Material relating to the production of Wrap Up My Green Jacket by Valentin Iremonger at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes four card-mounted photographs of the cast in various scenes, three in full costume and one during rehearsals. Also includes a music manuscript book which contains versions of the musical score of the eponymous song. Also typescript of the playscript.
Material relating to the open-air production of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes three photographs of the actors playing the main characters, one in colour; a photograph of Kieran O'Malley in costume as a page; three copies of a colour photograph of the cast on stage; and a photograph of two female audience members at the post-production reception. Also includes an exercise book of production notes.
Material relating to the production of The Dybbuk by S. Ansky, translated by Henry G. Alsberg and Winifred Katzin, at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes five programmes and five photographs of a scene with the characters in costume. Also includes a copy of the script and a drawing of a hooded character on stage.
Material relating to the production of Red Roses For Me by Seán O'Casey at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes two programmes and eight pages of musical scores for several songs featured in the production. Also includes five photographs of cast members, and two small colour photographs of Louis Rolston as Brennan O' The Moor.
Material relating to the production of The Heart's A Wonder, adapted by Nuala and Mairín O'Farrell from The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge, at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes three programmes, two posters and a photograph of Sam Macready with female cast members. Also includes a large amount of production material: two scripts with numerous annotations and production notes, and thirteen musical scores, some of which are marked as being for specific instruments.
Programme for the production of Finn and the Black Hag , a children's opera, at Derryvolgie Avenue.
Scrapbook of programmes from various Lyric productions, beginning with the Christmas Pot-Pourri in 1952 to The Dybbuk in 1959. The scrapbook is spiral bound and the programmes are pasted onto the card leaves.
Three programmes for the production of Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca at Derryvolgie Avenue.
Material relating to the production of the W.B. Yeats plays At the Hawk's Well , On Baile's Strand , The Only Jealousy of Emer , and The Death of Cuchulain at Derryvolgie Avenue. Includes photographs of Jennifer Kennedy as a Singing Woman in On Baile's Strand , Lucy Jameson in The Only Jealousy of Emer , and a card-mounted photograph of cast members in At the Hawk's Well . Also includes a programme, which notes that this bill of plays 'is the last of 64 productions by the Lyric Players Theatre under the direction of Pearse and Mary O'Malley, and the end of the Theatre as an entirely private venture', as it is to become a non-profit making association under seven trustees. Additional material includes a page of notes on the props, effects and lighting required for The Only Jealousy of Emer , typed copies of two chapters from an unknown book on On Baile's Strand and At the Hawk's Well , three pages of notes on the music for At the Hawk's Well and The Only Jealousy of Emer , and three sheets of musical score for At the Hawk's Well .
Two posters for the production of King Lear by William Shakespeare at Derryvolgie Avenue. The posters also feature details of a celebrity recital by soprano Heather Harper.