Archives Catalogue

First draft : Banff 5 & 6 / 80

MS-2-838, Box 5, Folder 2
File
1980

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains annotated and cut-and-pasted manuscript pages of Bring Back Don Messer! written in Banff.

First clean draft of script (marked with changes made during run of play until 29/7)

MS-2-838, Box 4, Folder 9
File
1979

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains an annotated copy of the Coady Co-op Show script as staged in Guysborough.

Final workshop draft

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 3
File
January 1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains a final workshop manuscript draft of The Promised Land.

Feeling Yes, Feeling No development and production records

MS-2-838, Box 1, Folders 2 & 3
File
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide documenting Mulgrave Road Theatre's 1989 production of Feeling Yes, Feeling No, which was developed by Green Thumb Theatre in Vancouver in the early 1980s. Records, which were removed intact from a binder, include reports, notes, scripts, exercises; rehearsal notes and stage book.

Fax copy of Stephen Osler's set designs for Ship's Company Theatre's production of Living Curiosities

MS-2-777, Box 13, Folder 10
File
March 27-31, 1994

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File also contains two scene lists.

Edward II thank you cards

MS-2-777.2021-022, Box 24, Folder 4
File
2016

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains thank you cards from the cast and crew of a 2016 production of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II." Mary Vingoe directed the production, which was presented from September 29 to October 15, 2016 by University of British Columbia Theatre and Film.

Edward II

MS-2-777.2021-022, Box 24, Folder 2
File
2016

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains records related to a 2016 production of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II." Mary Vingoe directed the production, which was presented from September 29 to October 15, 2016 by University of British Columbia Theatre and Film. File includes a play script (59 pages), a director's notebook with handwritten notes, and a photocopy of Zoe Danahy's play script (69 pages) from a 2015 production of the play directed by Gordon Barr and presented by the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Edward II

MS-2-777.2021-022, Box 24, Folder 3
File
2016

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains records related to a 2016 production of Christopher Marlowe's play "Edward II." Mary Vingoe directed the production, which was presented from September 29 to October 15, 2016 by University of British Columbia Theatre and Film. File includes a play script (109 pages) and two programs for the University of British Columbia Theatre and Film 2016-2017 season.

MS-5-22, Box 22, Folders 1-13
File
1993-2021

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to George Jordan, Eileen Joyce, jazz group Ladies in Blue, bassist Steve Lawrence, Owen Lee, Beverly Lewis, Lisa MacDougall, Frank MacKay, Donna MacKenzie, Kim McLeod, Scott MacMillan, Jimmy MacPherson, and Lorraine Klaasen.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the Halifax Blues Festival, the Atlantic Jazz Festival, the Ladies in Blues' annual breast cancer benefit, the Atlantic Film Festival, the Nova Scotia Mass Choir's annual Martin Luther King concert, album releases, and Neptune Theatre's productions of "Buddy: The Buddy Holly Musical" and "Cats: The Musical."

MS-5-22, Box 24, Folders 1-13
File
1993-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Laura Smith, Reeny Smith, Reverend Wallace Smith, Deanna Sparks, Jamie Sparks, Jeremiah Sparks, Richard Sparks, Mavis Staples, Gary Steed, and Symphony Nova Scotia.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to the Halifax Jazz Festival, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, the Prismatic Arts Festival, the annual Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" concert, and various theatrical productions. Theatrical productions include Neptune Theatre's "Five Guys Named Moe," "Riot," "World Without Shadows," "The Wizard of Oz," as well as Eastern Front Theatre's "The Satchmo Suite."

MS-5-22, Box 25, Folders 1-18
File
1994-2020

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Symphony Nova Scotia stage manager Jimmy Tasco, Sue Taylor, Johnny Theodore, Luvina Thomas, musical group Touch of Hope, Up on the Roof, Helen Vaughan, Pat Watson, Angels of Lightning, Gerry White, Cecily Williams, musical group The Williams Sisters, Eastern Front Theatre's production of Whylah Falls, Anne Marie Woods, David Woods, Woody Woods, and Carolann Wright-Parks.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Halifax Comedy Festival, Theatre Art Guild's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist," various Nova Scotia Mass Choir performances and concerts, Natal Day festivals, the Atlantic Fringe Festival, Halifax Public Libraries' African Heritage Month, Eastern Front Theatre's "Whylah Falls," the Prismatic Arts Festival, the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia's exhibit "Mary Lee Blendolph, Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond," and Black Artists Network of Nova Scotia's exhibit "The Secret Codes: Contemporary African Nova Scotian Narrative and Picture Quilts."

