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Add MS 88915/1/189/5
- Record Id:
- 040-000004958
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000003375
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000222.0x000284
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88915/1/189/5
- Title:
- Stage: Other
- Scope & Content:
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Correspondence regarding original work and translations for theatre, opera and ballet:
- 'Black Robin'
- 'The Golem'
- 'Hansel and Gretel'
- 'John Piper in the House of Death' [formerly titled 'The Plague Year']
- 'Lulu'
- 'Moses and Aaron'
- 'The Persians'
- 'Peer Gynt'
- 'The Prince of Homburg'
- 'Rosmersholm'
- 'The Saxon Shore' [also known as 'Athdark and the Flood']
- 'Sons of Light'
- 'The Triumph of Death'
- 'Victor'
- and other work: 'The Feast of Mammon' for City of London Festival 1968; 'Cape Wrath' [short story]; 'Byzantium'?; Hecuba' and other possible translations for the National Theatre; an ENO commission; and 'Il Nipote di Beethoven'
Correspondents: Peter Darrell at Western Theatre Ballet, David Rudkin, Royal Shakespeare Theatre [RSC], BBC Kaleidoscope, Heinemann, National Theatre, Royal Opera House, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Methuen London, RKO Productions, Michael Meyer, Stratford Barbican Television Productions, Field Day, Lyric Theatre Belfast, Riverside Studios, David Leveaux, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, H M Tennent Ltd, Elaine Greene and [James Laley?].
Includes out-letters to the Almeida Theatre and Dr Richard Cave. Includes copy letters from David Rudkin to [Richard Imison?], Peter Hall, Brian Friel, Terry Hands, John Russell Brown and Clive Perry.
Also includes contract between David Rudkin and Riverside Studios for 'Athdark and the Flood'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000003375
036-000003376
037-000004953
040-000004958 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88915 : Archive of Margaret Ramsay Ltd
Add MS 88915/1 : Client Files
Add MS 88915/1/189 : David Rudkin
Add MS 88915/1/189/5 : Stage: Other - Hierarchy:
- 032-000003375[0001]/036-000003376[0193]/037-000004953[0005]/040-000004958
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88915
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1962
- End Date:
- 1990
- Date Range:
- 1962-1990
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
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