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  • Shock-headed Peter (Struwwelpeter) a children's farce with songs in two acts. Adapted by Philip Carr and Nigel Playfair from the well-known pictures and verses of Struwwelpeter. The music by Walter Rubens.

    • Notated music
    • London, Enoch; New York, Boosey, c1901.
    • 1901
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Notated music JMF 77-373Offsite
  • Riverside nights : an entertainment / written and arranged by A. P. Herbert and Nigel Playfair, as produced at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith ; Foreword by John Galsworthy ; illustrated by John Armstrong.

    • Text
    • London : T. F. Unwin, 1926.
    • 1926
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCR (Herbert, A. P. Riverside nights)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

  • ʻAnd so ad infinitum' (The life of the insects) : an entomological review in three acts, a prologue and an epilogue / by the brothers Čapek ; the authorized translation from the Czech by Paul Selver ; freely adapted for the English stage by Nigel Playfair and Clifford Bax.

    • Text
    • London : Oxford University Press, 1923.
    • 1923
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *Q p.v. 36, no. 1 no. 1-8, inc.Offsite
  • The beggar's opera. Originally written by John Gay and adapted, with additional scenes, by Arnold Bennett & Nigel Playfair.

    • Text
    • [New York, 1920]
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCOF (Gay, J. Beggar's opera. New York, 1920)Offsite

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.

  • R.U.R.: typescript.

    • Text
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text RM 2081 Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • When Crummles played: photographs, 1928.

    • Still image
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image *T-Pho B (When Crummles played)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

    Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.

  • Design in the theatre / commentary by George Sheringham and James Laver, together with literary contributions by E. Gordon Craig, Charles B. Cochran and Nigel Playfair ; edited by Geoffrey Holme.

    • Text
    • [London] : The Studio, 1927.
    • 1927
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 30106.473Off-site

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