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THM/27 - Michael Codron Ltd.: Financial Papers-
THM/27/1 - Box Office Returns
- THM/27/1/1 - The Bandwagon
- THM/27/1/2 - Bells of Hell
- THM/27/1/3 - Big Bad Mouse
- THM/27/1/4 - Big Soft Nellie
- THM/27/1/5 - The Boy Friend
- THM/27/1/6 - Breath of Spring
- THM/27/1/7 - Busybody
- THM/27/1/8 - Butley
- THM/27/1/9 - The Caretaker
- THM/27/1/10 - The Changing Room
- THM/27/1/11 - Cider with Rosie
- THM/27/1/12 - Cindy Ella
- THM/27/1/13 - Collaborators
- THM/27/1/14 - Come Laughing Home
- THM/27/1/15 - Confusions
- THM/27/1/16 - The Contractor
- THM/27/1/17 - rown Matrimonial
- THM/27/1/18 - Donkey's Years
- THM/27/1/19 - Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
- THM/27/1/20 - Entertaining Mr Sloane
- THM/27/1/21 - An Evening of British Rubbish
- THM/27/1/22 - Everything in the Garden
- THM/27/1/23 - A Family and a FortunaCollaborators
- THM/27/1/24 - A Far better Husband
- THM/27/1/25 - The Flip Side
- THM/27/1/26 - Flowers
- THM/27/1/27 - The Flip Side
- THM/27/1/28 - The Flip Side
- THM/27/1/29 - The Foursome
- THM/27/1/30 - Four Degress Over
- THM/27/1/31 - The Flip Side
- THM/27/1/32 - Girlfirend
- THM/27/1/33 - The Golden Pathway Annual
- THM/27/1/35 - How Say You?
- THM/27/1/36 - The Homecoming
- THM/27/1/37 - Hedda Gabler
- THM/27/1/38 - Hang Down Your Head and Die
- THM/27/1/39 - Habeas Corpus
- THM/27/1/40 - Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger
- THM/27/1/41 - It's a Two Foot, Six Inches Above the Ground World
- THM/27/1/42 - John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert
- THM/27/1/43 - Joking Apart
- THM/27/1/44 - The Judge
- THM/27/1/45 - Just Between Ourselves
- THM/27/1/46 - Kelly's Eye
- THM/27/1/47 - The Killing of Sister George
- THM/27/1/49 - Licence to Murder
- THM/27/1/50 - A Lily in Little India
- THM/27/1/51 - Little Malcolm
- THM/27/1/52 - A Little Winter Love
- THM/27/1/53 - Loot
- THM/27/1/54 - Me Times Me
- THM/27/1/55 - Mrs. Mouse Are You Within?
- THM/27/1/56 - My fat Friend
- THM/27/1/57 - Next Time I'll Sing To you
- THM/27/1/58 - The Norman Conquests
- THM/27/1/59 - Not Now, Darling
- THM/27/1/60 - Oh Mr Porter
- THM/27/1/61 - The Old Country
- THM/27/1/63 - Otherwise Engaged
- THM/27/1/64 - One Over the Eight
- THM/27/1/65 - Others
- THM/27/1/66 - Out of the Crocodile
- THM/27/1/67 - The Philanthropist
- THM/27/1/68 - Pieces of Eight
- THM/27/1/69 - Poor Bitos
- THM/27/1/70 - A Present for the Post
- THM/27/1/71 - Private Lives
- THM/27/1/72 - Public and Confidential
- THM/27/1/73 - Rattle of a Simple Man
- THM/27/1/74 - The Real Inspector Hound
- THM/27/1/75 - The Rear Column
- THM/27/1/76 - Ride a Cock Horse
- THM/27/1/77 - Savage
- THM/27/1/78 - A Scent of Flowers
- THM/27/1/79 - See How They Run
- THM/27/1/80 - The Servant of Two Masters
- THM/27/1/81 - Share my Lettuce
- THM/27/1/82 - Siege
- THM/27/1/83 - Stop It
- THM/27/1/84 - Teeth and Smiles
- THM/27/1/85 - Ten Times Table
- THM/27/1/86 - The Tenth Man
- THM/27/1/87 - There's a Girl in my Soup (i)
- THM/27/1/88 - There's a Girl in my Soup (ii)
- THM/27/1/89 - They Don't Grow on Trees
- THM/27/1/90 - Time and Time Again
- THM/27/1/91 - Tishoo
- THM/27/1/92 - Toad of Toad Hall
- THM/27/1/93 - Travelling Light
- THM/27/1/94 - Treats
- THM/27/1/95 - The Two of Us
- THM/27/1/96 - Two Stars
- THM/27/1/97 - Under Milk Wood
- THM/27/1/98 - The Unvarnished Truth
- THM/27/1/99 - Valmouth
- THM/27/1/100 - Veterans
- THM/27/1/101 - A Voyage Round My Father
- THM/27/1/102 - When Did You Last See My Mother?
