Use for records about drama as a literary form. Records about drama as performance, or acted on the stage, are entered under [Theatre]. Records about facilities used to stage dramatic performances are entered under [Theatres].
Fonds contains records created and collected by Wendy Lill, including correspondence, manuscripts, published play scripts, research material, speeches, reports, publicity material, and personal records.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of his career as a writer, including his work with arts and cultural associations such as ACTRA and the Dramatists' Co-op of Nova Scotia. Record types include scripts for stage, radio and screen; notes; correspondence; reports; meeting minutes; and photographs.
File contains four manuscript copies of a one-act play by Andrew Merkel titled variously "Harriet Richardson" and "Mrs. Richardson Wins." The latter version contains hand-written edits that appear in the both copies titled "Harriet Richardson." One manuscript lists the author as "Marc Lescarbot" and is two pages longer than the others. The copy typed on legal-sized onion skin paper contains a note that the play was originally presented at the Community Centre, Annapolis Royal, on 5th June 1947. There is also a short note critiquing the play.
Item is a clean manuscript copy with the endnote: "If this play is eventually produced, notification, with thanks, should be sent to the actors; and possibly the technical people; who were involved in the Tarragon workshop."
File contains four heavily annotated spiral-bound workshop playscripts marked with the actors' names: Helen Hughes, Richard Farrow, Katia de Pena and James Kirchner.
File contains a manuscript titled "3rd draft / Spring 1987" with the penciled annotation "rehearsal draft - final copy"; pages labelled "rehearsal rejects" and "new original masters introduced during rehearsals; and pages of "crits/notes + rejected pages from work toward a rehearsal draft" dated September 1987.
File contains outlines, treatments and multiple drafts of "Testing the Waters," a half-hour television drama for Border Films. File also includes research notes, editorial notes, a contract and expense claims.
File contains outlines for five stories ("Brenton Street Stories") for Brenton Films; a treatment for one of the stories, "An Act of Charity"; notes and manuscript drafts of the screenplay; a contract and correspondence regarding the remittance; and two newspaper clippings.
File includes press materials, reviews and correspondence for The Lunenburg Playhouse Theatre's 1990 production of "I Ain't Dead Yet!" and correspondence with various theatres and directors about the possibility of mounting the play.
