Yvonne Banning Reading Room Catalogue - PLAYS

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2	This catalogue is of PLAYS only and is divided by country, with the exception of Shakespeare and a category of Play Catalogues, Musicals and Poetry. The categories all run in alphabetical order.
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6	AFRICAN COMPILATIONS	Small but Current collection of plays from the continent
7	AMERICAN	Healthy collection of contemporary plays that includes most of last centuries names. Some very current Pulitzer prize winning texts - a section that grew enormously with much thanks to the donation of plays by Katherine Grody
8	AUSTRIAN	tiny collection
9	AUSTRALIAN	relatively current, but small collection
10	BRITISH MEDIEVAL - 1899	From Medieval to Jacobean and Restoration
11	BRITISH CONTEMPORARY - 1900 +	A collection of over 400 plays that range from Shaw to very current Royal Court texts with a fair amount of Black British and British Asian texts
12	CAMEROON	1 play
13	CANADIAN	16 very contemporary award winning plays
14	CZECH	Mostly absurd
15	DUTCH	2 plays
16	EGYPTIAN	2 plays
17	FRENCH	Dominated by Moliere, Beckett, Ionesco and Genet. Not much current.
18	GREEK	Only the ancients
19	GERMAN	Dominated by Brecht
20	GHANIAN	1 play
21	INDIAN	2 plays, but current
22	IRISH	Mostly mid 20th century writers
23	ITALIAN	small collection that spans Renaissance comedies to Dario Fo with alot of Pirandello in between
24	JAPANESE	1 collection
25	KENYAN	classics
26	MUSICALS	a healthy collection from the 1950s to the 2017 Book of Mormon
27	PLAY CATALOGUES	a small collection of publishers catalogues - good to see what was being published
28	PLAY COMPILATIONS	These global (mostly American and European) compilations are fantastic and are compiled by a variety of different catgories from best plays of the decade to themes. They include audition compilations.
29	NIGERIAN	Dominated by Soyinka
30	PALESTINIAN	1 play
31	POETRY	This is a collection of poetry suited more for performance
32	POLISH	1 play
33	RUSSIAN	Quite a wide range of early 20th century playwrights. Nothing current.
34	SCANDINAVIAN	Standard Ibsen and Strindberg. We do however have a fantastic collection of brochures of contempoary Danish theatre for young audiences
35	SCREENPLAYS / TV / RADIO	Very contemporary collection of screenplays
36	SHAKESPEARE	a copy of every Shakespeare play.
37	SOUTH AFRICAN	a fantastic collection of SA plays, some of them original typed texts from the 1980s. Very current collection with much thanks to Junkets
38	SOUTH AFRICAN COMPILATIONS	Some wonderful compilations along themes
39	SOUTH AMERICAN	1 play - the collection of SA/Argentinian plays is in the SA Compilation section
40	SPANISH	Basically Lorca
41	YOUTH THEATRE	A growing collection of contemporary plays either to be performed for young audiences, or to be performed by young people
42	ZIMBABWEAN	2 plays
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44	Box of PLAY PROGRAMMES
45	Box of programmes from DANISH THEATRE PRODUCTIONS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES
46	Box of select South African and British THEATRE FESTIVAL & THEATRES PROGRAMMES
47	Box of PARTICIPATORY ARTS PROJECTS
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