Archives Catalogue

You'll be in her arms by midnight / by Michael Fuller and Mary Vingoe : [mannuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 2, Folder 14
File
[ca. 1984]

File contains a draft of Mary Vingoe and Michael Fuller's first play for Ship’s Company Theatre, which was staged aboard the old and dilapidated ferry vessel.

Workshop originals

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 4
File
January 1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains workshop original manuscript pages of The Promised Land.

Workshop notes for The Promised Land

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 5
File
January 1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Work toward a 7th draft

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 7
File
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains notes and a heavily annotated script for "On the Lee Side."

Wendy Lill fonds

MS-2-772
Fonds
1976 - 2015

Fonds contains records created and collected by Wendy Lill, including correspondence, manuscripts, published play scripts, research material, speeches, reports, publicity material, and personal records.

Lill, Wendy

Under the Map administrative and publicity records

MS-2-838, Box 4, Folders 10 & 11
File
1988 - 1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File includes meeting agendas and notes, correspondence, budgets, schedules and project reports for the Port Hawkesbury Centennial Community Performance Project. Also enclosed are script development records, production reviews and an article by Christopher Heide published in Integare: Recreational Council on Disability in Nova Scotia's Winter 1990 newsletter.

Under the Map : 100 years of Port Hawkesbury and her people — A Centennial Community Performance Project

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 11
Item
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is the stage book for Port Hawkesbury's centennial community performance project, which became Under the Map Theatre group.

Two long and a short : a one act play, by Andrew Merkel : [manuscripts]

MS-2-326, Box 1, Folder 22
File
[ca. 1947]

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

File contains two typed copies of a six-page one act play and a mimeographed copy with an alternate title: "Number Please."

Thunder : [parts]

MS-5-21, Box 2, Folder 12
File
2001

Part of Paul Cram fonds

File contain piano, reeds 1, 2 & 3, cello, guitar, bass and drum parts for Paul Cram's "Thunder," a drama with music created by Alan Williams, Mary Vingoe, and Paul Cram. "Thunder" premiered in 1996 at Dalhousie University and was broadcast on CBC Radio Drama in 2001. The piece has five movements: 1. They Say; 2. 1963; 3. Twin Cities; 4. Black Dog; and 5. Vanishing.

Through the first Antarctic night / by Frederick A. Cook : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 7, Folder 1
File
1989

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains an annotated copy of the second draft manuscript.

Theatre Direct Canada's production of Love and enough work / collectively created by Nightwood Theatre Company

MS-2-777, Box 2, Folder 2
File
1984

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

The yellow wallpaper / by Mary Vingoe with Cynthia Grant : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 12
File
ca. 1980s

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File also contains a photocopied story from Saturday Night magazine: "Circle of Fifths," by Helen Weinzweig, published October 1976.

The wooden world

MS-3-28, Box 1, Folder 6
Item
1967

Part of Don Allison fonds

Item is a heavily annotated copy of a script, which begins on page 6 and includes a title page. The Wooden World was written by Gavin Douglas and produced by Neptune Theatre in its fourth (1967) season.

The stone god : a drama in four acts : [manuscript]

MS-2-232, Box 1, Folder 71
Item
[195-?]

Part of Kenneth Leslie fonds

Item is an early draft manuscript of a four-act dramatic play with four characters: the protagonist, Ellen Maria; her husband, an archaeologist named Jens; Ellen Maria's cousin, a theologian named Johannes; and a forester named Steffa.

The Stamp Lady's Miracle — manuscripts and notes

MS-2-838, Box 15, Folder 5 and Box 17, Folder 3
File
1976 - 1978

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains seven manuscript drafts; a printed copy published by the Nova Scotia Dramatists Co-op notes; readers' reports; outlines; notes; and a chronology outlining the evolution of the script, which was never produced.

The road to Rankin's Point / by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 2, Folder 11
File
7 July 1998

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains an annotated first draft manuscript.

The road to Rankin's Point / by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 2, Folder 13
File
7 September 1998

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains an annotated third draft manuscript.

The road to Rankin's Point / by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 2, Folder 12
File
24 July 1998

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains an annotated second draft.

The Road To Rankin's Point

Subseries
1995 - 1998

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

Subseries contains drafts of Mary Vingoe's script adaptations of Alistair MacLeod's short story by the same name, as well as a letter from Vingoe to MacLeod asking permission to adapt the story for a short film series.

The "road reviews" revue : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 15
Item
1982

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a manuscript that includes a component list indicating originals and compiled materials by Christopher Heide. The revue was sponsored by the 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.

The Promised Land press release, programs, posters and reviews

MS-2-838, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

The promised land / by Christopher Heide ; directed by Graham Whitehead : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 1, Folder 5
Item
1989

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of The Promised Land, first produced in the spring of 1988 by the Mulgrave Road Co-op Theatre, which included a three-week tour with one week at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille as part of the From the Ground Up Theatre Festival.

