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- 1936-1959 (Creation)
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1 large box (0.029 mᶟ)
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Material, including press articles and reviews, original texts, scripts and theatrical programmes, relating to early stage appearances by Siân Phillips dating from her time at school, university and at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). The items comprise: Dyfnant Sunday School performance (1936); Mair a'r Wyau [1938x1944]; Urdd Girls' Concert (1947); Upper Cwmtwrch Christmas Concert (1948); Randibŵ (1949); Les Derniers Outrages [1950s]; The Pirate [1950s]; The Three Daughters of M. Dupont [1950s]; Tobias and the Angel (1951-2); Othello (1952); Doctor Er Ei Waethaf (1952); Ewyrth Ifan (1954); Gymerwch Chi Sigarét? (1955-6); Les Justes (1956); The Silver Curlew (1956); Magda (1957); The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1957); Hedda Gabler (1957); A Thanksgiving for William Shakespeare, Southwark Cathedral (1958); The Three Sisters (1958); St Joan (1958); The Holiday (1958); The King's Daughter (1959).
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Arranged chronologically.
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- English
- Welsh
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Cardiff University (Prifysgol Caerdydd) is a public research university situated in Cardiff, Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It merged with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) in 1988 as the University of Wales College, Cardiff (University of Wales, Cardiff from 1996). It adopted the operating name of Cardiff University in 1999, which became its legal name in 2005, when it became an independent university awarding its own degrees. (Source: Wikipedia)
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The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), situated in the Bloomsbury area of Central London, is one of the oldest drama schools in Britain, founded in 1904 by actor and theatre manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree. The school provides vocational conservatoire training for theatre, film, television and radio. (Source: Wikipedia). The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's Vanbrugh Theatre replaced, in 1954, an earlier structure that was destroyed during World War II. In the late 1990s this theatre was in turn razed and replaced by a new building, which was officially opened in November 2000.
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The Swedish actor Fredrik Ohlsson (born 1931), with whom Siân Phillips had a relationship during their time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, took the part of Jörgen Tesman alongside Siân Phillips' title character in RADA's 1957 production of Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, a rôle for which she was awarded RADA's prestigious Bancroft Gold Medal. For Fredrik Ohlsson, see also under General miscellany.
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Language note: Les Derniers Outrages ([1950s]): inscription in French.
Language note: Hedda Gabler (1957) contains material in Norwegian.