Rita Guenigault Dundee Rep collection

Programmes, production and set photographs

Rita Guenigault was stage manager at the Dundee Rep company c 1950s-1960s and worked at Glyndebourne for many years. She is featured in the painting ' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley with her companion Rita (known as Reet, Guenigault)' by Lilian Strang Neilson Dundee Repertory Theatre was founded in 1939 out of a collaboration between Robert Thornely who had managed the last touring company to perform at Dundee and who was looking for a home for his professional company and the amateur company the Dundee Dramatic Company. The first theatre was housed in a disused jute mill. After the premises were destroyed by a fire in 1963 the company moved to a church building on Lochee Road. This served as the theatre's home until the new Dundee Rep Theatre was opened at Tay Square in 1982.

Usually chronological within series.

Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

Deposited to the university by Rosemary Hooper.

Rita Guenigault was stage manager at the Dundee Rep company c 1950s-1960s and worked at Glyndebourne for many years. She is featured in the painting ' Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley with her companion Rita (known as Reet, Guenigault)' by Lilian Strang Neilson Dundee Repertory Theatre was founded in 1939 out of a collaboration between Robert Thornely who had managed the last touring company to perform at Dundee and who was looking for a home for his professional company and the amateur company the Dundee Dramatic Company. The first theatre was housed in a disused jute mill. After the premises were destroyed by a fire in 1963 the company moved to a church building on Lochee Road. This served as the theatre's home until the new Dundee Rep Theatre was opened at Tay Square in 1982.

Hard copy descriptive list in Archive searchroom

Letters, programs, scripts and photographs.

Description compiled by Ann-Marie McIntosh, Archive Volunteer 15/08/2017

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Nothing destroyed

Guenigault sent the collection to Rosemary Hooper to deposit with the University.

Not expected

Published

Catalogued

MS 395