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Community Players of Winnipeg fonds

Two lawyers, H.A.V. Green and C. Alan Crowley, established The Community of Players of Winnipeg as an amateur theatre group in 1921. Their mandate included providing facilities for the production of plays written by Canadian authors as well as providing Canadian playwrights and Canadian players the opportunity to practice their art and obtain national recognition. Support for the theatre group came in the form of memberships and subscriptions. The Community Players offered four major productions every season and often mounted additional productions. The change of name from the Community Players to Winnipeg Little Theatre must have occurred after 1932 although the date is not clearly defined. The fonds consists of programmes from 1923-1930, newspaper clippings, Treasurer's Reports of the 1927 and 1928 season, The Bill from 1928 to 1937, Little Theatre Gossip, correspondence, typescripts of speeches and historical summaries.

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: Ballets and “The Poison Party” Theater program; A theater program by The Winnipeg Little Theatre of Ballets; “L’Apres Midi d’un Boulevard”and “Au Salon de Coiffure” and plays; “The Poison Party” by F. Sladen-Smith and “The Bull Sale” by C. Herbert Richardson were performed on January 9-11, 1936 in Winnipeg, Manitoba., The Little Theatre Movement or la petite scène, has now become a generic term for the amateur or nonprofessional, "community" theatre in Canada often featuring Canadian playwrights. Originally, however, it referred to an international reform movement protesting against mass-produced, professional productions seen around the turn of the century.

: “The Prisoner” Theater program; A theater program by The Winnipeg Little Theater of “The Prisoner” by Taras Shewchenko and dramatized by Karpenko Karey and directed by John Craig with assistance from Ivan Baydak. The play was performed on November 26-28, 1936 at the Orpheum Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba., The Little Theatre Movement or la petite scène, has now become a generic term for the amateur or nonprofessional, "community" theatre in Canada often featuring Canadian playwrights. Originally, however, it referred to an international reform movement protesting against mass-produced, professional productions seen around the turn of the century.

: “The Taming of the Shrew” Theater program; A theater program by The Winnipeg Little Theatre of “The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare and directed by John Craig was performed on November 27-30, 1935 at the Dominion Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba., The Little Theatre Movement or la petite scène, has now become a generic term for the amateur or nonprofessional, "community" theatre in Canada often featuring Canadian playwrights. Originally, however, it referred to an international reform movement protesting against mass-produced, professional productions seen around the turn of the century.

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