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Title: An archive of materials pertaining to Richard P. Feynman’s involvement in Theatre Arts at CalTech including a signed copy of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman

Author(s): Feynman, Richard P.; Shirley Marneus; Michelle Feynman, et al

Pub: Pasadena, CA and New York: Theatre Arts at the California Institute of Technology; W.W. Norton; Basic Books

Category: Archives & Collections, Drama, Physics, Signed


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A collection of materials pertaining to Richard P. Feynman’s involvement in Theatre Arts at the California Institute of Technology (TACIT), with all materials from the estate of Shirley Marneus, who founded TACIT and directed stage productions there for over 20 years. Highlights include a signed copy of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Fenyman!. New York: W.W. Norton, 1985. Ninth printing.

Near Fine with foxing to the top edge and lesser so to the fore edge and endsheets, corner crease to page 127/128; in the original dust jacket which is spine-faded; and a first edition of the posthumously published Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, inscribed by Feynman’s daughter, editor Michelle Feynman, to Marneus: “For Shirley, I know my father thought the world of you – as do I. All the best, Michelle Feynman”.

Additional material includes: The original cast information sheet for what is perhaps Feynman’s most memorable role, the High Priest in TACIT’s 1982 production of South Pacific, which includes Feynman’s contact information, as well as costume measurements including his shoe and hat sizes; The rehearsal schedule for South Pacific, which notes a production meeting with Richard Feynman and fellow Caltech physicist Robert B. Leighton, who played the High Priest’s assistant; Programs for six of the productions in which Feynman appeared and is credited: Guys and Dolls, South Pacific (four copies), The Lady’s Not for Burning, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Kismet, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; Cast list, organized by scene, for TACIT’s 1978 production of Fiorello!, in which Feynman appeared as a gangster; the 1983 Caltech Faculty Roster, in which Feynman is identified as the Richard Chace Tolman Professor of Theoretical Physics alongside his portrait; 18 copies of a memorial program insert dedicating an unnamed production to Feynman “who brought the same compassion, integrity and sense of joy to each of his roles as he did to all other aspects of his life,” listing all eight TACIT productions in which he appeared. Some toning and soiling to the programs with staining to several copies of South Pacific; Guys and Dolls is hole punched along the left margin, and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is folded in half.


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Published on: August 14, 2025

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