Plays.
Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Prompt scripts of 31 plays performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
Prompt scripts of 83 plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Prompt scripts of plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, with programmes and other related publications.
A collection of prompt scripts, programmes and printed items relating to The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Prompt scripts of three plays, "McGonagall, McDonagall", "The Mask" and "The Tay Bridge Disaster", produced at Dundee Repertory Theatre.
Proofs of one-act stage plays by Joe Corrie., [1935, or before], [1965, or before], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Galley proofs of ‘A Bride for Heatherhill’ (Glasgow, 1965). (Folio 1.) (ii) Page proofs of ‘Martha’ (Glasgow, 1935). (Folio 7.) The ending differs from the published version. (iii) Corrected galley proofs of the revised version of 'The Poacher', undated. (Folio 11.) For the typescript of this version, see MS.26496, folio 1.
Prose and verse dramas of John Dunlop of Gairbraid., 1842-1846.
The contents are as follows:
(i) 'Mary Zembia', 1842 (folio 2);
(ii) 'Voluptas oculorum', undated (folio 74);
(iii) 'Batavia sperans', 1843 (folio 89), followed (folio 137) by an off-print of the ‘Metropolitan Magazine’ containing Act V of the play;
(iv) 'History of the Scottish Secession Church', undated (folio 147);
(v) 'The War of American Independence' with historical notes, 1846 (folio 191).
Prose pieces and speeches of Charles Murray., [Circa 1906]-1925, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Manuscripts of an unfinished play, 'Education', originally titled 'The Dominie has visitors', undated (folio 1); (ii) Manuscript and typescripts, undated, of three short stories, 'A modern Joseph' (folio 17), 'The Dambrod' under the pseudonym 'Robbie Elrick' (folio 21), and an untitled story, part of which is missing (folio 31); (iii) Manuscripts of and notes for speeches, circa 1906, 1925, undated (folio 48).
Publicity material and ephemera for 'Rebus: Long Shadows', a stage play by Ian Rankin and Rona Munro; Typescript for 'Sins of the Flesh', a stage play by Ian Rankin., 1985-2018.
'Rab Mossgiel', a play about Robert Burns and Jean Armour by Robert McLellan, commissioned by the BBC, (British Broadcasting company), for the Burns Bi-centenary celebrations in 1959., 1958-1959
Radio and play scripts of Iain Crichton Smith., 1971-1992, undated.
Radio play by Hector MacLean, titled “Dorsan na h-Oidhche”., 1948.
Radio play by Hector MacLean, undated, titled “Tìr nam Beann”., [1934-1962, undated.]
Radio plays and programmes on Robert Burns by Joe Corrie., 1958-1959, undated.
Includes an adaptation (folio 1) by Mary Corrie of 'Robert Burns' (MS.26508) and a dramatised version of “Tam o' Shanter” (folio 64).
Radio plays of Robert James Batchen Sellar., 1933-1961, undated.
‘Richard II’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1939), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1939.
‘Rob Roy’, a national drama based on the novel of Sir Walter Scott, consisting of annotated pages from the book, interleaved with plans of scenery and stage settings, as performed at the Theatre Royal Edinburgh.
The play was produced on the occasion of Sir Walter Scott’s centenary under the supervision of Mr and Mrs Wyndham.
Satirical and genealogical manuscripts, written in the late eighteenth century., 16th century-18th century.
Script and stage adaptation of 'The Abbess of Crewe', by Muriel Spark., 1981, undated.
Script archive of the Traverse Theatre.
The playscripts, with some related correspondence and readers` reports, constitute the literary archive of the Traverse Theatre, in continuation of earlier deposits, principally Dep.256.
Script of "Lanark" by Alastair Cording, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray.
Includes four photographs of the TAG production.
Script of `The Keekin-Gless`, a play for school children about William Soutar by Ajay Close.
Script of "When I was Down Beside the Sea", a community play about Robert Louis Stevenson, by June Cooper.
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1936-1954.
The scripts are chiefly plays or programmes on literature or Scottish history. Hector MacIver took part in some of the broadcasts, and a few of the scripts bear annotations.