Correspondence, proposals and applicant guidance relating to work placements at Northern Stage.

Correspondence and other administrative documents relating to visiting productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company, including copy of contract for hire of NS Stage 1 (2006); agenda for meeting regarding RSC's Newcastle Strategy (2007); and copy of licence agreement for Northern Stage's performance of Trouble in Tahiti.

Bundle of correspondence between Northern Stage and Newcastle City Council. Includes discussion of capital project and building redevelopment, grant applications, copies of letters from charitable bodies offering funding, contracts awarded to Northern Stage by the council to provide sets for Holocaust Memorial Day and Nelson Mandela's birthday celebrations, a visit by the Lord Mayor, and post-2010 election arts funding cuts.

Bundle of correspondence regarding events held by Northern Stage, mainly invitations to particular guests and their responses. Events include tour of the new Northern Stage building (2005); 1001 Nights Now guest night (2005); season launch of IMAGINE (2006); guest night for Robert Lepage's The Far Side of the Moon (2001); guest night for Robert Lepage's Lipsynch (2007); Son of Man guest night (2006); Northern Stage Annual Dinner (2007 and 2008; includes correspondence with Lindsay Duncan about her attendance in 2007).

Correspondence regarding events hosted by Northern Stage, mainly invitations to particular guests and their responses. Events include a conversation between women in the North East of England and the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 2007 connected with performance of Our Friends in the North (letters include descriptions of participants' anti-apartheid activities); exhibition of the Society of British Theatre Design's entry to the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of Scenery 2007; discussion event connected with production of A Doll's House in 2008; Wuthering Heights guest night (2009); women's event connected with Rutherford & Son (2009); visit by Wang Qingsong (2008); A Bloody Chamber guest night (2008); Far From the Madding Crowd guest night (2008); Hansel & Gretel guest night (2008); Look Back in Anger guest night (2009); Northern Stage's 40th Birthday Dinner (2010); Oh What A Lovely War guest night (2010); 11 and 12 guest night (2010); pre-show talk for Andromache (2009); pre-show reception for Uncle Vanya (2008); Northern Stage Annual Dinners (2011 and 2012); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf guest night (2011); Oh The Humanity guest night (2011); The Glass Slipper guest night (2011); Close the Coalhouse Door (2012); Macbeth guest night (2012).

Correspondence regarding the lease of units at Hawick Crescent Trading Estate and the provision of pro bono legal advice from a representative of Mincoffs Solicitors. Includes signed memorandum of rent review.

Bundle of correspondence relating to issuing of licence agreement for Richard J. Basgall's The Career of Elmer McCurdy, Deceased.

Folder of correspondence between Northern Stage and Newcastle College regarding the joint production 'Heaven & Hell' (2005); Erica Whyman's participation in the college's Quality Assurance Agency Review (2006); Northern Stage's contribution to a module in the Foundation Degree in Acting (2006). Also includes a programme for the collaborative production 'Not What I Had In Mind' (2006) and a letter thanking Erica Whyman for speaking at the college's graduation ceremonies (2007 and 2011).

Correspondence relating to professional subscriptions and responsibilities (e.g. regarding membership of the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute and the Independent Theatre Council, annual entry in British Performing Arts Yearbook, or deposit of playscripts of new plays in British Library).

Correspondence with manufacturers, university and council regarding promotional pavement graphics (non-slip stickers for pavements) for Northern Stage production of Hansel & Gretel, including samples.