Level: [37] SubSeries - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79255-79257
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. LIV-LVI. ‘Abel’s Sister’. Autogr. notes and typewritten drafts with autogr. revisions [some imperf.]; 1983-1984, n.d. Included is a translation into French. The play by Wertenbaker is based on material by Yolande Bourcier. It was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs on 2 Aug. 1984, directed by Les Waters. It had its US première in New York on 28 March 1985. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1983-1984
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79259-79269
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. LVIII-LXVIII. ‘The Grace of Mary Traverse’; 1983-1985, [1986], n.d. The play seems to have had the early working-title ‘Grace Notes’. It was first performed at the Royal Court on 17 Oct. 1985, directed by Danny Boyle. Eleven volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1983-1986
Extent:: 11 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79270-79271
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. LXIX, LXX. ‘The Love of the Nightingale’; 1987-1988, n.d. The play was first performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon on 28 Oct. 1988. It had its first London performance by the RSC at The Pit on 16 Aug. 1989. It won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1987-1988
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79272-79280
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. LXXI-LXXIX. ‘Our Country’s Good’; 1988, n.d. The play premièred at the Royal Court on 9 Sept. 1988, directed by Max Stafford-Clark. It opened on Broadway in 1991. Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991. Nine volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1988
Extent:: 9 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79281-79298
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. LXXX-XCVII. ‘Three Birds Alighting on a Field’; 1988-1993, n.d. Apparently given the early working title ‘The Price of Everything’. The play was first performed on 5 Sept. 1991 at the Royal Court and revived on 6 Nov. 1992. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Writers’ Guild Award and London Critics’ Circle Award in 1992. Eighteen volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1988-1993
Extent:: 18 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79299-79301
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. XCVIII-C. ‘The Break of Day’ and ‘After Darwin’; 1995, [?1998], n.d. ‘The Break of Day’ was first performed by the Out of Joint Company at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, on 26 Oct. 1995, and later at the Royal Court on 22 Nov. 1995. ‘After Darwin’ was first performed at the Hampstead Theatre on 8 July 1998. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1995-1999
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79305-79306
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. CIV, CV. ‘False Admissions’ [‘Les Fausses Confidences’]; 1983-1984, n.d. Play by Marivaux, translated by Wertenbaker. Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 1984. Also performed on stage in America in 1994. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1983-1984
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79307-79309
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. CVI-CVIII. ‘Leocadia’; 1984, 1986, n.d. Play by Jean Anouilh, translated by Wertenbaker. Recorded and broadcast by BBC Radio 3 in 1984 and performed on stage by the RSC. Three volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1984-1986
Extent:: 3 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79311-79317
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. CX-CXVI. ‘Mephisto’; 1986, n.d. Play by Ariane Mnouchkine from the novel by Klaus Mann, translated by Wertenbaker. Wertenbaker’s translation was first performed by the RSC at the Barbican on 29 March 1986, directed by Adrian Noble. Seven volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1986
Extent:: 7 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 79319-79320
Title:: WERTENBAKER PAPERS. Vols. CXVIII, CXIX. ‘Pelléas and Mélisande’; March 1987, 1988, n.d. Play by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Wertenbaker. It was recorded by BBC Radio 3 in 1988 and performed on stage in 1989. Two volumes.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1987-1988
Extent:: 2 items

Search