Victoria University College (Wellington, N.Z.). Drama Club

Date: 1960 - 1969

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1960s

Description: Includes some programmes whose dates are unknown, and from groups within the University not strictly the Drama Club. Includes: 1960s: University Drama presents "After the rain", by John Bowen. Produced by Pamela Hewes. [1960s?] Programme. V.U.W. Drama Club. "The promise", by Aleksei Arbuzov. Produced by Murray ALford in 1968. Programme. University Drama Club. "Salome", by Oscar Wilde, produced by Jack Richards; and "Everyman", produced by Paul Maunder. [1960s?]. Programme (2 copies) "Sick nativity"; Victoria University Drama Club annual Christmas revue. Stage manager Russell Campbell; producer Martin van Dijk. Programme [1960s?] ca 1960: VUW Drama Club. "Yules a Poppin" [Yulesapoppin]; a Christmas revue directed by William Sheat, associate director Bruce Lawson. Designed by Don Ramage. [late 1950s or ca 1960]. Programme (2 copies) VUW Drama Club. "The knight of the burning pestle", by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher. Produced by John Dawick. VUW Little Theatre, 26-30 April [late 1950s - ca 1960]. Programme (2 copies) 1961: VUW Drama Club. "Much ado about nothing", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Roy Hope. Setting and costume design by Richard Hammond. 26 April - 3 Mary 1961. Programme (2 copies) 1962: VUW Drama Club. "Troilus and Cressida", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Roger Savage; design by Bruce Woods. Composer Jenny McLeod. [1962?]. Programme (2 copies) VUW Drama Club. "The seagull", by Anton Chekhov". Produced by Margaret Walker. Student Union Theatre, 21-28 July 1962. Programme (2 copies) VUW Drama Club. "Guided mistletoe"; Xmas revue 1962. Devised and directed by William Sheat. University Memorial Theatre, 11-15 December 1962. Programme (cover design by Don Ramage) 1963: VUW Drama Club. "Lysistrata", by Aristophanes, translated by Dudley Fitts. Produced by Owen Leeming. Victoria University Memorial Theatre, 22 June - 3 July 1963. Programme (2 copies). VUW Drama Club. "Vilent nite"; a revue. Little Theatre, 10-14 December 1963. Programme (2 copies) Victoria University English Department presents "Measure for Measure", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Michael Hattaway, in the University Theatre. 24, 26, 27 April 1963. Programme (2 copies) 1964: "The private ear and the public eye", by Peter Scaffer. Produced by Peter Engebretsen. VUC Drama Club, June 164. Programme. Victoria University Contemporary Arts Group. Three one-act plays ("Crawling Arnold" by Jules Feiffer, produced by Brian Wigney (VUW Drama Club); "The sandbox", by Edward Albee, produced by Peter Frater (VUW Contemporary Arts group); "The greatest day in me life", by John Parkyn, produced by Anne Brooker (Wellington Teachers' Training Coolege Drama Club)). Memorial Theatre, Student Union Building, 10 and 12 September 1964?. Programme. 1965: "Roundabout"; ten dialogues - Arthur Schnitzler's "Reigen" (1897) translated by Eric Bentley. Produced by Roger Savage.; Victoria University Drama Club, July 1965. Programme (2 copies, one damaged) "The devils", by John Whiting. Produced by Richard Campion. Victoria University Drama Club. University Theatre, 21-27 April [1965]. Programme (2 copies) 1966: "Billy Liar", by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Produced by Leslie Wright. [16.4.66]. Programme (2 copies). "The revenger's tragedy", by Cyril Tourneur, 1607. Produced by Cathie Gordon. 1966. Programme 1967: VUW Drama Club. "Cross purpose", by Albert Camus, translated by Stuart Gilbert. Produced by Jennie Sherwood-Butt. Memorial Theatre, March 1967. Programme. 1968: "The crucible", by Arthur Miller. Produced by Antony Groser. VUW Drama Club, 15-20 April, 1968. Programme (2 copies) 1969: "All's well that ends well", by William Shakespeare, produced by Dick Johnstone. VUW Drama Club, 10-19 April 1969. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 21 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Processing information: Record updated 7 March 2024 with information on play 'The Promise'.

