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.
Item is a copy of the script Pilk's Madhouse written by Ken Campbell under the pseudonym Henry Pilk. The play is a series of sketches which were first performed at Theatre Passe Muraille in Toronto and subsequently at the Young Vic in London, England.
Series consists of photographs, albums, and video cassettes of events at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College campus between 1905 and 1998. These include students, staff, and faculty engaged in exhibitions, convocation/graduation, Autumn Assembly, Open house, sports events, theatre dramas, ceremonies, and campus life.
File contains four manuscript copies of a one-act play by Andrew Merkel titled variously "Harriet Richardson" and "Mrs. Richardson Wins." The latter version contains hand-written edits that appear in the both copies titled "Harriet Richardson." One manuscript lists the author as "Marc Lescarbot" and is two pages longer than the others. The copy typed on legal-sized onion skin paper contains a note that the play was originally presented at the Community Centre, Annapolis Royal, on 5th June 1947. There is also a short note critiquing the play.
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.
Item is a clean manuscript copy with the endnote: "If this play is eventually produced, notification, with thanks, should be sent to the actors; and possibly the technical people; who were involved in the Tarragon workshop."
File contains four heavily annotated spiral-bound workshop playscripts marked with the actors' names: Helen Hughes, Richard Farrow, Katia de Pena and James Kirchner.
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.
File contains six manuscripts drafts, a copyright registration certificate, correspondence and notes, an outline, and a chronology of events documenting the genesis and evolution of the script's development.
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.
File contains multiple manuscript drafts of a training video script for the Nova Scotia Co-operative Council, as well as related research materials and correspondence.
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.
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.
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.
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.
File contains a manuscript, correspondence, CBC contract and a chronology of the evolution of "A Game of Chess," which was initially produced by CBC Radio as "A Pawn's Promotion."
File consists of season 1, episode 8 of the CBC radio drama "Backbencher" which originally aired on Monday February 21, 2011. This episode was written by Wendy Lill, script editor was Dave Carley, the associate producer was Maggie Rahr and the recording engineer was Pat Martin. The script was based on the series concept by Wendy Lill.
File consists of season 1, episode 7 of the CBC radio drama "Backbencher" which originally aired on Tuesday February 14, 2011. This episode was written by Dave Carley, script editor was Beverley Cooper and was based on the series concept by Wendy Lill.
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