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Halifax Regional Municipality (N.S.)
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Catherine Banks fonds

  • MS-2-8
  • Fonds
  • 1973-2023
Fonds contains materials documenting Catherine Banks' professional playwrighting career beginning with her first published play, Eula's Offer. Records include research notes and manuscripts (handwritten and typed), correspondence, contracts, production and publicity materials, a videocassette, a DVD, photographs, sketches, and a small selection of personal papers.

Banks, Catherine

Dark Night Theatre fonds

  • MS-3-45
  • Fonds
  • 1984-1993
This collection primarily consists of theatre and film scripts read during the "ScripTease" dramatic reading series or "Playwright's Corner." The fonds also contains some correspondence and administrative records and two catalogues of plays.

Dark Night Theatre.

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.

Jest in Time Theatre fonds

  • MS-3-33
  • Fonds
  • 1983-2004
The fonds consists of correspondence, programs, scripts, posters, newspaper clippings, news releases, newsletters, and photographs.

Jest in Time Theatre.

Gargoyle Puppet Theatre fonds

  • MS-3-22
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1985
Fonds consists of scripts of the puppet plays as well as correspondence, photographs and slides, newspaper clippings of reviews, programs, videocassettes, and some administrative papers.

Gargoyle Puppet Theatre

The 100 Year Old Man — CBC produced

File contains an original manuscript draft of The One Hundred Year Old man, first produced for radio by CBC Halifax. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script including various submissions, rejections, acceptances and prizes.

Don't You Find That Funny?

File contains an annotated manuscript draft, two copies of a full outline as submitted to CBC Radio, and a chronology of events outlining the evolution of the script, which was never produced.

Neptune Theatre fonds

  • MS-3-1
  • Fonds
  • 1943-2017
Fonds consists of records that document every aspect of Neptune Theatre as an organization, including various textual records and graphic and audio-visual material pertaining to productions, events, personnel, and the administration of the Theatre. Types of records include correspondence, meeting minutes, reports and newsletters, financial records, box office records, applications, licenses, contracts, scripts, posters, newspaper clippings, production notes, programs, press kits, videocassettes, audiocassettes, negatives, contact sheets, slides, photographs, and other materials.

Neptune Theatre

Theatre Arts Guild fonds

  • MS-3-4
  • Fonds
  • 1931-1999
This collection consists of records regarding Theatre Arts Guild's management and productions from the establishment of the guild in 1931 to 1999. Materials include administrative documents and some financial records, programs, posters, newsletters, histories of Theatre Arts Guild and information about amateur theatre in Halifax, correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.

Theatre Arts Guild.

Up Start Theatre fonds

  • MS-3-34
  • Fonds
  • 1985-1993
This fonds consists of records regarding the administration, membership, and productions of the Upstart Theatre Company. Types of records include press releases, press clippings, and other promotional materials, photographs, financial material, meeting minutes, reports, scripts, among others.

Up Start Theatre Company.

The Flood — CBC produced

File contains three drafts copies of The Flood, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1977. File also contains a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

The Truth about Mrs Van Haiden — CBC produced

File contains five manuscript drafts of The Truth About Mrs Van Haiden, broadcast by CBC Radio in 1979. File also contains an outline, contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

A Titanic memorial evening

File contains a script and scores for A Titanic Memorial Evening, words compiled by Lorne Elkin Rozovsky and music compiled by Stephen A. Pedersen, presented by the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia on July 12, 1978 at Saint David's Church, Halifax.

Don Allison fonds

  • MS-3-28
  • Fonds
  • 1967 - 1972
Fonds comprises records created and collected by Don Allison that document his work as an actor in Neptune Theatre's 1967 production of The Wooden Ship, as well as his own poetry and prose writings. There is also a small number of letters from someone named Anna.

Allison, Don

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

The Waiting's Over — CBC produced

File contains three manuscript drafts of The Waiting's Over, which was originally written as a stage play titled Ed & Molly, based on an idea conceived by Barry Stuart. The radio version was broadcast by CBC Radio in 1982. File also contains a manuscript copy of Ed & Molly, an outline for its adaptation to radio, a contract, correspondence and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script and its production.

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.