- THM/27/1/103 - Wise Child
- THM/27/1/104 - The Wrong Side of the Park
- THM/27/1/105 - Why the Chicken
- THM/27/1/106 - The World of Susie Wong
- THM/27/1/107 - Yahoo
- THM/27/1/108 - Profit and loss for 'The Caretaker'
- THM/27/1/109 - (i) Theatre Total Seaters
- THM/27/1/110 - (ii)Theatre Total Seaters
Michael Codron Ltd.: Financial Papers
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| This material is held at | V&A Department of Theatre and Performance |
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27 |
| Dates of Creation | 1958-1983 |
| Name of Creator | Codron, Michael |
| Language of Material | English |
| Physical Description | 110 folders |
Scope and Content
This archival collection contains weekly box office returns for productions produced by Michael Codron across Britain.
Arrangement
The collection has been combined into the following series:
- Box Office Returns
Administrative / Biographical History
Michael Victor Codron was born on 8 June 1930. He began his theatrical career as an assistant to Jack Hylton who then recommended him to produce Salad Days. His first show as an independent producer was Ring for Catty (1956) and he soon acquired a reputation for championing new writers, most famously producing the first production of Harold Pinter's The Birthday Party at the Hammersmith Lyric in 1958. He went on to produce Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane and Pinter's The Caretaker and thus became embroiled in the 'Dirty Plays' controversy in which the immensely powerful producer and theatre owner Emile Littler condemned Codron and the newly formed RSC (among others) of violating the sanctity of the British stage.
Codron has consistently championed playwrights and plays over musicals and was without rival as a producer of straight commercial plays from the 1970s until the 1990s: among the playwrights he is most often associated with are Alan Ayckbourn, Michael Frayn, Simon Gray and Charles Wood.
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Access to some of this material may be restricted. This material will be identified at file level.
Conditions Governing Use
Archive material may not be photocopied. Arrangements can be made to photograph material in the search room using non-flash photography.
Acquisition Information
Michael Codron deposited his collection of box office returns as a gift to the Victoria and Albert Museum Theatre and Performance Collections.
Related Material
See also Theatre and Performance Core Collections: material relating to Michael Codron may be found in several collections, including his biographical file, relevant production files, and photographs. Please ask for more details.
Subjects | |
| Theatre Management | |
Personal Names | |
| Codron, Michael | |
| Littler, Emile. ( 1903-1985) | |
Cataloguing Info
| Title | Michael Codron Ltd.: Financial Papers |
| Sub-title | Catalogue of records in the Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Theatre and Performance |
| Author | Catalogued by Ramona Riedzewski |
| Revisions |
Box Office Returns
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1 |
| Dates of Creation | 1957-83 |
Scope and Content
Files contain details of weekly box office returns for shows produced by Michael Codron Ltd.
