Guide to the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Records
UCSC OAC Unit
The University Library
Special Collections and Archives
University Library
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California, 95064
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Guide to the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Records
Collection number: UA 41
The University Library
University Archives
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, California
- Processed by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
- Date Completed:
- August 2006
- Encoded by:
- UCSC OAC Unit
© 2006 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Shakespeare Santa Cruz records
Dates: 1981-2001
Collection number: UA 41
Creator:
Shakespeare Santa Cruz
Collection Size:
16 boxes
13 linear feet
Repository:
University of California, Santa Cruz. University Library.
University Archives
Santa Cruz, California 95064
Abstract: This collection consists of prompt books, stage manager's workbooks, call sheets, performance receipts, costume information,
posters and video tapes of interviews, and performances.
Physical location: Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
Languages:
Languages represented in the collection:
English
Access
Collection open for research.
Boxes 1-7 - VHS tapes are restricted and unavailable for use
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Shakespeare Santa Cruz records. UA 41. University Archives, University Library, University of
California, Santa Cruz.
Acquisition Information
Transferred to University Archives in 1992.
Organization History
It was Audrey Stanley's 1975 production of
The Winter's Tale that caught the eye of UCSC Dean of Humanities and reknowned Shakespearean scholar, Caesar Barber, who first suggested the
possibility of a Santa Cruz festival.
Barber's death early in 1981 prompted UCSC sociology professor Dane Archer to write then Chancellor Robert Sinsheimer, proposing
a Santa Cruz Shakespeare festival to honor Barber's memory, draw attention to the campus, and provide a medium where often-strained
town-gown relations could improve. By late 1980 a group of UCSC people and community members had already come together as
Shakespeare Santa Cruz and in early 1981, a proposal was submitted by Kristin Bolder-Froid, suggesting a 1982 summer festival
with two plays,
King Lear and
A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with seminars, workshops and films. Chancellor Sinsheimer approved the plan and gave the fledgling company a start-up
grant. Shakespeare Santa Cruz was on its way. Karen Shinseimer, the founding board president, along with Audrey Stanley, Cleo
Barber and Stella Kahrs, worked at generating community support and developed a Board of Directors that would represent the
community as "Co-producers" of the festival.
Now in its the 25th season (2006), Shakespeare Santa Cruz has earned a national reputation for producing innovative, intelligent
Shakespeare productions and other classics. It is a professional resident theater that draws on the intellectual resources
of the University of California, Santa Cruz and an international network of professional artists. Shakespeare Santa Cruz is
committed to linking the best of contemporary scholarship with the highest artistic standards of production and the exciting
possibilites of repertory performance. It serves as a vital resource to the greater Monterey and San Francisco Bay Areas.
The out-reach program, Shakespeare to Go was started by Shakespeare Santa Cruz eighteen years ago in collaboration with the
UCSC Theater Arts Department. Each year, a Theater Arts faculty member casts and directs a 50 minute version of one of the
plays that Shakespeare Santa Cruz will be presenting in the summer festival. The winter quarter is spent rehearsing the play
with the UCSC student actors and the spring quarter is spent touring Santa Cruz, Monterey, and Santa Clara Counties performing
for school audiences.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of prompt books, stage manager's workbooks, call sheets, performance receipts, costume information,
posters and video tapes of interviews, and performances.
The VHS tapes are Restricted.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Shakespeare Santa Cruz--Archives
Drama festivals--California--Santa
Stanley, Audrey Eunice
Gamel, Mary-Kay
Whitworth, Paul
Scheie, Danny
University of California, Santa Cruz--Focused Research Activity in Shakespeare
University of California, Santa Cruz--Theater Arts
Other Finding Aids
MS 108 Santa Cruz County Theatre collection, 1974-1982
Container List
Box 1-7
VHS tapes - RESTRICTED
1988-1995
n.d.
box-folder 8:1
Production book, pt.1 "Cues-Daily Call"
1992
box-folder 8:2
Production book, pt.2 "Production notes-Sound"
1992
box-folder 8:4
A Life in the Theatre - cue book
1986
box-folder 8:5-8, 9:1
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1991
box-folder 8:5
A Midsummer Night's Dream, prompt book
1982
box-folder 8:6
A Midsummer Night's Dream, production book
1982
box-folder 8:8
Part 1 "Contacts - Act 3:1"
1991
box-folder 9:1
Part 2 "Act 4:1 - Notes"
1991
box-folder 9:3
Stage manager's workbook
1990
box-folder 9:5
Julius Caesar - prompt book
1988
box-folder 10:1
King Henry IV, Part One - prompt book
1984
box-folder 10:2
King Lear - prompt book, cue script
1982
box-folder 10:3
King Richard II - prompt book
1986
box-folder 10:4-6
Love's Labour's Lost
1989
box-folder 10:4
Pt.1 "Company List - Set"
1989
box-folder 10:5
Pt.2 "Props - Miscellaneous notes"
1989
box-folder 11:2
Production book, pt.1 "Schedule - Rules"
1992
box-folder 11:3
Production book, pt.2 "Rehearsal reports - Information"
1992
box-folder 11:4-5, 12:1-2
box-folder 11:4
Rehearsal book, pt.1 "Act I-Act V"
1991
box-folder 11:5
Rehearsal book, pt.2 "Line note forms - Preset"
1991
box-folder 12:3
Much Ado About Nothing - Prompt book
1987
box-folder 12:4
Pt.1 "Lifetime - Scheduling"
1989
box-folder 12:5
Pt.2 "Props -
Love's Labors Lost"
1989
box-folder 13:1
Pt. 1 "Running sheets - Act III"
1990
box-folder 13:2
Pt. 2 "Act III - Slip sheets"
1990
box-folder 13:3
Prompt book, Act 1 - Act 2
1981
box-folder 13:4
Prompt book, Act 3 - Understudy information
1981
box-folder 14:1
Pt. 1 "Rehersal schedules - Production Calendar"
1989
box-folder 14:2
Pt. 2 "Costumes - Daily Bard"
1989
box-folder 14:3
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead - prompt book
1985
box-folder 14:5
Production book, pt.1 "Contact sheets - Daily notes"
1992
box-folder 14:4
Production book, pt.2 "Performance reports - Running sheets"
1992
box-folder 15:2
The Tempest - prompt book, budgets, schedules
1984
box-folder 15:3
Titus Andronicus - prompt book
1988
box-folder 15:4
Call sheets, performance receipts
1991
box-folder 15:5
Pt. 1 "Crew calendar - Act I"
1991
box-folder 15:6
Pt. 2 "Act 2 - Miscellaneous"
1991
box-folder 16
Posters - archival set
1982-2001
