Prompt books. Scripts.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Copies of plays used by a prompter, showing action of the play, cues, movements of actors, properties, costume, and scene and light plots.
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
Acts I and III of Henry M. Milner's play The Talisman.
File
Identifier: Acc.14094
Content Description
A later Victorian manuscript copy of Milner's stage adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, first performed at the Coburg Theatre on 11 July 1825.
Dates:
Late 19th century.
Interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: MS.15942
Scope and Contents
There are notes, instructions and sketches throughout by Thomas Powrie and by the stage manager, J H Smith.
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Manuscript prompt-copy of ‘Donna Diana’, a comedy in three acts, adapted by John Westland Marston from the German version of ‘El Desdén con el Desdén’ by Agustin Moreto.
Series
Identifier: MSS.9991-9993
Scope and Contents
John Westland Marston wrote his version of the play for the actor Hermann Vezin, to whom this manuscript belonged. There are numerous annotations of the actors' movements and cuts in the text.
Dates:
1863.
Microfilm of interleaved and annotated copy of ’Hamlet … by William Shakespeare … printed from the acting copy, with remarks and critical, by D G … as performed at the Theatre Royal, London’ (London, [?1826-?1847]), used as a prompt book for the 1849 production at the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh with Thomas Powrie in the leading role.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.1375
Dates:
[?1826-?1847], 1849.
Prompt copy of the play ‘Cramond brig, or the gude man o’ Ballangeich’, as performed at the Theatre Royal, Sadlers Wells.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.3.43
Dates:
19th century.
Prompt scripts of 18 plays performed at the Citizens' and Close Theatres, Glasgow; with related printed and photographic material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.4933/1-22
Dates:
1946-[1970], undated.
Prompt scripts of 83 plays performed at The Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.5086/1-84
Dates:
[1948-1963].