Daily rehearsal reports with notes and comments from rehearsals for Knives in Hens. A rehearsal and performance schedule also includes.

Printed programme from Landmark productions 'Knives in Hens', written by David Harrower, directed by Alan Gilsenan and designed by Joe Vaněk, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin.

Set design plans for Knives in Hens by Joe Vaněk and which includes 'Empty Space Section Long Side', 'Empty Space Plan', 'Seak Back', 'Empty Space Section Narrow Side/Empty Space Plan'. and [outsize] Revised Ground Plan.

File of press cuttings from Irish and national press, and also website print-outs of coverage of productions of Knives in Hens in Dublin and also other productions of the play internationally.

File of print-out email correspondence between Joe Vaněk and others including Anne Clarke (Landmark Productions) Alan Gilsenan, director; Eamonn Fox, designer; Nik Quaife, Marketing and P.R; and others including Colm O'Callaghan, Sinead Wallace, Brendan Galvin, Catherine Walker, Eleanor Dawson, Rachel Murray and Vincent Regan.

Print-outs and photocopies of the style of furniture sourced for use in the set of the place, with colour photographs of second-hand furniture being sourced; colour photographs of American/ New York building and apartment exterior; email correspondence between Joe Vaněk and Mark Brokaw, discussing aspects of the play; production schedule for the play, list of furniture costs and prices; manuscript notes on design matters by Vaněk, some further notes by Vaněk are headed "Memories at Random Include ...." and include details from Vaněk's career in design in Irish theatre.

File includes a range of costume fabric considered for use in costume design in The Price. File also includes design plans, set plans and notes and correspondence regarding design matters by Joe Vaněk.

Print out of black and white images and research articles relating to the design of the set and costumes designed by Joe Vaněk. The material includes material and information on Hilton Edwards and Micheal Mac Liammóir, as well as featuring images of both at home and with company at their home on Harcourt Terrace as well as old Gate Theatre images which feature Orson Welles as Othello and also Mac Liammóir as Peer Gynt in 1928 at the Gate.

File includes assorted flyers from furniture suppliers, regarding possible items for use in stage and set design; contact sheet of multiple thumbnail images, with attached article, with heading "Gates of Gold Lighting References"; fax copies of Gates of Gold daily rehearsal reports; storyboards of research images sourced by Joe Vaněk for specific character costume design; Copy of production schedule for Gates of Gold; Costume Breakdown being a list of all costume items used; costume drawings for each character, set design plans and other drawings for set/costume design. Also includes fabric swatches for furniture and costume research. Outsize (A3 size) costume drawings also present. Also colour photographs of furniture items considered for use on set.
NOTE: Outsize original costume designs are located in outsize file box T26.

File includes printed programme from the Kilkenny Arts Festival Production of The Book of Evidence; Press cuttings of stories researched by Vaněk, such as the case of Malcolm McArthur; press cuttings of coverage of the Kilkenny and Dublin productions of The Book of Evidence; manuscript design notes by Vaněk. Large outsize plans and drawings by Vaněk including ground plans, elevations, lighting grid, stage right section and technical drawings for the production at the Gate Theatre and also plans and drawings of the Kilkenny Arts Festival production at the Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, such as Ground Plan,