| Description | Correspondence and other records primarily regarding the Barn Theatre, the future direction of drama at Dartington Hall, including paper 'Drama' (LKE, 4 Nov 1929), and the School of Dance Mime. Subjects include: a performance of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'; the purchase of a Cyclorama for the School of Dance Mime; the treatment of a photographer at a performance; a National Conference on the Teaching of Drama at Hull University (1936); a production of 'Comus' by the University College of the South West, Exeter; a play by Ellen van Volkenburg; the appointment of a Director to the School of Dance Mime; possible stage effects for the Barn Theatre project at Dartington Hall; and L Erikson.
Correspondents include: F C Doidge, Devon County Education Committee; Leonard Elmhirst; Estate Clerk; Cyril J Palmer, Western Morning News; Beatrice Straight; T H Searls, Hull University Department of Adult Education; L D Handcock, University College of the South West, Exeter; Ellen van Volkenburg; Hallie Flanagan; and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.
Additional material includes: 'The Drama Report' by Erica Inman including a questionnaire (1927); 'Estimated Figures' by Ellen van Volkenburg for performances of 'The Women of Ghent' and 'The Wife of William Flavy' (1934); notes by Hallie Flanagan on 'Theatre at Dartington Hall' including conversations with Leonard Elmhirst, William B Curry and Beatrice Straight, two possible plans and a financial statement (1934); a programme for a meeting of the Play Reading Group (1935); a programme for 'Episodes from Alice in Wonderland', a marionette show produced by Richard Odlin; an article by Frank Thornton-Bassett in the magazine Drama 'A New Barn Theatre, It's Conception and Some Problems' (1934); a list of suggested qualities to be looked for in plays and suggestions for a questionnaire to be filled out by members of the Studio Play Reading Committee after reading a play; a Theatrical Employer's Certificate of Registration (1936); papers by Ellen van Volkenburg including 'Imagination and the Drama', Play-Making with Eight to Twelve Year Olds' and 'Suggestion in Regard to the Development of Drama at Dartington' (1931). |