The Bandwagon
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/1 |
| Dates of Creation | 1969-1970 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Big Bad Mouse
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/3 |
| Dates of Creation | 1965-1968 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Big Soft Nellie
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/4 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Boy Friend
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/5 |
| Dates of Creation | 1967-1968 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Breath of Spring
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/6 |
| Dates of Creation | 1958-1959 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Caretaker
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/9 |
| Dates of Creation | 1960-1962 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Changing Room
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/10 |
| Dates of Creation | 1971-1972 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Cider with Rosie
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/11 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Cindy Ella
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/12 |
| Dates of Creation | 1962-1963 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Collaborators
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/13 |
| Dates of Creation | 1973 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Come Laughing Home
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/14 |
| Dates of Creation | 1965 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Confusions
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/15 |
| Dates of Creation | 1976-1977 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Contractor
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/16 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970-1971 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
rown Matrimonial
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/17 |
| Dates of Creation | 1972-1974 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Donkey's Years
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/18 |
| Dates of Creation | 1976-1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/19 |
| Dates of Creation | 1977 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Entertaining Mr Sloane
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/20 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
An Evening of British Rubbish
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/21 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Everything in the Garden
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/22 |
| Dates of Creation | 1962 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Family and a FortunaCollaborators
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/23 |
| Dates of Creation | 1975 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Far better Husband
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/24 |
| Dates of Creation | 1975 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Flip Side
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/25 |
| Dates of Creation | 1967 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Flip Side
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/27 |
| Dates of Creation | 1959 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Flip Side
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/28 |
| Dates of Creation | 1967 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Four Degress Over
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/30 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Flip Side
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/31 |
| Dates of Creation | 1976-1977 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Golden Pathway Annual
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/33 |
| Dates of Creation | 1974 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Homecoming
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/36 |
| Dates of Creation | 1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Hang Down Your Head and Die
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/38 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Habeas Corpus
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/39 |
| Dates of Creation | 1973 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Infanticide in the House of Fred Ginger
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/40 |
| Dates of Creation | 1962 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
It's a Two Foot, Six Inches Above the Ground World
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/41 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/42 |
| Dates of Creation | 1974-1975 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Just Between Ourselves
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/45 |
| Dates of Creation | 1977 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Killing of Sister George
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/47 |
| Dates of Creation | 1965-1967 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Licence to Murder
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/49 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Lily in Little India
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/50 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Little Malcolm
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/51 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Little Winter Love
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/52 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Mrs. Mouse Are You Within?
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/55 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
My fat Friend
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/56 |
| Dates of Creation | 1972-1974 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Next Time I'll Sing To you
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/57 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Norman Conquests
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/58 |
| Dates of Creation | 1974-1976 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Not Now, Darling
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/59 |
| Dates of Creation | 1968-1970 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Old Country
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/61 |
| Dates of Creation | 1977-1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Otherwise Engaged
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/63 |
| Dates of Creation | 1975-1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
One Over the Eight
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/64 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961-1962 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Out of the Crocodile
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/66 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963-1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Philanthropist
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/67 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970-1974 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Pieces of Eight
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/68 |
| Dates of Creation | 1959-1960 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Present for the Post
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/70 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Private Lives
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/71 |
| Dates of Creation | 1963-1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Public and Confidential
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/72 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Rattle of a Simple Man
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/73 |
| Dates of Creation | 1962-1965 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Real Inspector Hound
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/74 |
| Dates of Creation | 1968 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Rear Column
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/75 |
| Dates of Creation | 1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Ride a Cock Horse
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/76 |
| Dates of Creation | 1965 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Scent of Flowers
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/78 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
See How They Run
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/79 |
| Dates of Creation | 1964-1965 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Servant of Two Masters
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/80 |
| Dates of Creation | 1968-1969 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Share my Lettuce
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/81 |
| Dates of Creation | 1957-1958 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Teeth and Smiles
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/84 |
| Dates of Creation | 1976 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Ten Times Table
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/85 |
| Dates of Creation | 1978-1979 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Tenth Man
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/86 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
There's a Girl in my Soup (i)
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/87 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970-1973 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
There's a Girl in my Soup (ii)
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/88 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966-1969 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
They Don't Grow on Trees
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/89 |
| Dates of Creation | 1968-1969 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Time and Time Again
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/90 |
| Dates of Creation | 1972-1973 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Toad of Toad Hall
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/92 |
| Dates of Creation | 1969-1970 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Travelling Light
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/93 |
| Dates of Creation | 1965-1968 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Two of Us
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/95 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970-1971 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Under Milk Wood
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/97 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Unvarnished Truth
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/98 |
| Dates of Creation | 1978 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Valmouth
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/99 |
| Dates of Creation | 1958-1959 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
A Voyage Round My Father
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/101 |
| Dates of Creation | 1971-1972 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
When Did You Last See My Mother?
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/102 |
| Dates of Creation | 1966 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Wise Child
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/103 |
| Dates of Creation | 1967-1968 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The Wrong Side of the Park
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/104 |
| Dates of Creation | 1960 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Why the Chicken
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/105 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
The World of Susie Wong
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/106 |
| Dates of Creation | 1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
Profit and loss for 'The Caretaker'
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/108 |
| Dates of Creation | 1960-1961 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
(i) Theatre Total Seaters
| Reference Number(s) | GB 71 THM/27/1/109 |
| Dates of Creation | 1970-1983 |
| Physical Description | 1 folder |
