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SUMMARY: A report on the activities of the Arts Club Theatre in Vancouver.;

SUMMARY: "Between Ourselves" was a weekly series of hour-long radio programs that presented Canada to Canadians. It featured aspects of Canadian life in docudramas, plays, music, and interviews, originating fr;om different regions of Canada. The series ran from 1966 to 1979. This episode, "Original Copy" is unusual and experimental; it is also "rated X". Gerry Gilbert and Don Drewitt [sp?] have put together; a movie they'd like the audience to see on the radio. This is a sequence of twenty-six scenes, each in its own way is related to the movies and to Vancouver and to each other, creating -- in the thea;tre of the imagination -- a sort of radio collage. It is an original copy of an idea by David Tompkins.;

SUMMARY: A report on the opening of George Ryga's new play, "Paracelsus" at Expo 86.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Toba;cco Road" by Tom Cone, re-creates the 1953 production of Erskine Caldwell's "Tobacco Road", staged by Everyman Theatre Company. Having played successfully in New York, the play met quite another fate ;in conservative Vancouver, and eventually went to trial.;

SUMMARY: A pocket documentary on Vancouver playwright, actor and critic John Lazarus by actor Jerry Wasserman.;

SUMMARY: "El Clavadista", a short play by Colleen Curran, directed by Pamela Hawthorne, will be presented in the Canada Pavilion at Expo 86.;

SUMMARY: An interview with Vancouver actress Nicola Cavendish, currently playing a small part in a Broadway play.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "Betrayal" is a Christma;s story by Hubert Evans, set on the west coast [T4303:0008]. Part 2: An interview with Eric Green, who is a Vancouver playwright and artistic director of the Westminster Canadian Theatre Company [T4;303:0038].;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A documentary about the Caravan Players, a theatre company that travels around BC in horse-drawn wagons.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. An interview with playwright John Lazarus. This interview is linked to the two plays "Half an Inch Closer" [T4303:0040] and "Dollar on the Sidewalk" [missing] which were broadcast on 13 May 1978. However, the interview was most likely broadcast on another date.

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Christian Bernard interviews Pam ;Hawthorne, director of the New Play Centre, about Tom Grainger, a Vancouver playwright.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "A Crew of Five", an experimental play for a cast of fifteen, tracing the birth through old age of five human beings. [MISSING] Part 2: George Woodcock comments on the state of radio theatre as written and produced in Vancouver. [T4303:0110]

SUMMARY: "The Whispering Time" appears to be a recording of live stage play set in Vancouver in the 1970s. A play with that title, written by Sherman Snukal, was performed in Vancouver in 1976.;