UWI Extra Mural play scripts
SC17

Summary Information

Repository
The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies
Title
UWI Extra Mural play scripts
ID
SC17
Date
1900-1969
Extent
1.0 Linear feet
Language
English
Abstract
The collection contains the scripts for 35 plays some of which were published by the University of the West Indies, Extra Mural Department. Several of the plays are written by Caribbean writers and there is a selection of plays from renown international playwrights.

Preferred Citation note

UWI Extra Mural play scripts. The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Arrangement note

The collection is organised into Caribbean and Non-Caribbean plays and further arranged in alphabetical order by author of the play.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

The Alma Jordan Library, The University of the West Indies

St. Augustine Campus
868-662-2002 Ext.82132

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

The collection was donated to the Main Library by the former Extra Mural Department of The University of the West Indies in 1980.

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Controlled Access Headings

Subject(s)

  • Caribbean drama (English)

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Collection Inventory

Caribbean Plays 

Folder

 Archibald, Douglas. Anne Marie: a play in three acts. 

General note

Note: Dedicated to "Maureen."

1

 Bully, Alwin. Good morning Miss Millie: a comedy in one act. 

General note

Photocopy of handwritten manuscript. Setting in Dominica.

2

 Cherrie, Errol. Chamber in the moon: a play in three scenes. 

2

 Clarke, A. M. Road to glory: a verse drama. 

General note

A play about Spiritual Baptists set in Trinidad.

2

 Fortune, Jose R. Honesty pays: a comedy in three scenes. 

2

 Fortune, Jose R. The rival suitors: a comedy in three scenes. 

2

 John, Errol. The tout. 

2

 Redhead, Wilfred. Goose and gander: a comedy in one act. 

3

 Robinson, Carey. The runaway: a play in two acts. 

3

 Scott, Dennis. Terminus: a play in one act. 

3

 Sealy, Clifford. The professor: a comedy in one act. 

3

 Sealy, Clifford. A smell of damp. 

3

 Street, F. L. Drought: a play in one act. 

4

 Waite-Smith, Cicely. African sling-shot. 

4

 Waite-Smith, Cicely. The creatures: a play in one act. 

4

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Non- Caribbean Plays 

Folder

 Anderson, Maxwell. Lost in the stars. 

5

 Anouilh, Jean. Antigone.Translated by Lewis Galantiere. 

5

 Anonymous. The celebration. 

5

 Augusta Gregory, Lady. Spreading the news. 

6

 Brecht, Bertolt. The good women of Setzuan. 

6

 Brecht, Bertolt. The measures taken. English version by Eric Bentley. 

6

 Chekhov, Anton. The marriage proposal. 

7

Everyman. 

7

 Genet, Jean. The maids. Introduction by Jean Paul Sarte. 

7

 Ionesco, Eugene. The leader. 

8

 Ionesco, Eugene. The lesson: a comic drama. Translated by Donald M. Allen. 

8

 Kaufman, George S. If men play cards as women do. 

8

 O'Casey, Sean. Hall of healing: a sinceriuos farce in one scene. 

9

 Pinter, Harold. The room: a play in one act. 

10

 Sartre, Jean Paul. In camera (huis clos): a play in one act. 

10

 Sawtell, G.A.C. Zurularia of platus (freely adapted from Zurularia of platus by G.A.C. Sawtell) 

10

Sganerrelle. Translated by Miles Malleson. 

11

Wedding morning. 

11

 Wilder, Thornton. The long Christmas dinner: a play in one act. 

11

 Yeats, W. B. On baile's strand. 

11

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