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Material relating to 'These Buttons We Wear', a radio play performed for BBC Radio 3 and broadcast 27 January 2013. For Radio 3's Britten centenary celebration, Keith Dewhurst's retelling of the story of Billy Budd, interwoven with the story of the author who came to write it: Herman Melville.

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Material relating to 'These Buttons We Wear', a radio play performed for BBC Radio 3 and broadcast 27 January 2013. For Radio 3's Britten centenary celebration, Keith Dewhurst's retelling of the story of Billy Budd, interwoven with the story of the author who came to write it: Herman Melville.

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Directions for rehearsal and recording venues; also scene timings for recording.

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Notebook containing Dewhurst’s thoughts on contemporary theatre; two brief notes attached, front and back.

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Explanatory notes regarding the one-scene play written before Keith Dewhurst went to Peterhouse, Cambridge titled 'True German'. Also includes handwritten draft script.

Scope and Contents Material relating to 'Underdogs', not performed, c.2002. Explanatory note on the play about the 1879 football matches between Old Etonians and Darwen, Script with handwritten annotations, Script, up to p. 53, with additional handwritten pages and annotations, and Script, pp. 54-71, with additional handwritten pages and annotations. Keith Dewhurst went on to write a book titled Underdogs: The Unlikely Story of Football’s First FA Cup Heroes, published in...

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Explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst about the material.

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Material relating to 'The World Turned Upside Down', first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, 1978.

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Material relating to 'The World Turned Upside Down', first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, 1978.

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Material relating to 'The World Turned Upside Down', first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, 1978.

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Two copies, one including revised scene order.

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Material relating to 'The World Turned Upside Down', first performed at the Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, 1978.

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First night card sent by Keith Dewhurst to the cast of the Cottesloe Theatre production, depicting the Great Seal of the Commonwealth; also explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst.

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Letter from John Coleby to Keith Dewhurst sent after the first night of 'The World Turned Upside Down'; also explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst.

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Black and white photograph of entrance to St. George’s Hill golf club, with good luck message dated 2 November 1978; brief explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst attached.

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Morning Star, 9 November 1978, including an interview on p. 2 with Keith Dewhurst and Christopher Hill, author of the novel on which the play is based.

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Plays and Players, January 1979, including a review of The World Turned Upside Down on p. 17.

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First night card to Keith Dewhurst from Maggie Edwards of the National Theatre publicity department; explanatory note by Keith Dewhurst on envelope.

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Letter from Michael Hallifax inviting Keith Dewhurst to a first night party in the Cottesloe Bar.

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Script, with handwritten annotations mostly by Bill Bryden.