Archives Catalogue

Email from Tessa Mendel regarding Bone Cage

MS-2-8, Box 12, Folder 12
File
2001

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Emails from Pamela Halstead regarding Three Storeys, Ocean View

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 28
File
2003

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Emails regarding Bone Cage from Pamela Halstead and Janis Spence

MS-2-8, Box 10, Folder 15
File
2002

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Equity correspondence from a production of Bone Cage by Forerunner Playwrights' Theatre

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 11
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Equity Showcase Theatre production contract

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 31
File
September, 2003

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a contract between Catherine Banks and Equity Showcase Theatre. The contract authorizes the theatre's 2003 production of Three Storey, Ocean View.

Es resol caminant : mirant pel retrovisor / translated by Elisabet Ràfols Sagués

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

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File comprises the Catalan translation of It is Solved by Walking, by Catherine Banks, and Looking through the Mirror, by Gilles Poulin-Denis.

Essay or speech written by Catherine Banks marking her 10th anniversary in Sambro

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 4
File
2017

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Eula's Offer

Series
[ca. 1983]-[ca. 1989]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains typescripts of Eula's Offer and a letter announcing honourable mention for the play in a Canadian playwriting competition. Eula's Offer is an early play by Catherin Banks about teen parenting. The main character is Eula, a teenager who just had a baby. Her boyfriend does not want to know about the baby and she has trouble looking after it. Eula's childless brother wants to care for the child.

The play received honourable mention at the Little Ottawa Theatre Competition in 1984.

Eula's offer : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 1, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1989]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Eula's offer : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 14, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1983]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Eula's offer : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 21, Folder 3
File
[198-]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Eula's offer : [manuscripts with handwritten amendments]

MS-2-8, Box 14, Folders 17-18
File
[198-?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Event programs for Art Out Loud, Creative Nova Scotia Arts Awards, Nova Scotia Master Works

MS-2-8, Box 23, Folder 20
File
2015-2016

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Excerpt about The Summer of the Piping Plover from "In/Visible Drama of Atlantic Canada," in Contemporary Issues in Canadian Drama

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 19
File
1995

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Excerpt of untitled manuscript by Catherine Banks

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 5
File
[between 1990 and 2010]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Fall for theatre : [program]

MS-2-8, Box 4, Folder 46
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a program of various Nova Scotia theatre productions in the autumn of 2007. The production of Bone Cage by Forerunner Playwrights' Theatre and Ship's Company Theatre is listed in the program.

Feedback responses for reading of Bone Cage at On the Verge

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 12
File
June 16, 2005-July 8, 2005

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains eight completed feedback forms from a reading of Bone Cage at the On the Verge reading festival on June 16, 2005. File also contains a letter about the festival and feedback forms from Marti Maraden and Lise Ann Johnson of the National Arts Centre.

Financial and legal records

Series
1984-2022

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains records related to grants applied for and received by Catherine Banks, as well as contracts and publishing agreements.

First draft of scenes from Bone Cage

MS-2-8, Box 2, Folder 1
File
[ca. 2001]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

First draft typescript for Forerunner's Workshops

MS-2-8, Box 6, Folder 2
File
1987

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

First unsuccessful application for a Canada Council project grant for "The Mountain and The Valley"

MS-2-8, Box 33, Folder 19
File
2019-2021

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains Canada Council project grant applications titled "The Mountain and the Valley Collective Fall 2021" by Catherine Banks. File also includes budgets, handwritten notes, and related materials for the project. Item was removed from envelope labelled "First unsuccessful TM&TV application."

Forerunner Playrights' Theatre stage manager's copy of Bone Cage

MS-2-8, Box 2, Folder 18
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Forerunner Playwrights' Theatre production materials for Bone Cage

MS-2-8, Box 9, Folder 4
File
2007

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Fountain School of Performing Arts 2017-2018 season program advertising a playwriting masterclass with Catherine Banks

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 10
File
2017

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Governor General's award for Bone Cage

MS-2-8, Box 5, Folder 1
File
2008-2009

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains application support materials, publicity materials, and a DVD of the presentation.

Group of unidentified people

MS-2-8, PB Box 2, Folder 77
File
[200-]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Item is a group of unidentified people sitting around tables.

Group portrait of participants at a Sage Hill writing workshop

MS-2-8, PB Box 2, Folder 71
File
[between 1990 and 2010]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Inscribed in black marker, verso: Me in the / red sweater / + white. / Sage Hill

Hellenic Centre of the International Theatre Institute conference records

MS-2-8, Box 3, Folder 44
File
1999

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Her side of the story

MS-2-8, Box 25, Folder 9
File
May 13-14, 2016

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sister : [first draft manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 15, Folder 29
File
[199-?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey Sisters

Series
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains complete and partial scripts of Hockey Sisters, lyrics used in the play, and research material. Hockey Sisters is an early unfinished play by Catherine Banks. In a 2009 interview with One Big Umbrella, a theatre blog, Banks commented that she couldn't finish the play because she "couldn’t find that hook that made me want to finish it enough to dig down and do it."

Hockey sisters : [lyrics]

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 3
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sisters : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 6, Folder 23
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sisters : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 2
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sisters : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 4, Folder 4
Item
[199-?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sisters : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 1
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Hockey sisters : [manuscripts]

MS-2-8, Box 12, Folders 14-18 and Box 13, Folders 1-11
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains 16 folders of complete and partial manuscripts, some with handwritten amendments.

Hockey sisters : [manuscripts]

MS-2-8, Box 13, Folders 12-14
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains three folders of miscellaneous early manuscripts of Hockey Sisters and related notes. The materials are largely unpaginated and disordered.

Hockey sisters : [partial manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 15, Folder 35
File
[199-?]

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

I saw an eastern ghost once : [manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 7, Folder 21
File
2011

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a draft of a presentation given at a conference of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research.

In This Light

Series
2018 - 2019

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

Series contains records for a play by Catherine Banks adapted from R. Farquharson Sharp's 1911 English translation of Henrik Ibsen's An Enemy of the People. The play was commissioned by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre and premiered at Ross Creek Centre for the Arts on 6 July 2019. Records types in include manuscript drafts, correspondence, notes, reviews and a program.

In this light : [annotated manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 25
File
April 2019

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains draft 9.

In this light : [annotated manuscript]

MS-2-8, Box 27, Folder 26
File
13 April 2019

Part of Catherine Banks fonds

File contains a heavily annotated draft, pages out of order, with a cover page indicating "after reading changes Feb 2019 / Ken's notes Acts # 1,2,3 / April 13th 2019."

In this light : [annotated manuscript]