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Script archive of the Traverse Theatre.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13381
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
c. 1972-2011.
Script of "Lanark" by Alastair Cording, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray.
File
Identifier: Acc.11295
Scope and Contents
Includes four photographs of the TAG production.
Dates:
1995.
Script of `The Keekin-Gless`, a play for school children about William Soutar by Ajay Close.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13061
Dates:
2009.
Script of "When I was Down Beside the Sea", a community play about Robert Louis Stevenson, by June Cooper.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11133
Dates:
1994.
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.
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.
'The gentle shepherd’ (circa 1810), by Allan Ramsay; with annotations of Thomas Campbell.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14215
Dates:
Circa 1810.
‘The recluse, a drama in five acts, from Sir Walter Scott's tale of ‘The Black Dwarf’, by an Honorary Member of the Cambridge Garrick Club.' 'Altered from the acting copy, as performed before Colonel Rushbrooke, M.P., and several distinguished patrons of the drama. January, 1837.'
Item
Identifier: MS.3074
Dates:
1837.
Three BBC broadcast scripts.
File
Identifier: Acc.5026
Scope and Contents
Scripts for:
1. "650th Anniversary Declaration of Arbroath"
2. "The Lerwick Crew"
3. play of Jack Gerson, "Stand in for a Hearse".
Dates:
1970.
Two manuscript drafts and typescript of the play of Stanley Eveling, "The Lunatic, the Secret Sportsman and the Women next door".
File
Identifier: Acc.4778
Dates:
1968.
Two melodramas by George Wilson, the author of ‘The Scottish laverock’.
Series
Identifier: MSS.14237-14238
Scope and Contents
George Wilson, George. 'The Scottish laverock' (Edinburgh, 1829).
Dates:
1852-1853.
Two notebooks and part of a playscript of Naomi Mitchison.
File
Identifier: Acc.10818
Scope and Contents
Notebooks concern Africa and family historical research, and the script is on an African theme.
Dates:
1983 and undated.
Two plays of Compton Mackenzie, "Wives Without Husbands" and "the Skylight".
File
Identifier: Acc.10186
Dates:
1941.
Typescript copies of four plays performed at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Series
Identifier: Acc.7014/1-4
Dates:
1954-1959.
Typescript copies of three plays in Scots of David Purves.
File
Identifier: Acc.10603
Dates:
1987-1989.
Typescript copy of a play of Robert Laing, "The Knight Errant".
Item
Identifier: Acc.8313
Dates:
1980.
Typescript copy of play, circa 1969, of George Mackay Brown, "The Watcher".
File
Identifier: Acc.8735
Scope and Contents
With film treatment, 1964, of John Prebble and Austin Campbell, "Culloden".
Dates:
1964-circa 1969.
Typescript copy of play of David Purves, "The Wal at the World`s End".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9027
Dates:
1985.
Typescript copy of play of John Milligan, "This Titanic Band".
Item
Identifier: Acc.9361
Dates:
1986.