Plays.
Found in 689 Collections and/or Records:
Script of 'Lanark' by Alastair Cording, adapted from the novel by Alasdair Gray, with photographs and printed material relating to a production by TAG Theatre Company.
Script and related materials for the 1995 production of 'Lanark', by Alasdair Gray, based on a script by Alastair Cording.
The production by the TAG Theatre Company opened at the Edinburgh Festival in August 1995, before touring Scotland from September to November 1995, ending at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
Script of `The Keekin-Gless`, a play for school children about William Soutar by Ajay Close.
Script of "When I was Down Beside the Sea", a community play about Robert Louis Stevenson, by June Cooper.
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1936-1954.
The scripts are chiefly plays or programmes on literature or Scottish history. Hector MacIver took part in some of the broadcasts, and a few of the scripts bear annotations.
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1936-1945.
The scripts are chiefly plays or programmes on literature or Scottish history. Hector MacIver took part in some of the broadcasts, and a few of the scripts bear annotations.
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1947-1949.
The scripts are chiefly plays or programmes on literature or Scottish history. Hector MacIver took part in some of the broadcasts, and a few of the scripts bear annotations.
Scripts of Hector MacIver of BBC radio programmes., 1953-1954.
The scripts are chiefly plays or programmes on literature or Scottish history. Hector MacIver took part in some of the broadcasts, and a few of the scripts bear annotations.
Scripts of over 300 plays performed at or submitted to the Traverse Theatre Club, Edinburgh.
Scripts of plays of Sean Hignett, and others, for television.
With papers concerning Waverley Broadcasting Ltd.
Scripts of plays, operas and other related material of Isobel V S Dunlop., 1933-1972, undated.
Includes music scores, correspondence and papers concerning the Saltire Society and Saltire Music Group.
Scripts of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company, possibly unperformed., 1965, 1980-1995, undated.
Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.
Scripts of unproduced plays of the 7:84 Theatre Company (Scotland)., 1977, 1987-2003, undated.
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.
Second fair typescript of the first draft of the play 'My dear, dear sister! by Robert McLellan., November 1970.
There are a number of changes from the version in MS.26384, and the play has been recast into a single act of ten scenes; previous versions have two acts.
Second typescript of 'Kirstan and the Vikar: a parable in Scots' by Robert McLellan, incorporating the corrections., 1959.
Robert McLellan's early plays were intended for the stage, but he later wrote for both radio and television. Not all were published, and many circulated in typescript copies.
Second typescript of 'The Wallace', corrected and edited by R L C Lorimer, and revised by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1959.
Second typescript of ‘Young Auchinleck’ by Robert McLellan, with revisions made for the production at the Edinburgh Festival, 1962., 1961-1962.
Series of dramatisations by Robert McLellan of episodes from novels by Sir Walter Scott., 1962-1963.
Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.
Sermons and literary works of the Dunlop family., 1687-1856, undated.
Short dramatic pieces by Robert McLellan, written for 'Scottish Heritage', a series of radio broadcasts for schools., 1961-1963.
Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.
Short pieces of manuscript poetry, prose, notes and letters of George Mackay Brown.
A collection of assorted manuscript writings of George Mackay Brown, including some early notebooks, 1946-1948, and manuscripts of various poems, short stories and plays.
Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.
Most of the typescripts are undated, and relatively few have been published. Some of the one-act plays were written for amateur drama groups competing in Scottish Community Drama festivals. Joe Corrie sometimes wrote more than one play with the same plot, and he would alter an act of a longer play to make it a one-act play in its own right. He also adapted some of his stage plays for broadcasting.