File with theatre programmes from plays written or produced or directed by Jim and or Peter Sheridan. Many plays produced at Project Arts Centre Dublin. Plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include:
The Risen People by James Plunkett (Project Arts Centre) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and adapted by Steven Berkoff (Project Arts Centre); Mobile Homes by Jim Sheridan, directed by Peter Sheridan (Project); Shades of the Jelly Woman (The Complete Version) by Peter Sheridan with Jean Doyle; The Liberty Suit by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Olympia Theatre); The Other Side of Lilliput by Lee Gallaher, directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); No entry by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo adapted by Gavin Richards, directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Down All The Days by Christy Brown adapted by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Children of Eve by Peter Sheridan (Dublin Youth Theatre, Andrews Lane Theatre).
Also season programme from Project Arts Centre with listings and casts for plays at Project including The Ha'Penny Place by Jim Sheridan and directed by Peter Sheridan. Plays also listed are The Passion of Christ (Greek Theatre Company Athens), Duchess by Judith Alderson and Kate Phelps and There's Three Sides to Everything by Pat Abernathy and Dave Marsden and also listed in schedule of Liveworks - An Alternative Festival.
Theatre programmes from plays written and or directed by Gerard Stembridge and attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include: The Girls of Summer by Gerard Stembridge, Project Arts Centre, 1993; The Gay Detective by Gerard Stembridge, Project Arts Centre (1996); Denis and Rose by Gerard Stembridge based on stories by Maeve Binchy, Civic Theatre ([1994]); Ceausescu's Ear by Gerard Stembridge (1993); Love Child by Gerard Stembridge (Project Arts Centre, 1992); Village Wooing by Bernard Shaw and starring Gerard Stembridge, City Theatre Productions).
File of theatre programmes from plays produced by the Society of Irish Playwrights and/or the Playwrights and Actors Company. Plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include: Wits, Rogues, and Dreamers by James Plunkett; Later by David Pownall at the Damer Hall, Dublin; Season of New Plays presented by Playwrights and Actors Company at the Gaiety theatre and Project Arts Centre, Dublin and which include The Boys of Summer by Neil Donnelly, The Case Against the Shilling, Temptation by Nick Dear, The Rat Part I by Wesley Burrows and Remembrance by Graham Reid; One For The Road by Willy Russell, Andrew's Lane Theatre; The Drunk, The Dog, The Lady, and The Lover by Gabriel Arout from Chekhov, Andrew's Lane Theatre, 1993; Nancy Cunard by Juliet Lacy and The Lithium Waltz by Barry McKinley; The Circus by Sean Walsh; Shady Ladies by Mary Halpin; A Death at 16 Prinz Regen Platz by Tom Walsh; Soldiers by Liam Mac Uistin.
Files of festival programmes from the Dublin Theatre Festival. Programmes belonged to Caroline Swift and some are annotated and marked with productions attended by Swift. Programmes included as follows:
File 1: Festival Programmes 1957 - 1979. Programmes present for 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965, 1971, 1978, theatre festival newsletter Sep 1965.
File 2: Festival Programmes 1980 - 1989. Programmes present for 1980, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988, and festival newspaper for 1989.
File 3: Festival Programmes 1990 - 1994. Programmes present for 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.
File 4: Festival Programmes 1995 - 1996. Programmes present for 1995, 1996.
File 5 - Festival Programmes 1997 - 2001. Programmes present for 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001.
Files 6-9 Assorted play programmes from productions as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. File includes: "The Voices of Doolin" by Walter Mackin and with Cyril Cusack Productions, Gaiety Theatre Dublin (1960); "You in Your Small Corner" by Wesley Burrows, Mannix Productions at Four Courts Hotel (1968);"Children of the Wolf by John Peacock, at Player-Wills Theatre (1971); "The Goose" by Alun Owen (1967) "The Game's Bogey" by John McGrath, 7:84 Theatre Company (1974); Theatre de la Huchette, at Player Wills Theatre (1974); "Empress Eugenie by Jason Lindsey, Edmund Burke Hall, Trinity Arts Centre (1979); Children's Season at the Ark Theatre, Dublin. (1997); "Scenes from an Execution" by Hot Mouth Theatre Company (1999); Arabian Nights by The Village Theatre Company (1999).
File with printed programmes from the Dublin Theatre Fringe Festival. Programmes collected by Carolyn Swift and are present for years 1986, 1995, 1996, 1998, and assorted Fringe production programmes and press releases, 1990s.