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1970s

Description: Includes: 1970s?: "Six characters in search of an otter", directed by Michael J Wilson. [ca 1970?] Flyer only with list of cast and production team (incl Jane Campion) UD: University Drama presents "Nam", by Phillip Mann (based on letters written by American Jim Bury to his family); Victoria University Dance Theatre "The dance sphere", music by Ross Harris; Wellington Modern Dance group - 4 items - choreography Barbara Robinson. Programme. 1970: VUW Drama Society. "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare. University Memorial Theatre, 3-13 June [1970]. Programme (2 copies) "Oh Xmas!", written by Roger Hall and Dave Smith. VUW Memorial Theatre, 14-19 December [1970]. Programme 1971: "Danton's death", by Georg Buchner. Director Phillip Mann. 5-12 June 1971. Programme. 1972: "The knack", by Ann Jellicoe. Produced by Ray Henwood. [1972?] Programme. 1973?: "Before the dawn", by Rewi Alley. Produced by Phillip Mann [1973?]. Programme. "Lady Audley's secret", adapted from the novel by Miss C Braddon by Mr C M Hazlewood. Produced by John Batstone. 1973. Programme. "Tom Jones, a comedy". Directed by Stuart Devenie. [April 1973]. Programme (2 copies) 1974: Orientation One-Act Plays, directed by Linda Wilson: "The great nebula in Orion", by Lanford Wilson; "The hundred and first", by Kenneth Cameron; "Return journey", by Dylan Thomas. 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Ubu Roi", by Albert Jarry. Directed by Jim Spalding. Set design by Paul Jenden, costume design by Lilian Shand. Programme. "Adventures in the skin trade", by Andrew Sinclair, from the novel by Dylan Thomas. Directed by Stuart Devenie. [March] 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Pengwins ... in the worst possible taste". Scripts by the cast. Director Deborah M Guthrie. 1974. Programme. "The misanthrope", by Moliere; a new English version by Tony Harrison. Directed by Anthony Taylor. VUW Memorial Theatre, 21 August 1974. Programme (2 copies) 1978: "The taming of the shrew", by William Shakespeare. Produced by David Carnegie. Drama Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1-6 August 1978. Programme. Quantity: 16 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Philippa Conway, Wellington, in 2014

