Scripts. Documents
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Photocopies of scripts of two community plays by James Hay Hamilton.
Photocopy of a rehearsal script, ‘Twilight of a Warrior’ by Walter Macken, with a covering note to Lex McLean, probably of Ian Christie., 1956.
The covering note is undated.
Photocopy of script of "Silver", a radio play by Jonathan Smith.
Photocopy of scripts of "Lord Reith Looks Back", for three BBC television programmes of Malcolm Muggeridge interviewing Lord Reith.
Playscripts, mainly of works performed at the Ramshorn Theatre, Glasgow.
Playscripts of Charles Gairdner and Ada F Kay.
Includes related papers.
Production archive of Theatre Workshop, Edinburgh.
Includes playscripts, photographs, reviews and publicity material.
Production files, scripts and administrative papers of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland).
This collection dates mainly from after 1988, when John McGrath and Elizabeth MacLennan resigned from the company which they had established, with David MacLennan, in 1973. Following the funding crisis in 2006, the company had to leave its base in the STUC building in Glasgow, and it was at this point that much of the material in this accession was presented to the National Library of Scotland.
Prompt scripts of 31 plays performed at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
Prompt scripts of three plays, "McGonagall, McDonagall", "The Mask" and "The Tay Bridge Disaster", produced at Dundee Repertory Theatre.
Reel-to-reel audio tapes of a radio interview, 1979, with Norman MacCaig, and a radio broadcast, 1980, on Alastair Reid.
Rehearsal script of an adaptation for television by John McGrath, of three short stories of George Mackay Brown.
Research notes and script for ‘A Writer’s Story: Halldór Laxness’., 1989.
Research notes for the BBC Scotland television arts programme "Scope", by John Milligan.
The notes concern work on Scottish artists and architects; includes 16 camera scripts for "Scope".
Revised draft of Morley Jamieson, "Tam in a Dark Place: a Dramatic Monologue" (1984).
With corrected typescript of E J Kingston-McCloughry, "Leadership in World War II; Decisions and Undercurrents" (1963).
Schedules, lists of possible topics, annotated scripts and notes of Tom Weir, relating largely to Episodes 1-3: 'West Highland Way', 'Rannoch Moor' and 'Devil’s Staircase'., 1977, undated.
Also contains some papers for 'My Month', 'Scotland Today' and other TV programmes and magazines.
Screenplay scripts of Gilbert Gunn and Anne Burnaby for a projected film adaptation of Neil Gunn, "Morning Tide".
Includes correspondence.
Script and notes for Chronicle 3 ‘Stonehenge – Prehistoric computer?’, 1966.
Chronicle was a BBC 2 television programme focusing on archaeology and related subjects which aired from 1966 until 1991. Materials in this section relate to Chronicle episodes in which Magnusson had a direct involvement.
Script archive of the Traverse Theatre.
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.
Script for Chronicle 5 ‘The Bayeux Tapestry’., 1966.
Chronicle was a BBC 2 television programme focusing on archaeology and related subjects which aired from 1966 until 1991. Materials in this section relate to Chronicle episodes in which Magnusson had a direct involvement.
Script of a BBC documentary film, "Rebel Poet", concerning C M Grieve.
Script of a BBC television programme, "Neil Gunn. Tribute to a Scottish Novelist".
Script of a radio play, `My Actual God`, by Ewan Morrison., 2010.
Broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland, 28 December 2010.