McGrath, John Peter, playwright, director, 1935-2002
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, production files, scripts, cuttings and other papers of John McGrath.
Record Group
Identifier: Acc.11615/1-110
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the material dates from ca.1979-1990, though there are some earlier and later items. Much of it concerns McGrath’s work outside 7:84, the theatre company which he and others established in 1971.
Dates:
Circa 1926-1997.
DVD of a BBC `Play for Today` production of `The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black, Black Oil` by John McGrath.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13245
Scope and Contents
John McGrath`s play, `The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil`, was toured round the Highlands of Scotland by 7:84 (Scotland) Theatre Company in 1973. The following year, a television version of the play was broadcast as part of the BBC`s `Play for Today` season. Adapted by John McGrath, this showed excerpts from the play as performed by the Company at Dornie village hall, intercut with dramatised scenes from Highland history and interviews with Scots of the time.
Dates:
1974.
MSc dissertation entitled "Unmasking Ideology and the Popular Theatre: John McGrath and Bertolt Brecht", by Jonathan Osborne.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12259
Dates:
? 2000.
Papers of John McGrath, mainly relating to his career outside the 7:84 theatre companies.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12912
Dates:
circa 1961-2001.
Papers relating to films and television plays written by John McGrath. Includes, scripts, press-cuttings, production files, and publicity material., 1973-2004.
Collection
Identifier: MI.MS 4/25
Scope and Contents
Scripts1986 Blood Red Roses (TV, 1986, d. John McGrath).1987 Mairi Mhor (1993, d. Mike Alexander). Second draft script, by John McGrath.1989 Border Warfare (TV, 1989, d. John McGrath).c1990 John Brown’s Body (TV, 1990, d. John McGrath). Camera script by John McGrath. Production Files and Notes1986 Blood Red Roses. Production documents.1986 New Year Pieces: A Sequence for Hogmanay (TV, 1986-7, d. John...
Dates:
1973-2004.
Rehearsal script of an adaptation for television by John McGrath, of three short stories of George Mackay Brown.
Item
Identifier: Acc.5281
Dates:
1971.
Sketches, plans, photographs and parts of set models of Pamela Howard`s production designs for "Border Warfare", "John Brown`s Body" and "Wicked Old Man" by John McGrath.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12953
Dates:
circa 1988-1992.
Videocassette recordings, made by Freeway Films, chiefly of television versions of plays by John McGrath.
File
Identifier: Acc.12562/1-7
Scope and Contents
Freeway Films was John McGrath's own production company.
Dates:
Circa 1984-1991.
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- Plays. 3
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- Articles. 1
- DVDs. 1