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Description: | Financial information relating to particular plays produced by Michael Codron Ltd. This collection comprises box office returns and records of income of various productions.
Archive reference number: THM/27 (4 boxes)
Michael Codron started working as a producer in his 20s, setting up his company Michael Codron Ltd after a few years in the trade. He became known as an independent impresario, discovering and financing his own plays. He put on, among others, Harold Pinter's first full length play 'The Birthday Party' and Joe Orton's first play 'Entertaining Mr Sloane', gaining a reputation for producing works by writers previously unknown, including Simon Gray, David Hare, Pinter, and Orton. | Format: | Documents (production) | Subjects: | Theater - Production and direction; Theater - Finance | Temporal: | 1957-1986 20th century | Source: | Backstage | Address: | Blythe House, 23 Blythe Road, London,,
W14 0QX | Creator: | Codron, Michael | Identifier: | www.backstage.ac.uk/records/collection/c | Language: | en | Format: | Documents (production) | Go to resource |
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