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Guide to the Robert Cohen Papers

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Collection Contents

Series 1. Production books 1966-1999

Physical Description: 5.6 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series contains production books for plays directed by Cohen. Most of the plays were staged at UCI, but a few were at other institutions and Shakespearean festivals, as indicated in the inventory. Each book is hardbound and includes some or all of the following: programs, production and publicity photographs, reviews, director's notes, scripts, rehearsal schedules, costume lists, and other details of stage production.

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically by date of production.

Box 1

The Night of the Iguana 1966

Box 1

Oedipus Tyrannos 1967 February

Box 1

The Apollo of Bellac, Play, and The Death of Morris Biedermann 1967 March

Box 2

Six Characters in Search of an Author 1967 April

Box 2

The Hostage 1968 April

Box 2

The Good Woman of Setzuan 1968

Box 2

The Madwoman of Chaillot 1969 May

Box 3

Waiting for Godot 1969

Scope and Content Note

Notebook contains production photographs only. A handwritten note by Cohen indicates that the original production book disappeared in 1970.

Box 3

Cabaret 1971 January

Box 3

Othello 1971 February

Box 4

The Möbius Strip 1971 April

Box 4

Ondine 1972 November

Box 5

After the Fall 1973 December

Box 5

Our Town 1974 November

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Repertory Company of the Virginia Museum Theatre.

Box 5

Misalliance 1975 May

Box 6

Guys and Dolls 1976 November

Box 6

Butley 1977 February

Box 6

The Three Sisters 1977 June

Box 6

Richard III 1978 May

Box 7

Equus 1980 February

Box 7

Three Penny Opera 1980 November

Box 7

Bourgeois Gentlemen 1982 February

Box 8

Betrayal 1983 February

Box 8

Tokyo Bar 1984 April

Box 8

The Plaie Called Corpus Christi 1985 October

Box 8

Hamlet 1986 February

Box 9

The Plaie Called Corpus Christi Part II: The Nativity 1986 September

Box 9

King Lear 1986 July

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Box 9

Much Ado About Nothing 1987 August

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Box 10

The Concluding Episodes of the Plaie Called Corpus Christi: "The Passion," "The Ressurection," "The Judgement" 1987 September

Box 10

A Midsummer Night's Dream 1988 July

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Box 10-11

The Magic Flute 1989 November

Box 11

The Winter's Tale 1989 July

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Box 11

The N-Town Passion 1990

Scope and Content Note

Production of The Plaie Called Corpus Christi, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Box 12

Much Ado About Nothing 1991 August

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Beverly Hills Repertory at Theatre Forty.

Box 12

Romeo and Juliet 1992 May

Box 12

Macbeth 1996 June

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

Box 13

King Lear 1989 January

Box 13

Dangerous Liaisons 1993 April

Box 13

As You Like It 1994 November

Box 13

Suburbia 1996 May

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Graduating Acting Students at the Queensland University of Technology.

Box 14

The Misanthrope 1997 January

Box 14

Measure for Measure 1998 July

Scope and Content Note

Production staged at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.

Box 14

Carmen 1999 February

Box 14

Oklahoma! 1999 April

Series 2. Subject files 1966-2004, 1967-1999

Physical Description: 1.5 linear feet

Series Scope and Content Summary

This series comprises subject files accumulated by Cohen throughout his career at UCI. Files include correspondence and clippings, articles, materials from the Student Repertory Theatre, and information on the careers of past students. Also included is an unpublished manuscript titled Edwin Booth in Performance and accompanying illustrations and research materials. Booth (1833-1893) was a celebrated American stage actor and brother of the assassin of Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by subject or format.

Box : Folder 15 : 1

Advertisements and order forms for Cohen books and productions 1985-1993

Articles by Cohen

Box : Folder 15 : 2

"Acting at University of California, Irvine" undated

Box : Folder 15 : 3

"Acting power ou la puissance creatrice de l'acteur" 1992

Box : Folder 15 : 4

"Coming of Age in Elsinore" 1988

Box : Folder 15 : 5

"Dragging Carcasses to the Firepit: Acting Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy" undated

Box : Folder 15 : 6

"Quince's Moon--Disfiguring Reality in A Midsummer Night's Dream" 1989

Box : Folder 15 : 7

"Repertory Theatre at Irvine" 1967

Box : Folder 15 : 8

"Shakespeare's Sixteen-Year-Old Hamlet" 1973

Box : Folder 15 : 9

"Some Political Implications of The Madwoman of Chaillot" 1968

Box : Folder 15 : 10

"Spoken Dialog in Written Drama" 1984

Box : Folder 15 : 11

"Tears (and Acting) in Shakespeare" 1995

Box : Folder 15 : 12

Miscellaneous 1976, 1987, undated

Box : Folder 15 : 13

Articles on distancing actors from their roles 1999, undated

Box : Folder 15 : 14

Biographical information 1986-1992, undated

Box : Folder 15 : 15-20

Clippings 1967-2004

Box : Folder 15 : 21

Conferences and symposiums 1983-1988, 1999

Box : Folder 15 : 22-27

Correspondence 1967-1999, undated

Edwin Booth in Performance

Box : Folder 15 : 28

Bibliography and chronology 1967

Box : Folder 15 : 29-31

Manuscript 1967

Box : Folder 15 : 32

Offprint: "Hamlet as Edwin Booth" 1969

Box : Folder 15 : 33-34

Plates 1967

Box : Folder 15 : 35

Plate captions 1967

Box : Folder 15 : 36

Lectures and talks 1987, undated

Box : Folder 15 : 37

McCulloch, Samuel: interview transcript 1990

Box : Folder 15 : 38

Photographs undated

Box : Folder 15 : 39

Play reviews 1986-1989

Box : Folder FB-063 : 4

Poster: The Prince 2001

Box : Folder 15 : 40-41

Programs 1962-1968, 1999, undated

Box : Folder 15 : 42

Reviews and citations lists 1986-1992

Student's Repertory Theatre (UCI)

Box : Folder 16: 1

Audition materials 1967

Clippings

Box : Folder 16 : 2

General 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 3

Oedipus 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 4

One acts 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 5

Six Characters 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 6

Tours 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 7

Exercises 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 8

Photographs 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 9, FB-063 : 4

Posters 1967

Box : Folder 16 : 10

Press releases 1966-1967

Box : Folder 16 : 11

Schedules 1966-1967

Box : Folder 16 : 12

Tour business materials 1967

UCI graduates

Box : Folder 16 : 13-15

Filmographies, headshots, and other materials 1997-2003, undated

Box : Folder 16 : 16

Photographs undated

Box : Folder 16 : 17

Writings dedicated to Cohen 1983-1984

Collection Contents

Production books

Subject files

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