The documents provide a portrait of English-language theatrical activity in Quebec, primarily in the period after the founding of QDF in 1972. The fonds contains budget, fundraising, and other financial records, legal documents, human resources documents, correspondence, records of the Quebec Drama Festival 1974-1984, documents relating to QDF-sponsored workshops, seminars, and programs, materials on the Dominion Drama Festival, theatre programs, and photographs. There is also material that was collected for a history of English-language theatre in Quebec.
Quebec Drama FederationThe fonds provides information on the annual Catholic Drama Festival organized by the Guild between 1940 and 1953.
The fonds contains some handouts on the Cathespian Guild and a few programs and photographs of some of the annual Catholic Drama Festivals. It also contains the Drama Festival award book entitled Award for Distinguished Achievement in Catholic Theatre.
Cathespian GuildThe fonds provides information on Montreal Children's Theatre and its founders.
The fonds consists of five scrapbooks including press clippings and articles, as well as photographs, a video cassette of a media interviews with Dorothy Davis [ca. 1983, 1984] and of a report on her death in 1993, and the honourary degrees conferred by Concordia University on Dorothy Davis and Violet Walters in 1984.
Davis, DorothyThe Mary Morter fond contains documents pertaining to theater in Montreal. More specifically, the fonds is composed of materials concerning the Instant Theatre and the Pendulum Theatre, both located in Montreal and founded and run by Mary Morter in the 1960s and 1970s. The fonds provides an overview of the programming at both theatres. It also provides insight into how the theaters were perceived by the public. In addition, the fonds contains a number of documents focusing on the play North American Indian Legends by Pendulum Theatre. Documents created by other theatres located in Montreal or Toronto provide additional insight into the English-speaking theatre scene in those cities in the 20th century.
The Mary Morter fonds contains theatre programs, photographs, posters, correspondence, magazines, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, a sound recording, and various plays, among other documents.
Morter, MaryThe fonds illustrates theatre life in Montreal from 1918 to 1963, in particular the presentations at His Majesty’s Theatre, later Her Majesty’s Theatre, in Montreal, Quebec.
The fonds consists of theatre programs from the His Majesty’s Theatre, later known as Her Majesty’s Theatre, Montreal.
McKeon, MauraThe fonds provides information on French-language theatre and visual arts in Montreal and elsewhere from the late 1950s through the 1980s.
The fonds contains the manuscript of an unpublished history of French theatre in Quebec, manuscripts of articles and talks, theatre programs, theatre photographs, clippings, and other documents. For instance, there are files on Montreal theatre productions (e.g., Théâtre du Rideau Vert and Théâtre de Quat'sous), authors (e.g., Gratien Gélinas and Michel Tremblay), and actors (e.g., Denise Pelletier).
Sabbath, LawrenceThe Ascent of F6 Play. Unidentified person and Tim Whalen.
The Ascent of F6 Play. Six people among others: Tim Whalen, Gordon Jones, Alex [Aley] Ferguson.
The Ascent of F6 Play. Four unidentified people.
The Ascent of F6 Play. Group of unidentified people.
The Tempest Play
Richard III Play
Playboy of the Western World Play. From Left to right: Sondra Masters, Philip Bourke, Aley Ferguson, Norman Manson, Fred Browne.
Playboy of the Western World. Dorothy Clarke, Evelyn Browne, Mary Macintyre, Fred Browne.
Peer Gynt Play. From left to right: D.B. Clarke, Mary Macintyre.
Peer Gynt Play. Roy Malcaronne, D. B. Clarke
Peer Gynt Play. From left to right: Doug Clarke, Sondra Masters.
Peer Gynt Play. Unidentified group sitting.
Peer Gynt Play. D. B. Clarke, Claire Lauché.
Playboy of the Western World Play. Sondra Masters, Fred Browne.
Othello Play. From to right: Douglass Burns Clarke, Dorothy Adams.
Othello Play. Gordon Stewart.
Othello Play. From left to right: Evelyn Cope (Browne), Mary Macintyre, Tim Whalen, Aley Ferguson, Roy Malcaronne, Dorothy Adams (Clarke), Gordon Stewart.
Othello Play. From left to right: Douglass B. Clarke, Dorothy Adams (Clarke), Evelyn Cope (Browne).
Othello Play. Tim Whalen; Roy Malcaronne.
Othello Play. Tim Whalen
Othello Play. Roy Malcaronne.
Othello Play. Fred Browne, Philip Bourke
Julius Caesar Play. Group of actors.