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127 pages; Playscript for a theatrical production of GWTW as a stage musical. Complete with two folding plates of stage designs, etc. from the brilliant Sean Kenny. One page has shallow creasing at lower edge, otherwise quite nice in original orange card wrappers held at spine by two brass brads. Sean Kenny (1932-1973) was born in Portroe, County Tipperary, Ireland. He trained as an architect at the Dublin School of Architecture, then went to study at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation in Arizona. In 1957, he came to London to work in theatre and turned to stage design. His first work for theatre was the set design for Sean O'Casey's play The Shadow of a Gunman, at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, London in January 1957. He created sets for the world premiere of The Hostage at Theatre Royal in 1960; several plays at the Royal Court; The Royal Shakespeare Company s productions of The Devils and Romeo and Juliet; the National Theatre's Uncle Vanya with Laurence Olivier and Michael Redgrave (1963); and numerous West End productions including Oliver (1960), which won him New York s Tony Award as Best Designer of the Year. He also designed for the opera, The Flying Dutchman (1966), at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Between 1960 and 1970, he designed sets for 32 major West End productions. In 1972, he designed the arena production of Clown Around, directed by Gene Kelly, which was shown in the USA. From the estate of Roger Stevens. Roger Lacey Stevens (1910 1998) was an American theatrical producer, arts administrator, and real estate executive. He was the founding Chairman of both the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (1961) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1965). In politics, he made a mark as chairman of the Democratic Party's finance committee in 1956. He produced more than 100 plays and musicals over his career, including West Side Story, Bus Stop, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. In 1971, he received Special Tony Award for his body of work. He became known for introducing plays by such adventurous writers as Harold Pinter, Arthur Kopit and Tom Stoppard. Stevens was the General Administrator of the Actors Studio as well as one of the producers of the Playwrights Company, a member of the board of the American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA), and one of the members of a Broadway producing company he founded in 1953 with Robert Whitehead and Robert Dowling. In 1961, he was asked by President John F. Kennedy to help establish a National Cultural Center, and became Chairman of Board of Trustees of what was eventually named the Kennedy Center from 1961 to 1988. In 1965, he received an appointment from President Lyndon Johnson as first Chairman of the National Council on the Arts later named the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1986, Stevens was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. On January 13, 1988, Stevens was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan. In 1988, he was also awarded the National Medal of Arts.
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