Typed script for a short one-man play by Carolyn Swift entitled "Posterity Honours a Debt" based on the life of Oliver Goldsmith and to mark his 200th anniversary in 1974. Includes letter from Swift to Dick Hill, Head of Features, RTÉ, seeking a meeting to discuss offering the play for production for radio at RTÉ (1 Nov 1973); Letter from Swift to Jim Norton, Middlesex, England, discussing and proposing the Goldsmith play to Norton to act in. (21 Oct 1977)
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Files with typed words and lyrics for point numbers included in the Pike Theatre Dublin Follies and Revues. Texts include manuscript annotation, edits, and stage directions. Point numbers include:
File 1 - Leeway; Infallibility; The Girl That Wont; I'll Be There; Can-Can!; Decline and Fall; Home and Colonial; The Gruesome Old Lady of Threadneedle Street; Checkmate; Foresight Saga; Fly in the National Ointment; First Nighter; Fairview Rock; Elephants at the Zoo; Dear Madam.
File 2: My Post; The Lion's Share; New-Style Comic; Nice Girl; Father's Footsteps; Statement to the Press; Troopers; The Vanishing Irish; That Man!; The Song of the Bona Fide; Diversion With Music; Wallflowers; Sitting on the Fence
File 3: Trio; Persecuted People; Rejected Lover; The Monster; Troopers; My Guardian Angel; A Fitting Number; Do It Yourself!; Down the Drain; Brave Metal; The Prodigal; Inverin Love Song.
File 4: The Republican Publican; Foreign Games; The Lady Lion Tamer; Credo; Changing U-Line; A Child's Plea; The Last Straw; The Bold Thady Quill; Substitute for Ardmore and for Sputnik Chorus; She Has Everything She Wanted; The Not-So-Juvenile Juvenile; The Irish Emigrant; The Comic's Lament.
Files relating to plays written or adapted for television and which were edited by Carolyn Swift.
Scripts and treatments for television plays and for television series by and co-authored by Carolyn Swift and by others, submitted to RTÉ for consideration for broadcast.
File relating to Playcircle Theatre Group, Dublin. Company directors are noted as Phyllis Ryan, Anna Managan, Helen Robinson, Carolyn Swift and Agnes Bernelle. Includes letters between Swift, Manahan, and Bernelle, printed sheet programmes of productions by Playcircle, with cast and crew list, with plays including by G.P. Gallivan, Liam Lynch, and James Douglas. Also typed report on plays read for Playcircle by Swift (1974).
Typed copy of script for sketch "Playboy of the East-End World" produced as part of the Late Night Follies at the Pike Theatre Dublin.
File with manuscript notes, overview, and character outlines for a play by Carolyn Swift on the theme of "the problems of women in Ireland". Includes cover letter from Swift to Donal Farmer at RTÉ, discussing early plans for the project Swift made with Chloe Gibson at RTÉ. File also includes numerous draft scripts, with edits and annotation by Swift, for the play.
Files relating to playreading and judging carried out by Carolyn Swift on behalf of the Society of Irish Playwrights, with typed reports and manuscript notes by Swift on various plays read. Also reports and letters for play reading done by Swift for the Irish Federation of Women's Clubs (see File 2).
File relating to play reading and reporting work by Carolyn Swift for works for stage and screen, for RTE, Irish theatres, including lists of plays and notes of reports on these plays by Swift as part of judging the O.Z. Whitehead play writing award.
File with typed play reading reports by Carlyon Swift on play scripts received by the Gate Theatre Dublin, including reports on plays written by Mary Manning, ray Bradbury, and various others.