DL/WORKS//MARRIAGES - [Works by Doris Lessing: The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5]

DL/WORKS//MARRIAGES

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[Works by Doris Lessing: The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5]

1983-1997

12 Letters (typescript and MS)
2 Pamphlets
2 Script
2 Postcards
2 Article
1 Documents
1 Fax

Lessing, Doris May, 1919-2013

22 items, some highlighted. Items regarding Lessing's book The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 & 5 being adapted into an opera and a theatre production. Includes copies of the scripts (items 002, ), copies of the promotional posters (item 011), and press-cuttings of reviews (items 014, 018).

DL/WORKS//MARRIAGES/001 [from Doris Lessing to unknown recipient, undated]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Discusses how to differentiate between the different zones by the use of light.

DL/WORKS//MARRAIGES/006 [from Paul Barker to Doris Lessing, 23/04/1984]

Letter, 3 leaves, typed.
Discusses some of his ideas for the opera, including omitting some of the characters and how to handle the loves scenes.

DL/WORKS//MARRIAGES/013 [from Doris Lessing to Paul Barker, 08/04/1985]

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that she can no longer attend the opera as her son (John) is visiting from South Africa. Writes that she has sent the tickets to her cousin Diana McVeagh, "who knows everything about music".

DL/WORKS//MARRIAGES/014 [from Diana McVeagh to Doris Lessing, 12/04/1985

Letter, 1 leaf, typed.
Writes that Lessing "didn't miss much", and that the staging was "awful - drab - colourless, no sense of zone-change". Discusses music.