File "Archive"

Contents: copy of application submitted by Ian Brown [Convenor], on behalf of the Steering Committee, to North West Arts, for funding for the first workshops in 1983; copy of press release announcing first workshop and inviting plays to be submitted; copy of Ian Brown's draft report on 1983 workshop for the committee; copy of Peter Flannery's report to Committee on 1984 Workshops [he had acted as dramaturg]; copy of article by Ian Brown on the development of playwrights' workshops generally, which talks about the experience of setting up the North West Playwrights Workshops; copy of letter from Ian Brown to Mark Everett, Drama Officer, Arts Council indicating intention of the committee to apply for funding for a workshop in 1984; photocopy of article by Charlotte Keatley inviting scripts to be submitted for the 1985 workshops, which gives some information on the first two years' workshops; handwritten notes on "New Writing Workshops", [author unknown], essentially a list of objectives; typed page on workshops, [which would appear to be in response to a threatened cut in funding] written some time after September 1987; copy of short paper on the role of the dramaturg by John Chambers written in Dec 1988.