Four students rehearse a play in the new Intimate Theatre setting located in Greystone Theatre. Stage lights visible in background; chairs for seating in foreground.

Students rehearsing on stage; bleachers and stage lights visible in the new Arena Theatre, Hangar Building.

Drama instructor at podium and students seated in bleachers in the new Arena Theatre, Hangar Building.

Interior view of seating and curtained walls.

Unidentifed man standing among seating; view from front of theatre.

First border lighting, and glimpse of the auditorium from the stage.

Image of set/stage preparing for a production; view from back of theatre.

Image of main doors of the Hangar Building. Sign among weeds and brush in foreground.

Bio/Historical Note: The Hangar Building was originally constructed as a World War II Royal Canadian Air Force training facility at Dafoe, Saskatchewan. At a cost of $156,560, the hangar was dismantled and completely reassembled on campus by January 1947. It was intended to provide temporary teaching space for the Department of Household Science. The shingle clad wooden structure was built of post and beam construction on a concrete slab base, and many part-time students participated in its construction. It contained lecture rooms with seating space for 300, 200, 150, 125, 25 and 25 persons respectively, as well as three laboratories. Eight offices were also built for administrative staff so that offices on the ground floors of Qu’Appelle Hall and Saskatchewan Hall could be made available as residence space for returning veterans. While the Hangar Building had been designed to house the Department of Household Science the building was eventually occupied by the College of Commerce, while Household Science was relocated to the Physics Annex. Original intentions were to convert the building into a student curling rink after approximately five years. However such plans were abandoned by the mid-1950s in favour of a new curling facility located near Rutherford Rink, where it could share the existing ice-making plant. In 1967 the College of Commerce vacated the building to occupy the new Law-Commerce Complex, and the Department of Drama moved in. The Hangar Building thus became home to the Greystone Theatre. In September 1993 the Drama Department vacated the building to move into the recently renovated John Mitchell Building. The Hangar Building then remained unoccupied until its demolition in May 1994.

Actors Ron Williams as Willie Loman, Marjorie Gilbart as Willie's wife Linda, Dale Hicks as Biff, and Lloyd Widenmaier as Happy.

Three students in costume; two female students wearing dresses and sitting at a table drinking tea. Male student is wearing a suit.

A male student dressed as a sailor with two female students in costume. One female student is seated in front of an old sewing machine.

Six students in costume.

Scene from the play "The Immigrant," written by Frank Holroyd, head, Drama Department, was mimed by the entire Greystone Theatre company. The play starred Volodymyr Romanow.

Bio/Historical Note: Frank Holroyd was appointed instructor of Drama at the University of Saskatchewan in 1948. One year later he was promoted to assistant professor, a position he held until his retirement in 1959. Holroyd performed the technical work and was a set designer. He returned to the Drama Department as a part-time instructor after his retirement, and eventually moved to Tangiers in 1962. He died there in 1971. The workshop in the old Hangar Building was named the Frank Holroyd workshop.

Murray Edwards (far right) and two students in costume pose in front of a forest themed backdrop.

Scene from the play.