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COLLECTION FINDING AID

Googie Withers, CBE AO (1917-2011)

Performing Arts Programs and Ephemera (PROMPT)

Australian Collection Development

Born Georgette Lizette Withers but known as "Googie" from an early age.

This finding aid lists programs and ephemera which document all aspects of Googie Withers’

stage acting career in Australia and overseas. Material on her film and television screen career

is not generally collected by the Library.

The list is based on imperfect holdings and is updated as gaps in the Library’s holdings for

this artist are filled.

Printed materials in the PROMPT collection include programs and printed ephemera such as

brochures, leaflets, tickets, etc. Theatre programs are taken as the prime documentary

evidence of a performance by Withers. In a few cases however, the only evidence of a

performance is a piece of printed ephemera. In these cases the type of piece is identified, eg,

brochure.

The list is based on imperfect holdings and is updated as gaps in the Library’s holdings for

this artist are filled. Unless otherwise stated, all entries are based on published programs in

the PROMPT collection.

The Googie Withers PROMPT files may be accessed through the Library’s Petherick Reading

Room by eCallslip request: http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3532224.

The Withers material in the PROMPT Collection is in the chronological order of her Australian

and overseas performance and this list reflects this arrangement.

Entries identify the city and the venue. All the information is taken from programs, flyers and

ephemera.

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Entries for each program are arranged as follows:

Year, day/s and month; Venue/Theatre (Location)

Company

Name of production / Creator

Withers’ role or other involvement.

See also the Library's collection of J.C. Williamson theatre programs for Withers' performances

in productions staged by James Cassius Williamson in Australia.

Books and biographical cuttings

Pictures

Oral history recordings

See also: Googie Withers information and resources listed within the TROVE discovery

service

See also Digitised Australian newspaper coverage of Googie Withers (including news of

international performance dates, review and celebrity gossip).

14 May; Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Victoria)

The Deep Blue Sea / Terence Rattigan

Googie Withers as Hester Collyer.

24 November; Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Victoria)

Winter Journey / Clifford Odets

Googie Withers as Georgie Elgin. .

20 May; Theatre Royal (Sydney, New South Wales)

The Constant Wife / Somerset Maugham

Googie Withers as Constance Middleton.

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9 November; Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Victoria)

Woman in a Dressing Gown / Ted Willis

Googie Withers as Amy Preston.

22 November; Theatre Royal (Sydney, New South Wales)



11 July; Theatre Royal (Sydney, New South Wales)

The First 400 Years

Googie Withers in 6 different roles.

5 May; Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Victoria)

Desire of the Moth / James Brazill

Googie Withers as Edith Cassidy.

28 July; Venue (Sydney, New South Wales)

Beekman Place / Samuel Taylor

Googie Withers as Pamela Piper.

3-4 December; Canberra Theatre (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)



Canberra Theatre (Canberra, Australian Capital Territory)

Relatively Speaking / Alan Ayckbourn

Googie Withers as Sheila.

Australian Tour

High Spirits – with Googie Withers, “a pot-pourri of excerpts from their past successes,

designed by their son, Nicholas … presented by John Frost”.

Booklet filed under John McCallum

1969

Comedy Theatre, Melbourne





Plaza Suite directed by John McCallum Googie Withers as Karen Nash, Muriel Tate and Norma

Hubley Program filed under JC Williamson’s Plaza Suite

See also Digitised Australian newspaper coverage of Googie Withers (including news of

international performance dates, review and celebrity gossip).

Apollo Theatre (London, England)

Private Lives / Noël Coward

Googie Withers as Amanda.

19--?; Globe Theatre (London, England)

They Came to a City / J.B. Priestley

Googie Withers as Alice Foster.

19--?; Duke of York’s Theatre (London, England)

Happy Week-End!

Googie Withers as Betty.

Strand Theatre (London, England)

Nice Goings On!

Googie Withers as one of Buddy Bradley’s Rhythm Girls.

8 November; Circle Theatres (Richmond, England)

Hand in Glove

Googie Withers as Sally Pilgrim.

Opera House (Manchester, England)



New Theatre (Oxford, England)



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Globe Theatre (London, England)



Two programs.

New Theatre (London, England)

Champagne for Delilah / Ronald Millar

Googie Withers as Lee.

2 May; Grand Theatre and Opera House (Leeds, England)

Champagne for Delilah / Ronald Millar

Googie Withers as Lee.

6 March; Duchess Theatre (London, England)



17 March; Opera House (Manchester, England)


Googie Withers as Georgie Elgin.

24 March; Royal Court Theatre (Liverpool, England)



3 April; St James’ Theatre (London, England)



Five programs.

