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Christopher Heide fonds
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Christopher Heide fonds

  • MS-2-838
  • Fonds
  • 1975 - 2010
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.

Heide, Christopher

In the Fall adaptation for stage records

File contains manuscripts, permissions licence, project description and booking form for "In the Fall" by Alistair MacLeod, adapted for two young actors by Christopher Heide and produced by Halifax Theatre for Young People. File also contains a photocopy of Alistair MacLeod's published story.

Production drafts of Pogie

File contains production draft for Stages cabaret performance 10 April to 3 May 1980; a final touring and publication script; and a photocopy of the published script.

Going Back — rehearsal draft (final copy)

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.

Manuscripts, correspondence, and contract for film adaptation of Letter from Matt Arthur's Fishpond

File contains multiple drafts of a teleplay adapted by Chris Heide from the short story published in Canadian Fiction Magazine, as well as correspondence, a contract, and a chronology of events beginning with the submission to CBC Television Drama and ending with a cancelled contract with National Film Board.

With Sirens Wailing — CBC produced

File contains four drafts copies of The Sound of Sirens, broadcast three times by CBC Radio, the first time as "With Sirens Wailing." File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

For Independence — CBC produced

File contains six manuscript copies of For Independence, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1982. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

Once Around — CBC Morningside

File contains manuscript drafts of episodes 1-5 of Once Around, a radio drama series broadcast by CBC Radio in 1983. File also contains outlines, correspondence, notes and a chronology of events outlining the evolution of the project.

At Twenty

File contains a manuscript, submission correspondence and a chronology of events regarding the submission and acceptance of the story in Chezzetcook, an anthology published by Lesley Choyce's Wooden Anchor Press.

Driving Home in the Rain

File contains two manuscript drafts of the story, submission correspondence, a chronology of events regarding the story's various submissions, rejections and eventual publication in The Alchemist (Vol.1, No. 3), and a copy of the journal.

The Very Famous Man

File contains six manuscript drafts, submission correspondence, and a chronology of events regarding the story's creation, submission and rejection.

Love us more! / by Roselynn Akulukjuk: [manuscript]

File contains three copies of a manuscript—one marked "Director's Notes"— for a play put on by the students of Attagoyuk High School, in Pangnirtung, where Chris Heide was living and working. There is also a list of northern youth drama contacts, a 6-page story script and a photocopy of two notecards containing Inuktitut script.

Growing a Beard

File contains an annotated manuscript, poster, and chronology of events of a staged presentation by Christopher Heide given in Amherst, Liverpool, Yarmouth, Greenwood, Antigonish and Sydney as part of a sales and promotion tour of the Dramatists' Co-op.

I Ain't Dead Yet — Mermaid Theatre original production

File includes correspondence, notes, manuscripts, a contract, evaluations forms, reviews and a chronology outlining the project from its conception as "Grandmother's Story" through to Christopher Heide's residency at Mermaid Theatre and the company's workshop production of "I Ain't Dead Yet."
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