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Dead Dog Café [textual record (electronic)]

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Date:

n.d.

Reference:

R15938-8-0-E

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

5186326

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Thomas King fonds

Radio drama, film and theatre

Dead Dog Café
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Date(s):

n.d.

Place of creation:

Ontario

Extent:

56 KB of textual records : 1 file.

Language of material:

English

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Sub-series contains records relating to King's work writing, developing and acting in projects that came out of the Dead Dog Cafe from King's novel "Green Grass, Running Water." These projects include the "Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour" CBC radio show and it's successor "Dead Dog in the City", Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour live shows in Winnipeg, Regina and Vancouver, work on a Dead Dog Cafe play titled "Dead Dog Café: a two-act play," and animated television series based on the radio show. Sub-series includes handwritten and typed scripts, notes, plot outlines and research materials, storyboards and artwork for the animated series. Sub-series also includes audio recordings of each episode of the Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour and auditions for the show, as well as a video recording of sample animations for the Dead Dog Cafe animated series.

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Other correspondence (including fan mail) about the development of these projects can be found in the Correspondence series. Contracts related to these projects are located in the Contracts and royalties series. Some notes related to these projects are found in the Notebooks series, where they were written in a notebook with notes related to other subjects.

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