Plays, performance and film (including a screenplay not by Aldiss) including Science Fiction Blues , 1972-2007
File
MS. Aldiss 115
Held in our offsite storage facility
Comprises printout drafts for plays, verse plays, operas and screen treatments including:
- Draft typescripts with manuscript amendments for 'The Impossible Puppet-Show', 'A Life-Cycle of Twelve Plays for Anti-Theatre' and 'Patagonia's Delicious Filling Station', three one act plays, 1972
- Third draft of short film Who Can Replace a Man, script by L.E. Stover based on a story by Brian Aldiss, 5 Jul 1973
- Clean copy typescript of Last Orders a playscript, n.d. [1980s]
- The sketch show Science Fiction Blues, [published 1988, performed 1990s]
- Proposal for a television adventure series 'The Chaos Machine', with related correspondence, 1993
- Treatment for the film adaptation of Brian Aldiss' novel Non-Stop (1958) written by Marcus Lloyd, 2007
- 'The Mock-Tempest, A Headington Pantomime', n.d
- Synopsis for a science fiction screenplay 'Lost Universe', n.d.
- Manuscript playscript 'There Is Life On Earth', n.d.
- Uncorrected typescript of 'There is Life on Earth! A Martian Extravaganza' by Brian Aldiss and Charles Parr, n.d.
- Clean copy typescript play 'A City Fallen' a play by Brian Aldiss, n.d.
Dates
- Creation: 1972-2007
Extent
1 box (1 folder)
Language of Materials
- English
Shelfmark
MS. Aldiss 115
Creator
- From the Collection: Aldiss | Brian Wilson | 1925-2017 | writer (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository
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Weston Library
Broad Street
Oxford OX1 3BG United Kingdom
specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk