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Drama

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered works on drama as a literary form.

Found in 943 Collections and/or Records:

1st draft, 2nd rewrite, 1973

 File — Box 11, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: This series is organized into 3 subseries: Unproduced Writings; A Texas Trilogy; and Post-Trilogy plays. Many of the files reflect Mary Sue's filing system but the material has been consolidated and reorganized by play in chronological order. The group Unproduced Writings contains manuscripts of Preston Jones’ unproduced plays. Included is his thesis adaptation of The Night of the Hunter. The three plays of the trilogy in the second subseries were performed together...
Dates: 1973

2 sculptures made of wooden sticks

 Item — Multiple Containers
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains World War I memorablia, material relating The Texas Trilogy, and personal items.

Dates: undated

3rd draft, handwritten, 1975

 File — Box 15, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: This series is organized into 3 subseries: Unproduced Writings; A Texas Trilogy; and Post-Trilogy plays. Many of the files reflect Mary Sue's filing system but the material has been consolidated and reorganized by play in chronological order. The group Unproduced Writings contains manuscripts of Preston Jones’ unproduced plays. Included is his thesis adaptation of The Night of the Hunter. The three plays of the trilogy in the second subseries were performed together...
Dates: Copyright: 1975

1920’s Background research notes, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 1-6
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: This subseries very clearly shows Vliet’s process of writing from preliminary research through final product. It includes extensive background research files including files by subject containing clippings from newspapers and magazines, library call slips, color and black and white photographs, and handwritten notes. Following these research files are drafts of chapters handwritten in pencil, annotated typescripts, clean typescripts, and (minimal) correspondence. Perhaps most meticulously...
Dates: undated

A Bug in Her Ear (La Puce A L’oreille), by Georges Feydeau, tr. G. B. Shaw (Preston Jones’ copy)

 File — Box 20, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...
Dates: 1977, 1980, 1987, undated

“A Cloudy Day”

 File — Box 24, Folder: 2
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Individual handwritten and typed poems, and hand-bound books of poetry, comprise this subseries. Many of the individual poems are accompanied by drafts, some are single copies. Individual poems are arranged alphabetically, followed by books of poetry, also arranged alphabetically. See also Series 2 : Personal, Subseries C: Scrapbook, for early drafts of poetry.

Dates: undated

“A Correspondence of Forms”, undated

 File — Box 30, Folder: 17
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

This subseries includes drafts and typescripts of four speeches which address Vliet’s writing process and influences. Also included here is the author’s acceptance speech for the 1978 Texas Institute of Letters Award received for his novel, Solitudes.

Dates: undated

A Different Drummer, Gene McKinney (Preston Jones' copy)

 File — Box 21, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...
Dates: 1977, 1980, 1987, undated

“A Fable” Southern Theater News, Fall, 1960

 File — Box 30, Folder: 12
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Articles and essays in this subseries relate to Vliet’s own writing process and influences. All are in typescript form and most have handwritten annotations.

Dates: 1960

"A Friend in Sahara”

 File — Box 24, Folder: 7
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Individual handwritten and typed poems, and hand-bound books of poetry, comprise this subseries. Many of the individual poems are accompanied by drafts, some are single copies. Individual poems are arranged alphabetically, followed by books of poetry, also arranged alphabetically. See also Series 2 : Personal, Subseries C: Scrapbook, for early drafts of poetry.

Dates: undated

“A Friend in the Sahara", 1978, undated

 Sub-Series
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Drafts of plays (mostly handwritten in pencil and annotated) and typescripts (mostly mimeographs or photocopies with annotations) are arranged in this subseries in alphabetical order. For reviews and further information regarding the author’s plays, see Series II: Personal, Newsclippings.

Dates: 1978, undated

A Friend in the Sahara (unpublished), undated

 Sub-Series
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: This subseries very clearly shows Vliet’s process of writing from preliminary research through final product. It includes extensive background research files including files by subject containing clippings from newspapers and magazines, library call slips, color and black and white photographs, and handwritten notes. Following these research files are drafts of chapters handwritten in pencil, annotated typescripts, clean typescripts, and (minimal) correspondence. Perhaps most meticulously...
Dates: undated

A Home Away From, by Glenn Allen Smith

 File — Box 22, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...
Dates: 1977, 1980, 1987, undated

A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, script

 File — Box 24, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...
Dates: 1977, 1980, 1987, undated

A Man for All Seasons, by Robert Bolt, script, notes, and research

 File — Box 24, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: Mary Sue Jones left the Dallas Theater Center in 1983 and joined the College of Santa Fe as artist in residence. She taught and directed at the Greer Garson Theater Center becoming a full time faculty member at the College of Santa Fe in 1988. The first subseries, Teaching and Directing, contains class notes, student theses, reviews of College productions, and notes on faculty and college administration. Besides her own theater work, Mary Sue continued to manage the rights to Preston's...
Dates: 1977, 1980, 1987, undated

“A Sort of Preface”

 File — Box 30, Folder: 13
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series:

Articles and essays in this subseries relate to Vliet’s own writing process and influences. All are in typescript form and most have handwritten annotations.

Dates: 1960, undated

A Texas Trilogy, Complete, 1973-1979, undated

 Sub-Series
Series Description From the Series: This series is organized into 3 subseries: Unproduced Writings; A Texas Trilogy; and Post-Trilogy plays. Many of the files reflect Mary Sue's filing system but the material has been consolidated and reorganized by play in chronological order. The group Unproduced Writings contains manuscripts of Preston Jones’ unproduced plays. Included is his thesis adaptation of The Night of the Hunter. The three plays of the trilogy in the second subseries were performed together...
Dates: 1973-1979, undated

A Texas Trilogy reviews, programs, invitations

 File — Box 25, Folder: 11
Series Description From the Series:

This series contains materials on the promotion of Preston Jones' theatrical career especially in regard to the Trilogy. It includes photographs, clippings, reviews, articles, interviews and videotapes, providing information on aspects of the author's life, career, and writing methods.

Dates: 1974-1986

A Young Woman’s Reading

 File — Box 8, Folder: 4
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: This subseries very clearly shows Vliet’s process of writing from preliminary research through final product. It includes extensive background research files including files by subject containing clippings from newspapers and magazines, library call slips, color and black and white photographs, and handwritten notes. Following these research files are drafts of chapters handwritten in pencil, annotated typescripts, clean typescripts, and (minimal) correspondence. Perhaps most meticulously...
Dates: circa 1980s

Accent, 1956 - 1958

 File — Box 32, Folder: 9
Sub-Series Description From the Sub-Series: Business correspondence relates to Vliet’s writing career, and covers such subjects as writing submissions, editing of works to be published, royalties for published works. Correspondents include various poetry and literary journals, Texas Institute of Letters, the Ford Foundation, and Vliet’s agent, Lucy Kroll, of the Lucy Kroll Agency. Two non-correspondence files were filed by the author with this business correspondence, and are located at the beginning of this group of...
Dates: 1956 - 1958