| Description | Correspondence and other records regarding the formation, finance and performances by the Children's Theatre Service, a company specialising in theatre written and designed for children.
Subjects include: arrangements for performance in a number of schools; a request for exemption from taxation for a performance of three plays by the Children's Theatre Service; audience responses; arrangements for three members of the Children's Theatre Service to visit Drayton Manor School to comment on the children's plays; the economy of fuel in the courtyard; and the rearrangement of the Dartington Hall School work of Fred Seyd and William Bosence to allow performances of the Children's Theatre Service to continue.
Correspondents include: Christopher Martin; Fred Seyd; William Bosence; Elmslie Philip; Customs and Excise; R H Green, HMI; Mr Tue; W A Bennett, Church School; Mr Armfelt; Margaret Scott, Totnes County School for Girls; Arthur S Gage, Swarthmore Settlement; B G Phillips, Audley Park Girls' School; G Sibbons, British Council; Susan Payne; Mr Badman, Buckfastleigh Council School; Charles Blake, Audley Park Senior Boys School; the Divisional Petroleum Officer, Bristol; Mary Redman, Drayton Manor School; E H Cant, Dartmouth Girls' School; and W B Curry.
Additional material includes: summaries and proposals for 'The Children's Theatre Service, Dartington Hall'; a 'Proposal for the Formation of the Dartington Children's Theatre Service'; a 'Note to all adults admitted'; a 'Report on the Experimental Stage of the Children's Theatre Service' by Fred Seyd (1941); a list of aims and a Mission Statement; a programme for performances (1941-1942); a performance schedule; a 'Statement of the Position after the Completion of Stage 2 of the Children's Theatre Service Plan of Action'; a 'Report of the Close of the Autumn Season of the Children's Theatre Service, Dartington Hall' (1942); a 'Report on the Position and Activity of the Children Theatre Service' by Fred Seyd; details of expenditure; a list of credits; and a memorandum regarding the 'Administrative Organisation of the Arts Department during Mr C C Martin's Absence' (1942). |