AN EVENING FOR VERITY BARGATE

BARGATE Verity (With Signatures, Including Ian Mc

Published by Soho Poly Theatre & Verity Bargate Award, London,, 1981

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First Edition. Wraps. Lrge 8vo. pp 20.Illustrated wraps. Programme booklet of a posthumous celebration and appreciation of the life of Verity Bargate by her friends and colleagues. Contributors included Bob Hoskins, David Hare, Sir Peter Hall, Hanif Kureishi, Frank Marcus, Tony Marchant, Richard Eyre, Caryl Churchill, Barrie Keeffe (who she married 2 months before her death) 8x11.25 inches, memorials from actors, playwrights, directors, friends and family, illustrated with photos, stapled pictorial wraps. This was the beginning to the Verity Bargate Award for new plays. Verity Bargate (1940-1981) was a theatre director and novelist who co-founded the Soho Theatre Company in 1980, later known as the Soho Theatre. She worked closely with, and helped advance the careers of, Bob Hoskins, Hanif Kureishi, Tony Marchant, Michelene Wandor, Caryl Churchill and Barrie Keefe. She was a co-founder of the Soho Theatre Co.She died in 1981 of cancer at 41.Booklet is a posthumous celebration and appreciation of the life of Verity Bargate by her friends and colleagues. SIGNED by many of the evening's participants on rear cover. 20+ signatures, including Bob Hoskins, Ian McEwan, Barrie Keefe, Paul Barber, Gilly Fraser, Alex Marshall, Kika Markham, Roy Battersley, Chris Bowler, Lindsay Duncan, David Warner, Caroline Hutchinson, Simon Callow, Clive Merrison, Charlotte Cornwall, Bernard Hill, David Calder and others. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in illustrated wrappers (paperback).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AN EVENING FOR VERITY BARGATE
• Publisher: Soho Poly Theatre & Verity Bargate Award, London,
• Publication Date: 1981
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signedes