WELLES MSS.
(Box 5, f. 14-Box 7, f. 22)
Filed by production and arranged chronologically by date of first performance. There is also a group of general Mercury Theatre materials that files before the first Mercury Theatre production. Correspondence pertaining to each production is filed chronologically in the Correspondence section.
Box 5:
folders 14-15: Macbeth (Apr.
14, 1936). Scripts
See also Photographs
folder 16: Horse Eats Hat
(Sept. 26, 1936). Script
See also Photographs
folders 17-18: Doctor Faustus (Jan. 8, 1937). Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous
materials
See also Photographs
folders 19-22: The Cradle
Will Rock (June 16, 1937). Scripts, production and publicity
materials. Includes set
design planned for original production
See also Photographs; Oversize 2
folders 23-31: Mercury
Theatre - General. Legal, financial, and promotional materials.
Includes script for The Duchess of Malfi
See also Oversize 3
folders 32-34: Julius Caesar
(Nov. 11, 1937). Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 4, 5
Box 6:
folders 1-2: Shoemakers'
Holiday (Jan. 1, 1938). Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
folders 3-7: Heartbreak
House (Apr. 29, 1938). Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
folders 8-11: Too Much
Johnson (Aug. 16, 1938). Scripts and miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
folders 12-15: Danton's
Death (Nov. 2, 1938). Scripts, production and publicity materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 6, 7
folders 16-19: Five Kings (Feb. 27, 1939). Scripts
folders 20-24: Five Kings.
Production, research, and publicity materials. Includes preliminary
sketches of set designs
See also Photographs;
Oversize 8
folders 25-26: Green Goddess
(ca. June, 1939). Scripts and production materials.
See also Photographs
folders 27-28: Native Son
(ca. Mar., 1941). Script, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Box 7:
folder 1: Mercury Wonder
Show (1942). Jokes and comedy routines
See also: Photographs
folder 2: Symphony: The Airborne (Apr. 1, 1946). Printed program
folders 3-5: Around the World (1946). Scripts
folder 6: Around the World. Production materials
folders 7-8: Around the
World. Legal materials. Includes contracts for Alvin Cole and
Cole
Porter
folders 9-12: Around the
World
Financial, research, and
publicity materials
See also Photographs;
Oversize 9, 10
Box 7
folders 13-14: Macbeth (1947). Scripts, financial and publicity materials
folders 15-16: Emily Brady (Unproduced as of 1947). Scripts
folder 17: King Lear (Unproduced as of 1947). Script
folder 18: Marching Song (Unproduced as of 1947). Script. Includes sketches and instructions for set designs
folder 19-20: Moby Dick (Unproduced as of 1947). Scripts
folder 21: Untitled play (Unproduced as of 1947). Script
