20th century 1928-1996 | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Thomson, Beatrix | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Correspondence Documents (production) Set designs Photographs (miscellaneous) Press cuttings Playtexts (typescripts) Vinyl records Documents (business) Audio tapes (cassette) Programmes Photographs (portrait) Documents (personal) Playbills Written / typed ephemera Posters Costume designs Paintings Photographs (production) Scrapbooks Playtexts (printed) Song sheets | Go to resource |
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