File of theatre programmes from the Abbey Theatre Dublin and from plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include from: The Abbey Experimental Theatre productions of Nicolas Flamel by Gerard de Nerval, trans. by Seamus O'Sullivan; The Only Jelousy of Emer by W.B. Yeats and As The Crow Flies by Austin Clarke and Bluebeard by Mary Davenport O'Neill by the [Dublin] Lyric Theatre Company presented at the Abbey Theatre; Look at the Heffernans by Brinsley McNamara; Niall Agus Carmelita (Irish language Christmas show, 1950); Réamonn Agus Niamh Óg (Irish language Christmas show, 1952); The Money Doesn't Matter by Louis D'Alton (1952); This Other Eden by Louis D'Alton (1953); The Gentle Maiden by Donal Giltinan (1952); An Crúiscín Lán (1956); Brian Agus An Claidheamh Solais (Irish language Christmas Show 1949; an Duais-Bheidhlín by Francois Coppéé; The king of Friday's Men by M.J. Molloy (1948); The Bugle in the Blood by Bryan MacMahon (1949); Eirí na Gealái (The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory (1952); The Far Off Hills by Lennox Robinson (1951); The Righteous Are Bold by Frank Carney; The Caretakers by George Sheils (1949); Blind Man's Buff by Ernst Toller and Denis Johnston (1948); Home is the Hero by Walter Macken; The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey (1957); The Devil a Saint Would Be (1954); Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill (1959); The Evidence I Shall Give by Richard Johnson (1961); In Dublin's Fair City by Christóir Ó Floinn (1959); Juno and the Paycock by Sean O'Casey (1952); The Silver Tassie (1951); Muireann Agus an Prionnsa (Irish language Christmas show, 1958)The Plough and the Stars, 1951 (at the Rupert Guinness Hall, Dublin); the Scythe and the Sunset by Denis Johnston (1958); Strange Occurrence On Ireland's Eye by Denis Johnston, 1956; The Less We Are Together by John O'Donovan (1957); Early and Often by John McCann (1956); ; Danger, Men Working by John D. Stewert (1959).
File of theatre programmes from the Abbey Theatre Dublin, from productions attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include:
Juno and the Paycock by Seán O'Casey (1969); The Two Shadows - In the Shadow of the Glen and The Shadow of a Gunman (1968); The Saint and Mary Kate by Frank O'Connor, adt' by Mary Manning; An Cailín Bán by Dion Boucicault (1967); The Last Eleven by Jack White; The Invincibles by Frank O'Connor and Hugh Hunt (1967); Dublin Theatre Festival at the Abbey 1968; Abbey Theatre Summer 1968; Abbey Theatre Christmas 1968; Dublin Theatre Festival at the Abbey and the Peacock Theatres (1969); The Playboy of the Western World (1968); The General's Watch by Maurice Davin-Power (1968); An Evening With Myles (1968); Diarmaid Agus Balor (1961); The Man From Clare by John B. Keane (1963); Hall of Healing by Sean O'Casey (1966); the Wood of the Whispering by M.J. Molloy (1965); The Plough and the Stars (1964); The Quara Fella by Brendan Behan (1960); Do Thrushes Sing in Birmingham by Liam Lynch (1962); Hut 42 by John B. Keane (1962); Sovereign Love by T.C. Murray and The Shadow of a Gunman by Sean O'Casey (1964); The Conspiracy by Kenneth E.L. Deale; The Pilgrim's Mother by Arnold Hill; The Call by Tom Coffey (1966); The Face of Treason by Eoin Neeson and Colm McNeill (1965); Aisling as Tír na nÓg (1964); An Claíomh Soluis (1962); Happy As Larry by Donagh MacDonagh; The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov; The Loves of Cass Maguire by Brian Friel; Death is For Heroes by Michael Judge; Red Roses For Me by Sean O'Casey (1967); Tarry Flynn by Patrick Kavanagh (1966); One For the Grave by Louis McNeice (1966); The Shaughraun by Dion Boucicault (1967); Fernando Agus An Ríon Óg (1966); The Plough and The Stars by Seán O'Casey (1966).
Also programme from Writers Work Group 1969, Peacock Theatre.
Files of theatre programmes from the Abbey Theatre Dublin, from productions attended by Carolyn Swift.
File of theatre programmes from the Abbey Theatre Dublin, from productions attended by Carolyn Swift in the 1980s and1990s.
File of theatre programmes from the Peacock Theatre at the Abbey, Dublin, from productions attended by Carolyn Swift, 1970s - 1990s.