Princeton University

Theatre Intime was founded in 1919 by a small group of Princeton undergraduates interested in writing and producing original plays. Quickly growing in popularity, in the fall of 1921 it obtained the use of Murray Theater, which had theretofore served as a chapel, on the Princeton campus. Murray has been Intime's home ever since. Throughout its history, Theatre Intime has remained a student-run organization. With a few notable exceptions, Intime has maintained itself without financial support from the university. Intime produces all manner of performances--dramas, tragedies, comedies, and musicals, as well as monologues, magic shows, and folk sings. Historically, its members have shown an interest in lesser-known or less-often performed works, as well as in student-written plays. Over the years, several plays have enjoyed their American or world premiers with Intime: in the spring of 1921, John Milton's Samson Agonistes was the first such debut. It was followed by such plays as Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch (1929), Jules Romains' Give the Earth a Little Longer (Spring 1942), Jean Cocteau's The Typewriter (Fall 1949), John O'Hara's Searching Sun (Spring 1952), and W.H. Auden's Age of Anxiety (Spring 1960). For its first fifty years, the group experienced alternating periods of creativity and growth and times when membership and interest in the group sagged. The period before World War II saw the company's focus shift from encouraging student playwriting to acting and directing professional plays. This new focus was most visible in the years 1929-1933, when James Stewart, Joshua Logan, Myron McCormick, Norris Houghton, Bretaigne Windust, and others were student members. Originally set up as almost a private club for its members, whose audiences were admitted by invitation only, Intime quickly grew to become a more open stage company. Intime's relationship with the Triangle Club was especially reciprocal in this era. During World War II, Intime's activities were suspended. After the war, club veterans returned to reorganize the group. During the years 1947-1954, the group began experimenting with new playwrights and artists: works by Sartre, Cocteau, and Giradoux appeared during these years, soon to be followed by Albee, Ionesco, Pirandello, Beckett, Camus, and Brecht. The years from 1955 to 1966 proved difficult for Intime, as student apathy discouraged and often foiled the troupe's efforts. The greatest turning point in Intime's history occurred during the 1970s. Student enthusiasm about theatre in general increased markedly in these years, reflecting cultural changes of the times, and the beginning of coeducation provided a great deal of new talent. Membership rules were loosened, and an atmosphere of creativity and openness inspired not only experimental and avant-garde performances, but also an expanded season of up to ten plays, compared to the four-or-five-play seasons of the 1950's. Since this time, Intime has enjoyed consistent popularity and organizational good health. Throughout Intime's history, its members often sought to run summer seasons. The early 1930's, late 1940's, 1950's, and the period since 1968 all saw successful summer efforts. Theatre Intime's members were often involved in summer theatre projects. This collection contains materials for summer seasons from 1928-1931 and 1968 onward. However, Intime members also succeeded in staging shows during the summers 1928 to 1931 (with students from Harvard and other universities in Falmouth, Massachusetts), 1948 to 1950, and 1953 to 1960, under the name University Players, in the summer of 1962 as the Princeton Players, and in the 1970s as Summer Intime. For a more detailed account of Theatre Intime's development over the years, please see John P. Kendall '74's English Department senior thesis, I Also Swept the Floor: Theatre Intime from 1920 to 1974. 