The promised land : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 2, Folder 10
Item
1988

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a manuscript copy of The Promised Land.

The Plans for their Marriage — notes and rewrite to second draft

MS-2-838, Box 10, Folder 9
File
[1976?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains notes and annotated drafts for a play that was later titled "Family Album."

The plans for their marriage — first draft / by Christoper Heide : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 10, Folder 8
Item
[1976?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a manuscript draft for a play that was later titled "Family Album."

The Plans for the Marriage — work to a first draft and stage plans

MS-2-838, Box 11, Folder 5
File
[1976?]

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains notes and manuscript drafts for a play that was later titled "Family Album."

The new groundswell festival : a national festival of contemporary women's theatre : [program]

File
2013

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a program that includes an insert featuring Mary Vingoe's Refuge in the reading series.

The manadian convention

MS-3-46, 1989-005
Item
1989

Part of Centre for Art Tapes tape collection

Item consists of a video recording entitled "The manadian convention" by Colin Browne, which was produced at the Centre for Art Tapes.

Browne, Colin

The ghost of Jerry Bundler

MS-2-511, Box 21, Folder 13
Item
[ca. 1930s]

Part of Henry Davies Hicks fonds

Item is a script for a short play, possibly written by Henry Hicks.

Acadia Coal Company.

The Fit — November 2006 rewrites to create new draft

MS-2-838, Box 20, Folder 12
File
2006

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains multiple drafts of different scenes from a November 2006 rewrite of My Place or Yours?

The family album (draft #5) with crit notes from Lewis Baumander

MS-2-838, Box 11, Folder 7
Item
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is an annotated manuscript with notes.

The family album / by Christopher Heide : [manuscript]

MS-2-838, Box 11, Folder 3
Item
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a clean, typed copy of a playscript.

The corpse and the cargo: the Hegelian past in Ibsen's naturalistic cycle / Brian Johnston

MS-2-777.2015-017, Box 16, Folder 5
File
1968

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a photocopy of an article published in The Drama Review, Volume 13, Number 2, Naturalism Revisited (Winter 1968) pp. 47-66.

The company store / by Sheldon Currie, adapted for stage by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 3
File
6 January 1994

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a first draft manuscript.

The company store / by Sheldon Currie, adapted for stage by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 4
File
22 December 1995

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a third draft manuscript.

The company store / by Sheldon Currie, adapted for radio by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 8
File
1993-1994

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File includes two manuscript drafts; handwritten notes; a letter from Vingoe to James Roy with a detailed synopsis of her radio adaptation of Sheldon Currie's story; correspondence to Sheldon Currie; and CBC's Dave Carley's notes on the radio script.

The company store / by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 5
File
14 March 1996

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

The company store / by Mary Vingoe : [manuscript]

MS-2-777, Box 4, Folder 6
File
11 May 1996

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a fifth draft manuscript, some of which is printed out on the reverse side of Eastern Front Theatre Company letter head paper.

The Coady co-op show / created, produced and performed by members of the Mulgrave Road Co-Operative Theatre Company : [mansucript]

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 9
Item
1979

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a clean copy of the production draft of The Coady Co-Op Show as toured in 1979.

Submission and rejection correspondence regarding Andrew Merkel's plays

MS-2-326, Box 2, Folder 14
File
1947-1948

Part of Andrew Merkel fonds

This file contains submission letters for Merkel's plays.

Statement of intent regarding Mary Vingoe's play Living Curiosities

MS-2-777, Box 5, Folder 12
File
[ca. 1995]

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

Stage manager's script for On the Lee Shore

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 1
Item
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is Jane Buss's stage manager script.

Rough first draft of My Place or Yours?

MS-2-838, Box 20, Folder 7
Item
1990

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Item is a lightly annotated first draft dated 30 September.

Rough 6th draft (b) (with notes from crit by Lewis Baumander 17/4/77)

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 6
File
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains notes from the Tarragon workshop rehearsal of "On the Lee Side."

Rough 6th draft (a) with notes from CRIT with Lewis Baumander 13/4/77

MS-2-838, Box 12, Folder 3
Item
1977

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

Files contains a heavily annotated manuscript and notes.

Road reviews : a revue for the Old Summer Home ' 82 : [program]

MS-2-838, Box 3, Folder 16
File
1982

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File also contains a Nova Scotia Heritage Festival kit put out by the Department of Tourism.

Revisions to rough first draft [of] My Place or Yours?

MS-2-838, Box 20, Folder 8
File
1990

Part of Christopher Heide fonds

File contains lightly annotated manuscript pages.

Research materials collected by Mary Vingoe for her play about Anna Swan

MS-2-777.2015-017, Box 15, Folder 5
File
2005 - 2009

Part of Mary Vingoe fonds

File contains a copy of The Kentucky River Giant, by Martin Van Buren Bates, and a New York Times book review of Uncommon Attractions, by James Hynes.

Research materials and notes about poverty in Nova Scotia