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LEVEL OF DESCRIPTION: Fonds
No.: PR3223
TITLE: L'Unithéâtre fonds
CREATOR: Unithéâtre
DATE RANGE: 1984-2008
EXTENT: 1.8 m of textual records and other material
Also includes 3 audio cassettes, 3 Compact Discs: audio, 1 DVD, 25 photos, and 46 negatives.
ADMINISTRATIVE
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:

L'UniThéâtre is a francophone theatre founded in 1992 when two theatre companies, Théâtre français d'Edmonton and La Boîte à Popicos, amalgamated. Réginald Bigras and France Levasseur-Ouimet founded Théâtre français d'Edmonton at the Collège Saint-Jean in 1967. In 1970, the Théâtre français hired its first artistic director and until 1992 it remained the main francophone community theatre for adults in Edmonton.

La Boîte à Popicos was founded in 1978 by Suzette Lagacé-Aubin and sponsored by Canadian Parents for French (Alberta Chapter). At the time, it was Alberta's only French theatre for young audiences. Based in Edmonton, La Boîte à Popicos hoped to make the French language a living subject both in and outside the classroom. The productions were designed especially for students learning French as a second language and toured many schools in Edmonton and throughout Alberta and Western Canada.

In 1992, L'UniThéâtre started its first productions under the artistic director Guylaine Normandin assisted by Daniel Cournoyer. L'UniThéâtre encourages the production of franco-albertan plays, including musical performances.

CUSTODIAL HISTORY:The records were created, then held by the Unithéâtre until donated to the Provincial Archives of Alberta in 2008.
SCOPE AND CONTENT: The fonds consists of operational files of the Unithéâtre and its predecessors, Théâtre français d'Edmonton and Boîte à Popicos, including meeting minutes, financial records, project description, and annotated theatrical scripts.
LANGUAGE NOTE: The material is in French.
RELATED RECORDS: The Théâtre français d'Edmonton fonds is held by the Provincial Archives of Alberta under the number PR1574 and the fonds Boîte à Popicos under PR1563.
GENERAL NOTE: For the French version of this description, click here.
Information for the administrative history was derived from the records.
RELATED FONDS: SL3223 (Fonds L'Unithéâtre)
RELATED FILES: Display FileList


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