Printed programmes from various opera productions at, London venues and attended by Caroline Swift.Programmes present from London Philharmonic Orchestra; Cambridge Theatre, London; Royal Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall; the National Symphony Orchestra; Great Hall Friends House; The Royal Albert Hall; Town Hall, Oxford; National Gallery Concerts; The Royal College of Music; Wigmore Hall; Cowdray Hall; Kingsway Hall; The Glenbourne Opera; The Guildhall School of Music and Opera.
File of theatre programmes from plays at the Lantern Theatre Club, Dublin collected by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include: The empty chair by Peter Ustinov; A Beginning of Truth by G.P. Gallivan; The Royal Pardon or The Soldier Who Became an Actor by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy; Lantern Theatre Writer's Workshop; All The Candles in Your Head by Lee Gallagher; Pictures in the Hallway adapted from book by Sean O'Casey by Patrick funge and David Krause.
File with theatre programmes from plays written or produced or directed by Jim and or Peter Sheridan. Many plays produced at Project Arts Centre Dublin. Plays attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include:
The Risen People by James Plunkett (Project Arts Centre) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe and adapted by Steven Berkoff (Project Arts Centre); Mobile Homes by Jim Sheridan, directed by Peter Sheridan (Project); Shades of the Jelly Woman (The Complete Version) by Peter Sheridan with Jean Doyle; The Liberty Suit by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Olympia Theatre); The Other Side of Lilliput by Lee Gallaher, directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); No entry by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Project); Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo adapted by Gavin Richards, directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Down All The Days by Christy Brown adapted by Peter Sheridan directed by Jim Sheridan (Oscar Theatre Productions); Children of Eve by Peter Sheridan (Dublin Youth Theatre, Andrews Lane Theatre).
Also season programme from Project Arts Centre with listings and casts for plays at Project including The Ha'Penny Place by Jim Sheridan and directed by Peter Sheridan. Plays also listed are The Passion of Christ (Greek Theatre Company Athens), Duchess by Judith Alderson and Kate Phelps and There's Three Sides to Everything by Pat Abernathy and Dave Marsden and also listed in schedule of Liveworks - An Alternative Festival.
File of programmes from productions by the Irish Theatre Company and attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include The J. Arthur McGuinness Story by Tom Murphy, The Seagull by Thomas Kilroy after Chekhov, Affluence by Wesley Burrows, Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
Programmes from plays in the Irish language attended by Carolyn Swift, includes plays at the Damer hall, Dublin (such as An Giall by Brendan Behan, 1958), a large number of Irish language plays at the Peacock Theatre / An Phéacóg, Dublin; also at Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Co. Kerry; An Rose Tattoo by Tennessee Williams, Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe (2 - 9 Feb 1992); 'Macbeth' Ceoldráma le Giuseppe Verdi at Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe (1998).
File of theatre programmes of plays attended by Carolyn Swift and produced by Íomha Ildánach, plays produced, written, devised in the Irish language.
File of theatre programmes from plays produced by the Dublin Globe Theatre Company and collected by Carolyn Swift. Note: Godfrey Quigley was a founding member of the Dublin Globe Theatre Company in the 1940s. Later, he formed World Theatre Productions with Donal Donnelly in Dublin in the 1970s. Programmes for Dublin Globe Theatre include (and unless otherwise stated were produced at the Gasworks Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin): The Seventh Step by Padraic Fallon at the Olympia Theatre; Irish Fantasia by Sean O'Casey, J.M. Synge, and R.B. Sheridan as part of an Tostal, 1955; The Beaux Stratagem by George Farquhar; The Living Room by Graham Greene (Irish Premiere); Montserrat; My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack; The Hasty Heart by John Patrick; We Must Kill Toni! by Ian Stuart Black; See How They Run by Philip King; The Biggest Thief in Town by Dalton Trumbo, Hay Fever by Noel Coward; A Season of Plays by W.B. Yeats as part of the [Dublin] International Theatre Festival 1957; A View From the Bridge by Arthur Miller at the Olympia Theatre; You and Your Wife by Denis Cannan; High Balcony by Peter Ustinov; The Man by Mel Dinelli; While the Sun Shines by Terence Rattigan, Captain Carvallo by Denis Cannon, Room Service by John Murray and Allen Boretz at the Gaiety Theatre; Harvey by Mary Chase at the Gaiety Theatre; The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod at the Gaiety Theatre; Come Back, Little Sheba by William Inge; Miss Ducky by Andrew Ganly; My Three Angels by Sam and Bella Spewack; Bus Stop by William Inge at the Gate Theatre Dublin; The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter at the Gate Theatre Dublin; The Wayward Saint by Paul Vincent Carroll at the Gaiety theatre Dublin; The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca; Madigan's Lock by Hugh Leonard at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Epitaph for George Dillon by John Osborne and Anthony Creighton at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Decision at Easter by G.P. Gallivan at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Dinner with the Family by Jean Anouilh at the Gate Theatre Dublin; Traveller Without Luggage by Jean Anouilh at the Gate Theatre Dublin.
File of printed theatre programmes from productions by Glasshouse Productions and attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include I Know My Own Heart by Emma Donoghue, Ficky Stingers by Eve Lewis; Vampirella And The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter adapted by Katy Hayes; Ladies and Gentlemen by Emma Donoghue; Low Level Panic by Clare McIntyre; Burns both Ends by Clare Dowling.
Theatre programmes from plays written and or directed by Gerard Stembridge and attended by Carolyn Swift. Programmes include: The Girls of Summer by Gerard Stembridge, Project Arts Centre, 1993; The Gay Detective by Gerard Stembridge, Project Arts Centre (1996); Denis and Rose by Gerard Stembridge based on stories by Maeve Binchy, Civic Theatre ([1994]); Ceausescu's Ear by Gerard Stembridge (1993); Love Child by Gerard Stembridge (Project Arts Centre, 1992); Village Wooing by Bernard Shaw and starring Gerard Stembridge, City Theatre Productions).
File of programmes from Gemini Productions (run by Phyllis Ryan, Norman Rodway and Richard Hallinan). Gemini staged works largely at the Eblana Theatre, The Gate Theatre, and also the Olympia Theatre and the Gaiety Theatre. Plays include works by Máireád Ní Ghrada, Lee Dunne, Hugh Leonard, Bernard Shaw, John B. Keane, Joe O'Donnell, Mary Manning, Joe Orton, James Douglas, Patrick Galvin, among others.