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The Season Book

The collected programmes of a children's theatre

A reading copy, bound in one volume

The Season Book

Between 2000 and 2023 this domain carried the website of Stages of Imagination, a non-profit children's theatre whose original musicals played to a quarter-million schoolchildren across three states. This volume binds what the public record kept: the playbills, the recordings, the company papers and the site's own two lives.

  • 14plates & sheets
  • 4cahiers
  • last sheet sewn
a green papier-mache dragon head resting on a rehearsal-room table beside folded fabric wings, warm workshop light, no text
plate i The Dragon Singer

Contents of the volume

14 sheets
  1. iiThe Two BoardsCahier IV

    Reads the record of the domain itself, both eras bound together.

  2. iiiThe CD ShelfCahier II

    Reads the record of the company's five production CDs.

  3. ivThe Assembly PapersCahier III

    Reads the record of the company's school assemblies and booking paperwork.

  4. vThe Song ClipsCahier II

    Reads the record of the company's song clips and audio adventures.

  5. viThe Eagle's ClawCahier I

    Reads the playbill for the company's eagle musical.

  6. viiThe Artistic StaffCahier III

    Reads the record of the company's artistic staff.

  7. viiiThe Magnificent Red ButtonCahier I

    Reads the playbill for the company's best-documented musical.

  8. ixThe Video ClipsCahier II

    Reads the record of the company's video clips.

  9. xThe Monster in the WoodsCahier I

    Reads the playbill for the company's woods musical.

  10. xiThe Reviews and the CitationsCahier III

    Reads the record of the company's reviews and institutional citations.

  11. xiiThree Moons Till TomorrowCahier I

    Reads the playbill for the company's moonlit musical.

  12. xiiiTake Time to TalkCahier III

    Reads the record of the company's Take-Time-to-Talk programme.

  13. xivThe Wooden HeartCahier I

    Reads the playbill for the company's closing musical in the cahier.

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Cahier I

The Playbills

the six original musicals pinned to the bill

a green papier-mache dragon head resting on a rehearsal-room table beside folded fabric wings, warm workshop light, no text

Cahier Iplate iPLAY-006

The Dragon Singer

Reads the playbill for the company's dragon musical and what the archive kept of it.

a golden eagle puppet head with fierce painted eyes on a prop shelf among feather bundles, side light, no text

Cahier Iplate iiPLAY-005

The Eagle's Claw

Reads the playbill for the company's eagle musical.

The whole cahier

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Cahier II

The Recordings

CDs, song clips and video clips kept from the road

five audio CDs in jewel cases fanned on a shelf beside a pair of children's headphones, warm indoor light, blank covers

Cahier IIplate iREC-003

The CD Shelf

Reads the record of the company's five production CDs.

a pair of small desktop speakers beside a stack of cassette-era audio gear and a folder of lyric sheets on a school desk, no readable text

Cahier IIplate iiREC-002

The Song Clips

Reads the record of the company's song clips and audio adventures.

a small digital camcorder on a tripod aimed at a miniature stage set on a school desk, warm light, no text

Cahier IIplate iiiREC-001

The Video Clips

Reads the record of the company's video clips.

The whole cahier

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Cahier III

The Company

assemblies, staff, reviews and the take-time-to-talk papers

a school gymnasium set with rows of small folding chairs facing a portable backdrop of painted trees, morning light through high windows, no people

Cahier IIIplate iCOY-004

The Assembly Papers

Reads the record of the company's school assemblies and booking paperwork.

three small portrait photographs pinned to a cork board in a rehearsal room beside a ring of keys and a schedule card, faces turned away

Cahier IIIplate iiCOY-003

The Artistic Staff

Reads the record of the company's artistic staff.

The whole cahier

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Cahier IV

The Volume

the site itself, two eras bound together

two clothbound volumes side by side on a wooden table, one worn and dark green, one clean and modern, a magnifying glass resting across both covers, plain unmarked covers

Cahier IVplate iVOL-001

The Two Boards

Reads the record of the domain itself, both eras bound together.

The whole cahier

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Elsewhere on the shelf

Entries kept by other desks, each read before it was shelved here.

  1. i

    A marquee file of touring shows keeps the dispatches of another presenter of travelling productions, filed season by season. a marquee file of touring shows

  2. ii

    A gallery of one old homepage reads a vanished personal site the way this volume reads a vanished theatre's. a gallery of one old homepage

  3. iii

    A literature table of record keeps another small organisation's printed papers in order, pamphlet by pamphlet. a literature table of record

  4. iv

    A parish bench of record reads a congregation's public papers the same way this volume reads a theatre's. a parish bench of record

  5. v

    A visitors' book of record keeps the evidence of a place that welcomed the public, bound as carefully as this one. a visitors' book of record

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