New Play Society Records. 1946-1971.

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New Play Society Records. 1946-1971.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225561756

The collection consists primarily of business records of the New Play Society, including those for its theatre school, as well as production files, correspondence, photographs and clippings. Material on Dora Mavor Moore can be found in the collection of her papers (MS Coll 00207).

250 boxes and items.

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7065259

Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library

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New Play Society

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The New Play Society was founded by Dora Mavor Moore in Toronto in 1946. The company's first season was staged at the Royal Ontario Museum and included Synge's Playboy of the Western World, Strindberg's The Father, Maugham's The Circle and O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness. By the 1949-50 season, however, five of the company's nine productions were Canadian. In 1956, the company extended to include a school. But by 1960, the company was relying on virtually one production to assure its survival: Spring T...