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Typescript draft by Thomas Kilroy of the first Act of his play My Scandalous Life . Entitled "Rough Draft June 2000". Near-identical to first Act of preceding draft, but without handwritten corrections (and different spacing resulting in different page count). Listing literary agent as Casarotto Ramsay and Associates. [Paginated 1-20.]

Typescript draft by Thomas Kilroy of the second Act of his play My Scandalous Life, missing first eight pages. Near-identical to second Act of preceding draft P103/ 352, but mostly without handwritten corrections (and different spacing resulting in different page count). Running from a point when he recalls Oscar Wilde telling him of Christ appearing to him in the prison cell (c.p.29 of Gallery Press version), to end of that Act. [Paginated 9-21.]

File of records regarding the rehearsed reading of Thomas Kilroy's play My Scandalous Life (two acts), on the Peacock stage (Abbey Theatre), Dublin, on 3 December 2000. Commissioned by Trinity College, Dublin, for their Oscar Wilde Centre, and a conference held there. Directed by [David Parnell]; starring [Mark Lambert]. Comprising a script for the reading; correspondence with Ben Barnes, Abbey Theatre, literary agent Tom Erhardt, director Max Stafford-Clarke, actor Simon Callow, academics Nicholas Grene and Gerard Dawe, who comment on the script. Including a statement by Kilroy that lists director and actor (undated), and calls this a "companion piece" to his play about Constance Wilde, stating that "like it, it is an exploration of family privacies behind the very public Wilde story". Also including a letter from Kilroy to Ben Barnes, stating "I feel its full life, if it ever has one, will be across the water" (26 September 2000). [The script is paginated 1-43.]

Typescript "Draft A" of Thomas Kilroy's play My Scandalous Life, in the one-act version, with handwritten corrections and annotations. Bearing note "plus Eileen". [Paginated 1-39.]

Typescript draft (44 pp) of Thomas Kilroy's play My Scandalous Life, in the one-act version, with handwritten corrections and annotations. Enclosing two inserts (typescript and handwritten), one of which is referenced in the copy as Insert A; the other is attached at the end. [Paginated 1-43. Apart from corrections and inserts, seemingly identical with preceding draft.]

File of typescript drafts by Thomas Kilroy of his play My Scandalous Life in the one-act version. First draft is complete, entitled "First Draft towards finished one-man play", with some handwritten markings (excisions). Second draft is a fragment of a corrected version, also with handwritten corrections. Both beginning with "Douglas" intoning Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring". [Paginated 1-28 and 1-8.]

Typescript draft (27 pp) by Thomas Kilroy of his play My Scandalous Life in the one-act version. Entitled "Final draft April 2003", with handwritten corrections. Enclosing brief handwritten notes, including the sentence "Douglas begins by blaming Custance and Ross, then comes to accept Raymond as his own". [Paginated 1-27.]