Date: 1936 - 1999

By: Whitehouse, Jocelyn A, active 1950-2000

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-VUDC-1900s

Description: Includes productions of the Victoria University College Drama Club and the VUWSA Drama Club. Includes: 1936: "Hay fever", by Noel Coward. Directed by Mr Ashley-Jones. College Gymnasium, 12-13 March 1936. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies) ca 1939: "Stage door", by Edna Ferber. Produced by Marie McWilliams. Typescript flier / programme One act play evening: "E and O.E.; a farce in one act", by E Crawshaw Williams, produced by Guy C Bliss; "An evening at the Rodways'; a low comedy in one spasm:, written and produced by Ronald L Meek' "The royal inn", by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, produced by J D Freeman". [ca 1939]. Programme. Three one-act plays: "Flickering light", by Ethel Madeley, produced by H M Williamson; "Where's that bomb?" by Roger Gullan and Buckley Roberts, produced by A B Gordon; "Danger", by Richard Hughes, produced by Miss June Cummins. [ca 1939]. Typescript programme / flier. 1940: "Harvest in the north", by James Lansdale Hodson, produced by A Donald Priestley. 14-16 March 1940. Typescript programme / flier. ca 1947?: V U C Drama Club presents "Mr Bolfry", by James Brodie [i.e. Bridie]. Produced by Pix Hurrell. Programme / flier 1950: "Coriolanus", by William Shakespeare, produced by Patricia Evison. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 21-25 March 1950. Programme (2 copies) 1951: "The typewriter", by Jean Cocteau. University Little Theatre, 26-28 April 1951. Flier announcement. Three one-act plays: "The corridors of the soul", by Evreinov [?], produced by Klaus Neuberg; "The dark lady of the sonnets", by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Elizabeth Oliver; "Lord Byron's love letter", by Tennessee Williams, produced by Robin King. Typescript flier / programme. 1952: "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Produced by Ralph Hogg. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 18-22 March 1952. Programme (2 copies) 1953: "The circle", by Somerset Maugham. produced by Harold Baigent. Scenery constructed in the CAS workshop and painted by John Holmwood. North Island tour 1953. A Community Arts Service. Programme 1957: "I am a camera", by John van Druten. Produced by Ann Flannery. 7 August 1957. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies one with date in ink) 1960s: "The last half-crown; V.U.W. Drama Club's Christmas revue. Producer Roger Hall [1960s - ca 1967?]. Programme (2 copies) 1963: 1963 Inter University Drama Festival. Allen Hall, 19- and 21 August [1963]. Judge Patric Carey (Canterbury University "The respectable prostitute; Auckland University "The public eye"; Massey University "Electra"; Contemporary Arts Society "The sandbox"; Victoria University "Crawling Arnold"; Lincoln College "The eccentric"; Otago University "The rattle"). Programme (photocopy only) "Lysistrata", by Aristophanes, traslated by Dudley Fitts. produced by Owen Leeming. Victoria University Memorial Theatre, 22 June - 3 July 1963. Programme (2 copies) 1967: "Twelfth night", by William Shakespeare, produced by William Austin. 14-21 April 1967. Programme. 1972: Shakespeare is alive and well and living in "The winter's tale", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Anthony Taylor. May/June 1972. Programme (2 copies) ca 1977-1979: "Doctor Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Jeremy Jay; and "Everyman", directed by Judith Dale. [ca 1977-1979?]. Typescript programme 1979: "The marriage of Figaro", by Beaumarchais, directed by Adrian Kiernander. Victoria University of Wellington Drama Studies. Drama House, 7-14 Juiy [1979] Flier only. 1983: One act plays: "The stationary 6th form poetry trip", by Rachel McAlpine; "The pen of my aunt", by Gordon Daviot; "The end of the picnic", by David Compton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. Also "The ruffian on the stairs", by Joe Orton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. 16-18 August [1983] (2 different fliers) 1984: "Setting the table", by Renee. Drama House, 93 Kelburn Parade, 11-16 September [1984]. Flyer 1985: "Twelfth night, or what you will", by William Shakespeare. Director David Copeland. With new and beautiful scenery and effects by Mr Richard Till. Majestic Theatre, 6-16 February 1985. Flier only (2 copies) 1986: Victoria University Drama Studies production directed by John Downie. "Everyman", a contemporary version of the medieval play. Drama Studio, 93 Kelburn Parade, 30 April - 3 May [1986] "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. VUW Union Hall, 6-13 September [1986]. Flyer only 1987: VUW Drama Studies presents "Promptings of the Devil"; scenes of temptation from Elizabethan drama [Marlowe, Webster, Shakespeare, Middleton]. Drama House Studio, 30 September - 3 October [1987]. Flyer 1988: Much ado about nothing; Summer Shakespeare Trust 1989. Auditions. 2-day audition/workshop for 1989 Victoria University Summer Shakespeare. Dance Room, University Recreation Centre, 8-9 October [1988]. Flyer 1990s?: Cocktail: wine, beer, vodka and ... blood. VUW Drama Department's composition class present the premiere of four original plays: "In", "Terrace", "Loaf" and "The red death". Studio 77, 77 Fairlie Tce, Wednesday 11th- Friday 13th [1990s?]. Green flyer only 1991: Victoria University Drama Club & Summer City present "A midsummer night's dream", by William Shakespeare, with original music composed by Ivan Patterson. Director David O'Donnell; asst director Jeremy Scrivener. [1991]. Programme 1992: Summer Shakespeare. "Richard III". Directed by David O'Donnell. The Dell, 1992. Programme (2 copies) 1995: "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare (Summer Shakepeare). Directed by Gabrielle Bishop. [February 1995]. Programme and two tickets (inside) 1996: Summer Shakespeare "As you like it" in Civic Square, Summer 1996. Programme VUWSA Drama Club. "A fish with 2 tales"; two plays: "To be a fish you must get wet", by Eliot Pryor and Virginia Fenton; "Eyepie", by Virginia Fenton. Directors Melinda Collie and Judy Dale. Bats Theatre, 3-9 March [1996]. Programme "Tall stories and short yarns"; 75th anniversary production. Circa Studio 5-14 September; Dionysus Ball, Boatshed 6 September; Archives alive - launching of Drama Club archives 14 September [1996]. Flier 1997: VUW Theatre and Film Department presents Bertolt Brecht's "The resistable rise of Arturo Ui", directed by Vanessa Byrnes. Studio 77, 16-19 April 1997. Programme. Quantity: 31 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 320 mm.

