Archives Catalogue

File contains pages from the script for "Missy and Me" with handwritten notes and edits. The file contains some duplicate pages, which are shuffled and out of order. The revisions were made between August and September 2012.

Charmaine : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 23, Folder 13
File
[199-?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Charmaine's magic : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 2
File
2017

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File also contains a program for Nine Compositions: Interactions with Art, an event put on by Halifax Theatre for Young People at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia.

Climate Change Theatre Action

MS-2-8, Box 21, Folder 19
File
2015

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File includes a two-page script, "Frankie," performance notes, and printed email correspondence with Chantal Bilodeau regarding Catherine Banks' submission to Why Now? a Theatre Action in support of the 2015 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

Closed doors and bridge crossing : spatial connections in Catherine Banks' Bone Cage / by Reina Green : [conference presentation]

MS-2-8, Box 33, Folder 18
File
2011

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a copy of the article "Closed Doors and Bridge Crossing : Spatial Connections in Catherine Banks' Bone Cage" presented by Dr. Reina Green (Associate Professor of English, Mount Saint Vincent University) at the 2012 Canadian Association for Theatre Research (CATR/ACRT) conference in Waterloo, ON, 26-29 May 2012.

Colleen Murphy visits Peggy's Cove

MS-2-8, PB Box 17, Folder 14, Item 7
Item
[2015?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Congratulatory cards regarding the opening night of Bone Cage at Neptune Theatre

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 11
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains nine handwritten cards from friends congratulating Banks on the opening night of Bone Cage. File also contains a piece of cardstock that was included with the flowers Banks received from her parents.

Connexio canadenca = Canadian connection

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 23
File
2012

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Contract for performance rights of Catherine Banks' monologue Crazy Val

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 47
File
January, 2004

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a contract Sarasvati Dramatic Theatre Productions and Repertory, a theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Catherine Banks. The contract authorizes the Theatre to stage Crazy Val, a monologue, on four dates in March, 2004. $65.00 in royalties were paid.

Contract for production of Bone Cage by Mulgrave Road Theatre

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 18
File
1999

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Contract rider between Catherine Banks and The Arctic Cycle for her contribution to a print-on-demand anthology of Climate Change Theatre Actions plays

MS-2-8, Box 29, Folder 19
File
12 February 2018

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Contracts and agreements

MS-2-8, Box 33, Folder 26
File
2007 - 2015

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File consists of records for various contracts and agreements for Catherine Banks' plays, including It is Solved By Walking, Bone Cage, The Mountain and The Valley, Miss N Me, and the publication "The Man Who Ate the Last Fish" and the monologue entitled "The Big Money."

Records consist of contracts with Playwrights Canada Press, Sarasvati Productions, White Rooster Theatre/HomeFirst Productions, Theatre Yes, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, Broad Minds Productions/Urban Curvz Theatre, letters of agreement for the Banff Playrights Colony, Downstage Performance Society, and Tant per Tant. File also includes agreements for Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Catalan Theatre Festival, the director's and actor's agreement for the Missy and Me workshop at Thorns and Roses Theatre, and rental agreements.

Contracts for production of Bone Cage by Forerunner Playwrights' Theatre

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 10
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence

Series
1980 - 2022

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains personal and professional correspondence, mostly incoming letters regarding Banks' writing and research, publishing, play production, and other activities. Correspondence related to specific productions or plays is listed in subseries under play title series as well as filed by the donor with related manuscripts. Other correspondence is found in the series "readings, festivals and workshops" and "grant and fundraising records."

Correspondence from Catherine Banks to Laura McLauchlan

MS-2-8, Box 31, Folders 1-10 and Box 32, Folders 1-2
File
[between 1984 and 2016]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains correspondence, including cards and letters from Catherine Banks to Laura McLauchlan, mainly arranged in chronological order.

Correspondence from Catherine Banks to Nova Scotia Tourism, Culture and Heritage re. project funding

MS-2-8, Box 25, Folder 5
File
2008

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence from Laura McLauchlan to Catherine Banks

MS-2-8, Box 32, Folders 5-9 and Box 33, Folders 1-3
File
1984 - 2015

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains correspondence, including cards and letters from Laura McLauchlan to Catherine Banks, mainly arranged in chronological order.

Correspondence from the Playwrights Guild of Canada congratulating Catherine Banks on her receipt of the 2012 Governor General's Award for Drama for It is Solved by Walking

MS-2-8, Box 21, Folder 24
File
2012

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File also includes card from the writer, Budge Wilson.

Correspondence regarding Hockey Sisters

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 5
File
1995-1996

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence regarding Summer of Piping Plover

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 25
File
1990-1992

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence regarding Summer of the Piping Plover

Subseries
1988-1993

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Sub-series contains correspondence relating to the development of Summer of the Piping Plover.

Correspondence to Catherine Banks from Christine Birnie

MS-2-8, Box 26, Folder 12
File
1991 - 1993

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence to Catherine Banks from Christine Birnie

MS-2-8, Box 25, Folder 2
File
1987 - 2012

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence to Catherine Banks from writers including Marion Endicott, Janis Spense and Janice Rapaport

MS-2-8, Box 25, Folder 1
File
1974 - 2016

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File also contains a paper written by Catherine Banks, "Fly, Fly and be Free," probably written while she was in school.

Correspondence with Karen Ryman regarding Catherine Banks' stage adaptation of The Mountain and the Valley

MS-2-8, Box 21, Folder 6
File
2011-2014

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains printed email correspondence between Catherine Banks and Karen Ryman, the daughter of Joyce Rice, who holds the rights to Ernest Buckler's novel The Mountain and the Valley.

Correspondence with Mary Vingoe regarding Three Story, Ocean View

MS-2-8, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1993

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Correspondence with Richard Rose regarding feedback on The Mountain and the Valley

MS-2-8, Box 29, Folder 27
File
May 2018

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains email correspondence between Richard Rose and Catherine banks regarding feedback on a script of The Mountain and the Valley; Joanna Falck was cc'd in the email.

Correspondence, application and announcement regarding Catherine Banks' receipt of the Nova Scotia Arts and Culture Partnership Council Established Artists Recognition Award

MS-2-8, Box 21, Folder 23
File
2008

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Crows (a poem by Catherine Banks)

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 1
File
April 2019

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

C.W. Banks in Montreal with Irene Fornes : [audio cassette]

MS-2-8, Box 30, Folder 19
File
June 2001

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains an audio recording labelled "C.W. Banks Montreal June 2001" at a playwrights' Workshop.

Dash of Sambro : [picture book]

MS-2-8, Box 33, Folder 16
File
2020

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a copy of the children's picture book titled "Dash of Sambro, the True Adventures of a True Very Good Dog (and Mine)" Catherine wrote for Rilla Banks, Catherine's daughter. File also contains a copy of the synopsis.

Directory of Canadian plays and playwrights, 2003-2005

MS-2-8, Box 17, Folder 10
File
2005

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a directory published by the Playwrights' Guild of Canada.

Double exposed photograph of a group of unidentified people and coffee and baked goods on a table

MS-2-8, PB Box 2, Folder 76
File
[200-]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Item is a double exposed photograph. One exposure is a group of unidentified people sitting at a table. The other exposure is cups of coffee and baked goods on a table with a copy of The Marriage Sabbatical by Cheryl Jarvis.

Downed Hearts

Series
2009-2023

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains annotated typescripts, correspondence, and production script of Downed Hearts, a play by Catherine Banks. Downed Hearts is about the aftermath of an air-sea disaster.

Downed hearts : [annotated manuscript]