Duchess Theatre (London, England)



18 March; London Palladium (London, England)

Midnight Cavalcade – “A Gala Night of World-Famous Stars in aid of The Actors'

Orphanage, the Charitable Funds of the Grand Order of the Water Rats and the J.N.F.

Charitable Trust.”





12 April; The Opera House (Manchester, England)

Waiting for Gillian / Ronald Millar and Nigel Balchin

Googie Withers as Jill Manning.

21 April; St James’ Theatre (London, England)

Waiting for Gillian / Ronald Millar and Nigel Balchin

Googie Withers as Jill Manning.

19 March; Grand Opera House (Wellington, New Zealand)



?April; Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Janus / Carolyn Green

Googie Withers as Jessica.

15 April; Theatre Royal (Brighton, England)



24 April; Aldwych Royal (London, England)



12 August; Golders Green Hippodrome (London, England)



13 October; Theatre Royal Haymarket (London, England)

The Circle / W. Somerset Maugham

Googie Withers as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney.



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3 June; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Straford-Upon-Avon, England)

Hamlet / William Shakespeare

Googie Withers as Gertrude, Queen of Denmark.

26 August; Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Straford-Upon-Avon, England)

Much Ado About Nothing / William Shakespeare

Googie Withers as Beatrice.

October; Theatre World / London Theatre Guide (England)

Photograph of Googie Withers in Hamlet / William Shakespeare

7 October; Grand Opera House (Wellington, New Zealand)

Roar Like a Dove / Lesley Storm

Googie Withers as Lady Dungavel.

13 November; Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Playbill (New York NY, United States of America)

Crescendo

Googie Withers as Mary Rhodes.




?September; Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Exit the King / Eugene Ionesco

Googie Withers as Queen Marguerite.

September; Royal Court Theatre (London, England)

Exit the King / Eugene Ionesco

Googie Withers as Queen Marguerite.

15 November; Theatre Royal (Christchurch, New Zealand)







20 March; Theatre Royal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England)

Getting Married / George Bernard Shaw

Googie Withers as Mrs George.

3 April; Royal Court Theatre (Liverpool, England)



10 April; New Theatre (Oxford, England)



19 April; Strand Theatre (London, England)



Four programs.

8 September; Theatre Royal (Nottingham, England)

Dandy Dick / Arthur Wing Pinero

Googie Withers as Georgiana Tidman.


Plaza Suite / Neil Simon

Googie Withers in three roles, directed by John McCallum.

13 October; Theatre Royal Haymarket (London, England)

The Circle / Somerset Maugham


17 April; Theatre Royal (Brighton, England)



Flyer.

1 May; Grand Theatre (Wolverhampton, England)





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8 May; The Grand Theatre and Opera House (Leeds, England)



22 May; Pavillion Theatre (Bournemouth, England)



12 June; Theatre Royal (Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England)



July?; Chichester Festival Theatre (Chichester, England)

The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde

Googie Withers as Lady Bracknell.

20 August; Alexandra Theatre (Birmingham, England)

The Skin Game / John Galsworthy

Googie Withers as Amy.

31 August; Theatre Royal (Nottingham, England)

The Cherry Orchard / Anton Chekhov

Flyer.

date undetermined; Yvonne Arnaud Theatre (Surrey, England)

Stardust

Googie Withers as Diana Raymond.

5 November; Churchill Theatre (Bromley, England)

Stardust


7 November; Theatre Royal (York, England)

Stardust


Flyer.





12 July; Chichester Festival Theatre (Chichester, England)

The Chalk Garden / Enid Bagnold

Googie Withers as Mrs St Maugham.

8 October; Theatre-on-the-Green, Richmond (London, England)

Ring Round the Moon / Christopher Fry

Googie Withers as Madam Desmortes.

29 October; Theatre Royal (Bath, England)

Ring Round the Moon / Christopher Fry

Googie Withers as Madam Desmortes.

Photocopy – original program filed under Michel Siberry

Theatre Royal (Bath, England)

The Cocktail Hour

Googie Withers as Ann.

Flyer.

Festival Theatre (Chichester, England)

Hay Fever / Noël Coward

Googie Withers as Judith Bliss.

24 May; Ashcroft Theatre (London, England)

The Cocktail Hour


29 ?September; Ashcroft Theatre (London, England)

The Cocktail Hour


31 July; Theatre Royal (Windsor, England)

The Cocktail Hour


1 September; Theatre Royal (Brighton, England)

The Cocktail Hour




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27 June; Hull New Theatre (Hull, England)

On Golden Pond / Ernest Thompson

Googie Withers as Ethel Thayer.