1919-1920: Le Ballet Intime, Ghosts, Macbeth, Hamlet, Pippa Passes, The Glittering Gate, Fame and the Poet, Swine, A Game of Chess, Samson and Delilah, Interlude, The Isle of Paradise, 1920-1921: Eureka, Conigsby's Conscience, The Glittering Gate, Nell of Gray Gulch, The Queen's Enemies, The Girl Who Was Different, Dr. Smiley Dines Out, Bombarded by Molecules, The Lost Silk Hat, The Young Master's Arrival, The Mousetrap, A Game of Chess, Dark Lady of the Sonnets, If Shakespeare Were Alive Today, Caroline's Christmas, Will o' the Wisp, Spilled Milk, Swan Song, The Shock, The Mystic and the Mouse, XV Idyl, In His Image, Macbeth, Aria de Capo, Ionnie, The Younger Generation, A Working Model, Liluli, The Little Wreck, Repressed Emotions, The Great Idea, Behind the Beyond, The Eternal Serpentine, The Other Caliph, Bones and the Man, The Photographer, Politics 1921-1922: Atlas, Her Face, The Life Machine, Lulu Batt, Vogner, The Thirteenth Floor, Shades of Hamlet, DuBarry, The Orchid, Poetic Justice, The Superman Crashes Through, A Night at the Inn, While the Carriage Waits, The D.T.'s, Samson Agonistes, It's a Wise Child (Euripides Notwithstanding), Will O' the Wisp, My Unknown Friend, After All, Patelin Pays, The Other Foot, The Better Man, Pourquoi Chantent-Ils?, Oedipus Rex, Hidden Treasure, Putting It Across, Man of Destiny, The Shadow in the Dark 1922-1923: The Royal Breed, The Genesis of Timon, The Cold Country, Hemlocke Oake, Heresy, The Monkey's Paw, The Bourgeois Bohemian, The Pearl and the Pistol, Le French Farce, Bound East for Cardiff, The Suicides, The Photographer, A College Education, Flashes of Steel 1923-1924: The Clod, The Pot Boiler, A Night at the Inn, Generalissimo, The Judgement of Pallas, Gaffer, The Shadow in the Dark, The Better Man, A Game of Chess, The Better Angel, Retainers of the Moon, Odd Proposals, The Way Across, Felipe, Spume of the Sea 1924-1925: The Hero of Santa Maria, Nocturne, The Silent Protector, Magic, How He Lied to Her Husband, Simon's Hour, Bursting the Barriers, Fratricide Punished, Romio and Julietta, While the Carriage Waits, Among the Sands, St. Patrick's Day or The Scheming Lieutenant, Nassau Street Follies 1925-1926: Where the Cross Is Made, Wurzel, The Proposal, Two Crooks and a Lady, A Good Woman, Augustus Does His Bit, Candida, The Dover Road 1926-1927: Doctor Faustus, Shore, The Lady in the Chair, Make Believe, Confessional, Saint Joan, Outward Bound, Hamlet 1927-1928: Caesar and Cleopatra, Open Collars, The Wild Duck, The Truth About Blayds, The Devil's Disciple Summer 1928: The Dover Road, Beyond the Horizon, The Torchbearers, The Jest, In the Next Room, The New Way, Is Zat So, The Thirteenth Chair 1928-1929: Much Ado About Nothing, Crocodiles Are Happy, Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch, The Torchbearers, The Old Timer Summer 1929: The Devil in the Cheese, The Donovan Affair, The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, Outward Bound, The Last Warning, Merton of the Movies, Crime, The Bad Man, The Czarina, The Constant Nymph 1929-1930: The Barker, Time Is a Dream, Androcles and the Lion, The Intruder, Othello, The Right Sort Summer 1930: Murray Hill, The Wooden Kimono, The Watched Pot, Thunder on the Left, The Makropoulos Secret, The Masque of Venice, The Firebrand, Hell Bent for Heaven, The Marquise, A Kiss for Cinderella 1930-1931: The Pigeon, The Lady and the Slave, Our Last Run, Three Artists and a Lady, Man and the Masses, The Play's the Thing Summer 1931: Paris Bound, Interference, Mr. Pim Passes By, Coquette, Her Cardboard Lover, The Trial of Mary Dugan, The Guardsman, Juno and the Paycock, The Silent House, The Italian Straw Hat 1931-1932: Dr. Knock, Never Mind the Scotch, Tribunal, The Hairy Ape, The Phoenix Nest, Nerissa 1932-1933: Under the Undercurrent, Entertaining Ginny Sutherland, The Thing a Man Loves, Joe, Time of Their Lives, Outside Looking In, Froth and Foam 1933-1934: Bird in Hand, Tarneed, The Young and the Miserable, Twitch Twaddle 1934-1935: Three Cornered Moon, The Lawyer, The Pope's End, Holiday 1935-1936: Spread Eagle, Children of Darkness, Pastorale, Bitter Tulips, Job, Talk of the Town, Peer Gynt 1936-1937: The Importance of Being Earnest, Awhile to Work, The Great God Brown, The Father, The Tempest 1937-1938: Time of Their Lives, Volpone, The Undiscovered Country, Falstaff, The Beaux Stratagem 1938-1939: Hamlet, The Play's The Thing, We Rileys, Man of Destiny, Bury the Dead, The School for Scandal 1939-1940: The Front Page, Macbeth, There Was A Young Man, Romeo and Juliet, Raise You Five 1940-1941: Our Boys, Troilus and Cressida, Time of Their Lives, The