MS-5-22, Box 21, Folders 1-17
File
1993-2021

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Karl Falkenham, Jim Faraday, Shelley Fashan, Four the Moment musical group, Four Walls of Blue, Carolyn Fowler, Isaac Fraser, Rosie Fraser, Freedom Festival , Suzy Gangoo Hansen, Marsha Gannon, Neptune Theatre, the Gospel Heirs musical group, Adrien Gough, Judith Virginia Grace, Belinda Grant, and Glen Grant.

Documents include newspaper clippings, posters, programs, and ephemera related to the art exhibit "Mommay's Patches: Traditions and Superstitions" by Letitia Fraser, Four the Moment's final performance, the Gospel Heirs performances, Neptune Theatre's productions of "The Gospel at Colonus" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," and others.

Documents related to Linda Carvery

MS-5-22, Box 19, Folders 1-2
File
2011-2019

Part of Joy O'Brien fonds

File contains documents related to Linda Carvery.

Documents include programs, ephemera, magazine clippings, and newspaper clippings related to Blues Night for Rocky Jones event, “For the Love of God” Valentine's Day concerts, Atlantic Jazz Festival, the African Nova Scotian Music Association awards, Northwood Encores’ performance of “Grand Mamma Mia”, Charles Taylor Theatre’s musical production “Viola: An Original Musical”, Bella Blue performances, Martin Luther King concerts with the Nova Scotia Mass Choir, and others.

Dear Santa : [sketch of Santa's workshop]

MS-3-18.2020-001, Box 24, Folder 7
File
2003

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

Dear Santa : [sketch of Santa's office]

MS-3-18.2020-001, Box 24, Folder 6
File
2003

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

Dear Santa : [sketch for poster and brochure]

MS-3-18.2020-001, Box 24, Folder 5
File
2003

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

Country chorale : [program]

MS-2-777, Box 12, Folder 37
File
1996

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

Council matters / by Christopher Heide : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 10, Folder 2
File
2001

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains a lightly annotated script and structure notes for Council Matters, a play by Chris Heide that was performed at the 2001 Chester Playhouse Summer Festival.

Costume Society Symposium information and other documents

MS-3-18, Box 30, Folder 5
File
1970-1993

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

File contains documents about the 4th Annual Costume Society Symposium at Bath, other documents related to the Costume Society, a project proposal for the Dalhousie Craft Fashion Project, information about a Dalhousie Theatre Department fashion show, criteria for promotion from the University of Regina Theatre Department, information about an exhibit called "Women of Invention" at the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature including two slides, photographs and sketches of the Salvation Army building on Cunard Street, a letter about a development on Hollis Street, a price list from Weaver's Loft, a list of contact information for various services, documents about the Louisbourg Calendar Project,

Correspondence, playwright's agreement and notes re. Road Reviews

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 14
File
1982

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains several letters, a playwright's agreement between Christopher Heide and Mulgrave Road Co-Op Theatre Company, and a chronology of events leading up to the play's run.

Correspondence, notes and playwright's agreement re. The Coady Co-op Show

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1979

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File also contains a rough draft of Christopher Heide's outline for the book.

Correspondence, notes and playwright's agreement re. Bring Back Don Messer!

MS-2-838, Box 4, Folder 2
File
1979 - 1983

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File includes correspondence between Christopher Heide, Michel Fahey and Ed McKenna of the Mulgrave Road Co-op. There is also a letter written from Heide to Larry Lillo, at Tamahnous Theatre, Vancouver, as well as a chronology of events between September 1970 and March 1983 regarding the script's creation and possible remounting.

Correspondence, meeting minutes, and other documents from the President's Advisory Committee for Theatre at St. Thomas University

MS-2-806, Box 9, Folder 8
File
1994-1995

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to Jenny Munday's participation in the President's Advisory Committee for Theatre at St. Thomas University. The documents include correspondence; meeting minutes; proposals; information about events at STU, Black Box Theatre, and other theatre organizations; and other documents.

Correspondence to Christoper Heide regarding Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 19
File
1986 - 1993

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File includes correspondence with Ed McKenna and Jenny Munday.

