Magic Theatre scripts, 1966-2007.

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Magic Theatre scripts, 1966-2007.

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The Magic Theatre Scripts consists of over 1,200 works collected during John Lion's tenure as General and Artistic Director with the company. The scripts are written about a wide range of subjects, from sports to racial politics, by an equally diverse range of ethnic groups, including Chicanos, Indians, and Australians. Playwrights include such well known authors as Michael McClure, Sam Shepard,and David Mamet, as well as a vast number of unknown playwrights. The scripts were separated from the company's archives, the operational files are collected as the Magic Theatre records (BANC MSS 81/184 C). Additions to the Magic Theatre scripts arranged chronologically.

Originals: 74 cartons (92.5 linear feet)Copy of Wolfgang Bauer scripts (carton 30, folders 1-2, carton 32, folders 1-2): 1 microfilm reel : negative (BNEG Box 3287) and positive.

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McClure, Michael.

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Michael McClure was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist, and part of the Beat Generation of poetry. He was one of five authors who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading, and became close with Jack Kerouac, being immortalized as Pat McLean in Big Sur. He is known as the Prince of the Frisco Scene. From the guide to the Michael McClure letter to Diane di Prima, September 1968, (Ohio University) San Francisco-based ...

Magic Theatre (San Francisco, CA)

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The Magic Theatre was founded in 1967 in Berkeley, California, with a production of Eugene Ionesco's, "The Lesson." The production was run by a group of University of California students, headed by John Lion, who had an interest in the newly emerging avant-garde European playwrights, such as Ionesco, Genet, and Beckett. The students had no idea of starting a theatre, but with the success of "The Lesson" the company moved into the Steppenwolf Bar on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, and began produci...

Shepard, Sam, 1943-....

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Sam Shepard, playwright and screenwriter. From the description of Silent tongue: screenplay, 1992 January - February 22. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122608353 Award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and actor Sam Shepard is perhaps best known for his play and film, Paris, Texas, as well as his acting roles in such films as Raggedy Man (1981), Steel Magnolias (1989), All the Pretty Horses (2000), and Black Hawk Down (2001). From the description ...

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Bauer, Wolfgang, 1941-2005

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Lion, Johnny

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Mamet, David

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David Mamet, playwright. From the description of [Romance] : typescript, 2005. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 79468075 From the description of Glengarry Glen Ross : typescript, 1983, July. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517665 From the description of Oleanna : typescript, 1993, 19 February. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517814 From the description of No one will be immune : typescript. (New York Public ...