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29 ff. of cuttings relating to 'Five Finger Exercise', with ff. 1-13 relating to the London production at the Comedy Theatre, and ff. 14-29 relating to the New York production at the Music Box Theatre.

Material relating to the London production includes two handbills, a programme and 19 cuttings of theatre reviews, including "Changing Fashions in the English Theatre" by John Bowen in 'The Listener', "Eating People is Wrong" by Alan Brien in 'The Spectator', "An Author and Actor" by Harold Hobson in 'The Sunday Times' (July 27 1958), and "Peter Shaffer Calls for Magic and Mystery" by R. B. Marriott in 'The Stage' (July 13, 1958); other cuttings are from the 'Cambridge Daily News', 'Daily Express', 'Daily Mail', 'Daily Telegraph', 'Evening News', 'Financial Times', 'The Illustrated London News', 'New Statesman', 'News of the World', 'The Stage', 'The Star', 'The Times', and 'The Times Literary Supplement'.
Material relating to the New York production includes the cover of 'Playbill' and 11 cuttings of theatre reviews and advertisements for the New York production. The cuttings are taken from 'Life Magazine', 'The New Yorker', and other unidentified newspapers, and include two articles by Brooks Atkinson in 'The New York Times', and Richard Watts Jr.'s 'A Powerful New Play from England' (in an unidentfied newspaper), as well as two articles by Peter Shaffer: "labels aren't for playwrights", in 'Theatre Arts', Feb. 1960, and "The Cannibal Theatre" in the 'Atlantic Monthly'.

21 ff. of material relating to the production at the Globe Theatre, comprising ff. 30-50 of the scrapbook. There are six publicity photographs taken on the street outside the theatre, three of PS taken by Laon Maybanke, and three of Victor Spinetti taken and signed by Paul [J?] Winham. The printed material consists of a handbill and 27 cuttings, most of them theatre reviews from a variety of U.K. newspapers and magazines including a review by Harold Hobson, Bernard Levin's "I'm glad I've caught up" in the 'Daily Mail' of 8 Jan. 1963, and a feature on Peter as one of "[David] Kossoff's Friends" with a portrait sketch and short biography. There are two reviews from outside the U.K.: "Du sillage de Shakespeare à une réussite en un acte" from the 'Tribune de Genève' of 5 July 1962 and Richard Watts Jr.'s "Detective out of Lewis Carroll" in the 'New York Post' of July 1962.