Lawyer, Raise You Six 1941-1942: Jim Dandy, Three White Leopards, The Importance of Being Earnest, Gabbatha, Give the Earth a Little Longer, Come What April 1945-1946: Break the Ice! 1946-1947: Blithe Spirit, The Critic, The Scheming Lieutenant, Twilight Bar, Make Mine Sherry 1947-1948: High Tor, The Imaginary Invalid, Richard II, One on the House Summer 1948: No Exit, How He Lied to Her Husband, The Beautiful People, Yes Is for a Very Young Man 1948-1949: Yes Is for a Very Young Man, The Cenci, A Christmas Carol, Heartbreak House, The Glass Roadblock, Highway Interlude, Renegades, Boy Meets Girl Summer 1949: The Vegetable, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, Purgatory, The End of the Beginning, The Streets of New York, The Spring Tree Yoke, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Engaged, The Respectful Prostitute, Master Pierre Patelin, Arms and the Man, Measure for Measure 1949-1950: The School for Scandal, The Typewriter, King Lear, The Crisis, The Gas Chamber, The Spring Tree Yoke, Captain Brassbound's Conversion Summer 1950: Coriolanus, An Inspector Calls, Too Many Thumbs, The Family Reunion, Major Barbara, Anna Christie, She Stoops to Conquer 1950-1951: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Petrified Forest, Henry IV, Volpone, Children of the World, Up Running River, The Assassins 1951-1952: The Trojan War Will Not Take Place, Past Reason, The Carnival, A Modern Romance, The Searching Sun, Adam's Sons 1952-1953: Antigone, Othello, The White Rooster, Gordium, Craylor Sabbath, Woman at the Inn, The Drunkard/anonymous Summer 1953: The Rose Tattoo, The Devil's Disciple, The Infernal Machine, Hello Out There, The Apollo of Bellac, Red Peppers, An Italian Straw Hat, The Tempest 1953-1954: Arms and the Man, Henry IV, Part I, The Captain and the King, The God Within, Reflexions, One Too Many, Tartuffe Summer 1954: Camino Real, Right You Are, Penny for a Song, Theatre of the Soul, Queens of France, Village Wooing, Ghosts, She Loves Me Not, Alice in Wonderland, Geral Loves Sandra Loves Paxon, Twelfth Night 1954-55: Murder in the Cathedral, The Victors, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, Shark Reflections, La Joconde (Smiling Lady), At the Gates, Love for Love 1955-1956: Liliom, Clash by Night, No Man Is an Island, The Hearing or Trial by Committee, The Travelers, The Braggart Warrior Summer 1956: Saint Joan, Charley's Aunt, Blood Wedding, The Grass Harp, The Father, Ring Round the Moon, The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Bedtime Story, As You Like It 1956-1957: Alcestis, Androcles and the Lion, Measure for Measure, Bound East for Cardiff, Reflexions, The Second Prayer, The Golden Comedy of Belshazzar, White Lies, The Caine Mutiny Summer 1957: A Streetcar Named Desire, Skin of Our Teeth, Heartbreak House, The Enchanted, The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden, The Wedding, Thieves' Carnival, Shadow of a Gunman, Love's Labour Lost, Lord Byron's Love Letter 1957-1958: Hello Out There, Sweeney Agonistes, The Rainmaker, The Alchemist, The Glass Menagerie, Mother Loves Me: A Freudian Fable, Robert, November Afternoon, His Brother's Company Summer 1958: A View from the Bridge, The Match Maker, Legends of Lovers, The Burnt Flower Bed, Light Up the Sky, Auto-Da-Fe, The Case of the Crushed Petunias, The Unsatisfactory Supper, Misalliance, Purple Dust, The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1958-1959: A Masque of Reason, World Without End, Beyond the Horizon, The Revenger's Tragedy, Ondine, Mr. First, The King's Birthday, The Second Eclipse Summer 1959: Playboy of the Western World, The Play's the Thing, Waiting for Godot, The Philanderer, Romeo and Juliet, The Boyfriend 1959-1960: The Movie Man, Hands Across the Sea, All My Sons, Escurial, Age of Anxiety, The Nose on Your Face, Good Friday, Wormwood and Soda Summer 1960: Epitaph for George Dillion, The Underpants, The Prodigal, Major Barbara, An Enemy of the People, Two Gentlemen of Song, The Lesson, Queens of France, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Kiss Me Kate 1960-1961: Purgatory, Professor Taranne, Recollections, The Jew of Malta, Woyzeck, Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton, The Purification, La Ronde, Lullaby, With