20 July; Alexander Theatre (Birmingham, England)



Flyer.

8 August; Theatre Royal (Windsor, England)



15 August; Opera Theatre (Manchester, England)



22 August; Theatre Royal (Bath, England)



Flyer.

Old Vic Theatre (London, England)

An Ideal Husband / Oscar Wilde

Googie Withers as Lady Markby.

Flyer.

Theatre Royal Haymarket (London, England)

Lady Windermere’s Fan / Oscar Wilde

Googie Withers as the Duchess of Berwick.

Film

White Corridors Directed by Pat Jackson. Advertising flyer with cast list, credits and plot

descripton.





Googie Withers stars as Sophie Dean.

Ayckbourn, Alan

Relatively Speaking - GW as Sheila ........................................................................................................................ 3

Bagnold, Enid

The Chalk Garden - GW as Mrs St Maugham ...................................................................................................... 11

Balchin, Nigel

Waiting for Gillian - GW as Jill Manning .............................................................................................................. 6

Brazill, James

Boswell for the Defense - GW as Edith Cassidy ...................................................................................................... 3

Chekhov, Anton

The Cherry Orchard .............................................................................................................................................. 11

Coward, Noël

Hay Fever - GW as Judith Bliss .......................................................................................................................... 12

Private Lives - GW as Amanda .............................................................................................................................. 4

Crescendo - GW as Mary Rhodes ............................................................................................................................... 8

Fry, Christopher

Ring Round the Moon - GW as Madam Desmortes ............................................................................................ 11

Galsworthy, John

The Skin Game - GW as Amy............................................................................................................................... 10

Green, Carolyn

Janus - GW as Jessica............................................................................................................................................. 6

Hand in Glove - GW as Sally Pilgrim ......................................................................................................................... 5

Happy Week-End! - GW as Betty ................................................................................................................................ 4

High Spirits - JMc with Googie Withers .................................................................................................................... 4

Ionesco, Eugene

Exit the King (Le Roi se meurt) - GW as Queen Marguerite .................................................................................. 8

Maugham, Somerset

Constant Wife, The - GW as Constance Middleton ............................................................................................... 3

Getting Married - GW as Lady Catherine Champion-Cheney ........................................................................... 10

Midnight Cavalcade ..................................................................................................................................................... 6

Millar, Ronald

Champagne for Delilah - GW as Lee ....................................................................................................................... 5

Waiting for Gillian - GW as Jill Manning .............................................................................................................. 6

Nice Goings On! - GW as one of Buddy Bradley’s Rhythm Girls ............................................................................. 4

Odets, Clifford

Winter Journey - GW as Georgie Elgin ................................................................................................................. 2

Winter Journey (The Country Girl) - GW as Georgie Elgin ................................................................................... 6

Pinero, Arthur Wing

Dandy Dick - GW as Georgiana Tidman .............................................................................................................. 9

Priestley, John Boynton

The Came to a City - GW as Alice Foster ........................................................................................................... 4, 5

Rattigan, Terence

The Deep Blue Sea - GW as Hester Collyer............................................................................................................ 2

The Deep Blue See - GW as Hester Collyer ........................................................................................................ 5, 6

Shakespeare, William

Hamlet - GW as Gertrude, Queen of Denmark .................................................................................................... 8

Much Ado About Nothing - GW as Beatrice........................................................................................................... 8

Shaw, George Bernard

Getting Married - GW as Mrs George ................................................................................................................... 9

Simon, Neil

Plaza Suite - GW in three roles.............................................................................................................................. 9



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Stardust - GW as Diana Raymond ........................................................................................................................... 11

Storm, Lesley

Roar Like a Dove - GW as Lady Dungavel ............................................................................................................ 8

Taylor, Samuel

Beekman Place - GW as Pamela Piper................................................................................................................ 3, 9

The Cocktail Hour ................................................................................................................................................ 11, 12

The First 400 Years - GW in 6 different roles ............................................................................................................. 3

Thompson, Ernest

On Golden Pont - GW as Ethel Thayer .......................................................................................................... 12, 13

White Corridors (film) - GW as Sophie Dean ........................................................................................................... 13

Wilde, Oscar

An Ideal Husband ................................................................................................................................................. 13

Lady Windermere’s Fan - GW as the Duchess of Berwick ................................................................................... 13

The Importance of Being Earnest - GW as Lady Bracknell ................................................................................... 10

Willis, Ted

Roar Like a Dove - GW as Amy Preston ................................................................................................................ 8

Woman in a Dressing Gown - GW as Amy Preston ............................................................................................... 3

Winter Journey............................................................................................................................................................. 2

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