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Diana Lance interview
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1979-08-19 [date recorded] (Creation)
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CALL NUMBER: T3877:0015 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1979-08-19 SUMMARY: Diana Lance discusses her involvement in early theatre in Victoria and Vancouver: starting in school plays in Victoria; School of Theatrical Arts in Victoria and the B.C. Drama Festival; scholarship to the UBC Summer School of the Theatre, 1949; starting with the Totem company in Vancouver as a teenager; Ian Thorne and the York theatre -- she joined this company in its infancy and stayed until it folded a few years later; Theatre Under the Stars performances in Victoria -- Starlight Theatre; went back to Vancouver in 1953; doing radio parts for CBC; Vanguard company; working at the Freddie Wood Theatre; Phoebe Smith and Evonne Firkens; Arts Club's early meetings; Vancouver International Festival; doing "The Diana Ricardo Show", a talk show, for 3 years; her opinion of CBC; involvement with Metro Theatre in its later years.
CALL NUMBER: T3877:0016 track 1 SUMMARY: Continues discussion of Metro Theatre -- money problems; her ex-husband, Michael Rothery; Barney Potts; Lancaster Players production in Victoria after York theatre closed; Dean Goodman.
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Peter Mannering, 1981-08-10
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- Unedited transcript on file.
- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-240.
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- Use Restriction: For research use only; not for publication with permission of donor. [Note: Peter Mannering died 2000-08-12.]
- Copyright Status: Copyright retained by Peter Mannering until the publication of his book on B.C. theatre history.
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speaker: Diana D.L. (Ricardo) Lance, speaker: Sam Payne, interviewer: Peter Mannering
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- Arts Club Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.) (Subject)
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (Subject)
- University of British Columbia (Subject)