Guide to the Mordecai Gorelik Play Scripts MS.P.068
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Title: Mordecai Gorelik play scripts
Creator:
Gorelik, Mordecai
Identifier/Call Number: MS.P.068
Physical Description:
0.2 Linear Feet
(1 box)
Date (inclusive): 1957-1989
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.
Language of Material:
English .
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. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information
about sources consulted in this collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder
descriptions, and box/folder locations.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theater -- United States -- History -- 20th century --
Sources.
Scripts (documents) -- 20th century.
Dramatists, American -- 20th century
Set designers -- United States -- 20th century.
Gorelik, Mordecai -- Archives
box 1, folder 1
Clippings and correspondence
1978-1989
box 1, folder 2
Rainbow Terrace
1957-1967, 1981
box 1, folder 3
The Feast of Unreason
1981
box 1, folder 4
The Annotated Hamlet
undated
