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[1966?]-1982 (Creation)
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2.5 m of textual records. - 3166 photographs. - 234 slides. - 11 drawings. - 14 prints. - 10 collages. - 123 plans. - 9 films. - 1 artefact.
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Festival Lennoxville was launched in 1972 by the St. Francis Theatre Company, founded in January of that year, by professors David Rittenhouse and Bill Davis of the Bishop's University Drama Department. St. Francis Theatre Company's mandate was specifically to stage a summer theatre festival. Management was by the Board of Directors, various committees, the Artistic Director, and the Administrative Director. From 1972 to 1982, Festival Lennoxville presented over 30 plays by 25 Canadian playwrights at Bishop's University Centennial Theatre. Although over the years the Festival received funding from Bishop's, the Canada Council, the Secretary of State, the municipality of Lennoxville, and private organizations, in 1982 it was forced, by lack of financial resources, to cease operating.
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The fonds contains source material on the administrative and artistic activities of the St. Francis Theatre Company and Festival Lennoxville between 1972 and 1982. It consists of by-laws, minutes, correspondence, financial statements and budgets, publicity and promotional documents, scripts, schedules, recordings, designs, and also files of actors, playwrights, and producers. The fonds is comprised of the following series: Administration and Management ([1966?]-1982), Human Resources (1971-1982), Finances (1971-1982), Productions (1972-1982), and Public Relations (1972-1982).
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Among the photographs there are 11 negatives and 3 composite photographs. Some photographs are on 148 contact sheets. The following plays are recorded on video tape reels: Adam's Fall, The Blood is Strong, and My Sister's Keeper. They have been transferred to DVD and are on 9 DVDs.
The video reels were transferred onto DVDs. These DVDs are backed up on the removable hard drive.
The fonds was donated in four accessions (1982, 1999, 2006, 2009) by the St. Francis Theatre Company, by John Rolland, by Philip Lanthier and by Philip Scowen.
Most of the documents are in English, some in French.
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28 janvier, 2016