Theatre Algoma collection

Custodial History: 

Material in accession 2018-020 was donated to the University Archives by Bob Cooper on March 16, 2018

Start Date: 
1991
GMD: 
Geographic Access: 
Access Restriction: 

No restrictions on access.

Description Level: 
Language: 
End Date: 
2018
Date Range: 
1991-2018
Conservation: 

Minor conservation performed during processing.

Physical Description: 

0.2 m of textual records and graphic material.

Arrangement: 
Collection is arranged thematically by item type.
History Biographical: 

Theatre Algoma was established in 1972 as a student drama club at Algoma University College .The group was founded by Dr. Robert d'Amato, who served as Artistic Director until he retired in 2002. Early funding for the group came from AUC, the Sault Opera Society, and the Sault Theatre Workshop. 

Theatre productions by staff and students of Algoma University College and Algoma University include: 

1972 Peter Weiss, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charente under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

1973 Vaclav Havel, The Garden Party

1974 Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman of Chaillot

1974 May Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

April n.d.  -  An Evening of 1-Act Plays: Tennessee Williams; The Unsatisfactory Supper ; Eugene Ionesco  -  The Oversight ; William Butler Yeats  -  Purgatory ; Jean Genet  -  The Maids

n.d.  -  Samuel Beckett "Not I," and  "An Evening with Samuel Beckett," with Lee Anne Pearson.

n.d.  -  They Lie for Love!  (Twin Bill): Molière  -  Le médecin volant and David Garrick  -  The Lying Valet

n.d.  -  Harold Pinterm: The Dumb Waiter, Trouble in the Works, The Black and White, The Applicant, Request Stop

n.d.  -  4-By Tennessee: The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, Portrait of a Madonna, Lord Byron's Love Letter, Something Unspoken

1976 An Evening of One-Act Plays: Ferdinand Arrabal  -  Picnic on the Battlefield; August Strindberg  -  The Stranger; Matt Brown  -  Teacher Thomas; Deborah Wilson  -  The Logical Conclusion

1976 Intro Class and Mask Workshops

1976 Slawomir Mrozek, Tango

1976 Michel Tremblay's Hosanna

1976 Five Plays. Presented by the AUC English Department: Tennessee Williams, The Unsatisfactory Supper; Eugene Ionesco, The Oversight; W. B. Yeats, PurgatoryAnton Chekhov, The Proposal; Jean Genet, The Maids

1977 February 10-12 Albert Camus's Caligula

1977 March/April King Oedipus.  

1986 Hillar Liitoja, Expound

1989 Virgin Bride

1990 November 22-24  Vaclav Havel, Temptation

1991 October 10-12  Albertine in Five Times

1992 February Une Soirée Beckett

1993 March Two Medieval plays

1993 Spring "A Monty Python Extravagazna, or, I Was A Polym (or) Phous Python, or, Circus of the Hyperreal Hermeneutics."

1994 Modern European Theatre Class

1995 March George Walker's Zastrozzi's The Master of Discipline

1997 November David Mamet's, Oleanna

1997 January 7-11 Jean Anouith, Eurydice

1999 Fall Construction of the theatre

1999 Christmas  William Gibson's The Butterfingers Angel, Mary & Joseph, Herod the Nut & the Slaughter of 12 Hit Carols in a Pear Tree

2000 March 24-25 Stages of Cruelty: A Theatrical Medley

2006  The Bootlegger Blues.  Produced by the Shingwauk Players

2007 March 7-10  Timberelake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale

2010 Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers

2011 Choices?

2012 What the Hell?

2014 March The Absurd and How to Deal With It: Ferdinand Arrabal,   Pique-nique en campagne and Eugene Ionesco, The Bald Soprano

2014 December Neil Fleming, Last Christmas

2015 March 26-28 Two One-Act Comedies: David Ives, Time Flies and Daniel Weissenberger, Voltaire and the Zombies

Scope Content: 

Collection comprises materials documenting Theatre Algoma, a theatre production organization out of Algoma Unviersity. Includes posters, event programs, photographs, scripts, and other material. 

Repository: 
aua

Garden party poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1973
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1973
Date Range: 
1973
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Madwoman of Challot script and poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1974
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1974
Date Range: 
1974
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.3 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Madwoman of Challot poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1974
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1974
Date Range: 
1974
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Waiting for Godot posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1974
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1974
Date Range: 
1974
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

An evening of one-act plays posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
[197-]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[197-]
Date Range: 
[197-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

An evening of one-act plays posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1976
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1976
Date Range: 
1976
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Tango poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1976 November 6
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1976 November 8
Date Range: 
1976 November 6 - 1976 November 8
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.01 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Hosanna posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1976
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1976
Date Range: 
1976
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Five plays poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1976
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1976
Date Range: 
1976
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Expound posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1986
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1986
Date Range: 
1986
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Temptation pamphlet

Language: 
Start Date: 
1990
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1990
Date Range: 
1990
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Albertine pamphlets and posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1991
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1991
Date Range: 
1991
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Eurydice pamphlet and poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
1997
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1997
Date Range: 
1997
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

The butterfingers angel pamphlet

Language: 
Start Date: 
1999
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1999
Date Range: 
1999
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

The butterfingers angel script

Language: 
Start Date: 
1999
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1999
Date Range: 
1999
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.8 cm of textual records. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Stages of cruelty program

Language: 
Start Date: 
2000 March 24
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2000 March 25
Date Range: 
2000 March 24 - 2000 March 25
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Choices? posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
2011 March31
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2011 April 2
Date Range: 
2011 March 31 - 2011 April 2
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Last Christmas programs

