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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 468 Collections and/or Records:

Carbon typescript of 'The Fiddler calls the Tune: a comedy in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [1945.]

 File
Identifier: MS.26948
Scope and Contents

There are a few manuscript corrections, and two newspaper cuttings (folio 83) concerning the first production of the play in Edinburgh.

Dates: [1945.]

Carbon typescript of the revised edition of ‘Jamie the saxt’ by Robert McLellan., [1937, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26337
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

The play was first performed in 1937, and a revised version published in 1971. MSS.26335-26336 are annotated acting copies: MS.26335 appears to have been used in several productions (for another similar typescript, see MS.26465). MS.26336 includes the later revisions in manuscript, and MS.26337 is a carbon typescript of the revised version.

Dates: [1937, or before.]

Carbon typescripts of 'Blood upon the Rose: a play in three acts' by George Moncrieff-Scott., [?1956.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26946
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

George Scott-Moncrieff wrote a number of plays, of which only ‘Fotheringhay’ was published (Edinburgh, 1953), although others were performed on the stage or broadcast. Most of the surviving typescripts are undated.

Dates: [?1956.]

'Clubfuit', by Tom Scott, and two fragments of plays., Undated.

 File
Identifier: Acc.11750/87
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Including correspondence, notebooks, autobiographical and editorial papers.

Dates: Undated.

Corrected galley-proofs and a printed copy of ‘Toom Byres’ (Glasgow, 1936) by Robert McLellan., 1936.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26333-26334
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: 1936.

Corrected galley-proofs of 'Toom Byres' by Robert McLellan., 1936.

 File
Identifier: MS.26333
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: 1936.

Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Beatrice', by Ian Brown, containing typescript draft and typescript project proposal., Circa 1989, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/5-18
Scope and Contents

This play was first performed by the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company at the Traverse Theatre in 1989.

Dates: Circa 1989, undated.

Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Margaret', by Ian Brown., Circa 2000.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/30-33
Scope and Contents

This play was first performed at the Gateway Theatre, Edinburgh, in 2000.

Dates: Circa 2000.

Corrected typescript drafts of play, 'Wasting reality', by Ian Brown, containing typescript proposal and some stray draft pages., Circa 1992, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.12081/22-29
Scope and Contents

This play was first performed at Perth Theatre in 1992.

Originally entitled ‘The house that Jack built’.

Dates: Circa 1992, undated.

Corrected typescript of a dramatization in four parts by Robert McLellan of Sir Walter Scott's novel, ‘Waverley’, broadcast in the series 'This is my country'., 1957.

 Item
Identifier: MS.26395
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Apart from the plays written specially for radio, such as ‘The Carlin Moth’ and 'As ithers see us', Robert McLellan also wrote a number of short pieces, often as part of a larger series. Many of these were broadcasts for schools. He also contributed to programmes such as 'Scottish Life and Letters', and wrote for television.

Dates: 1957.

Corrected typescript of part 2 of ‘The Wallace’, a play by Sydney Goodsir Smith, broadcast on BBC radio (Scottish Home Service) in 1959., [1959, or before.]

 Item
Identifier: MS.26132
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: [1959, or before.]

Correspondence and notes concerning 'A Man of Pleasure', a proposed musical about James Boswell by Robert McLellan., 1962-1964.

 File
Identifier: MS.26390
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence with Irvin Graham, the American composer who was to write the music (folio l); (ii) Preliminary notes for the plot (folio 70).

Dates: 1962-1964.

Correspondence and papers of and concerning John MacDougall Hay., 1904-1956, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26793
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) Correspondence, chiefly concerning 'Gillespie', 1904-1922 (folio 1); (ii) Manuscripts and cuttings of poetry, drama and other work by John MacDougall Hay, 1908-1914, undated (folio 61); (iii) Presscuttings about Hay and 'Gillespie', 1913-1956 (folio 104).

Dates: 1904-1956, undated.