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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:

Typescripts of scripts for radio and television by Margaret Noël-Paton., 1937, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27470
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Dramatised biographies of Pandita Ramabai (folio 1) and Theodore Pennell (folio 14), broadcast on the children's radio programme 'Pioneers for the Kingdom', 1937. 'Pandita Ramabai' has numerous manuscripts corrections. (ii) 'The Thought-Recorder', a play for television, undated (folio 39). It was originally written under the pseudonym 'Juniper Struan'.

Dates: 1937, undated.

Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12081/1-49
Scope and Contents

A collection of typescript drafts, circa 1983-2002, of a number of plays and a collection of poems by Ian Brown.

Dates: circa 1983-2002.

Typescripts of 'Tides of Torach', a three-act play set in the west of Scotland early in the 10th century by Margaret Noël-Paton., 1952, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.27465
Scope and Contents

The manuscript contains a synopsis (folio 1), two typescripts of the text (folios 7, 81), and copies of the original and second (1952) versions of the Prologue and Interlude (folio 155).

Dates: 1952, undated.

Typescripts of unaired radio plays and short stories for radio by Ian Rankin., 1984-1998, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.50487
Scope and Contents 'Borrowed time’. Annotated typescript, undated, with author's annotations. Folios 1-19.'Cinderella and Studz: a radio romance; a play for radio by Ian J. Rankin'. Typescript, 1984. Includes correspondence from Stewart Conn, Senior Drama Producer (Radio) for the BBC. Folio 20. Folios 20-34.'Mr Eliot on Margate Sands’. Typescript, 1984. Folios 35-61.'Crime Stories by Ian Rankin: 3. The Hanged Man', short story read on BBC radio. Typescript of BBC Radio...
Dates: 1984-1998, undated.

Typescripts of work by other writers collected by Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1973-1974, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26624
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Sydney Goodsir Smith, 'A short introduction to Scottish literature', undated. (Folio 1.) Typescript, with manuscript corrections by the author, of four broadcast talks. (ii) Typescript of 'Seneca's "Oedipus" translatit frae the Latin intill Scots' by Alastair Mackie, with a covering letter, 1973. (Folio 20.) (iii) Typescript of 'A Vision of angels', a play about Robert Fergusson by Anne Smith, 1974. (Folio 48.)

Dates: 1973-1974, undated.

Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.

 File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates: [1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]

Typescripts, often with manuscript corrections, of plays by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1930]-1965, undated.

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26490-26520
Scope and Contents

Most of the typescripts are undated, and relatively few have been published. Some of the one-act plays were written for amateur drama groups competing in Scottish Community Drama festivals. Joe Corrie sometimes wrote more than one play with the same plot, and he would alter an act of a longer play to make it a one-act play in its own right. He also adapted some of his stage plays for broadcasting.

Dates: [Circa 1930]-1965, undated.

Typescripts, undated, of various plays by George Moncrieff-Scott., Mid 20th century.

 File
Identifier: MS.26963
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Typescript, with manuscript corrections, of 'Children of Eve', a two-act play set in Eastern Europe, undated (folio 1); (ii) Typescript draft of 'The Craftsman's Hand', dramatic sequences for radio about Scottish crafts, undated (folio 48). Two earlier titles were 'Men of Craft' and 'The Thinking Hand'. (iii) Typescript of 'A Keel for Kintail', a play for radio which was produced in 1964 (folio 75); (iv) Carbon typescript of 'Kitty Ann and the Banshee: a play...
Dates: Mid 20th century.

Various broadcast scripts and reports of a dramatised biography of Robert Burns in three parts by Robert McLellan, broadcast in 'This is my country'., 1958-1959.

 File
Identifier: MS.26393
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Broadcast script, 1959 (folio l); (ii) Reports on pupils' and teachers' reactions to the broadcast, 1959 (folio 52); (iii) Broadcast script of an anglicised version for use in America and the Commonwealth, 1958 (folio 59).

Dates: 1958-1959.

Various compositions of George Douglas Brown., 1897-1898, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.8180
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows:(i) Manuscript, in the author's hand, of 'Honest Jack' by George Douglas Brown, a one-act farce. Brown's only experiment in play-writing was never published. (Folio 1.)(ii) Typescript, with a few corrections in Brown's hand, of two chapters of "The doctor's stories". Intended as an autobiography of a doctor, the work remained unpublished. The date of composition is probably 1898. See James Veitch, 'George Douglas Brown', page 110. (Folio...
Dates: 1897-1898, undated.