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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 220 Collections and/or Records:

Typescripts and manuscript of plays by Margaret Clarke ('Lesley Storm'), and other papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.6711
Scope and Contents

Including typescripts of four other plays, with three letters, 1957 and undated, two of Laurence Olivier and one of Vivien Leith to Storm, concerning her plays.

Dates: 1950-1957 and undated.

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of many BBC radio programmes from the 1950s and 60s, original scripts and correspondence regarding his published and unpublished books, and additional correspondence spanning forty five years working for UNESCO, the BBC, and as a full time writer.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.

Typescripts of literary works by David Lindsay (1878-1945).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27247-27252
Dates: [Circa 1920]-1942, undated.

Typescripts of literary works by Tom Hanlin (1907-1953).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.27417-27425
Scope and Contents

Tom Hanlin worked as a coalminer at Armadale, West Lothian, until 1946 and much of his fiction is set in Scottish mining communities.

Dates: 1942-1949, undated.

Typescripts of Naomi Mitchison.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10489
Scope and Contents

Includes "At the Turn of the Century", "The Little Pet", "The Independence Sports" and the plays "The Scarlet Woman" and "A Matter Between Macdonalds".

Dates: mid 20th century.

Typescripts of novellas, short stories and plays of Agnes Owens.

 Record Group
Identifier: Acc.14086/1-61
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typescripts of the novellas and short stories of Agnes Owens, including many of the stories which formed part of 'Lean tales' (Cape, 1985) and 'People like that' (Bloomsbury, 1996). Several short stories present in this collection were only published for the first time in 'The complete short stories' (Polygon, 2008).

Many of the typescripts have annotations and corrections in the hands of Agnes Owens, Alasdair Gray and others.

Dates: 2007, undated.

Typescripts of plays of Alexander Brown Paterson (born 1907).

 Series
Identifier: MSS.26482-26486
Scope and Contents

A journalist by training, Alexander Brown Paterson was a founder and chairman of the Byre Theatre, St Andrews, where many of his plays, including these, were first produced.

Dates: 1947-1963.

Typescripts of six plays and a collection of poetry by Ian Brown.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12081/1-49
Scope and Contents

A collection of typescript drafts, circa 1983-2002, of a number of plays and a collection of poems by Ian Brown.

Dates: circa 1983-2002.

Typescripts of works by Norman MacDonald, Lewis.

 File
Identifier: MS.14972
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows.(i) Gaelic play for stage, titled ‘Shonnie’ (folio 1);(ii) Gaelic play for radio, titled ‘Buisneachd’ (folio 19);(iii) Gaelic play for stage, titled “An Ceistear ‘s am Bard ‘s na Boirionnaich” (Published under that title) (folio 64);(iv) English radio feature, titled ‘Iolaire’ (folio 91);(v) English short story, titled ‘Potatoes and Herring’ (folio 125);(vi) ‘The first Day of the Season’. Do...
Dates: [1971, or before]-[1975, or before.]

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.

Works of John H Balfour Browne.

 Collection
Identifier: Acc.4223
Scope and Contents

With manuscript and printed material of Balfour Browne and others, including poetry, essays, plays and novels.

Dates: circa 1880-circa 1920.