William Thompson - Prompt copy playscript of Ray Lawler's Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and associated material

MLMSS 6707/Box 1X

fonds

1956 - 1959

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs

152111

0.16 metres of textual material (1 outsize box) includes photographs
Textual Records - (typescript, photocopy with manuscript annotations)
Textual Records - (printed)

William Thompson was The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust's stage manager for the 1956 tour of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, and later productions which toured Broken Hill and Adelaide in 1957 and 1958.

1956-1958; Prompt copy playscript of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, by Ray Lawler, dating from the play's first tours after the original Sydney and Melbourne seasons. This copy typescript documents the working changes made to the play through the first touring performances and after the London production. The playscript contains many examples of revised typescript, either pasted over the original text or on the facing page, with handwritten markings identifying the passages replaced. Also included are alternative opening setting directions, manuscript changes and deletions both to the photocopy typescript itself and to passages of revised typescript, and manuscript notes, lighting and prompt cues in several different hands on versos adjacent to typescript.
1956-1958; Photographs. Includes black and white photographs from the Adelaide and Broken Hill productions.
1957-1959; Printed material. Includes: program Adelaide performance; copy The Conveyor January 1959 containing article on the Broken Hill production; monograph Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, First Edition, Angus and Robertson 1957.