Descriptive Summary
Important Information for Researchers
Historical Background
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection Arrangement
Related Collections
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Mordecai Gorelik play scripts
Date: 1957-1989
Collection Number: MS-P068
Creator:
Gorelik, Mordecai, 1899-
Extent:
.2 linear feet
(1 box)
Languages: The collection is in English.
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: This collection consists of typescripts of plays written or annotated by stage designer Mordecai Gorelik. Included are typescripts
of
Rainbow Terrace,
The Feast of Unreason, and
The Annotated Hamlet, Southern Illinois University's production of Shakespeare's
Hamlet. The collection also includes photocopies of three news articles and one photocopy of a letter.
Important Information for Researchers
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Mordecai Gorelik play scripts. MS-P068. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Muriel M. Shishkoff, 2004
Custodial History
Materials were acquired by Muriel M. Shishkoff, neighbor to Gorelik and friend of his second wife, in the 1980s.
Processing History
Processed by Dawn Schmitz, 2009.
Historical Background
Mordecai (Max) Gorelik was an influential scene designer and theorist, known for his work on more than fifty professional
Broadway productions including
Processional (1925),
Men in White (1933),
Golden Boy (1937),
All My Sons (1947), and
A Hatful of Rain (1957). Gorelik's published works include a book of plays,
Toward a Larger Theatre: 7 Plays (1988) and a seminal text in the history of theater,
New Theatres for Old (1940), which reflects his interest in Bertolt Brecht. Born in Russia in 1899, he immigrated to New York with his parents
as a child and later attended the Pratt Institute, graduating in 1920. Gorelik was professor of theater at Southern Illinois
University (1960 - 1972), and he also taught at a number of other colleges and universities including several in California.
He died in Sarasota, Florida, in 1990.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of typescripts of plays written or annotated by stage designer Mordecai Gorelik. Included are typescripts
of
Rainbow Terrace,
The Feast of Unreason, and
The Annotated Hamlet, Southern Illinois University's production of Shakespeare's
Hamlet. The collection also includes photocopies of three news articles and one photocopy of a letter.
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged first by type of material and then chronologically.
Related Collections
Related materials can be found in the following collection:
- Mordecai Gorelik papers, Special Collections Research Center, Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Gorelik, Mordecai, 1899-
Theater -- 20th century -- Archives
Genres and Formats of Materials
Scripts (documents) -- 20th century
Occupations
Playwrights
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