Footlights Dramatic Club
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fonds
Archives of the Footlights Dramatic Club, 1883 - 2019
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/FOOT
Scope and Contents
The Footlights archives are extensive, thanks to the efforts of Dr H.C. Porter, Senior Treasurer, 1962-77, Senior Archivist, 1978-2003. Since his death in 2003, regular transfers of records are the responsibility of the Junior Archivist. Records of Club administration survive alongside material relating to productions and performances, such as scripts, photographs, posters and programmes. Dr Porter added to the primary sources with his own and others' historical research material. This...
Dates:
1883 - 2019
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Series
Footlights Dramatic Club, 'the Footlights', 1891 - 2013
Series
Reference Code: GBR/1058/COL/9/2/0/2
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Pembroke College Archive holds records of the College and its estates going back to its foundation in the 14th century and earlier. The College is fortunate to retain many of the early charters relating to its foundation by Marie de St. Pol, Countess of Pembroke. Significant estate collections include those for Framlingham and Saxtead in Suffolk, and Hardwick, Linton, Soham and Waresley in Cambridgeshire. Other records include governance records, bursarial records, tutorial records, property...
Dates:
1891 - 2013
Sub-Fonds
Production Records, 1973 - 2016
Sub-Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0265/UA/ADCT 4
Scope and Contents
Records relating to productions and performances staged at the ADC Theatre, including applications to direct, theatre hire contracts, posters, programmes, photographs, press releases and press reviews, and occasionally scripts and audio recordings.The productions are staged by a variety of theatre groups but a significant number are performed by the three resident companies of the ADC Theatre: Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club, the Footlights Dramatic Club, and Cambridge...
Dates:
1973 - 2016
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
The University Archives are generally freely available to the holder of a reader's ticket for the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library, West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DR. Restrictions on access are imposed on certain categories of sensitive record: financial, governmental and personal, by order of the originating body or under data protection legislation. Access information, including opening hours and how to obtain a reader's ticket, appears as part of the Library's web site (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).