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Title: ENCORE FOR THE ARTS SCOTTISH THEATRE COMPANY INTERIORS AND EXCERPT FROM 'BLOOD RED ROSES' BY 7:84

Reference number: T2314

Date: 1981, March

Production company: [ Scottish Television]

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 15.51 mins

Description: STV documentary featuring Andrew Cruikshank talking about The Scottish Theatre company. Excerpt from John McGrath’s play 'Blood Red Roses' by 7:84 Theatre Company.

Shotlist: Unid. man sitting at desk listening [Ewan Hooper?] (0.10) same man talking about 7:84 Theatre Company (0.52) interviewer asking question about parochialism (1.04) man answers (2.00) Andrew Cruikshank talking about Scottish theatre (2.34) interviewer asking question (2.50) second man talking Andrew (3.25) interviewer asking question about 7:84 company not owning a theatre (3.32) Andrew answers and talks about use of Glasgow's Theatre Royal (5.06) interviewer asking question (5.14) Andrew answers and talks about actors (6.02) first man sitting at desk talking about plays (6.13) c/u brochure 'Scottish Theatre Company Gala Opening Season Spring 1981' and plays 'Let Wives Tak Tent, 'Animal', 'Civilians' and 'Ghosts' (6.29) second man talking, Andrew Cruikshank (6.49) first man sitting at desk talking (7.15) second man talking, Andrew, about Ibsen's 'Ghosts' (8.17) man sitting at desk listening (8.25) man talking, mentions playwright Donald Campbell and other works 7:84 plan to perform (8.58) [leader] (9.07) excerpt from the play 'Blood Red Roses', about a woman having a baby and her husband being more concerned about the 1959 political election which Harold MacMillan won (15.51)