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:
Corrected manuscript and typescript drafts of poems and a play of David Morrison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10096
Dates:
1987-1988.
Corrected proofs, undated, of 'Female Wits' of Bill Dunlop; with related correspondence, 1990-1995, to Bill Dunlop from Chris Stewart of Canto Press.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11372/1-2
Dates:
1990-1995, undated.
Corrected typescript drafts and page proofs of a novel of Robert Nye, "Falstaff" (1976), with associated manuscript notes.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.7076
Scope and Contents
With corrected typescript versions of the play of Robert Nye and John Abulafia, "Falstaff" (1977).
Dates:
circa 1976-circa 1977.
Corrected typescript drafts and revised versions of six plays of Ian Brown.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7010/1-18
Scope and Contents
Comprising: 'Mary', 'Carnegie', 'The Knife', 'The Fork', 'New Reekie', and 'The Gala Opening'.
Dates:
1967-1977, undated.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown., 1999.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/35-36
Dates:
1999.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.
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Typescripts of six plays by Ian Brown.
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Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and copies of letters.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown., 1999-2000.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/39-42
Dates:
1999-2000.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.
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Typescripts of six plays by Ian Brown.
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Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and copies of letters.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'A great reckonin', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and copies of letters., 1992-2001, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/34-45
Scope and Contents
This play was first performed at Perth Theatre in 2000.
Originally entitled ‘Another Orpheus’.
Dates:
1992-2001, undated.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Beatrice', by Ian Brown., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/6-16
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.
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Typescripts of six plays by Ian Brown.
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Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Beatrice', by Ian Brown, containing typescript draft and typescript project proposal.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Beatrice', by Ian Brown, containing typescript draft and typescript project proposal., Circa 1989, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/5-18
Scope and Contents
This play was first performed by the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company at the Traverse Theatre in 1989.
Dates:
Circa 1989, undated.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Margaret', by Ian Brown., Circa 2000.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/30-33
Scope and Contents
This play was first performed at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2000.
Dates:
Circa 2000.
Corrected typescript drafts of play of Stewart Conn, "The King".
File
Identifier: Acc.4433
Scope and Contents
With a copy of a review of the play.
Dates:
circa 1967.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'The Scotch play', by Ian Brown., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/19-20
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.
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Typescripts of six plays by Ian Brown.
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Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'The Scotch play', by Ian Brown, containing revised typescript and letter of Joan Knight.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Wasting reality', by Ian Brown., 1991-1992, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/23-29
Dates:
1991-1992, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.
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Typescripts of six plays by Ian Brown.
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Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Wasting reality', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and some stray draft pages.
Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Wasting reality', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and some stray draft pages., Circa 1992, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/22-29
Scope and Contents
This play was first performed at Perth Theatre in 1992.
Originally entitled ‘The house that Jack built’.
Dates:
Circa 1992, undated.
Corrected typescript of a dramatization in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, ‘Waverley’, broadcast in the series 'This is my country'., 1957.
Item
Identifier: MS.26395
Dates:
1957.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
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Broadcasts written for radio and television by Robert McLellan.
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Dramatisation in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, 'Waverley', broadcast in the series 'This is my country'.
Corrected typescript of part 2 of ‘The Wallace’, a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, broadcast on BBC radio (Scottish Home Service) in 1959., [1959, or before.]
Item
Identifier: MS.26132
Corrected typescripts and proofs of ‘The Wallace’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1959.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26171-26178
Corrected typescripts and rehearsal scripts of four plays of Ian Brown.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7679/1-6
Dates:
1977-1979.
Correspondence and memoranda of Sir John Sinclair, relating chiefly to his attempts to trace Gaelic manuscripts, to the translation into English of the Gaelic ‘Poems of Ossian’, and to his ‘Fingal; a tragedy, in five acts’.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.73.2.26
Dates:
1808-1820.
Correspondence and notes concerning 'A Man of Pleasure', a proposed musical about James Boswell by Robert McLellan., 1962-1964.
File
Identifier: MS.26390
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence with Irvin Graham, the American composer who was to write the music (folio l); (ii) Preliminary notes for the plot (folio 70).
Dates:
1962-1964.
Correspondence and papers of and concerning John MacDougall Hay., 1904-1956, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.26793
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, chiefly concerning 'Gillespie', 1904-1922 (folio 1); (ii) Manuscripts and cuttings of poetry, drama and other work by John MacDougall Hay, 1908-1914, undated (folio 61); (iii) Presscuttings about Hay and 'Gillespie', 1913-1956 (folio 104).
Dates:
1904-1956, undated.
Correspondence and papers of James Pittendrigh Macgillivray.
Collection
Identifier: Dep.349
Dates:
1896-1938, and undated.
Correspondence and papers relating to plays of Tom Pow., 1995-1997, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12950/52-55
Correspondence, novels, plays, articles and cuttings of Mairi MacDonald., 1915-1975, undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7708/33-83
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Dates:
Circa 1926-1997.