| Description | The file includes: a copy of the agreement setting up the Trust for the Award, 1967, together with drafts; news clippings about winners; letters relating to donations to the Award; letters regarding the running of the Award for example, setting out standard replies to applicants; letters to winners for example, Donald Howarth and John Antrobus who shared the Award. Many are on George Devine Award headed paper which lists the Trustees, patrons and Committee members, c1969; an application from Richard Erye for the Award in order to write a new play for which he sent a synopsis [sent from the Royal Lyceum Theatre Company in Edinburgh, where Eyre was Associate Director]; minutes, 1966-1969, including those of the first meeting of the George Devine Award Committee; information on funding [brief]; information on The Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre, London; and letters from people approached to be on the Committee for example, Peter Hall [director], William Gaskill [Bill Gaskill] [director], John Bury [designer], George Harewood [the Earl of Harwood], Peter Cheeseman [director], Harold Pinter [playwright], Arnold Wesker [writer], Laurence Olivier [actor and director], Anthony Page [director], John Neville [director] and John Arden [playwright]. |