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Photograph, slatted staircase (1962)

Exterior close up of slatted staircase

Programme, The Broken Heart (1962)

Listing cast and production team and show dates

Photograph, construction of the Festival Theatre foyer (1962)

Featuring the laying of the foyer flooring

Programme, Uncle Vanya (1962)

Listing cast and production team and show dates

Oral history clips, Uncle Vanya (2013 – 2015)

A series of clips remembering the 1962 production of Uncle Vanya

Photograph, Aerial view of Chichester Festival Theatre (c.1962)

Showing ramps needed to move scenery in and out of the auditorium

Oral history clips, The building in the 60s (2013-2015)

A series of clips describing the building in the sixties

Photograph, exterior of Festival Theatre (1962)

Showing Chichester Festival Theatre in its Oaklands Park setting

Photograph, Interior auditorium (1962)

Showing a vomitorium and a glimps of the control room

Production photograph, The Chances (1962)

Featuring John Neville as Don Federick and Rosemary Harris as Constantia

Blueprints, Festival Theatre auditorium (1962)

Plans for the Festival Theatre auditorium

Press cutting, Aspects of the New Chichester Theatre (1962)

Aspects of the new theatre in Chichester which is the first of its kind in Britain