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- 1991 (Creation)
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Typescript scripts of two three-act plays relating to Alun Lewis, the one, by Freda Aykroyd, titled 'The Syllable of Love', the other by playwright Charles Way titled 'Oh Journeyman', sent, with covering letters from the authors, to John Pikoulis.
'The Syllable of Love' includes covering letter from Freda Aykroyd to John Pikoulis, manuscript notes by John Pikoulis which relate to the script and photocopies of folios 6 and 51 of the script. Script includes annotations in John Pikoulis's hand.
'Oh Journeyman' is a first draft and includes annotations in John Pikoulis's hand. Both plays are, to date, unproduced.
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Scripts: Original pagination. Each script kept in marked envelope.
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- English
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Freda Aykroyd, née Buttery, was born in Shropshire and grew up in London and South Africa. In 1930, she married Wallace Aykroyd and moved with him to Coonoor in the Nilgiri Hills of Southern India, where Wallace had been appointed Director of the Nutrition Research Laboratories. The Aykroyds kept open house for recuperating officers at their home, Highfield, and it was there that Freda met Alun Lewis in July 1943 when the latter was on sick leave during his military service in India. Freda and Alun enjoyed a brief but passionate love affair from this time until his death in March 1944. In 2006, Freda published Alun Lewis's letters to her under the title A Cypress Walk (Enitharmon Press, 2006), along with a short memoir on Lewis and their brief time together. See also John Pikoulis: Alun, Gweno & Freda (Seren Books, 2015).
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Charles Way was brought up in Devon, educated at Queen's College, Taunton and trained as an actor at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in Sidcup. In the early 1980s he moved to Wales and began writing for Gwent Theatre (now Gwent Young People's Theatre). He has become known particularly for his plays for children and young people. (https://www.charles-way.co.uk/)
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- Aykroyd (née Buttery), Freda Kathleen, 1910-2005 (Subject)
- Way, Charles, 1955- (Subject)