Date: 1958

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1958

Description: Includes: CAS Theatre presents "Waiting for Godot", by Samuel Becket. Produced by Ronald Barker. [August 1958]. Flyer and programme (2 copies) The Benmoss Circuit by arrangement with Celebrity Circuit Attractions Pty Ltd presents "Ladies' night in a turkish bath", by Cyrus Wood, Avery Hopwood and Charleton Andrews. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 26 December 1958. Programme. CAS Theatre presents "Candida" by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Ronald Barker. University of Auckland Council of Adult Education [1958]. Programme. Community Players. "Yes and no", by Kenneth Horne, under the direction of Mae Cleall. Community Centre Hall, Cambridge terrace Wellington, 24-25 June 1958. Programme Robert Helpman in "Nude with violin", by Noel Coward. Grand Opera House Wellington. 27 November 1958. Programme (2 copies) Robert Helpman in "Nude with violin", by Noel Coward. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 10 November 1958. Programme. (2 copies) Robert Helpman in "Nude with violin", by Noel Coward. Opera House Palmerston North, 24-26 November 1958. Programme Robert Helpman in "Nude with violin", by Noel Coward. Theatre Royal Christchurch. [1958]. Programme. New Zealand University Drama Festival. VUW Little Theatre. 19-20 August 1958. (VUW "the rope", by Eugene O'Neill, produced by Heather Scott; AU "Empty theatre", by Graeme Nixon, produced by Graeme Nixon' OU "The ass and the philosophers", by Gwenyth Jones, produced by Tudor Bostock; CU "The strolling clerk from Paradise", by Hans Sacchs produced by Joan Jackson). Programme. Shoestring Players Berhampore. "See how they run", by Philip King. Produced by Kemp Eriksen. 24-25 June [1958?]. Programme. Shoestring Players Berhampore "Tell me the truth", by Leslie Howard. Produced by Kemp Eriksen and Alan Smith. South Wellington School Hall. 10-12 November 1958. Programme. Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in "The chalk garden", by Enid Bagnold. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 5 April 1958. Programme. Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in "The chalk garden", by Enid Bagnold. Theatre Royal Christchurch [1958]. Programme Sybil Thorndike and Lewis Casson in "The chalk garden", by Enid Bagnold. Grand Opera House Wellington. 24 April 1958. Programme (2 copies) and flyer. Taumarunui Repertory Society presents "The Hollow", by Agatha Christie. Produced by Anne McClymont. Winter Show Building Taumarunui, 19-22 November 1958. Programme. Thursday Theatre Society Inc. "Cry wolf", by Stafford Byrne. Produced by Bruce Hamlin. Wellington Town Hall Concert Chamber. 5-7 June 1958. Programme. Wanganui Repertory Society. "Witness for the prosecution", by Agatha Christie. Prodiced by Alexia Rankin. Wanganui Opera House, 26-28 April 1958. Programme Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens. Tour of New Zealand and Australia, 1958. Programme. (2 copies) D D O'Connor in association with R J Kerridge presents Emlyn Williams as Charles Dickens. Wellington Concert Chamber. Commencing 31 March 1958. Flyer. Emlyn Williams as "A boy growing up", an entertainment from the stories of Dylan Thomas. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 20 theatre programmes and flyers (plus duplicates).. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Transfers: Transfer to Published: Wellington Competitions Society festival programme 1918.

Date: 1950s

By: Wingfield Press

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1950s

Description: Includes: 1951: "Lucrece", by Thornton Wilder. Produced by Maria Dronke. Concert Chamber Wellington, 7-10 March 1951. Programme (2 copies) and invitation card. 1954: "Under the sycamore tree", by Samuel Spewack. Produced by Mrs Nada Martin. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 31 March - 3 April 1954. Programme (2 copies) and 1 blue ticket. 1955: "Much ado about nothing", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Maria Dronke. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 15-18 March 1955. Programme (2 copies). 1957: "The cherry orchard", by Anton Chekhov. Produced by Margaret Walker. Little Theatre, 1-6 April 1957. Programme (2 copies - Harry H Tombs, Wingfield Press) 1958: "All's well that ends well", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Nola Millar. Little Theatre, 10-16 April; Teacher's College Hall Palmerston North, 18-19 April [1958]. Programme 1959: "Jack Winter's dream", by James K Baxter; and "Oedipus Rex", by Sophocles. Produced by Richard Campion. Set design by Raymond Boyce; music David Farquhar. Concert Chamber, 24-27 June 1959. Programme (2 copies - Harry H Tombs, Wingfield Press) "The tragicall historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke", by William Shakespeare. An illustrated lecture on the last scene. Memorial Theatre, Tuesday 24 March [1959? or early 1960s?] (May not be VUDC) Programme. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 15 pieces of ephemera. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Ashton, John Hammond, 1917-2010 :Negatives

Reference: PAColl-7208-07-28

Description: Photographs of the Victoria University Drama Club production "The Devils", taken in 1965 by John Ashton. Arrangement: Negatives at 35mm-41056 to 41069 Quantity: 14 b&w original negative(s) strips with 43 images.

