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Drama
This collection contains scripts for productions on the stage, television, radio, and screen, and critical studies.
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The big house: four scenes in its life
Macmillan and Co., Limited
1928
A play by the Irish dramatist, poet and theatre producer and director who was involved with the Abbey Theatre.
Major operation: the play of the novel
William MacLellan
1943
The tale of some shipyard workers who lose their jobs when the Depression hits, and a bourgeois coal broker who loses both his firm and his wife.
Footfalls
Faber and Faber
1976
First performed at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Samuel Beckett Festival, on May 20, 1976.
We must kill Toni: a comedy in three acts
Evans Brothers Limited
1953
A three act play by the British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.
The private life of the master race: a documentary play
Victor Gollancz Ltd
1948
A stage version of The fears and miseries of the Third Reich.
Aaron's field
Pendock Press
1943
A play for radio first broadcast in the BBC Home Service on 16th November, 1939.
The vision at the inn: a play in one act
Samuel French Limited
1933
Dramatised from the 'The maid' by John Buchan.
Tides of the Wight: the gentlemen go by
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1999
A play in which Holmes and Watson investigate disembodied voices, murder and conspiracy on the Isle of Wight
Mrs. Hudson? Mrs. Hudson!! : a conceptual narrative treatment of an original musical
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
2000
A three act play centred on the confrontation between Moriarty and Holmes.
Speak of the devil
Crippen Landru
1994
A never before published play set in 1815, following a Captain as he attends a ball before fighting in Waterloo, meeting a beautiful young woman who asks for his help before promptly disappearing, leaving behind only a miniature portrait of herself.
The walrus and the carpenter
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1999
From the play 'Alice in Wonderland - a dream play for children in two acts' by Henry Saville Clarke, and including extra verses by Carroll.
Isle of Youth (the Feast of Samhain): opera in three acts
William MacLellan
1943
A libretto taken from the first part of James Stephens' 'In the land of youth'.
Oedipe-roi; Romeo et Juliette
Librairie Plon
1928
Cocteau's renderings of two classic plays. Number 1569 of a limited edition of 4,400
The typewriter: a play in three acts
Dennis Dobson
1947
Over a framework of something in the nature of a thriller, Cocteau has draped a study of provincial France, with all its sordid vices and hypocrisy.
Two screenplays: The blood of a poet ; and, The testament of Orpheus
Calder & Boyars
1970
Two film scripts of Cocteau's surrealist work.
The eagle has two heads
Vision
1958
A play based on the strange death of Louis II of Bavaria.
Sherlock through the magnifying glass: a female perspective: a dramatic presentation
Thumbprints
1994
Four women perform monologues about their relationship with Holmes.
Leith sands, and other short plays
Duckworth
1946
A collection of short plays by the writer better known as Josephine Tey.
A mock brewster sessions: application for licence by John Boniface: a temperance dialogue for ten or twelve persons
Charles H. Kelly
1912
The case against strong drink presented through a short play.
Sherlock Holmes and the Shakespeare solution: a play in two acts
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1997
A play in which Irene Adler re-appears, and Professor Moriarty's diabolical plan is thwarted.
Emigration at first sight: a play in one act
Gowans & Gray, Ltd.
1930
A one act play for small theatres and repertory companies.
Waterloo: a case-book on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's historical play
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box
1998
Doyle's one-act play, made famous by Henry Irving, with supporting commentary.
Waterloo: a drama in one act
Samuel French, Ltd.
1920s
Doyle's one-act play, made famous by Henry Irving. Green and Gibson A32.
The ghosts of the strath
Fortune Press
1943
A verse-play by the British poet, actor, playwright, theatre director, theatre historian and BBC newsreader.
