CHRISTINA REID

 

My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?

 

1989

 

 

 

Manuscript Collection Number 99        F747

 

Accessioned:  Gift of Bernard McKenna, September 2005

 

Extent:  2 items

 

Content:  Playscript and theater program

 

Access:  The collection is open for research.

 

Processed:  October 2005 by Karalee Kopreski

 

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Biographical Note

            Irish playwright Christina Reid, also known as Amelia Reid, was born in Belfast in 1942.  Most of her plays are set in her hometown and tell the stories of women’s lives amid the social and political tumult of Northern Ireland.  Reid has written seven plays that have been performed in Northern Ireland, England, and New York.  In addition, she wrote several radio plays in the late 1980s.  Reid was awarded the Ulster Television Drama award in1980 for Did You Hear the One about the Irishman . . . ?, the Thames Television Playwriting award in 1983 for Tea in a China Cup, the George Devine Award in 1986 for The Belle of Belfast City, and the Giles Cooper Award in 1986 for The Last of a Dyin’ Race.

Source:

 

Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2005. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2005. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC

 

 

 

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Scope and Content Note

            This small collection contains two undated items related to Christina Reid’s play, My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name?, which was adapted from her radio play of the same title.  Yew Theatre presented the world stage premiere of Christina Reid’s My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name? at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1989.  This collection includes an undated playscript distributed by Alan Brodie Representation, International Creative Management (London), and a theater program for a production of the play by the Yew Theater Company of Ireland.

 

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Contents List

Folder -- Contents

F747    My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name by Christina Reid.

            London:  Alan Brodie Representation, International Creative Management, undated.  [playscript]

            Typescript with handwritten annotations, unbound with ICM paper covers, 118 pp. (121 leaves)

 

            Yew Theatre Company Ireland presents “My Name, Shall I Tell You My Name” by Christina Reid, undated [1990?]

            Theater program for Yew Theatre Company, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Ireland.