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Kipling: East and West : play : London : autograph manuscript signed, 1983.

BIB_ID
192860
Accession number
MA 4300
Creator
Clark, Brian.
Display Date
1983.
Credit line
Gift of Brian Clark, 1986.
Description
9 items (422 pages) ; various sizes
Notes
With autograph notes and word processor print-out instructions, and some of Kipling's poems on word processor print-out to be used in the play.
The play premiered in London in May 1984 and at the Royale Theatre, New York, October 10,1984, with Alec McCowen as Rudyard Kipling. A benefit performance took place in New York on 16 October 1984 for the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Housed with the six drafts of the play are eleven pages of autograph notes, a thirty-one page typescript of the Kipling poems used in the play and a 12-page word-processor print-out of text print runs. The entire collection is housed in nine separate folders.
Provenance
Gift of Brian Clark, 1986.
Summary
Being a collection of six drafts of the play which includes, an autograph manuscript signed with annotations and corrections, a typescript with autograph corrections labeled "First Draft", a typescript labeled "Draft 2" with autograph corrections and one page of autograph material to be inserted, a typescript labeled "Rehearsal version", a typescript with autograph corrections and a typescript of the final draft of the play with an autograph note concerning his consultation with Alec McCowen on the play's ending.