File contains materials to prepare teachers and students for viewing the play, Westray : The long way home, including background materials and discussion questions organized by subject category.
File contains an undated action plan written by DalTech's ffocus (form and function of community & urban structure) research team, the design group hired to serve as the project architect for the Ross Creek Centre for the Arts (initially called both the Canning Centre for the Arts and the Maritime Centre for the Arts).
File contains a spiral-bound workshop and education package comprising a copy of the script and appendices including background information, classroom questions and activities for English, drama studies, history and social studies. as well as information about various community and school workshops offered by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company.
Fonds documents the management and theatrical productions of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company from 1992-2016. Series include Administrative, Education and outreach, and Production records, the latter being divided into subseries reflecting the types of materials generated by theatrical productions, including prompt books, posters and programs, photographs and reviews. A sousfond, Ross Creek Centre for the Arts, contains records illustrating the development of the Centre , which was founded by Two Planks' artistic directors, Chris O'Neill and Ken Schwartz.
Series contains programs, playbills, postcards and posters for productions produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company. Programs are a useful source of cast and crew information and images, and many of the programs and/or postcards for touring productions list performance dates and locations. Posters, playbills and postcards are generally undated; dates are attributed based on related records.
This series contains programs, scripts, posters, and information packages from various shows and events put on by the Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company.
Series contains photographs documenting plays and events produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre. Types of images include head shots, publicity photographs, performance stills, and casual snapshots of staff and performers on tour or at fundraising events.
File comprises one 1996 Mayworks Festival events calendar (Westray: the long way home); one 1994 deCoste Centre brochure (Butterbox babies); one 1994 Savoy Theatre schedule (Butterbox babies), and one 2005–2006 @theplayhouse brochure (Pélagie). Also included is one 1993 copy of Bluenose, which features a brief article about Two Planks and a Passion Theatre and its first anniversary season.
File includes photographic images for Halo (2000); Whereverville (2002); Straight ahead / Blind dancers (1993); The Darling family (1993); Butterbox babies (1994); Westray: the long way home (2004); The shunning (1995); Cypher (1996); Someday (1999); Only drunks and children tell the truth (1997); Home and away (1998); Bondagers (1997); and Hockey mom, hockey dad (1999, 2001, 2002).
Folder includes the stage manager's tour book for Two Planks and a Passion's 1994 production of Butterbox babies, directed by Ken Schwartz. Records include a tour schedule, a largely unmarked script and a touring plot.
Folder includes the stage manager's book and prompt script from Two Planks and a Passion's 1996 tour of Westray, directed by Ken Schwartz, with stage manager, Sarah Blenkhorn. Records include contact sheets, attendance records, scene breakdowns, notes, daily tour reports, rehearsal and production schedules, and travel arrangements. Materials were removed intact from binder.
File contains stage manager's book for The shunning, by Patrick Friesen, produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre Company and toured in Nova Scotia in Fall 1995. Records include a prompt script, contact list, cast costume size reports, show reports, schedules and itineraries, and preset lists. Materials removed intact from binder.
Subseries contains records that illustrate the promotional activities of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre. Types of materials include brochures and pamphlets, press releases and tour packages.
Subseries contains production binders and/or prompt books for plays produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre from 1995-2009. Prompt books, also known as prompt copies, stage manager's books, production bibles, or simply "the book," are the master copies of scripts, containing blocking and technical cues, used by the stage manager to control the performance. The binders may also contain contact lists; set, costume and properties sheets; venue(s) and tour information; and show reports. Materials were removed intact from binders. Also included in this subseries are similar records that were maintained in individual files rather than within a single binder.
Folder comprises photocopies of newspaper reviews from the 1995 production and the 1996 tour of Two Planks and a Passion Theatre's Westray: A Long Way Home.
Folder includes performance and travel schedules/calendars, notes, and copies of preset guides for the 1996 national tour of Westray: the long way home. Records were removed intact from their binder.
File comprises prompt script for Two Planks and a Passion Theatre's 1996 production of Cypher, written by Chris O'Neill and Ken Schwartz, and directed by Schwartz. Records include lighting cues, workshop notes, and scene breakdown. Materials were removed intact from binder.
Folder includes Sarah Blenkhorn's preset guides for the 1996 national tour of Westray: the long way home. Records were removed intact from their binder.
Subseries contains published copies of plays originally produced by Two Planks and a Passion Theatre. These contain information about the first productions, including cast and crew lists.