Plays.
Found in 690 Collections and/or Records:
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.
Short plays for radio with titles from B-C by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]
Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Bridge', circa l960. (Folio 1.) A stage version of this play was published in Glasgow in 1948. (ii) 'Colour Bar', circa l955. (Folio 26.) A radio version of the play published in London in 1954. (iii) 'Coventry'. Typescript with manuscript corrections and additions (folio 50), and the BBC script of the production, 1957. (Folio 70.) (iv) 'Enough of Murder', circa l960. (Folio l05).
Short plays for radio with titles from G-J by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.
Short plays for radio with titles from N-W by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1960], undated.
'Silent Night', a play by Joe Corrie about the origins of the carol, broadcast on Children's Hour in 1955 and 1956., 1955-1956.
There are typescripts of two versions of the play (folios 1 and 16), followed by the BBC script (folio 36).
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.
The first four drafts (MSS.7151-7157) are entitled 'The bride of Lammermoor'.
Summaries and typescripts of plays of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1956, undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) 'The Bluidy Hert', 1956. (Folio 1). A summary of the plot, typescript of the prelude, and letters from Helena Shire and Kenneth Elliott about the music. (ii) Typescripts, undated, of 'The Guaird! The Guaird! A dramatic version of the history of the Edinburgh Town Guard'. (Folio l7.) Some passages are closely related to scenes in Robert Garioch Sutherland's play, 'The masque of Edinburgh’ (Edinburgh, 1954).
Synopses of the pageant and notes on the historical background by Robert McLellan., 1964.
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.
Synopsis and early drafts of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.
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.
Synopsis, manuscript and corrected typescript of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.
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.
Synopsis, notes and early typescript, undated, of the play 'Rab Mossgiel' by Robert McLellan., 1957, undated.
The typescript (folio 6), which has numerous manuscript corrections, is undated but is earlier than MS.26357.
'Tempest’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1921, and reprinted second edition, 1948), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1921, 1948
‘Tempest’ by William Shakespeare (Cambridge, 1921), with manuscript corrections and annotations by John Dover Wilson., 1921.
‘Tempest’ by William Shakespeare, reprinted second edition (Cambridge, 1948), in limp covers, with manuscript corrections and annotations by Dover Wilson., 1948.
'The gentle shepherd’ (circa 1810), by Allan Ramsay; with annotations of Thomas Campbell.
'The Old Byre at Clashmore', a play for radio by Robert McLellan., 1965.
The part of Nessie was written for the actress Effie Morrison.
‘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.'
'The Wheel', a play by Joe Corrie about Cain and Abel., 1946, [circa 1955], undated.
The contents are as follows. (i) Carbon copy of the original typescript, undated (folio 1); (ii) BBC script of the broadcast, 1946 (folio 22); (iii) BBC script of a broadcast in Hindustani, 1946 (folio 42); (iv) Typescript of a version for television, circa l955 (folio 66).
Third typescript of ‘The Wallace’ by Sydney Goodsir Smith, with preliminary pages in R L C Lorimer's hand., 1959.
Three-act play, undated, by Joe Corrie titled "In Time o' Strife" and set in an English mining town., [1926-1965.]
The plot is not the same as in MS.26504, and the opening scene is related to that of 'Black Earth' (MS.26499). The first page of Act 3 bears the title 'Strikers' (folio 61).
Three BBC broadcast scripts.
Scripts for:
1. "650th Anniversary Declaration of Arbroath"
2. "The Lerwick Crew"
3. play of Jack Gerson, "Stand in for a Hearse".
Three typescript versions of "The Hoolit's Nest", a three-act comedy by Joe Corrie set in 1780 with the alternative title, 'Rory the Reiver'., [Circa 1945]-[circa 1955.]
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.
Three typescripts of ‘The Carlin Moth’ by Robert McLellan, first produced on radio in 1946., 1945.
The first two typescripts (folios l, 35) have manuscript corrections by Robert McLellan. The third (folio 70) is dated 1945 and contains instructions to the printer.