Date: 1930 - 1939

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-BDLW-1930s

Description: Includes: Wellington Area Festival of Community Drama. Blue Triangle Hall Boulcott Street. 23-24 September 1932. Adjudicators Miss Elizabeth Blake, and William M Page. (Dannevirke High School Dramatic Club, Maltby Players, Victoria College University Dramatic Club, Ina Allen Players, WEA Team, Kirkcaldie & Stains Players, Wellington East Girls' College Old Girls' association Amatuer Dramatics, Silverstream Women's Institute Drama Circle, Joy Players, Rongotai College Dramatic Club, The Creche, Little Players, Pioneer Club's Reading Circle, Lyceum Club Dramatic Circle, Pilgrim Players, Query Players). (2 copies) Second annual festival of Community drama. Blue Triangle Hall, Boulcott Street. 9-12 August 1933. (Wellington College Drama Club - producer J R Griffin; Wadestown Players producer Molly Atkinson; Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer M E P Ahern; Tuck's Team producer W Tuckwell; Strolling Players producer R Welton Hogg; Silverstream Women's Institute producer M Boyle-Barclay; Stokes Valley Women's Institute producer Mrs Cording; Wellington East Amateur Dramatics - producer Sybil Williams; Wesley Joy Players - producer Fay Smyth; Belfrances Players producer Mrs L Halligan; Crescent Players - producer Elsie Lloyd; Wellington South Kindergarten Mothers' Club producer Miss C Birks; Triangle Players producer E R Render; Victoria University College Dramatic Club - producers Zena Jupp and W J Mountjoy, jnr; Maud Farrant's Juvenile Class producer Maude [sic] Farrant; Rongotai Boys' College - producer A S Farquhar; Navy League Drama Club - producer Mona Brien)(2 copies) Third annual festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 21-24 September 1934. Area committee Mrs E Maslen, Misses E Maddever, D Isaacs, I Wemyss, Messrs A S Farquar, Vryn Evans, J R Griffin, H N Hannah, Ralph Hogg, P Keesing, R D Phillips, E R Render, G H A Swan. Secretary Miss Catherine Keddell. Adjudicator Leo du Chateau. (Johnsonville Players producer G A Jones; Joy Players producer Fay Smyth; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society producer Marjorie Eberlet; W.E.A. Drama Circle - producer E Maslen; Marsden Players producer Judith Williams; Victoria University College Dramatic Circle producer W J Mountjoy jnr; Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer W Hardinge-Maltby; Wadestown Leisure Society Dramatic Circle producer Laurence Webster; Wellington Repertory Theatre producers G H A Swan and Mr & Mrs E S Baldwin; The Thespians - producers Ralph Hogg and H N Hannah; Drury Players producer Sybil Martyn Williams; Junior Branch of the Navy League Drama Club -producer Mona Brien; Pioneer Club Drama Circle) (2 copies) Fourth annual festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 26-28 September 1935. Area committee Mrs E Maslen, Miss D Cunningham, Messrs A S Farquhar, Ralph Hogg, P Keesing, E R Render, J B Yaldwyn, P W Cousins. Hon Secretary Miss Catherine Keddell; Treasurer Marjorie Eberlet. Adjudicator Bernard Beeby. (Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Marjorie Eberlet; The Masqueraders' Club - producer E J Sutch; Pioneer Club Drama Circle; Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society - producer Ken Aitken; The Thespians - producers Elsie Lloyd and B R O'Brien; Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer Miss Hardinge-Maltby; Marsden Old Girls' Drama Club - producer Mrs J Williams; Navy League Junior Branch - producer Mona Brien; The Belfrances Players - producer Isabel Halligan) (2 copies). Quantity: 4 programmes plus duplicates. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Victoria University of Wellington Drama Club :[Programmes. 1960-1969].

By: Frankl, Johann, 1904-1996

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1965-01

Description: Cast included: John Batstone, Murray Gronwall, Paul Maunder, Peter Jenkin, Patrica Howell, Stephen Whitehouse, Michael Hirsdchfield, Susan Maxwell-Stewart, Grant O'Donnell, Roger Hall, Tony Ashenden, Jack Richards, Michael Beveridge, Craig McLeod, Maarten van Dijk, Alistair Gordon, Kristin Strickland, Vivien Flack, Sandy Chadwick, Caroline Harding, Erica Welsh, Stephanie Tarrant, Sally Connolly, [Wi] Kuki Kaa, and others in crowd scenes. The designer was Don Ramage, Music and effects David Farquhar, Stage manager and set construction Roger Parsons, Production secretary and prompt Cathie Gordon, Wardrobe mistress Carole Aitcheson, Sound Terry Waghorn. Two copies held. Dated from the annotation on the cover of one copy held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on programme. 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Photolithograph on folded programme 248 x 179 mm.

