How can theatre archives be effectively utilized to teach about theatre? What opportunities do they pose for teaching in other disciplines? What considerations must archives staff make when providing access to theatre archives? This article aims to address such questions by providing an overview of an ongoing collaboration at Dalhousie University. For the past several years, the Dalhousie University Archives has collaborated with Dr. Roberta Barker of the Dalhousie Theatre Department on a course project in which students research production records from the Neptune Theatre fonds. This article outlines the pedagogical goals of the assignment and touches upon the challenges associated with using theatre archives to facilitate undergraduate learning and teaching. It also looks at another recent course project that used Neptune Theatre’s archives to teach core archival concepts to graduate students in the Dalhousie School of Information Management. In the process, it considers how the unique characteristics of theatre archives can enable multidisciplinary collaborations between archivists and university faculty.
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