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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 690 Collections and/or Records:

Short plays for radio by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26517-26519
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1948-[circa 1960], undated.

Short plays for radio with titles from B-C by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26517
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: [Circa 1955]-[circa 1960.]

Short plays for radio with titles from G-J by Joe Corrie., 1948-[circa 1960], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26518
Scope and Contents Contains the following plays: (i) 'The Goat', a comedy. Typescript (folio 1) and BBC script of the production, 1950. (Folio l9.) (ii) 'Golden Wedding: a rural comedy', BBC script, 1961. (Folio 48.) (iii) 'Hewers of Coal', circa l960. (Folio 58.) A radio version of the stage play (MS.26492, folios 1-25). (iv) 'The House with the Green Shutters', undated. (Folio 80.) An incomplete dramatisation for radio of the novel by George Douglas Brown. For a stage version, see MS.26492, folios 72-87. (v)...
Dates: 1948-[circa 1960], undated.

Short plays for radio with titles from N-W by Joe Corrie., [Circa 1960], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26519
Scope and Contents Contains the following plays: (i) “Nick's Wedding Day”, circa l960. (Folio 1.) For stage versions of the play, see MS.26494, folios 89-152. (ii) 'The Prince he would a-wooing go', a play for children's television, circa l960. (Folio 24.) A stage version was published in London, 1948. For a manuscript draft, see MS.26526, folio 20 verso. (iii) 'Remembrance'. Typescript, circa l960 (folio 47) and BBC script. (Folio 72.) A stage version was published in London, 1960. (iv) 'Snobs', circa l960....
Dates: [Circa 1960], undated.

Summaries and typescripts of plays of Robert Garioch Sutherland., 1956, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26607
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1956, undated.

Synopses of the pageant and notes on the historical background by Robert McLellan., 1964.

 File
Identifier: MS.26367
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: 1964.

Synopsis and early drafts of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.

 File
Identifier: MS.26136
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: 1962.

Synopsis, manuscript and corrected typescript of 'Culloden', a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith., 1962.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26136-26138
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: 1962.

Synopsis, notes and early typescript, undated, of the play 'Rab Mossgiel' by Robert McLellan., 1957, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26466
Scope and Contents

The typescript (folio 6), which has numerous manuscript corrections, is undated but is earlier than MS.26357.

Dates: 1957, undated.

'The Old Byre at Clashmore', a play for radio by Robert McLellan., 1965.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26372-26374
Scope and Contents

The part of Nessie was written for the actress Effie Morrison.

Dates: 1965.

'The Wheel', a play by Joe Corrie about Cain and Abel., 1946, [circa 1955], undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26516
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1946, [circa 1955], undated.

Three BBC broadcast scripts.

 File
Identifier: Acc.5026
Scope and Contents

Scripts for:

1. "650th Anniversary Declaration of Arbroath"

2. "The Lerwick Crew"

3. play of Jack Gerson, "Stand in for a Hearse".

Dates: 1970.

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.]

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26501-26503
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: [Circa 1945]-[circa 1955.]

Three typescripts of ‘The Carlin Moth’ by Robert McLellan, first produced on radio in 1946., 1945.

 File
Identifier: MS.26343
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1945.