Plays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.
Found in 683 Collections and/or Records:
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1947-1949.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.26293(part 1)-(part 2)
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1953-1954.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.26294(part 1)-(part 2)
Scripts of over 300 plays performed at or submitted to the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Dep.256
Dates:
1964-1976.
Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7573
Scope and Contents
With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.
Dates:
1971-1978.
Scripts of plays, operas and other related material of Isobel V S Dunlop., 1933-1972, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.9121/28-49
Dates:
1933-1972, undated.
Scripts of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company, possibly unperformed., 1965, 1980-1995, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/64-127
Dates:
1965, 1980-1995, undated.
Scripts of unproduced plays of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1977, 1987-2003, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12911/234-253
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1977, 1987-2003, undated.
Second fair typescript of the first draft of the play 'My dear, dear sister! by Robert McLellan., November 1970.
Item
Identifier: MS.26385
Scope and Contents
There are a number of changes from the version in MS.26384, and the play has been recast into a single act of ten scenes; previous versions have two acts.
Dates:
November 1970.
Second typescript of 'Kirstan and the Vikar: a parable in Scots' by Robert McLellan, incorporating the corrections., 1959.
Item
Identifier: MS.26354
Second typescript of 'The Wallace', corrected and edited by R L C Lorimer, and revised by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1959.
Item
Identifier: MS.26173
Dates:
1959.
Second typescript of ‘Young Auchinleck’ by Robert McLellan, with revisions made for the production at the Edinburgh Festival, 1962., 1961-1962.
Item
Identifier: MS.26470
Series of dramatisations by Robert McLellan of episodes from novels by Sir Walter Scott., 1962-1963.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26398-26401
Sermons and literary works of the Dunlop family., 1687-1856, undated.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9270-9273
Dates:
1687-1856, undated.
Short dramatic pieces by Robert McLellan, written for 'Scottish Heritage', a series of radio broadcasts for schools., 1961-1963.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26403-26404
Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26517-26519
Dates:
1948-[circa 1960], undated.
Short plays for radio with titles from B-C by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]
File
Identifier: MS.26517
Scope and Contents
Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Bridge', circa l960. (Folio 1.) A stage version of this play was published in Glasgow in 1948. (ii) 'Colour Bar', circa l955. (Folio 26.) A radio version of the play published in London in 1954. (iii) 'Coventry'. Typescript with manuscript corrections and additions (folio 50), and the BBC script of the production, 1957. (Folio 70.) (iv) 'Enough of Murder', circa l960. (Folio l05).
Dates:
[Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
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Typescripts, often with manuscript corrections, of plays by Joe Corrie.
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Typescripts and radio scripts of plays for broadcasting by Joe Corrie.
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Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie.
Short plays for radio with titles from G-J by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26518
Scope and Contents
Contains the following plays:
(i) 'The Goat', a comedy. Typescript (folio 1) and BBC script of the production, 1950. (Folio l9.)
(ii) 'Golden Wedding: a rural comedy', BBC script, 1961. (Folio 48.)
(iii) 'Hewers of Coal', circa l960. (Folio 58.) A radio version of the stage play (MS.26492, folios 1-25).
(iv) 'The House with the Green Shutters', undated. (Folio 80.) An incomplete dramatisation for radio of the novel by George Douglas Brown. For a stage version, see MS.26492, folios 72-87.
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Dates:
1948-[circa 1960], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
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Typescripts, often with manuscript corrections, of plays by Joe Corrie.
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Typescripts and radio scripts of plays for broadcasting by Joe Corrie.
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Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie.
Short plays for radio with titles from N-W by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1960], undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26519
Scope and Contents
Contains the following plays:
(i) “Nick's Wedding Day”, circa l960. (Folio 1.) For stage versions of the play, see MS.26494, folios 89-152.
(ii) 'The Prince he would a-wooing go', a play for children's television, circa l960. (Folio 24.) A stage version was published in London, 1948. For a manuscript draft, see MS.26526, folio 20 verso.
(iii) 'Remembrance'. Typescript, circa l960 (folio 47) and BBC script. (Folio 72.) A stage version was published in London, 1960.
(iv) 'Snobs', circa l960....
Dates:
[Circa 1960], undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
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Typescripts, often with manuscript corrections, of plays by Joe Corrie.
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Typescripts and radio scripts of plays for broadcasting by Joe Corrie.
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Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie.
'Silent Night', a play by Joe Corrie about the origins of the carol, broadcast on Children's Hour in 1955 and 1956., 1955-1956.
File
Identifier: MS.26515
Scope and Contents
There are typescripts of two versions of the play (folios 1 and 16), followed by the BBC script (folio 36).
Dates:
1955-1956.
Successive typescript texts, fragmentary notes, and revisions of 'The last heir', a dramatization, in four acts, of ‘The bride of Lammermoor’ by Sir Walter Scott, made for Sir John Martin-Harvey by Stephen Phillips; together with an orchestral score by Norman O'Neill.
Series
Identifier: MSS.7151-7170
Scope and Contents
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Dates:
1907-1908.