Date: 1934 - 1953

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-BDLW

Description: Includes: First Junior Festival of Community Drama and Play Writing. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 20-21 July 1934. Adjudicators: Mrs Craig Mackenzie, A S Farquhar, H B Tomlinson, Miss Beatrice Mackenzie. (Rongotai College Dramatic Club, Belfrances Players, Miss Maude Farrant's Pupils and Pantomime Class, Wellington Girls' College Dramatic Club, Wellesley College Players, Wellington College Dramatic Club, Junior Juveniles, Pupils of Miss Edna Purdie, Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society) (2 copies) Junior Festival of Community Drama. Blue Triangle Hall Boulcott Street. 2-3 August 1935. Adjudicators Miss C Keddell, A S Farquhar, P Keesing, Miss Hardinge-Maltby. (Queen Margaret College - producer Daphne Vyner and Rona Avann, Rongotai College Drama Society - producer R F Ward, Wellington College Dramatic Club - producer J R Griffin, Wellington Girls' College Drama Club - producer Margaret Freeman, Junior Belfrances Players - producer Isobel Halligan, Wellington East Old Girls' Drama Society - producer Nola L Mill[a]r). Judge Bernard Beeb[y]. (2 copies) Fifth annual festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 5-8 August 1936. Adjudicator Miss Elizabeth Loe. (Belfrances Players - producer Isobel Halligan; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Doreen Cunningham and Nola Millar; Rongotai College Dramatic Society - producer A S Farquhar; Marsden Old Girls' Drama Club - producers Mrs J Williams and Miss C Morice; Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society - producer Kennith Aitken; Junior Branch of the Navy League Drama Circle - producer Doris Hussey; Wellington Repertory Theatre - producers Mr G H A Swan and H N Hannah; All Saints Players - producer Margaret Davies; Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer Mr E P Ahern; Pioneer Club Drama Circle; Wellington Catholic Players - producer B R O'Brien; G Helen Gard'ner's "Gazelles" - producer G Helen Gard'ner. (2 copies) Sixth Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 28-31 July 1937. Committee Rev D J Davies, T Queree, P Keesing, Miss D Cunningham, Miss A Harcourt, Miss Hardcastle, Miss M Brien, Mr W Balham, Mr P Cousins. Scretary Miss D Isaacs, Treasurer Miss M Eberlet, Adjudicator Professor James Shelley, Stage manager Selwyn Toogood, House Manager P W Cousins. (St John's Players - producer Gordon Hooper, Garrick Players - producer Lois Mair, Elizabeth McCombs Memorial - producer Mrs P Dowse, The Mogdans - producer M Brown, Pioneer Club Drama Circle, Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Margaret Cowan, Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society, Catholic Repertory Society - producer Miss M Doolan, Peter Pan Players - producer Mrs R S McInnes, Johnsonville Players - producer Mr R W Stockdale, All Saints Players - producer Margaret Davies, Belfrances Players - producer Isabel Halligan, Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Miss G Ockenden, Paraparaumu Women's Institute - producer Miss Stocker, Marsden Old Girls' Drama Club - producer Mollie Brown). (2 copies) Seventh Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 10-13 August 1938. Programme. Adjudicator James Shelley. (Wellington Catholic Players - producer Mr P F Gaines; Crescent Players - producer Geoffrey S Lloyd; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - Producer Ailsa Duff; Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society - producer George Rossiter; Query Players - producer A Flett; Elizabeth McCombs Memorial Clubs - producer Mrs M Dowse; The Zathenians - producer Miss Zara Manoy; Pioneer Club Drama Circle - producer Anne Lane; Peter Pan Players - producer Dorothy Jesson; Hollinside Players - producer Mrs Lewis Grant; The Stragglers - producer Gordon Hooper) (2 copies). Eighth Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 13-16 September 1939. Adjudicator Professor James Shelley. (Pandora Musical and Dramatic Society - producer Percy W Cousins, Crescent Players - producer Gibson Philp, Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Nola Millar, Newlands Women's Institute - producer Mrs M Ring, Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Rae Sturrock, Haeremai Players - producer Dorothy Tanner, Crescent Players - producer Ewen Scott, Hollinside Players - producer Mrs Lewis Grant, Peter Pan Players - producer Rosina Bligh, Elizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Mrs E Harris, Pioneer Club - producer Anne Lane, Wellington Repertory Theatre - producer G H A Swan, F M Renner, Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer M E P Ahern, All Saints Players - producer Noel Cathie). (2 copies) Centennial celebrations; Drama Festival of One-Act Plays. Wellington Elimination festival. 