Theatre Arts Department Records, 1910-

Collection Overview

Abstract

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: General History

Box 1

Folder 1: "History of the Theatre Arts Department" by Donna Campbell, 1983

Written for the UND Centennial

Folder 2: "Theatre History at the University of North Dakota" by Loren Liepold, 2008

Written for the UND Quasquicentennial

Series 2: Sock and Buskin Society, 1910-1917

"The object of the organization shall be the study of the literature of the drama and the promotion of the art of the theatre, by the discussion and presentation of higher ideals in the drama in America and the initiation of a movement to establish as soon as practicable a University Theatre in the University of North Dakota."

Source: Sock and Buskin Society Constitution, as printed in the program for "Twelfth Night," June 1910 (Box 1, Folder 3)

Box 1

Folder 3: Programs, 1910-1917

Item 1: "Twelfth Night or What you Will", June 1910

Item 2: "The Devil's Disciple", May 1915

Item 3: "A Series of Original One Act Plays: The First Annual Tour of a Group of Players of the Sock and Buskin Society of the University of North Dakota", 1916-1917

Item 4: "Original One Act Plays", January 1917

Folder 4: "A Pageant of the North-West", May 1914

Produced for the 7th Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, (now known as Organization of American Historians) which was meeting at UND. This performance also functioned as the dedication of the Bankside Theatre on campus. Material in the folder consists solely of a formal publication created for the event.

Folder 5: "Shakespeare, the Playmaker", June 1916

Includes the program, formal publication, newspaper coverage from the Grand Forks Herald, and correspondence from Professor Frederick Koch to Professor R.T. Stevenson from Ohio Wesleyan University

Folder 6: "Dakota Discoveries in Dual Dramatology." by Hiram Modewell. Boston Transcript., September 30, 1916

Folder 7: "Tribute...to a Dramatist" by Maxwell Anderson

Poem written in memory of Dr. Frederick Koch, founder of the Sock and Buskin Society, who died in 1944

Series 3: Dakota Playmakers, 1918-1970

"The object of the organization shall be to promote the cause of amateur dramatics at the university and in the state by the study, the composition, and the staging of good plays, and by the discussion at stated meetings of all the arts of the theatre."

Source: "The Dakota Playmakers Constitution, Revised October 1, 1925" (Box 1, Folder 6)

Box 1

Folder 8: Constitution, 1925, undated

Folder 9: "The Dakota Playmakers: An Historical Sketch" by Frederick Henry Koch and "The Constitution of the Play-Stage" by Albert John Becker. Quarterly Journal of the University of North Dakota, October 1918

Folder 10: Programs, 1918

Folder 11: Programs, 1920-1929

Folder 12: Programs, 1930-1939

Folder 13: Programs, 1940-1949

Folder 14: Programs, 1950-1959

Folder 15: Programs, 1960-1969

Folder 16: Programs, 1970

Folder 17: Programs, undated

Folder 18: Correspondence, 1952-1954, undated

Folder 19: Tryout Posters, undated

Folder 20: "The Callboard" (publication), 1957-1958

Folder 21: Maxwell Anderson Playwriting Contest (poster), 1966-1970

Folder 22: Junior Playmakers Festival, 1930-1937

Series 4: University Theatre, 1963-1972

Box 1

Folder 23: Season Announcements, 1965-1971

Folder 24: Programs, 1963-1969

Folder 25: Programs, 1970-1972

Folder 26: Programs, undated

Series 5: Theatre Arts Department, 1971-

Box 1

Folder 27: Theatre Arts Curriculum Pamphlets, 19997, 2001, and undated

Folder 28: Season Announcements, 1971-1979

Folder 29: Programs, 1971-1979

Folder 30: Programs, 1981-1989

Folder 31: Programs, 1990-1999

Folder 32: Programs, 2000-2009

Folder 33: Programs, 2010-

Folder 34: Programs, Summer Theatre, undated

Folder 35: "The Theatre Journal" (student newsletter), 1964-1969

Folder 36: "The Green Room" (departmental newsletter), 1996

Series 6: Miscellaneous

Box 1

Folder 37: Miscellaneous Programs

Item 1: "Iphigenia in Tauris" by the Coburn Players, Under the Auspices of the Class of 1914, June 1914

Item 2: Class Farce by the Class of 1915, June 1915

Item 3: Bethlehem: A Christmas Mystery Play, December 1926