Rita Guenigault Dundee Rep collection

• Reference:GB 254 MS 395
• Dates of Creation:1957-1968
• Name of Creator:
  Rita Guenigault
• Physical Description:
  1 folder

• Scope and Content

  Programmes, production and set photographs

• Administrative / Biographical History

  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.

• Arrangement

  Usually chronological within series.

• Access Information

  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.

• Acquisition Information

  Deposited to the university by Rosemary Hooper.

• Note

  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.

• Other Finding Aids

  Hard copy descriptive list in Archive searchroom

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Letters, programs, scripts and photographs.

• Archivist's Note

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

• Conditions Governing Use

  Reproduction is available subject to preservation requirements. Charges may be made for this service, and copyright and other restrictions may apply; please check with the Duty Archivist.

• Appraisal Information

  Nothing destroyed

• Custodial History

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

• Accruals

  Not expected

• Additional Information

  Published

  Catalogued

  MS 395