13-17 July 1940. Adjudicator Bernard Beeby. Area Committee: Rosina Bligh, Mrs M Ring, Mrs N Goulding, Miss D Isaacs, Miss Louise Jourdain, Miss D Cunningham, Miss M Brien, Miss Amy Kane; Mr G A Jesson, Mr P W Cousins, Mr A S Farquhar. (Elizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Mrs E Harris; Wellington Repertory Theatre - porducer Francis M Renner; Ramahi Drama Group - producer Kathleen O'Neill; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Nola Millar; St Francis Players - producer Mrs C de L Gordon; Norwich Club - producer Gordon Hooper; Newlands Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Mrs Mavis Ring; Peter Pan Players - producers Kenneth Aitken and Rosina Bligh; John O' London Club Players - producer Mr M S Buttereton; Pioneer Club Play Reading Circle - producer Margaret Davies; All Saints' Players - producer Grace Buchanan; Lyceum Club Drama Circle - producer M E P Ahern; Waterloo Fabian Dramatic Society - producer Mrs P Dowse). (2 copies) Tenth Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 24-26 July 1941. Area Committee: Rosina Bligh, Mavis Ring, N Grace, E Harris, A E Farrant, Mona Brien, Helen Mitchell, Nola Millar; Mr G A Jesson, P W Cousins, A S Farquhar, F V Sanderson. Adjudicator Bernard Beeby. (Peter Pan Players - producers A E Farrant and Rosina Bligh; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Helen Mitchell and Rae Carter; Pioneer Club Drama Circle - producer Anne Lane; Marsden Old Girls' Drama Club - producer Mrs J G Young; Karori Plunket Readers - producer Mr G T Wiggs; Elizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Ethel Harris; Strathmore Play Readers - producer Mr D J Edwards; Belfrances Players - producer Isabel Halligan; All Saints' Players - producer Ulu Hancock; Hataitai Junior Players - producer Rosina Bligh; Karori Junior Players - producer Mrs Edna Wiggs; Lower Hutt Junior Players - producer Mrs Williams).(2 copies) 11th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 31 July - 1 August 1942. Adjudicator Helen Gard'ner. Area committee: Mrs Bligh, Mrs A E Farrant, Helen Mitchell, Nola Millar, Ulu Hancock, Jessie Burgess, Helena Sullivan, Mr G A Jesson, P W Cousins, A S Farquhar. (Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Nola Millar and Helen Mitchell; Pins and Needles Drama Group - producers E Major and Bernard Jones; Elizabeth McCombs Drama group - producer Mrs E Harris; Peter Pan Players - producer A E Farrant; Hataitai-Kilbirnie Junior Players - producer Rosina Bligh; Karori Junior PLayers - producer Mrs Holthouse; Kelburn Junior Players - producer Miss Glover; Eastbourne Junior Players - producer Mrs Beveridge; Hollinside Players - producer A E Farrant; Strathmore Play Readers - producer D G Edwards; Pandora Players - producer Harry Woolcott) (2 copies). 12th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Tin Hat Club Hall. 1-3 September 1943. Adjudicator Mrs Elsie Lloyd. (Elizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Mrs N Grace; Unity Theatre - producers C Bailey and Mrs N L Martin; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Helen Mitchell and Nola Millar; Pandora Players - producer Harry Woolcott; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy Cousins; Waterloo Fabians Dramatic Society - producer Mrs P Dowse; Karori Plunket Readers - producer Edna Wiggs; Hataitai-Kilbirnie Junior Players - producer Rosina Bligh; Johnsonville Junior Players - producer Mavis Ring; Eastbourne Junior Players - producer Jean Mather). Programme (2 copies) 19th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 31 July - 3 August 1950. Programme (2 copies). Area Committee: Amy Kane, Percy Cousins, Miss S Williams, Mrs Brown, Mrs Cleall, Mrs M Newman; Mr Jesson, Mr Chambers, Mr R Browne, Mr Wollcott, Mr Campbell, Mr Pottinger, Mrs B E Flockton. Adjudicator Mr W J Mountjoy. (Strathmore Players - producer D G Edwards; Curtain Theatre - producer Mr J W Wallace; WEA Drama Group - producers Nada Martin, Lex Gray and Joyce Heenan; Maranui Drama Group - producer Nan Lambert; Elizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Lucy Gibson; Khandallah Thespian Club - producer Reta Fisk; Victoria University Drama Club - producer Mrs Pat Evison; Wellington Teachers' training College - producer Margaret Walker; Wellington East Dramatic Society - producer Helen Mitchell; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy Cousins; Wellington Repertory Theatre Green Room Club - producer Nola Millar; Masterton Little Theatre Society - producer Nora L Pennington; Petene free Kindergarten Drama Group - producer Mollie Howarth; Karori Drama Society - producer Greville Wiggs; Wellington East Dramatic Society - producer Noeline Armstrong; Paekakariki Dramatic Society - producer Phyllis Dryden; Women's Institute Upper Hutt - producer Muriel Dalton) (2 copies). 