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- [1948]-[1967] (Creation)
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1 envelope + 1 over-sized wallet
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Material relating to Dannie Abse's 1948 play Fire in Heaven (later retitled Is The House Shut (1964) and In The Cage (1967), which includes printed theatrical programmes, poster and flyer; press reviews, including one relating to the published version of the play (Hutchinson, 1956); draft poetry, with corrections in Abse's hand, for inclusion in a production of In The Cage; and correspondence, which includes a letter to Abse's brother, the psychiatrist Dr Wilfred Abse. The Questors Theatre New Plays Festival 1964 programme features autographs of cast and production crew, which includes Dannie Abse's signature
For Alfred Emmet of the Questors Theatre, London see also under heading Miscellanea: Miscellanea relating to Dannie Abse.
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- English
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Note
Fire in Heaven was first produced in London in 1948 and published in 1956. It was subsequently retitled as Is the House Shut (1964) and In the Cage (1967).
Note
For Alfred Emmet see, for example: https://archive.questors.org.uk/obit/E/emmetA.html.
For Dr Wilfred Abse see, for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Abse
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- Emmet, Alfred, 1908-1991 (Subject)
- Abse, Wilfred, 1915-2005 (Subject)