Plays.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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.
DVD of a BBC `Play for Today` production of `The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil` by John McGrath.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13245
Scope and Contents
John McGrath`s play, `The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil`, was toured round the Highlands of Scotland by 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company in 1973. The following year, a television version of the play was broadcast as part of the BBC`s `Play for Today` season. Adapted by John McGrath, this showed excerpts from the play as performed by the Company at Dornie village hall, intercut with dramatised scenes from Highland history and interviews with Scots of the time.
Dates:
1974.
Videocassette recordings, made by Freeway Films, chiefly of television versions of plays by John McGrath.
File
Identifier: Acc.12562/1-7
Scope and Contents
Freeway Films was John McGrath's own production company.
Dates:
Circa 1984-1991.