Fonds comprises Alan Andrew's personal and professional correspondence; reports; newsletters; journals; conference notes; committee minutes and budgets; theatre scripts and production records including costume sketches and photographs.
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 annotated copies of scripts largely written or co-written by Christopher Heide for Under the Map theatre group's Port Hawkesbury centennial project.
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.
File contains correspondence from Ed MacKenna, Ian Pygott, Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson, as well as a document written by Emmy Alcorn and Pam Stevenson outlining the sequence of events as understood by them.
File contains correspondence with Tarragon Theatre and other theatre directors, a chronology of events documenting the evolution of the script, and a program from the Tarragon workshop performance.
File includes correspondence between Christopher Heide, Michel Fahey and Ed McKenna of the Mulgrave Road Co-op. There is also a letter written from Heide to Larry Lillo, at Tamahnous Theatre, Vancouver, as well as a chronology of events between September 1970 and March 1983 regarding the script's creation and possible remounting.
File contains several letters, a playwright's agreement between Christopher Heide and Mulgrave Road Co-Op Theatre Company, and a chronology of events leading up to the play's run.
File contains a heavily annotated draft of Road Reviews, written by Christopher Heide for the Mulgrave Road Co-Op Theatre Company, plus several pages of handwritten notes.
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 includes press materials, photographs, reviews, correspondence and a contract for the 1998 Great Canadian Theatre Company's production in Ottawa, Ontario.
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."
File contains outlines for five stories ("Brenton Street Stories") for Brenton Films; a treatment for one of the stories, "An Act of Charity"; notes and manuscript drafts of the screenplay; a contract and correspondence regarding the remittance; and two newspaper clippings.
File contains outlines, treatments and multiple drafts of "Testing the Waters," a half-hour television drama for Border Films. File also includes research notes, editorial notes, a contract and expense claims.
File contains completed surveys gathered from Port Hawkesbury community members to assist in shaping the content of the centennial celebration production. File also contains a survey analysis.
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 a lightly annotated pages from Road Reviews, written by Christopher Heide for the Mulgrave Road Co-Op Theatre Company, plus several pages of handwritten notes.
