We are excited to announce the recent digitization of over 400 images depicting more than 80 Wright State University Theatre productions covering the years of 1970-1988. These productions include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arsenic and Old Lace, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sweeney Todd, The Crucible, The Glass Menagerie, The Taming of the Shrew, and West Side Story, just to name a few.
These images come from the personal slide collection Abe Bassett, founding director of the WSU Theatre Program. The Abe Bassett Theatre Collection, numbering several hundred original slides, can be found in the University Archives in the department of Special Collection & Archives. Following the donation of his collection, Bassett volunteered his time to hand-select the slides included in this digitization project.
The WSU Theatre Production Image Gallery can be accessed through CORE Scholar, Wright State University’s Campus Online Repository.
To give you an idea of what awaits in the full online gallery, here are a few images:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1973-74 (image ua6_02_12_01_018, view in CORE Scholar)
Arsenic and Old Lace, 1974-75 (image ua6_03_09_01_015, view in CORE Scholar)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1967-68 (image ua6_06_09_01_010, view in CORE Scholar)
This digital project has been a collaborative effort between the University Libraries’ Special Collections & Archives and the University Libraries’ Digital Services Department, which provided the digitization, metadata encoding, and uploading of digital content to CORE Scholar.
Please visit the University Archives’ CORE Scholar page to browse additional digital collections documenting Wright State’s history. And don’t forget to check out the Special Collections & Archives’ CORE Scholar page for digital projects from our aviation and local history collections as well.
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