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Bound copy of the acting text of "The Satire of the Three Estates", prepared by Robert Kemp for production at the Edinburgh International Festival.

 File
Identifier: Acc.10112
Scope and Contents

With stage photographs, sketches and signatures of the actors, musicians and singers.

Dates: 1948.

Literary manuscripts and personal papers of the poet and art critic, Sydney Goodsir Smith (1915-1975).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26116-26162
Scope and Contents

Born in New Zealand and educated in England, Sydney Goodsir Smith's first poems were in English, but he began writing in Scots in about 1940 and published several volumes of poetry. He also wrote for the stage, radio and television, as well as editing works of Robert Burns and Robert Fergusson. All these interests are reflected in his papers, but his work as an art critic survives in only a few fragmentary items.

Dates: 1922-1980, undated.

Literary papers, correspondence and artwork of Alasdair Gray.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.13289/1-109
Scope and Contents This collection includes personal and working papers of Alasdair Gray, with the great majority of the papers concerning 'A Gray play book' (Luath, 2009) and 'A life in pictures' (Canongate, 2009).The 'play book' papers include typescripts from throughout Gray's life of many of the plays which made up the book, as well as annotated proofs, and correspondence concerning the book's production.There are extensive visual materials collated by Gray for the production of 'A...
Dates: 1951-2011.

Papers of Annie S Swan.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6003
Scope and Contents

Including manuscripts of novels and plays, correspondence, and photographs.

Dates: circa 1881-1943.

Papers of Katherine Cecil Thurston.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11378
Scope and Contents

Includes literary and personal correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of novels, short stories and plays, and photographs.

Dates: 1903-1911.

Papers of O H Mavor, pseudonym James Bridie.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11310
Scope and Contents

Includes family correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts of plays, sketches, drawings, photographs and personal memorabilia.

Dates: 1899-1953 and undated.

Papers of TAG Theatre Company, concerning a production of Lewis Grassic Gibbon`s trilogy, "A Scots Quair".

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10939
Scope and Contents

Includes programmes, photographs and typescript and printed copies of an adaptation by Alastair Cording of "Sunset Song"

Dates: 1993.

Papers of the Fifth Estate Theatre Company.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.11443/1-131
Scope and Contents

Includes prompt scripts, scripts of unperformed plays, production photography and press cuttings.

Dates: 1965, 1981-1997 and undated.

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.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.11295/1-3
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1995.

Typescripts, manuscripts, proofs, research notes and correspondence of David Thomson, author and radio producer.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.10129/1-179
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of David Thomson, author, researcher and BBC radio producer. It includes the scripts and correspondence of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.

Dates: [1923]-1988.

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Names
Cording, Alastair, actor and playwright, fl 1971-2008 2
Kemp, Robert, playwright and broadcaster, 1908-1967 2
Mavor, Osborne Henry, playwright, pseudonym James Bridie, 1888-1951 2
Citizen's Theatre (TAG, Glasgow, theatre company) 1
Citizen's Theatre, TAG, Glasgow, theatre company 1