Autographs of Ian Bannen, Patrick Magee, Prunella Scales and 13 others cast members of the 1958 London production of Eugene O'Neill's 'The Iceman Cometh', with Arts Theatre Club and Winter Garden Theatre programmes, tickets, cuttings and a letter.

17 items, the collection in good condition, on aged paper. Item One: Autographs of sixteen individuals associated with the production, all signing to 'Sonia'. 2pp., 12mo. On bifolium removed from ruled notebook. The signatories are: Michael Bryant, Robert Hunter, Margaret Whiting, Hilda Braid, Vivian Matalon, Tony Church ('Sonia, our proletarian beauty | from hungry Hugo'), Jack MacGowran, Robert Adams, Prunella Scales ('Maggie'), Michael Balfour ('May you triumph over virtue'), Patrick Magee, Tony Robertson, Joby Blanshard, Anthony Jacobs, Lee Montagu and Ian Bannen. Item Two: Typed Note Signed by Nick Meredith, Airlie Lodge, 90 Campden Hill Road, London, W8, 21 January 1959, inviting Sonia to 'an Iceman reunion' at Ian Bannen's address. In envelope with orginal abstract design on front. Items Three and Four: Programmes for the production at the Arts Theatre Club ('First Night Wednesday, 29th January 1958.') and Winter Garden Theatre, Drury Lane. Items Five, Six and Seven: Two ticket stubs for the Winter Gardens production, with card advertising it (2pp., 12mo): 'This Play is not suitable for children.' Items Eight to Seventeen: Ten newspaper cuttings relating to the performance, the play and Ian Bannen. Several with photographs. Mostly positive reviews. One from the Daily Mail, 30 January 1958, another from Punch, 5 February 1958 (with caricatures of Bannen and MacGowran by Ronald Searle), none of the others attributed or with date.