File contains a photograph of the cast of the Dalhousie Drama Club's production of "The President's Daughter" in 1908-1909. The photograph shows Jack Reid; Archie Sutherland; Helen Crichton; Grace Tupper; Marguerite H. L. Silver; Dorothy Constance Gorham; W. C. Ross; Frank Archibald; Jamie MacLeod; Stewart Mavor; Evan MacKenzie Forbes; and J. P. MacIntosh sitting or standing in several rows.
Fonds consists of records relating to Renton's personal life as well as his acting and teaching careers. The personal papers include files on specific actors, athletics, clippings and publications, festivals and workshops, financial records, Portus Theatre Productions (the production company he founded), school-related theatrical education materials, committee work, unions, associations, and a variety of other subjects. Correspondence includes letters to, from, and about Renton and are primarily theatre-related. The scripts were accumulated by Renton throughout his career as an actor, director, and producer. The fonds also includes photographs and slides of numerous theatrical productions.
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.
This folder consists 2 programmes; Finian's Rainbow, February 27-March 1,1958 and Paint your wagon, February 25-28, 1959. This are musical that were performed the the Dalhousie Glee and Dramatic Society.
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.
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.
Fonds contains records created and collected by Wendy Lill, including correspondence, manuscripts, published play scripts, research material, speeches, reports, publicity material, and personal records.
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 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 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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
