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Typescript loose leaf script of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan and from production at the Pike Theatre, Dublin, 1954. Script is typed and is heavily annotated by Carolyn Swift with details and information on stage directions, edits, cues and related notes on the production of the play. Edits and additional pages and part-pages are stapled in by Swift throughout the script.

Typescript with manuscript annotation/stage directions by Carolyn Swift of individual character scripts from The Pike Theatre, Dublin, production of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan. Character scripts and partial scripts present for:
Act I
1st Young Prisoner (Scholara) (NOTE: this script includes a cardboard page with a drawing by actor David Kelly with a gallows and a noose with the play title - possible draft poster. Also pencil sketch of various people head/shoulders)
Cover page for 'Part of the Medical Orderly'
Cover page of 2nd Young Prisoner (Shaybo)
Act II, Scene 1
Act II, Scene 2
Foolscap size typescript with manuscript title note on top of cover page being "The Lifer - Complete Parts"
Also other assorted draft and partial scripts for unlabelled parts of the play.

Single manuscript page by Carolyn Swift entitled "To Make One Complete Script of The Quare Fellow" and lists what order the acts of the play, with starting points, should be ordered.

Typescript with manuscript annotation/stage directions by Carolyn Swift of individual character scripts from The Pike Theatre, Dublin, production of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan. Character scripts and partial scripts present for:

Act III, Scene 1 (two individual drafts)
Part of Jenkinson (Assistant Hangman)
Part of The Governor
Part of Christmas Halliwell
Part of 1st Warder Act III, Scene 1
Act II, Scene 2 - Part of the Speaking Voice of the Prisoner in the Punishment Cells
Part of the Lifer - Act I
Part of the Other Fellow, Act I
Part of the Voice of Englishman on Remand
Part of the First Cook
Part of the Chaplain
Part of Prisoner 'C'
Part of Doctor Flynn
Act II, Scene 1
Other assorted loose-leaf pages of annotated/typed script

File with letter from Alan Simpson, Abbey Theatre, Dublin, to Carolyn Swift, enclosing a print copy of the script of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan, ahead of production of the play at the Abbey Theatre (4 August 1969) and inviting Swift to view rehearsals of the play and to edit the script for production (23 May 1969)

File of writings and articles by Carolyn Swift about the script of The Quare Fellow by Brendan Behan and her work in editing and working on the script. Article "The Script of The Quare Fellow" appears in the Abbey Theatre show programme from production in August 1969. Another typed version in the file is entitled "Extract from The Quare Fellow" by Brendan Behan, selected and edited by Carolyn Swift for 'Profile', March.

Typed script of play, "The Millstone", by Carolyn Swift and produced at the Town Hall Dun Laoghaire, 1951, by the Pike Theatre Company and being the first play performed by the Pike.
See series 1 - Pike Theatre Dublin - for press coverage and programmes from the play.

Typed script of play, "Inquisition" by Diego Fabbri and translated into English by Carolyn Swift. Produced at the Pike Theatre Dublin in September 1959, directed by Alan Simpson. Three copies of script present, one with a cover letter from a staff member at Raidió Teilifís Éireann, returning a copy of the script to Swift (3 Feb 1965). File also includes original programme from the Pike Theatre production of the play.

Typed script of play, "Stealing the Picture" a play in three acts by Carolyn Swift and Joy Rudd, produced at the Pike Theatre Dublin.

Files relating to The Shadow Factory, a musical play with book by Carolyn Swift and Bill Skinner, lyrics by Carolyn Swift and music by David Armstrong. File 1 includes handwritten notes by Swift including "Radio Adaptation of "Shadow Factory"; various notes and drafts of scenes; and typed script of the musical in various scenes.

File 2 includes: Typed budget for the production of The Shadow Factory; Synopsis of the musical, character list and description, annotated pages of script by Swift, pages and drafts of songs and lyrics from the musical.

Typescript detailed overview and synopsis of Puck Fair - A Ballet in Three Scenes. Three copies, some with notes and annotation by Carolyn Swift.