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Michael Hastings plays

Title
Michael Hastings plays, 1977-1978.
Author
Hastings, Michael, 1938-2011.
Supplementary Content
Finding aid

Details

Additional Authors
Negro Ensemble Company
Found In
c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
Description
2
Summary
Collection includes photocopies of two play scripts.
Donor/Sponsor
Schomburg NEH Humanities Resources for African and African Diasporan Studies Access Project.
Subject
  • Hastings, Michael, 1938-2011
  • Negro Ensemble Company
  • Authors > United States
  • American drama > 20th century
  • Dramatists, American > 20th century
Genre/Form
  • Scripts.
  • Plays.
Access (note)
  • There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
Source (note)
  • Negro Ensemble Company
Biography (note)
  • Playwright, screenwriter, poet and novelist.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
Sc MG 345
OCLC
NYPW98-A238
Author
Hastings, Michael, 1938-2011.
Title
Michael Hastings plays, 1977-1978.
Access
There are no restrictions on access to the plays.
Linking Entry
Forms a part of: Negro Ensemble Company records. See collection record for more information.
Biography
Playwright, screenwriter, poet and novelist. Michael (Gerald) Hastings was born in 1938, in London, England; he attended schools in south London; studied tailoring. Hastings began his career in drama at the Royal Court Theatre in London, England, where he was trained as an actor and writer. His first play, "Don't destroy me," was produced in 1956. Since then, he has written seventeen additional stage plays, including "Gloo Joo," "For the West (Uganda)," "A dream of people," and "Unfinished business." He has also written numerous scripts for television and film, poems, two biographies, and several books of fiction.
Hastings is best known for his plays and television scripts; his six-part television series "The search for the Nile" won both an Emmy Award and Writers Guild Award, both in 1972, His other awards include: Arts Council award, 1956; award from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1965; Somerset Maugham Award, Society of Authors, 1972; Comedy of the Year Award, 1978. Michael Hastings contributed plays to the Negro Ensemble Company.
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Finding aid
Added Author
Hastings, Michael, 1938-2011. For the West.
Hastings, Michael, 1938-2011. Gloo Joo.
Negro Ensemble Company.
Found In:
c2pc Negro Ensemble Company. Negro Ensemble Company records. (CStRLIN)NYPW98-A157.
Research Call Number
Sc MG 345
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