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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Great links Denis thanks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>daf</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=denis.salter@MCGILL.CA href="mailto:denis.salter@MCGILL.CA">Denis
Salter</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA
href="mailto:CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA">CANDRAMA@LISTSERV.UNB.CA</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 14, 2006 6:12
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Update on the Theatre
Museum</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000><EM>Dear All,</EM> <BR><BR>Below is the official position from
the V&A regarding the collections at the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Please circulate to all
colleagues and students. <BR><BR>Information regarding special
collections can be accessed via </FONT><A
href="http://www.backstage.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.backstage.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> as well as the <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> webiste. Online guided
tours, images and other resources are available via our peopleplay webiste
</FONT><A href="http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.peopleplayuk.org.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> and the library catalogue contains
information on some of the prompt-book collections, National Video Archive of
Performance and books catalogued since 1999: </FONT><A
href="http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">http://catalogue.nal.vam.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> .<BR></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000><EM>Thanks, Kate<BR
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style="mso-special-character: line-break"></P></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000><U>The Theatre Museum Collections Centre at Blythe
House</U>:<BR><BR>Although the <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType>'s site in Covent Garden will be closed from
Jan 2007 there is no intention to change the status, role or strategy of the
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> as the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s national
collection for the performing arts. Our work of documenting performance
and developing our collections will continue, and research access to them will
go on being provided, as now, at our premises in Kensington Olympia, where the
collections have been located since June 2005. Indeed, one of the
outcomes of the closure of the museum building in <st1:place w:st="on">Covent
Garden</st1:place> will be to redirect financial resources into developing a
range of online materials and touring exhibitions designed to give the public
better access to our collections.<BR><BR>The <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Theatre</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Museum</st1:PlaceType> possesses the largest collections in the
world relating to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s performing arts. One of
their strengths is that these are constantly updated with new material
relating to both contemporary and historical performance. Once items are
transferred to our ownership, we are committed to preserving them in
perpetuity and in accordance with the highest standards of
curatorship.<BR><BR>The Collections Centre is open to all researchers
(academics, theatre professionals, family historians, students and interested
members of the public) by appointment (tel: 0207 943 4727, email
</FONT><A href="mailto:tmenquiries@vam.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">tmenquiries@vam.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000>). Researchers can use the
reading room to watch videos, study documents, designs and photographs, make
use of the museum's library and obtain advice and guidance from curatorial
staff. In addition to this, the museum holds regular open days for
those interested in larger or more fragile objects which cannot be issued in
the reading room, these include costume and stage technology tours. We
also run an enquiries service for the profession and the general public
available by emailing </FONT><A
href="mailto:tmenquiries@vam.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">tmenquiries@vam.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> or ringing 0207 943 4735.<BR><BR>Dr Kate
Dorney, <BR>Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance, <BR>V&A
Theatre Museum<BR><BR>Tel: 0207 471 9872<BR>Fax: 020 7471 9864<BR>E-mail:
</FONT><A href="mailto:k.dorney@vam.ac.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">k.dorney@vam.ac.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> <BR> <BR>Visit </FONT><A
href="http://www.peopleplayuk.org.uk"><FONT
face="Times New Roman">www.peopleplayuk.org.uk</FONT></A><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=#000000> to see Theatre History
online<BR><BR><BR></FONT><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"></P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>_________________________________________________________________<BR>"
. . . we have to accept that our tragedy lies always in our past, that we have
to live with our ancestors' folly and suffer for it, just as they, in their
turn, suffered, and as we, through our vanity and ignorance, ensure the pain
and suffering of our own children. How to correct history, that's the
thing."--Robert Fisk<BR>____________________________________<BR>"In 2005, the
world . . . pass[ed] the trillion-dollar mark in the expenditure, annually, on
arms. We're fighting for $50 billion annually for foreign aid for Africa: the
military total outstrips human need by 20 to 1. Can someone please explain to
me our contemporary balance of values?" --Stephen
Lewis.<BR>__________________________________________________<BR>Denis
Salter<BR>Professor of Theatre<BR>McGill University<BR>853 Sherbrooke St.
West<BR>Montréal, QC<BR>H3A 2T6<BR>Tel (514) 398 6592 <BR>Regular Fax (514)
398 8146<BR>Computer Fax (309) 294 0444<BR><A
href="mailto:denis.salter@mcgill.ca">denis.salter@mcgill.ca</A><BR>__________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>