Files with typescript draft of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, dated August 1985. Includes manuscript edits by Swift.
Published copy of 'Stage By Stage', memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press, 1985. Copy was owned by Swift, signed by the author on inside front cover, and edited by manuscript annotations throughout the book. Slips of paper are inserted by comments and edits by Swift.
File includes a scrapbook of press cuttings from Irish media with articles about and reviews of 'Stage By Stage', a memoir written by Carolyn Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes articles about Swift, the Pike Theatre, Dublin, the Rose Tattoo affair at the Pike Theatre, censorship, theatre in Ireland in the 1950s, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, and Alan Simpson and Carolyn Swift.
Scrapbook also includes coverage, reviews, photographs of coverage of 'Lady G', a play written by Carolyn Swift about Lady Augusta Gregory, and staged at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 1988. (see Abbey Theatre Digital Archive for video recording and related production material from 'Lady G'.
Files relating to the writing and editing of the manuscript of 'Stage By Stage', the memoir by Carolyn Swift, published by Poolbeg Press in 1985. Includes drafts, correspondence and contracts.
File with letters and correspondence between Carolyn Swift and others about 'Stage By Stage', the memoir written by Swift and published by Poolbeg Press. Includes letters to/from various agencies from early 1980s where Swift is seeking a literary agent, e.g. Terry Prone and Arlen House Press and Wolfhound Press. Also press releases and statements by Arlen House and prizes for women's writing as she is beginning to think about writing her memoir; Letters between Swift and BBC staff (early 1990s) concerning a possible dramatisation of the Pike Theatre / Rose Tattoo affair for television; full script of play written by Hugh Leonard entitled "The Rose Tattoo Affair" based on Swift and Alan Simpson's experiences at the Pike in the 1950s; other letters with Michael Imison Playwrights Ltd. re. rights and writing of the book;
File with text of book blurb and author note about 'Stage By Stage', memoir by Carolyn Swift, with signed book contract made between Swift and Poolbeg Press for writing and publication terms on the book.
Also includes royalty statements based on sales of the book sent to Swift by the publisher. Also printed draft of the book cover and jacket, on card.
Also typed draft, possibly from Stage by Stage, an titled "The Strange Case Of the Rose Tattoo - Chapter 1" by Swift.
Files of outsize design plans for productions by The Corn Exchange Theatre Company. File includes lighting and set/stage designs for "Every Day" (2006), stage design plan for "Dubliners" at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin, 2012, drawn by Joe Vaněk, and an extensive number of drawings, lighting plans and set plans for Dublin by Lamplight, produced at various venues by The Corn Exchange Theatre Company.
File of internal policy documents from Druid Theatre which refer to staff training and development, administration skills and other such office and venue management training and issues.
Details of the weekly staff salary of employees.