Pull out your costumes and get into character!  The University Archives and Special Collections is pleased to announce that it has acquired the records of Dark Night Theatre.

Dark Night Theatre was a Halifax, Nova Scotia community theatre organization launched in 1988 under the auspices of the Nova Scotia Drama League.  The group held weekly reading circles that provided up-and-coming playwrights an opportunity to read their scripts and get feedback from writers, actors, and directors in the local theatre community.

The collection contains information on the founding of Dark Night Theatre and dozens of scripts.  Highlights include a copy of The Prophet of Tantramar, a play by Silver Donald Cameron about Leon Trotsky’s time in a P.O.W. camp and two drafts of The Summer of the Piping Plover by Catherine A. Banks.

It’s a small treasure trove of community theatre records that we are pleased to add to our Visual and Dramatic Arts collection, already one of the most significant of its kind in Canada!  View the Finding Aid online or drop the Archives and Special Collections on the 5th floor of the Killam Library to find out more about this exciting new collection.