Correspondence regarding Christopher Heide's On the Lee Shore

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 8
File
1976 - 1981

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains correspondence with Tarragon Theatre and other theatre directors, a chronology of events documenting the evolution of the script, and a program from the Tarragon workshop performance.

Correspondence from Percy Haswell

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 28
File
1912

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from the American actress Percy Haswell thanking John Daniel Logan for his newspaper articles on her. The letter is written on letterhead from the R.M.S. Royal Edward.

Correspondence from Julie Opp Faversham

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 21
File
1912

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from Julie Opp Faversham (1871–1921), an American stage actress, thanking John Daniel Logan for a poem and his comments about a production of Julius Caesar that she acted in with her husband, William Faversham.

Correspondence from Julia Marlowe Sothern

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 48
File
1913

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from the English-born American actress Julia Marlowe Sothern thanking John Daniel Logan for sending her and her husband (E. H. Sothern) some of his poetry and inviting Logan to visit them backstage at one of their performances.

Correspondence from Harry Irvine

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 30
File
1925

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from the English actor Harry Irvine in response to John Daniel Logan's criticism of his performance in "Othello" at an unidentified theatre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The letter mentions a future lecture at Dalhousie College on "William Shakespeare: A Human Being."

Correspondence from Charles F. Towle

Ms-5-1, Box 3, Folder 49
File
1913

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains an advertisement and pamphlet on the plays presented by the Stratford-upon-Avon Players at the Princess Theatre in Toronto as part of their first American Tour. Charles F. Towle was the business director of the tour.

Correspondence from Anna Frery

MS-5-1, Box 3, Folder 22
File
[1908-1927]

Part of John Daniel Logan fonds

File contains a letter from the actress Anna Frery, thanking John Daniel Logan for his critique of her performance in Aida by Giuseppe Verdi. The letter is written on letterhead from the Grand Union Hotel Co., Limited.

Correspondence and reviews about Live Bait Theatre's production of "Relatively Harmless"

MS-2-806, Box 3, Folder 2
File
[2005]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains photocopies and computer printouts of reviews of Live Bait Theatre's 2005 production of "Relatively Harmless" by Jenny Munday. The file also contains cards and letters congratulating Munday for the production.

Correspondence and other documents related to a workshop of "Battle fatigue" at Gallery Connexion

MS-2-806, Box 2, Folder 2
File
[ca. 1988-1989]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to a workshop of "Battle Fatigue" (previously known as "A Woman's War" and "Mother What Do I Do Now?") by Jenny Munday at Gallery Connexion in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The documents include a poster for the workshop; correspondence between Munday and Edward Leger of Tourism, Recreation, & Heritage New Brunswick; applications for workshop funding; expense reports for the production; notes on the script; related addresses; other correspondence.

Correspondence and other documents from the Jenny Munday's participation in the Banff Centre for the Arts Playwrights' Colony

MS-2-806, Box 7, Folder 8
File
1992-1993

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to Jenny Munday's participation in the 1993 Banff Centre for the Arts Playwrights' Colony. The documents include an issue of "The Canadian Voice: A Newsletter Devoted to New Plays and New Play Development"; a contact list; correspondence between Munday and Banff; drafts of "Drowning for Beginners" by Edward Manning and "In Banff There Are Swimmers in the Sky" by Munday; a contract between the Banff and Munday; a travel itinerary; information about the playwrights' colony; and a flyer about Michel Tremblay, recipient of the Banff Centre National Award 1993.

Correspondence and notes regarding Mulgrave Road's Feeling Yes, Feeling No company crisis

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 17
File
1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains correspondence from Ed MacKenna, Ian Pygott, Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson, as well as a document written by Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson outlining the sequence of events as understood by them.

Correspondence and dramaturgy notes from a workshop at the Confederation Centre

MS-2-806, Box 17, Folder 13
File
18 July 1994

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to a workshop of a Political Cabaret at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Jenny Munday participated in the workshop. The documents include correspondence between Munday, Colin Jackson, and Michael Shamata, including dramaturgy notes by Munday.

Correspondence and contract between Christopher Heide and the playwrights co-op regarding the publication of On the Lee Shore

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 9
File
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File also contains a copy of the manuscript with a playwrights co-op cover.

Convoy HFX : [score]

MS-5-21, Oversize Folder 5
File
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contains seven copies of scores for Paul Cram's "Convoy HFX," with printed standard music notation and handwritten formations. Six are copies with handwritten annotations; one is an original handwritten score on tissue with the printed notation parts pasted on.

Contracts, programs, and other documents from Live Bait Theatre's production of "Relatively Harmless"

MS-2-806, Box 3, Folder 4
File
[ca. 2003-2005]

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to Live Bait Theatre's 2005 production of "Relatively Harmless" by Jenny Munday. The documents include programs from the production; flyers from Live Bait Theatre; a contract between Munday and Live Bait Theatre; correspondence between Live Bait Theatre and Munday; a program from a reading of the play; rehearsal and production schedules; sound queue lists; contact lists; programs from Art Across the Marsh Studio Tour; and a poster for Writers With Punch.

Contracts, posters, and other documents from dinner theatre productions of "Have you ever been to Bombay?"

MS-2-806, Box 5, Folder 3
File
1987

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to a dinner theatre production of "Have You Ever Been to Bombay?" by Jenny Munday, Elizabeth Goodyear, and Ilkay Silk. The documents include photocopies of reviews of the play; a draft of the program; posters; press releases; contracts between the authors and the hotels where the dinner theatre was performed; expense reports; budgets; schedules; and an application for financial assistance from the New Brunswick Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Heritage Cultural Development Branch for the production.

Contracts, correspondence, and other documents from Jenny Munday's residency at Live Bait Theatre

MS-2-806, Box 9, Folder 1
File
2002-2006

Part of Jenny Munday fonds

File contains documents related to Jenny Munday's residency at Live Bait Theatre. The documents include contracts and letters of agreement between Live Bait Theatre and Munday; newspaper articles about the residency; programs for "Relatively Harmless" and other plays; correspondence between Live Bait Theatre and Munday; notes; press releases; Live Bait Theatre newsletters; payment information; information about the development of "Morning Coffee" by Munday; two drafts of "Morning Coffee"; and a flyer for the Short Grain Writing Contest.

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.

Contract, workshop notes, first-draft planning notes and press release for My Place or Yours?

MS-2-838, Box 20, Folder 6
File
1990

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains records pertaining to My Place or Yours, a school touring play created for Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia.

Contract between Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre and Sheldon Currie for the right to commission and produce an adaptation of his novel The Company Store

MS-2-777, Box 13, Folder 9
File
October 28, 1993 - August 23, 1996

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

Contact list for Nightwood Theatre's production of The Herring Gull's Egg

MS-2-777.2015-017, Box 17, Folder 9
File
1989

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File also includes a letter to Mary Vingoe from Bob White, Artistic Associate of Play Development of Alberta Theatre Projects regarding his response to reading The Herring Gull's Egg.

Commission contract between Mary Vingoe and Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre for play adaptation of Sheldon Currie's The Company Store

MS-2-777, Box 13, Folder 7
File
November 15, 1993

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

Colour coded manuscript draft and key for The Promised Land

MS-2-838, Box 1, Folder 9
File
[ca. 1986]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Clippings regarding the LGBT community and the local arts community

MS-15-1.2019-061, Box 1, Folder 14
File
1996 - 1997

Part of Ross Boutilier fonds

File contains clippings collected by Ross Boutilier relating to intersections between the LGBT and arts communities in Halifax. File consists of reviews on the theatre productions of the "Hanging garden"; "Angels among us" and "Lion in the winter". Also included are articles on female impersonator Laura Smith and musician Ashley MacIsaac.

Clean second draft : July & August (to the 11th) / 80

MS-2-838, Box 5, Folder 6
File
1980

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains an manuscript of Bring Back Don Messer!

Citizen Ambassador Program information and other documents

MS-3-18, Box 31, Folder 1
File
1993-1996

Part of Robert Doyle fonds

File contains posters for the "1864" Historical Costume Showcase, a letter about the 1864 Costume Workshop, a schedule for Charlottetown Heritage and History Day, a paper called "Re-creating our Heritage: A paper, presented to the Charlottetown Confederation Players on the merits of recreating an image of the island historical heritage," other correspondence with the Charlottetown Confederation Players and the Historical Costume Initiative, correspondence with the Capital Commission, several fabric samples, and photocopies of a notebook with notes about the construction of various objects (possibly set pieces). The file also contains documents related to Doyle's participation in the Citizen Ambassador Program Theatre Education Delegation to the People's Republic of China, including an application for life and disability insurance and information about a short term travel grant from the Canada Council.

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