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Student Plays

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

University Archives Bound Volumes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 15
Scope and Contents

This collection contains information about the College of William and Mary from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Included in the collection are faculty lecture notes from a variety of classes, scrapbooks, research notes, correspondence, textbooks used at the College of William and Mary, minute and account books, poetry books, student notebooks, a literary manual, and various other miscellaneous bound volumes.

Dates: 1739-1993

Carl Eugene Buffington Papers, 1939

 Collection — Box UA Small Collections Box 6, Folder: 1
Identifier: UA 5.135
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a script copy, photograph, and event program for the William & Mary's Backdrop Club production of "Set to Munich," a musical satire about the Munich Four Power Agreement, which refers to Nazi Germany's expansion in Europe.  The play was co-written by Willim & Mary students Eugene Buffington, Roger Child, Bill Greene, and Nick Woodbridge in 1939.

Dates: 1939

Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 59
Scope and Contents

The records of the Department of Theatre, Speech, and Dance at the College of William and Mary holds material from the early 20th century to the present. The collection includes departmental administrative records, programs, scripts and playbooks, photographs, posters, as well as material from the Virginia Shakespeare Festival and the Grassroots Theatre Oral History Project.

Dates: 1920-ongoing

Howard Scammon Drama Prize Winners Collection

 Collection
Identifier: UA 52
Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of plays that won the Howard Scammon Drama Prize. It includes autographed copies of Rebecca Edwards', Bryan Tunnell's,  Andrew Emery's plays.

Winners:

1981: Margaret Stephens-North

1982: George F. Jack, Jr.

1983: Robert Bruce Sherman

1983 honorable mention: Gary L. Cowling

1986: Andrew C. Emery

1987: Bryan Paul Tunnell

1988: Rebecca Brooks Edwards

Dates: 1981-1988

Howard Scammon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 01/Mss. Acc. 1992.38 and additions
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, playbooks and other material collected by William and Mary Theatre professor Howard Scammon. The bulk of the material is correspondence between Scammon and his former students, but the papers also include documentation related to the William and Mary Theatre, The Common Glory, the Jamestown Festival of 1957, other Williamsburg theatre groups and famous William and Mary alumni such as Glenn Close and Linda Lavin. ...
Dates: 1917-1994; Majority of material found in 1940-1970

Virginia Historical Pageant Records

 Collection
Identifier: UA 301
Scope and Contents This collection contains program from the play titled "Meeting of the Board of Visitors of William and Mary College Dec. 7, 1779."  The play was produced to commemorate when William and Mary was reorganized as a university, as well as when the honor and elective systems were established.  The play was just one episode in the Virginia Historical Pageant, a celebration of the penetration of English civilization into America from Queen Elizabeth I through the American Civil War.  The pageant...
Dates: 1922; Majority of material found in 1922