Prompt books. Scripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Copies of plays used by a prompter, showing action of the play, cues, movements of actors, properties, costume, and scene and light plots.
Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:
Acts I and III of Henry M. Milner's play The Talisman.
File
Identifier: Acc.14094
Content Description
A later Victorian manuscript copy of Milner's stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, first performed at the Coburg Theatre on 11 July 1825.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: MS.15942
Scope and Contents
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Manuscript prompt-copy of act I of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9991
Manuscript prompt-copy of act II of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9992
Manuscript prompt-copy of act III of ‘Donna Diana’ adapted by John Westland Marston., 1863.
Item
Identifier: MS.9993
Scope and Contents
On folio 41 is a note in the same hand as the text, 'G.H. Gates. Prompter. Royal Lyceum Theatre 1863'.
Dates:
1863.
Manuscript prompt-copy of ‘Donna Diana’, a comedy in three acts, adapted by John Westland Marston from the German version of ‘El Desdén con el Desdén’ by Agustin Moreto.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9991-9993
Scope and Contents
John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.
Dates:
1863.
Microfilm of interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1375
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Play-scripts and tales, 1950-1953 and undated
File
Identifier: Acc.14003/18
Scope and Contents
Contains: Script of play 'Am fear nach maireann (The Dear Departed)' by Stanley Houghton (1881-1913), translated into Gaelic by Calum Robertson. Undated, with annotations by Macintosh, who played one of the characters in it.Script for a sketch entitled 'Doimhgean is Ruairidh', undated but possibly 1960s.Copy of 'Ian og Ile MS. VII, Ian Deoir. Earrann 1: Blar traigh Ghruinneard', Edinburgh: John Grant, 1950. A story edited from the Dewar Manuscripts....
Dates:
1950-1953 and undated
Production files of correspondence and papers concerning plays by John McGrath., [1980-?1990].
Series
Identifier: Acc.11615/12-31
Production files of 'U A B - Scotland' by Henry Trott, and of 'Johnny Noble' by Ewan MacColl., Undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.10893/96-98
Dates:
Undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Archive of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Papers and productions of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
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Production files relating to the Clydebuilt season, 1982, in which Scottish plays from the 1920s-1940s were revived.
Prompt copy of the play ‘Cramond brig, or the gude man o’ Ballangeich’, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Sadlers Wells.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.43
Dates:
19th century.
Prompt script and reviews of "The Burgher's tale", by Allan Sharpe., 1988, [1994], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/7-8
Dates:
1988, [1994], undated.
Prompt script and reviews of 'The last of the Lairds', by Allan Sharpe, after the novel by John Galt, containing staging notes and programme., 1989, [1993].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/20-21
Prompt script and typescript of 'It had to be you', by George Rosie., [1994].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/15-16
Prompt script and typescript of 'Kepler', by Robert Forrest., [1992].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/17-18
Prompt script and typescript of 'Lucia', by Robert Forrest., [1994], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/22-23
Dates:
[1994], undated.
Prompt script and typescript of 'The scapegoat', by Clive B Paton., 1990, [1993].
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/28-29
Prompt script and typescript of 'The straw chair', by Sue Glover., [1993], undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/31-32
Dates:
[1993], undated.
Prompt script and typescript of 'We, Charles XII', by Bernard da Costa, translated and adapted by Allan Sharpe, containing correspondence from the author., 1990-1991.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.11443/33-35
Prompt script, audiocassette and programme of 'Lambrusco nights', by Kathleen Crombie., [1992].
File
Identifier: Acc.11443/19
Prompt script of 'Playing Sarajevo' (1985), by Allan Sharpe, containing production schedule, set designs and flyer., 1985, [1995].
File
Identifier: Acc.11443/27
Scope and Contents
[Performed 1995].
Dates:
1985, [1995].
Prompt scripts of 18 plays performed at the Citizens' and Close Theatres, Glasgow; with related printed and photographic material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4933/1-22
Dates:
1946-[1970], undated.
Prompt scripts of 83 plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5086/1-84
Dates:
[1948-1963].
Prompt scripts of plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh., Undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.4605/1-46
Working scripts collected by Marillyn Gray, mostly relating to her career at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh., 1944-1997.
Series
Identifier: Acc.12942/1-85
Scope and Contents
Also includes scripts relating to Marillyn Gray's work at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
Dates:
1944-1997.