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Plays.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Dramatic compositions, arranged for enactment, as by actors on a stage.

Found in 689 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26490-26560
Scope and Contents

Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.

Dates: 1923-1968, undated.

Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26301-26462
Scope and Contents

Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.

Dates: 1854-1980, undated.

Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.

 Fonds
Identifier: MSS.26561-26671
Scope and Contents

Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.

Dates: 1895-1983, undated.

Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11175
Scope and Contents

Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.

Dates: 1948-1974 and undated.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9285
Scope and Contents

Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts

Dates: 1969-1985.

Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.9830/1-68
Scope and Contents

Papers from the archives of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1965-1985 (with one item from 1951). Includes playscripts, photographs, programmes, posters and promotional artwork.

Dates: 1951-1985.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9406
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and play scripts.

Dates: 1936-1987.

Papers of William Douglas Home.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.9807
Scope and Contents

Includes manuscripts and typescripts of "The Unhung Parliament", "The Christmas Truce", and "Retirement Age", and a lecture delivered at Lille University.

Dates: circa 1984-1988.

Papers relating to the writing and performance of plays by Alasdair Gray., 1965-1986, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.9247/1-31
Scope and Contents From the Record Group:

This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:

'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981). 'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985). 'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987). 'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).

Dates: 1965-1986, undated.

Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.13772/1-325
Scope and Contents The papers of writer and artist Edith Simon relate to both strands of her artistic life, documenting her prolific output as an author of contemporary novels, historical novels, and histories, as well as a pioneering artist across multiple forms.The papers contain both personal and professional correspondence; notebooks, manuscript and typescript drafts, research material, and news cuttings concerning her writing career; alongside photographs, news cuttings, art diaries and...
Dates: Majority of material found within circa 1932-2008

Photocopy of the final typescript of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1973.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26135
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Sydney Goodsir Smith wrote a number of plays, of which the best known is ‘The Wallace’ (Edinburgh, 1960). Most of the manuscripts of his plays are unpublished and undated.

Dates: [Circa 1973.]