#Theatre Programme

[sarztomo]

James as #AubreyTanqueray in #thesecondmrstangueray.

Image from the theatre programme.

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Josephine Tewson – Complete Signed Theatre Programme – ‘The Killing Of Sister George – Theatre Royal Bath – 1995

[kenneth-williams-diaries]

Sometimes life is good ... ✨️

Today, I've won the bid for an original theatre programme of Peter Schaffer's stage plays "The Private Ear" and "The Public Eye" from 1962, signed by Kenneth Williams and Maggie Smith!

It's the perfect complement to the book ... oh, lucky day!!!! 💕

[19th-century-gay-german-teens]

Much as I prefer how varied (and detailed and thoughtfully designed) theatre programmes are in the UK compared to the Playbill homogeny on Broadway…

… I CANNOT deny that Playbill being so standardised makes the “how do I display these” question so much easier.

How the HELL do I find display frames or any other mount for a 170x240 mm Hadestown West End programme (it’s just a little under B5 size), or for a 235x333 mm Wicked West End programme (somewhere annoyingly between C4 and B4 size)?

What about Matilda? That programme is 190 x 270, which ISN’T EVEN CLOSE TO A REAL SIZE.

[herewegobebe]

The SHINee Clownery I Live For 🤡😂💞 | [Idol Human Theatre]

[unreesonable]

Intro to the "Are Behind You!" programme - I've typed it up below the cut.

Hello - I'm very excited to be writing this foreword for the comedy group - "The League of Gentlemen". I don't know their work - I don't have a television. Not through choice - Linda got it when we divorced, but I've heard it is very funny and surreal. Not sure it would be my cup of tea to be honest - I enjoy issue-based comedy such as "The Mark Thomas Problem", or that one who does jokes about maths. As writer, director, producer and founder member of Legz Akimbo Theatre Company I have tackled lots of issues using the diffusive power of comedy. Who would have thought for instance - that there could be laughs in going blind? But in my play "Vision Off!", the grumpy protagonist Cecil SeeAll - finds himself seeing the funny side as his cataracts get worse and worse. He finds happiness in a world of darkness... unblighted by prejudice, bigotry and wives who turn out to be lesbian.

I read in their biography (which I found rather self-absorbed), the League have won many awards. I am very pleased for them but have always found such baubles rather divisive. Having never won any, I am maybe not in a position to comment, but my near misses (and some particularly manipulative individuals on certain judging panels over the years) have left me proud my trophy shelf remains barren. My work is for the kids - let them be the judges - not Alex Demain and his little band of mean-spirited Deputy Heads. What do they know about issues anyway? Still, I had the last laugh this year, when after they gave the Theatre in Education Best Subject Award (which is basically MY reward, it's the ISSUE award), to "Cloth Ears" - a play about deafness... (I mean, come on, how crass is that title??) they emerged from their celebrations to find someone had covered the bonnets of all their cars with tins and tins of Humbrol silver paint! New paint jobs all round I think!

Anyway - every dog has its day - and these Gentlemen seem to be very much yesterday's men... try remaining at the top of your tree in the cut-throat world of issue based school dramas. It ain't easy. I know. For more information about L.A.T.C. you can email me at ollie.plimsolls@hotmail.co.uk and I will gladly talk you through my new season. All issues are catered for - and if there's one I've missed - I can have a play written in an hour. Enjoy the show.

Ollie Plimsolls

[fitzrove]

Now that I'm talking about cabaret. Hey do you guys remember when Uwe Kröger did the entire show in THESE SHOES

[succulentsofa]

went through my collection of musical theatre stuff i’ve been hoarding since 2016 and 😭😭

[consanguinitatum]

Oooooh, a decently rare David Tennant theatre programme for sale?

For all my David Tennant theatre programme collecting fans out there, check this out! It's a fairly rare programme (though it isn't likely to post to the US, boo!) First come, first served (as there's a "buy it now!" option)-

(1999) KING LEAR with TOM COURTNEY

MANCHESTER ROYAL EXCHANGE

[dontcxckitup]

// HE DID IT 😭😭💙💙

[tofufei]

successful day :)

[artdecoandmodernist]

1930 Vladimir Barjansky (1892-1968), Art Deco Cover design for Programme booklet, Théâtre du Gymnase or Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell in Paris.

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

Sian Phillips, Joanna Lumley, Marjorie Bland, Niall Buggy, Ron Cook, Charlotte Cornwell, Greg Hicks, Gwen Humble & Harold Pinter (Director) – Complete Signed Theatre Programme – ‘Vanilla’ – The Lyric Theatre, London – 1990

[saviourkingslut]

whoever advertised scrivener to me i am bowing like a peasant in front of his liege lord this shit is life-changing bro i am saying once again this will save my dissertation writing process i just know it. fairly certain it was @sevarix-blogs king you saved a guy's life for real

[la-cocotte-de-paris]

idk about y'all but i love being a tumblrina <3

[hey-its-sybarite]

All of these, and more. But it was an opt-in nationwide programme of study.