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Christopher Heide fonds
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Road Reviews

Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing Road Reviews, which was funded by Nova Scotia Department of Culture, Recreation and Fitness in cooperation with the Old Home Summer Commission, a 1982 revival of a festival incorporated by the province in 1920 to encourage tourism. The revue was directed by Don Allison and featured Nicola Lipman, Barrie Dunn, Gay Haliser and Robbie O'Neill, with musicians Sandy Moore and Nathan Currie.

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.

Port Hawkesbury centennial project authors' original manuscripts

File contains copies of the authors' original manuscripts for the play produced by Under the Map theatre group, a Port Hawkesbury centennial community project. The group performed plays depicting the town's history on four consecutive nights in August 1989 using Granville Street as the setting.

Pogie

Subseries contains records created and collected by Christopher Heide regarding his play Pogie, with music by Al Macdonald, which was published in New Canadian Drama: Volume 2 (Borealis, 1981). It was first performed as a cabaret production at a supper theatre called Stages at the Holiday Inn, Halifax, and featured Sharon Timmins as the female lead. The touring production featured Crystal Fralick. In both versions, the four actors played all additional roles, aided by hand puppets created by Tom Miller. Both productions were directed by Rosemary Gilbert.

Only the Old and Dying — CBC produced

File contains five annotated manuscript copies of Only the Old and Dying, a radio drama commissioned and broadcast by CBC Radio in 1988. File also contains a story outline, contract, and notes.

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.

On the Lee Shore

Subseries contains records documenting the progression of the play "On the Lee Shore," which began life as "Plans for the Marriage" and then "The Family Album." The script was developed during Christopher Heide's writers-in-residence tenure at Tarragon Theatre, Toronto, with workshop performances on May 8 and 9, 1977 directed by Lewis Baumander and dramaturge Bena Shuster.

Notes about No More Gasoline

File includes a page of notes from a June meeting with Rose (13/6/82); a page of distilled notes from the workshop; 10 pages of notes written by audience members on the reverse side of Christopher Heide's printed introduction to the workshopped performance; and an annotated copy of the script.

No More Gasoline

Subseries contains records created or collected by Christopher Heide in the course of writing No More Gasoline, a play that he started in 1980 and workshopped with the Dramatists' Co-op in 1982; it was the inaugural script for the New Play Workshop.

My Place or Yours?

Subseries contains records documenting the progression of the play My Place or Yours? written by Chris Heide for Mermaid Theatre for junior and senior high schools throughout Nova Scotia from October 22-December 7, 1990.
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