William Adkins

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William "Bill" Adkins (* 1888 ; † March 28, 1982 in Ottawa ) was a Canadian theater coordinator and set designer of English descent.

Life

Adkins came to Ottawa as a result of the demobilization after World War I and became an archivist at the Indian Affairs Department , of which Duncan Campbell Scott was Deputy Minister . Scott brought Adkins onstage when the Ottawa Drama League was staging plays at the National Museum. Adkins had learned from George Haythorne when he toured Canada with an acting company from England. He arranged for professional performances at the Ottawa Little Theater . Together with a colleague and an electrician, the two formed the backstage crew of the theater, which they hired for a modest wage. Adkins was also a subscriber , so he was eligible to vote in the General Meeting of the House. Joan Finnigan describes him as the "soul of the company", some authors even considered him the director of the Little Theater.

For more than 50 years, Adkins was stage manager and set designer for the Ottawa Drama League and later the Ottawa Little Theater.

On December 22, 1972, he was appointed a member of the Order of Canada . He died in March 1982 at the age of 93.

literature

  • ADKINS, William; CM, in: The Ottawa citizen, Citizen, Ottawa, March 26, 1982.
  • Histoire du théâtre au Canada. Vol. 4-6, University of Toronto, 1983.
  • JMC Meiklejohn: Theater in Ottawa in the 1930s: A Memoir. In: Theater Research in Canada. Recherches théâtrales au Canada. Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 1989.
  • Joan Finnigan: Tallying the tales of the old-timers. Burnstown 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joan Finnigan: Tallying the tales of the old-timers. Burnstown 1998, p. 33
  2. ↑ Histoire du théâtre au Canada. Vol. 4-6, University of Toronto, 1983, p. 104.
personal data
SURNAME Adkins, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adkins, Bill (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian theater coordinator and set designer of English descent
DATE OF BIRTH 1888
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1982
Place of death Ottawa