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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

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
The dragon between scenes, its wings folded and its head set down on the rehearsal table.
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

The dragon between scenes, its wings folded and its head set down on the rehearsal table.

Cahier Iplate iPLAY-006

The Dragon Singer

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

The eagle at rest on the prop shelf, waiting for its cue among the feathers.

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

The shelf the recordings hung from, read here as five cases and one pair of headphones.

Cahier IIplate iREC-003

The CD Shelf

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

Where the song clips lived: speakers, tapes and a folder of lyric sheets.

Cahier IIplate iiREC-002

The Song Clips

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

A camcorder trained on a desktop stage, the youngest medium in the record.

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

The gym before the bell: rows of small chairs waiting for the van to unload.

Cahier IIIplate iCOY-004

The Assembly Papers

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

The people stay out of frame; the room, the keys and the call sheet speak for the staff.

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 bindings of the same company, the worn first edition beside the clean second.

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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Pulled from the far shelves

Other shelves keep other records of touring stages, school programmes and vanished homepages; these are the ones this volume reads beside its own.

  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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