Plays.
Found in 689 Collections and/or Records:
Papers of the playwright and author, Joe Corrie (1894-1968).
Joe Corrie worked as a miner in Fife and Ayrshire, and many of his plays and stories are set in mining communities. He was a prolific writer who published a number of plays, several collections of poetry, and two novels, as well as numerous stories and articles in newspapers. Many of his plays were popular with amateur dramatic groups.
Papers of the playwright, Robert McLellan, and his family.
Robert McLellan (1907-1985) was born near Lanark and educated at Bearsden and Glasgow University. In 1938 he married and moved to Arran, where he spent the rest of his life, except for a period of service in the Royal Artillery, 1940-1946. His most important literary works were plays, but he also wrote poetry, short stories, and books on Arran.
Papers of the poet, Robert Garioch Sutherland, and his father.
Robert Sutherland (1909-1981) who wrote under the name 'Robert Garioch', was educated in Edinburgh and, after the war of 1939-1945 when he was a prisoner in Italy and Germany, became a schoolteacher in Kent. He returned to Edinburgh in 1959, where he taught and worked for the School of Scottish Studies in the University.
Papers of the Reverend Thomas Veitch.
Includes typescripts of sermons, talks, essays, plays and poems.
Papers of the Traverse Theatre.
Includes minutes, accounts, correspondence and play scripts
Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh.
Papers from the archives of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 1965-1985 (with one item from 1951). Includes playscripts, photographs, programmes, posters and promotional artwork.
Papers of the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, comprising scripts of ninety-five plays and related correspondence.
Papers of William Douglas Home.
Includes correspondence and play scripts.
Papers of William Douglas Home.
Includes manuscripts and typescripts of "The Unhung Parliament", "The Christmas Truce", and "Retirement Age", and a lecture delivered at Lille University.
Papers of William Hutchison Murray and Anne Burnet Murray
Papers relating to the writing and performance of plays by Alasdair Gray., 1965-1986, undated.
This collection consists of manuscripts, typescripts, proofs and illustrative material relating to a wide range of Alasdair Gray’s work, including twenty-nine stage, radio and television plays, and the following published works:
'Lanark' (Edinburgh: Canongate, 1981).
'Lean tales' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1985).
'Lean tales' (London: Abacus, 1987).
'Old negatives' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1989).
Partial manuscript and typescripts of 'True Minds', a play by Nancy Brysson Morrison about Thomas and Jane Carlyle, broadcast in 1952 and 1954., 1952, 1954, undated.
Notes for and some manuscripts of Nancy Brysson Morrison's books and shorter works.
Personal and professional papers of Edith Simon
Photocopies of scripts of two community plays by James Hay Hamilton.
Photocopies of typescripts of six plays of Anne Downie.
Photocopy of a transcript and description by Terry L Meyers of a notebook, 1876, of William Sharp containing his play, "Ariadne in Naxos" and poem "Beatrice".
Photocopy of script of "Silver", a radio play by Jonathan Smith.
Photocopy of the final typescript of 'The Jolly Beggars: a parable in three acts' by Sydney Goodsir Smith., [Circa 1973.]
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.
Photocopy of the first fair typescript, with a few manuscript corrections, of 'A pageant of Dumbarton' by Robert McLellan., 1972.
The photocopy was made for Councillor James E Hill of Dumbarton.