Malice Towards Some, Such an Ostrich 1961-1962: The Fisherman, Passion, Poison, and Petrification, Charley's Aunt, Henry IV, Look Back in Anger, Calvary, A Night of the Trojan War Summer 1962: The Entertainer, Pots of Money, Tonight We Improvise, Arms and the Man, The Widow, Article 330, Uncle Vanya, The Exception and the Rule, The Beggar's Opera 1962-1963: Hello Out There, Bedtime Story, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Devil's Disciple 1963-1964: The Potboiler, The Skin of Our Teeth, Kind, The Zoo Story, The American Dream, Billy Budd 1964-1965: Inherit the Wind, Passion, Poison, and Petrification, Mister Roberts, Escurial, The Dumbwaiter, A Man's a Man 1965-1966: The White Devil, Sophocles' King Oedipus, The Bespoke Overcoat, You Can't Take It With You, The Romanticks 1966-1967: The Gas Heart, The Private Life of the Master Race, Salome, Little Mary Sunshine, The Caretaker, The Taming of the Shrew, Those That I Fight, The Body of an American, The Cat and the Canary, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Thurber Carnival 1967-1968: A Thurber Carnival, Under Milkwood, The Balcony, Man and Daemon, Incident at Vichy, The Misanthrope, The Dumbwaiter, Hamlet, Luv, Once Upon a Mattress, Miracle Summer 1968: Night of the Iguana, Amphitryon, The Trial, Arms and the Man 1968-1969: The Dumbwaiter, The Lesson, The Clouds, The Killer, The World of Carl Sandburg, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, The Alchemist, An Irish Faustus, Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Madness of Lady Bright Summer 1969: Little Foxes, A Shot in the Dark, Anne of a Thousand Days, Heartbreak House, The Knave of Hearts 1969-1970: The Red Eye of Love, A Man for All Seasons, The Happy Time, Marat, Strike Theatre Summer 1970: The Eccentricities of a Nightingale, The Playboy of the Western World, The Homecoming, Misalliance, Winnie the Pooh 1970-1971: Zoo Story, Swan Song, The Threepenny Opera, The Physicists, Endgame, Beyond the Fringe, Henry IV, Part 1 Summer 1971: The Rainmaker, Twelfth Night, Joe Egg, Uncle Vanya, Androcles and the Lion 1971-1972: Beyond the Fringe, Dracula, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Frogs!, Phaedra, The Two Executioners, The Hostage, Woyzeck, The Philanderer Summer 1972: Billy Liar, Happy Birthday, A Flea in Her Ear, What the Butler Saw, Adventures in Prooland 1972-1973: The Hundred and First, As You Like It, Electra, Ten Little Indians, Squanto, Hay Fever Summer 1973: The Philanthropist, The Birthday Party, The Beaux' Stratagem, Tango, George Washington Crossing the Delaware, The Knave of Hearts 1973-1974: The Lover, Adaptation, Next, Palls, The Successful Life of 3, Measure for Measure, Slow Dance on the Killing Ground, The American Dream, The Sandbox, Citizen Kong, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Summer 1974: Arms and the Man, Luv, Baby Want a Kiss, Lion in Winter 1974-1975: The Typists, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, The Real Inspector Hound, After Magritte, Lovers, Ubu the Cuckold, The Puppet Show, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, The Glass Menagerie Summer 1975: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad, Charley's Aunt, Voice of the Turtle, Golden Goose, Unhealthy to Be Unpleasant (U.T.B.U.) 1975-1976: The Golden Fleece, The Public Eye, The Private Ear, All's Well that Ends Well, Lysistrata, We're on the One Road, The Marriage of Bette and Boo Summer 1976: Fallen Angels, The Imaginary Invalid, Two for the Seesaw, Picnic 1976-1977: How He Lied to Her Husband, Old Times, The Tempest, Don Juan, A Sea Fantasy, Tonight at 8:30, The Vise, Birdbath, Ring Round the Moon, Endgame Summer 1977: Cox and Box, Candida, The Creation of the World and Other Business, Alice Through the Looking-Glass, 110 in the Shade, Moonchildren 1977-1978: Anyone Can Whistle, When You Comin' Back, Red Rider?, House of Blue Leaves, An Evening of Anton Chekhov and Tennessee Williams (One Acts), Loot Summer 1978: Tartuffe, Holiday, Match Play, The Mousetrap 1978-1979: Romeo and Juliet, The Typists, 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, Patience, Aeneas in Flames, The Children's Hour, Troilus and Cressida Summer 1979: The Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Towards