Copies of typed scripts for plays and television programmes written or adapted by John Osborne. Some scripts are early versions with annotations and some include examples of correspondence.
A typed script for Inadmissible Evidence by John Osborne. This script includes extensive annotations by Osborne, including a description of proposed sets on the title page, a draft of annotations for a screenplay, and some loose pages of notes, including on the reverse of a letter from John Calde...
Three copies of a typed script for Time Present by John Osborne. One copy includes Jill Bennett's address on the title page, suggesting it was her copy. This play was part of a series entitled For the Meantime including The Hotel in Amsterdam and Coriolanus.
Two copies of a typed script for The Hotel in Amsterdam by John Osborne. This play was part of a series entitled For the Meantime including Time Present and Coriolanus.
Three copies of a typed draft screenplay for The Hostage by John Osborne, based on the play by Brendan Behan. Two copies include some handwritten amendments to the script, mostly changes to character names. This folder also includes a copy of a letter of reply from Ray Stark, producer, to John...
Annotated typed scripts for 'A Sense of Detachment'
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Three copies of a typed script for A Sense of Detachmentby John Osborne. Two copies include some handwritten annotations on the script. The loose volume mostly seems to be marked with notes and additions for publication, while one of the bound volumea includes a handwritten addition on page 11 o...
Two draft copies of a typed script for A Sense of Detachmentby John Osborne. These copies include typed insertions to the script. Some are stapled to the original pages, while others are loose within the volumes.
Two draft copies of a typed script for A Sense of Detachmentby John Osborne. These copies were originally titled The Enemy Vintage and the title has been crossed out and amended to A Sense of Detachment by hand.
Two copies of a typed script for The Picture of Dorian Gray - A Moral Entertainment by John Osborne, adapted from the novel by Oscar Wilde. These copies include a typed introduction to the adaptation by John Osborne, dated Sep 1972, and entitled The Torn Down Nest - The Matter of Dorian Gray and...
Two copies of a typed script for Watch It Come Down by John Osborne. One of these copies contains the following handwritten dedication to Jill Bennett from Osborne on the title page "To Jill - The very best of them all! As always with all my admiration and love John". Jill originated the role of...