Dominion drama festival archives

[Kathryn Harvey]

Hi Tony, Robin, all,

Having worked at Dalhousie University several years ago, I know they 
have the DDF Nova Scotia region fonds; however, it does not contain 
scripts, but only administrative and publicity records for the 1950s to 
early 1970s.

Robin is right that the best (though not an easy way) to find scripts 
would be through tracking down the individual companies that mounted DDF 
productions. The national archival database (http://archivescanada.ca/) 
turns up a number of hits (search by keyword for "dominion drama 
festival," using the quotation marks), but I don't think many of the 
resulting hits contain scripts.

The U of Guelph archives has amongst its various collections some DDF 
materials, quite possibly even some scripts in its Charles Palmer and 
Lillian Graham Collection, though it's difficult to tell without 
actually doing a bit more sleuthing in the records themselves.

Who would have thought such an apparently simple and reasonable question 
could be so difficult to answer?!

Cheers,
Kathryn

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On 21/10/2015 8:35 PM, Robin Whittaker wrote:
>
> The DDF turned into “Theatre Canada” in 1970. It continued to showcase 
> plays for a couple of years (but not in a competition format) until it 
> dissolved into an archive of itself, and then dissolved completely 45 
> years after it began.
>
> There is a finding aid here: 
> http://data2.archives.ca/pdf/pdf001/p000001498.pdf
>
> Depending on the scope of your project, your best bet may be to 
> contact the specific theatre companies who entered plays in the DDF 
> during the 60s and ask if you can access the scripts you’re looking 
> for. I have some information on a few scripts if you want to contact 
> me off-list.
>
> I’d be interested to know if you, or anyone else, knows of any other, 
> more thorough, collections.
>
> Best,
> Robin.
>
> --
> *Dr. Robin C. Whittaker*
> Associate Professor
> St. Thomas University, Fredericton NB E3B 5C3
> Drama Advisor, Department of English 
> http://w3.stu.ca/stu/academics/departments/english_lit/
> Artistic Producer, Theatre St. Thomas http://wp.stu.ca/tst/
> Editor,/STU Reviews/stureviews.wordpress.com 
> <http://stureviews.wordpress.com>
>
> On Oct 21, 2015, at 5:07 PM, T. Berto <aberto at UOGUELPH.CA 
> <mailto:aberto at UOGUELPH.CA>> wrote:
>
>> Dear All:
>>
>> Does anyone know where ephemera from the Dominion Drama Festival 
>> might be housed? I'm looking specifically for scripts from the 60s.
>>
>> best
>>
>> TB
>>
>> Dr. T. Berto
>> School of English and Theatre Studies,
>> University of Guelph.
>> aberto at uoguelph.ca <mailto:aberto at uoguelph.ca>
>>
>

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