Zero, The Matchmaker, After the Fall 1979-1980: Welcome to Andromeda, Home Free, The Birthday Party, The Norman Conquests, Hedda Gabler, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, Antigone, Have Trouble, Will Call Summer 1980: The Devil's Disciple, The Sorcerer, The Mound Builders, Night Watch 1980-1981: No Exit, The Lesson, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Fifth Column, Harvey, Man Is Man, The Impressario, Lovers, Zoo Story, How We Got to Be So Great 1981-1982: The Lovliest Afternoon of the Year, The Dumbwaiter, Camino Real, The Misanthrope, Godspell, Black Comedy, Lysistrata, Stage Directions, Aria da Capo, Scenes from American Life Summer 1982: Scapino, The Belle of Amherst, Happy End, The Freedom of the City 1982-1983: Jack, or The Submission, An Evening of Chekhov, As You Like It, They Are Dying Out, Adaptation, Plants and Waiters, Brussels!, The Rimers of Eldritch, Born Yesterday, A Soldier's Tale, The Odd Couple Summer 1983: Bus Stop, Talking With, March of the Falsettos, The Betrayal 1983-1984: The American Dream, Miss Julie, Silence, The House of Blue Leaves, Curculio the Weevil, Pippin, The Cocktail Party, Nuts, Dead Give-Away Summer 1984: Sly Fox, Angels Fall, Say Goodnight, Gracie, Side by Side by Sondheim 1984-1985: Lone Star, A Nite Out, Performing, The Diviners, The Lion in Winter, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, Suddenly Last Summer, Julius Caesar Summer 1985: Beyond Therapy, The Skin of Our Teeth, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Starting Here, Starting Now 1985-1986: Home Free, The Maids, Shivaree, Blue Window, Twelfth Night, The Vampyre, Agnes of God, Sagittarius, Of Mice and Men 1986-1987: Condemned, The Dutchman, Sound of a Voice, Deathtrap, Happy Birthday, Wanda June, The Real Thing, Crimes of the Heart, Extremities Summer 1987: Noises Off, Don Juan, Arms and the Man, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1987-1988: Private Scenes, Play, Come and Go, What Where, Equus, The Promise, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Serpent, Aunt Dan and Lemon, America, Five A.M., She Was Asking for It, The Redemption of Steven Allbright, The Mousetrap 1988-1989: Brilliant Traces, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, Benefactors, In the Jungle of the Cities, Hair, Blood Relations, Old Times, Imperfect Affairs, Deckbuilding, Antigone, The Day Room 1989-1990: Luv, No Exit, Uncommon Women, A Lesson from Aloes, Burn This, Orphans, Fool for Love, Divorsosaurus, A Roommate's Story, Dusa, Fish, Stas, and Vi 1990-1991: White Stones, Laundry and Bourbon, Lone Star, Talk Radio, Hurlyburly, Rhinoceros, Amadeus, Waiting for Godot, Biloxi Blues 1991-1992: Here Lies Jeremy Troy, Drinking in America, The Foreigner, Deathtrap, As You Like It, The Gospel of Luke, Bodyhype, The Rehearsal, Find Me, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Cherry Orchard, Helter Shelter, Cain, Bodyhype, The Foreigner 1992-1993: Little Footsteps, "Master Harold"...and the Boys, The Importance of Being Earnest, The House of Blue Leaves, Bodyhype, Noises Off, Another Antigone, Suddenly, Last Summer, Bodyhype, Solitary Confinement, "Master Harold"...and the Boys 1993-1994: Vampire Lesbians of Sodom, The Shadow Box, What the Butler Saw, Quipfire!, Hamlet (an improvised version), Bodyhype, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Buried Child, The Tempest, Steel Magnolias, Quipfire!, Bodyhype, In a Sense, Nighthawks at the Diner, The Doppler Effect, Greater Tuna 1994-1995: Quipfire!, Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, The Duck Variations, Across the Jordan, Les Liasons Dangereuses, Bodyhype, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, Grotesque Lovesongs, B.A.C. at Ya!, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Our Country's Good, Dime Store Zen, The Maids, Quipfire!, Bodyhype, Winfrey and the Four Dimensional Vegetarians, David and Julie, Last Train to Alpha Centauri, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Quipfire! 1995-1996: Quipfire!, Six Degrees of Separation, Gatsby, Burn This, The Bacchae, Dime Store Zen, Bent, Daughters of Survival, True West, Quipfire! , Bodyhype, Wasted, Even Nightengales, Eugenica, Six Degrees of Separation, Quipfire!