Laskie Theatre Collection

Programmes, flyers, postcards, tickets and press cuttings from Dundee Repertory Theatre productions spanning the theatre's opening in 1939 to 2015. Documents and correspondence regarding the Dundee Repertory Theatre Club and the Playgoers Club. Issues of Scottish Theatre magazines and publications concerning the history of Scottish theatre. Programmes and flyers from other Scottish theatres from 1938-1998.

They were regular playgoers in Dundee and for decades and attended most first nights at Dundee Rep. They were also heavily involved in the two very separate Dundee theatre clubs, The Theatre Club and The Playgoers Club. Their names appear together on cast lists for Playgoers Club amateur playreadings immediately post-war, while they were courting. Their collection of rep programmes begins about 1939 when the core of the company were performing on various Dundee stages prior to the acquisition of Forester’s Halls in Nicoll Street. The collection has only a couple of short chronological gaps, corresponding to the infancy of their two children, Derek and Peter, and continues more or less unbroken through to the 2010s.

Usually chronological within series.

Open for consultation subject to preservation requirements. Access must also conform to the restrictions of the Data Protection Act (2018), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR, 2018) and any other relevant legislation or restrictions. Clinical information is closed for 100 years.

They were regular playgoers in Dundee and for decades and attended most first nights at Dundee Rep. They were also heavily involved in the two very separate Dundee theatre clubs, The Theatre Club and The Playgoers Club. Their names appear together on cast lists for Playgoers Club amateur playreadings immediately post-war, while they were courting. Their collection of rep programmes begins about 1939 when the core of the company were performing on various Dundee stages prior to the acquisition of Forester’s Halls in Nicoll Street. The collection has only a couple of short chronological gaps, corresponding to the infancy of their two children, Derek and Peter, and continues more or less unbroken through to the 2010s.

The collection is largely made up of paper documents but also includes some photographs.

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Bill and Margaret Laskie collected the material. Their sons (Peter and Derek Laskie) gifted the collection to the archive after their mother's passing. It was collected from their parent's house in Dundee.

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