Language: 
Start Date: 
2014 December 4
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014 December 14
Date Range: 
2014 December 4 - 2014 December 14
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.3 cm textual 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Dump doll posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
2000 March 1
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2002 March 1
Date Range: 
2000 March 1 - 2002 March 1
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Stages of love program

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1970]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1979]
Date Range: 
[197-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Everyman program and poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1970]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1979]
Date Range: 
[197-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Endgame pamphlet

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1990]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1999]
Date Range: 
[199-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

4-By Tennessee

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1990]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1999]
Date Range: 
[199-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual records. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

They lie for love programs

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1990]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1999]
Date Range: 
[199-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

The dumb waiter program

Language: 
Start Date: 
[2000]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2009]
Date Range: 
[200-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Photos of Denis Nadon

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1980]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1989]
Date Range: 
[198-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of graphic material. - 2 photographs; 1 colour, 1 b+w: 9 x 9 cm, and 25 x 20 cm

Notes: 

1 photograph: b&w; 25.5 x 20 cm.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001

Marat/Sade poster and program

Language: 
Start Date: 
1972
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1972
Date Range: 
1972
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Various scripts

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1990]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1999]
Date Range: 
[199-]
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

1.90 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Theatre at Algoma poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
[1990]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[1999]
Date Range: 
[199-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Oleanna poster and program

Language: 
Start Date: 
1997 November 19
Description Level: 
End Date: 
1997 November 22
Date Range: 
1997 November 19 - 1997 November 22
Image: 
Language: 
English
Document: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Pique-nique en campagne script

Start Date: 
[2000]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2009]
Date Range: 
[200-]
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

The Libation Bearers audition poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
[2000]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2009]
Date Range: 
[200-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

The libation bearers program

Language: 
Start Date: 
[2000]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2009]
Date Range: 
[200-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Algoma theatre syllabi and course guidelines

Language: 
Start Date: 
2005
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2016
Date Range: 
2005 - 2016
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.2 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

The bootlegger blues program

Language: 
Start Date: 
2006 March 24
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2006 March 25
Date Range: 
2006 March 24 - 2006 March 25
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Chaunesti Webb article

Language: 
Start Date: 
[2010]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2018]
Date Range: 
[201-]
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

What the hell program

Language: 
Start Date: 
[2010]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[2018]
Date Range: 
[201-]
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Last Christmas master script

Language: 
Start Date: 
2012
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2012
Date Range: 
2012
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

2 cm of textual records. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

The absurd and how to deal with it poster

Language: 
Start Date: 
2014 March 21
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014 March 22
Date Range: 
2014 March 21 - 2014 March 22
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

Notes: 

In French: Pique-nique en campagne

In English: The Bald Soprano

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

The absurd and how to deal with it poster and program

Language: 
Start Date: 
2014 March 21
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014 March 22
Date Range: 
2014 March 21 - 2014 March 22
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Time flies script and posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
2015 March 26
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2015 March 28
Date Range: 
2015 March 26 - 2015 March 28
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.3 cm of textual records.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Theatre Algoma archival CD

Start Date: 
1976
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014
Date Range: 
1976-2014
Image: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.05 cm of electronic multiple media. - 1 CD; 700mb.

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-002
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
002

Assorted posters

Language: 
Start Date: 
1980
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2015
Date Range: 
[ca.1980-2015]
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.01 cm of textual records.

Notes: 

Oversize 

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-003
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
003

Christmas play board

Language: 
GMD: 
Start Date: 
2000
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2010
Date Range: 
[200-]
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

2 cm of object. - 1 wooden advertising board 

Notes: 

Oversized

rec_shelfloc: 
2018-020-003
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
003

Original Monologue Performances - Krista Boulanger

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2005
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2005
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2005, March 23
Marks: 
Language: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm textual material. - 1 booklet. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2021-019-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Theatre Algoma Presents Last Christmas

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2014
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2014, December
Marks: 
Language: 
Physical Description: 

0.1 cm textual material. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2021-019-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Algoma u Drama Club Presents "Choices?"

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2011
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2011
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2011
Marks: 
Language: 
Physical Description: 

0.1cm textual material. - 1 booklet. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2021-019-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Voltaire and the Zombies

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2015
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2015
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2015, March 26
Marks: 
Language: 
Physical Description: 

0.5cm electronic media. - 1 CD. 

rec_shelfloc: 
2021-019-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Algoma University Drama Club, "What the hell?"

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2011
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2011
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2011
Marks: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

1.2 cm of moving images. - 1 DVD.

rec_shelfloc: 
2022-011-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Algoma Theatre

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
[ca.2012]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[ca.2012]
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
[ca.2012]
Marks: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.7 cm of moving images. - 1 DVD.

rec_shelfloc: 
2022-011-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Algoma Theatre: Time Flies

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
[ca.2013]
Description Level: 
End Date: 
[ca.2013]
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
[ca.2013]
Marks: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

1.7 cm of moving images. - 1 DVD.

rec_shelfloc: 
2022-011-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: 

Algoma Theatre, Bold Soprano

Publication: 
Volume: 
Scan Resolution: 
Issue: 
Standard No: 
Scan Date: 
Scale: 
Language: 
Master scans folder location: 
Responsibility: 
Custodial History: 
Start Date: 
2014
Description Level: 
End Date: 
2014
Style or Pattern: 
Process: 
Date Range: 
2014
Marks: 
Language: 
English
Physical Description: 

0.6 cm of moving images. - 2 DVDs.

rec_shelfloc: 
2022-011-001
Repository: 
Algoma University Archive
Accession No: 
Container Number: 
001
Conclusions: 
Storage Method: