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Plays, performance and film (including a screenplay not by Aldiss) including Science Fiction Blues , 1972-2007

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MS. Aldiss 115
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Comprises printout drafts for plays, verse plays, operas and screen treatments including:

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Clean copy typescript of Last Orders a playscript, n.d. [1980s]
  4. The sketch show Science Fiction Blues, [published 1988, performed 1990s]
  5. Proposal for a television adventure series 'The Chaos Machine', with related correspondence, 1993
  6. Treatment for the film adaptation of Brian Aldiss' novel Non-Stop (1958) written by Marcus Lloyd, 2007
  7. 'The Mock-Tempest, A Headington Pantomime', n.d
  8. Synopsis for a science fiction screenplay 'Lost Universe', n.d.
  9. Manuscript playscript 'There Is Life On Earth', n.d.
  10. Uncorrected typescript of 'There is Life on Earth! A Martian Extravaganza' by Brian Aldiss and Charles Parr, n.d.
  11. 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

Related Materials

See also scripts for a three part story television adaptation of Non-Stop by Nigel Kneale, 1984, in MS. Aldiss 119.

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Repository Details

Part of the Bodleian Libraries Repository

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