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Reference NoDD1810/3/1
TitleMobile Theatre: Early Days (Theatre of Youth / Motley Players)
DescriptionA background of the play 'Pathelin' from Des Granges' Histoire Illustree de la Litterature Francaise.
Programme for a three-play Theatre of Youth performance (two copies, one marked 1944, one marked 1946), and a background of the play 'The Maid of Domremy' and 'A Room in the Tower'.
The Motley Players Constitution, 26 November 1947.
Public adjudication of play 'The Locked Chest', 29 January 1947.
Programme, poster, and correspondence relating to The Motley Players' performance of 'The Rivals', 1948 (6 items).
Correspondence and programme for Theatre of Youth performance, May 1950 (two copies).
Letter from Frank Scorgie (Director of Education) thanking those involved in the Theatre of Youth for their contribution, May 1951 (two copies).
Description of the play 'Torwatletie' by Robert McLellan, performed by the Theatre of Youth, May 1951.
Letter from Frank Scorgie and memorandum relating to a Theatre of Youth performance of 'Beauty and the Beast', January and March 1952.
Theatre of Youth programme for 'The Scarecrow' and 'The Mock Doctor', May 1957.
Letter from Frank Scorgie and programme for The Motley Players' performance of 'She Stoops to Conquer', March 1953.
Cast list for 'Rumpelstiltskin' and 'Tailor of Gloucester', 12 October 1955.
A list of schools visited by the Mobile Theatre Programme for Infants, 1958-59 (compiled by the City of Aberdeen Education Department). (Four thousand children saw the Mobile Theatre Programme for Infants between 1958 and 1959).
A schools circular advertising three plays by The Motley Players / Theatre of Youth, including 'The Happy Journey', a programme (three copies), and a Press and Journal newspaper clipping from 'The Happy Journey', 1959.
Programme for 'The Storytellers' by Brian Way, performed in primary schools by the Mobile Theatre, October 1959 - June 1960.
Datec1944-1959
Extent28 items.
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