A site specific theatre company based in Northumberland.
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The November Club archive documents the company’s creative, administrative, and financial activities across its history. Materials include project files relating to site-specific work at Wallington with the National Trust and the Trevelyan family, extensive performance files containing research, funding bids, correspondence, schedules, budgets, reviews, and publicity and founder Cinzia Hardy’s personal notebooks recording research and performance ideas. The archive also includes general and financial administrative records, board and AGM minutes from the company’s early years as European Players, and a small amount of audiovisual and photographic material (VHS and CD).
This archive was gifted to Newcastle University Special Collections in 2022.
Further accruals to this collection are expected.
Open with some restrictions (researcher interview may be required).
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Information on the launch of the November Club, formerly known as the European Players Theatre Company. Includes memorandum of association, correspondence, grant applications, and board meeting minutes.
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Book of financial transactions for European Players Theatre Company.
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Receipts, financial statements, grant paperwork, and balance sheets for the European Players Theatre Company.
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Cinzia Hardy's November Club Notebooks containing To-Do Lists and production notes.
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Includes newspaper clippings, production notes, research material and scripts for the Novocastrian Philosopher's Club, a show set and inspired by the Literary and Philosophical Society.
Digital Object ID: NOV-2022-07-21-005 and NOV-2022-07-21-004
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Includes newspaper clippings, grant correspondence, administrative and financial documents, advertisements for We got Mittens Too! in collaboration with the Literary and Philosophical Society.
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Includes contracts, project notes, advertisements, photographs, scripts, and reviews for Traces and Graces.
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Includes contracts, notes and research material, correspondence and administrative material such as risk assessments.
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Includes learning objectives, plans and risk assessment for Lord Sanger's Circus Heritage Trail.
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Includes research material, notes, cuttings and feedback. Plays were produced in conjunction with Wallington, National Trust.
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Production notes, advertisements, grant documents, schedules, scripts, evaluation reports, and project proposals for Dr. Mullins and the Case of the Elephant in the Dock at the Theatre Royal.
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Administrative and financial documents, scripts, and schedules for Portraits of Northumberland.
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Includes grant reports, reviews, correspondence, feedback forms and scripts.
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Project proposals and notes for events regarding Lindisfarne Castle, Feet on Fire on Dere Street, GeNErosity, What do you Love about Darlington, Victorian Christmas, and Georgian Christmas.
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Research notes and project notes for Portraits of Berwick and Portraits of Northumberland. Includes newspaper clippings, papers and ephemera detailing The Great Rope of Tallaght, The Great Performing Ropes and the history of Berwick.
Digital Object ID: NOV-2022-07-21-001, NOV-2022-07-21-002 and NOV-2022-07-21-003.
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Project notes, schedules, correspondence regarding the Great Performing Rope in Berwick. Includes business plan and research and development report.
Digital Object ID: NOV-2022-08-11-001
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Notebook containing ideas about events in Berwick.
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Correspondence regarding the project "Reimagining Berwick: The Collection". The project brought together a cross section of the community to work with artists to create costumes reflecting the locality and its people. Contains "November Club Qualitative Research with Audiences and Participants of the Great Performing Rope Results and Analysis" (2016).
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Includes project evaluations, schedules, publicity material, expenditure sheets, meeting minutes, correspondence and contracts. Relates to plays including "Play" at Wallington; Release the Fun, Why Are You Here?, and Utopia HQ.
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Clippings, correspondence, project notes, script and schedule for Reflections of Newcastle, hosted by November Club at the Lit & Phil.
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Contracts, financial documents, script, promotional material, for the Poetry Detectives at the Morpeth Library.
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Includes research material, management schedules, participant work, correspondence and project actuals for The Perfect View, performed at Wallington, Cambo as part of the Capability Brown Festival 2016.
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Includes annotated scripts, rehearsal notes and schedules for Beyond the End of the Road. Also includes soundtrack and filmed performance.
Digital Object ID: NOV-2022-07-08-002 and NOV-2022-07-08-001
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Includes correspondence, project notes and contracts for the Great North Explorers and the Juice Festival.
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Learning objectives, lesson plans, and feedback from drama workshops including Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds and Away From Home: Evacuees.
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Album with images created by students at Newcastle Bridges School.
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Project evaluations, contracts, financial documents, and student zines for Creative Journeys at the Lit & Phil. Includes results and learning outcomes for the event.
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Correspondence regarding Beyond the End of the Road, a musical set in a small community in rural Northumberland. Also contains rehearsal schedules and a script.
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Advertisements, script, and contracts for the 10th anniversary celebration of the November Club.
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Administrative, financial documents and research notes regarding the hippodrome.
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Research photographs for the hippodrome project.
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Includes programmes, technical information, research material and notes for Moving In: The Wallington Book performed at Wallington, Cambo.
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Risk assessment, correspondence, and contracts for The Remarkable Dr. McCavity and his Travelling Surgery.
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Project documents regarding "The Imaginary Museum of the North", a collaborative project with the Literary and Philosophical Society. Includes publicity material, notes for volunteers, museum guides, a project proposal and budgets.
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Autographed posters for "Beyond the End of the Road".
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Survey and administrative documents for Beyond the End of the Road.
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Includes management schedules, notes, research material, correspondence and clippings for Wallington 50th Anniversary performance.
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Schedules assessment forms and further administrative papers for A Lit and Phil Carol.
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Scripts and schedules for A Lit and Phil Carol.
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Schedules and administrative forms for A Night of New Fairytales for Northumberland. Also contains papers for "Jazz for a Summer Evening" and "Refugee Road Trip".
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Advertisements, notes, contracts, schedules and project plans. Script also included.
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Correspondence, advertisements, and planning materials, and feedback for the Foods and Feuds show.
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Production documents for Foods and Feuds.
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Report contains expenditures, income and grant details.
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Documents and correspondence regarding Lost, Found, and Told: New Audio Stories for Northumberland. Documents include cast feedback forms, payslips, and general notes.
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Spreadsheets and organisational documents regarding Walk in Your Shoes.
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Account transactions, feedback forms and script.