20th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 6-11 August 1951. Area Committee: Amy Kane, Percy Cousins, Mesdames M Newman, E Campbell, D W Keenan, S Grange, Miss J McQueen, Messrs H Wollcott, A Jesson, S Campbell, N Couch. Adjudicator Paul Latham. (Wellington Repertory Green Room Club - producer Ulu Hancock; Maranui Drama Group - producer Nan Lambert; Wellington East Dramatic Society - producer Nita McMaster; Upper Hutt Women's Institute - producer Muriel Dalton; Karori Drama Society - Colleen Gilkison; Paekakariki Dramatic Society - producer P M Dryden; WEA Drama Group - producers Basil Barker, Joyce Shearer and Terence Journet; Petone Play Readers - producer E M C Howarth; Unity Theatre - producer Nola Millar; Khandallah Thespians - producer Lilian Millar; Silverstream Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Molly Bennet; Upper Hutt Women's Institute Drama Circle; I.C.I. Staff Social Club - producer D Stanley; Wellington East Dramatic Society; Redwoodtown Women's Institute Drama Circle (Blenheim) - producer Mrs L Hounsell; Peter Pan Players - producer Molly Newman; V.U.C. Drama Club - producer Elizabeth Oliver; Wallaceville Drama group - producer Elma Wright) (2 copies). 22nd Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 27 July - 1 August 1953. Adjudicator Mrs K Moynihan. (Khandallah Townswomen's Guild - producer R d'Elsa; Unity Theatre - producers Bruce Mason and Bert O'Keefe; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producers Star Robertson and John Bryce; WEA Drama Group "The Machine song" by NZer J A S Coppard - producer Keith M Bennett; Peter Pan Players - producer Molly Newman; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Brooklyn Theatre '52 - producer Mary Green Houston; Newlands and Paparangi Drama Group - producer Mrs Joane Stone; Petone Playreaders - producer Mollie Howarth; Wainui-o-mata Women's Institute - producer Mrs Joan Caldwell; Lower Hutt Townswomen's Guild - producer Mrs M L Doran; Maranui Drama Group - producer Nan Lambert; Victoria University College Drama Club - porducers J R Gilbertson and G I Rich; Blue Bird Play-Readers (Northland) - producer J Halket Millar; I.C.I. Staff Social Club (Drama Group) - producer Valerie Scott) (2 copies). North Island Eliminations. Town Hall Concert Chamber Wellington. 10-11 August 1956. Adjudicator Frank Newman. (Crocks Club - producer Marie Bullock; Matamata Dramatic Society - producer Shirley Hopkins; Hawera Repertory Society; Titirangi C.W.I. - producer Ethel Wyn Geddes; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy W Cousins; Auckland Repertory Theatre - producer Kathie Lennox; New Plymouth Repertory Society - producer Nancy Priest; Gordonton C.W.I. - producer Alison Drummond). Programme. (2 copies) Ninth annual report 1941. Flyer. Week-end School of drama under the tutorship of Miss Elizabeth Loe [1937?] E Martin Browne and Henzie Raeburn in "Poets of today in the theatre". Paramount Theatre Courtenay Place. 31 July [1951?] Certificate (blank): British Drama League New Zealand Branch Incorporated, Wellington Area. This is to certify that ... playng ... are declared winners of the Sir Michael Myers Cup at the Wellington Area Festival ... Judge. [1930-1940s?] Newsletters: 2 typescript circulars to members of the British Drama League Wellington Branch, one a list of rules of the branch and one a newsletter of 1954. Eph-B-DRAMA-BDLW-1942-01 certificate is stored in a separate folder. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 350 mm. Provenance: Newsletters donated from the estate of Margaret Malcolm Hall, 2003.

Date: 1950 - 1959

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-BDLW-1950s

Description: Includes: 1952: 21st annual Festival of Community Drama. (With history and list of past 20 years winners inside front) Concert Chamber Town Hall, 28 July - 2 August 1952. Adjudicator Ailsa Stephens. (Plimmerton Women's Institute - producer Roma Delicate; Petone Playreaders - producer Mollie Howarth; Unity Theatre - producer Beatrice Ashton; WEA Drama Group - producer Terence Journet; Newlands & Paparangi Drama Group - producer Joane Stone; Curtain Theatre - "Rising tide" written and produced by John Mihell; Lower Hutt Townswomen's Guild - producer L M Doran; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; VUC Drama Club - producer Ian Free; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy Cousins; Khandallah Players - producer Margaret Simpson; Brooklyn Townswomen's Guild Drama Circle - producer Nada Bowers; Kaiwaiwai South Featherston Women's Institute - producer Marjorie Wilton; I.C.I. Staff Drama Club - producer F A Baily; Khandallah Townswomen's Guild - producer Margaret Simpson; Martinborough Little Theatre Society - producer Olive Madsen; Plimmerton Women's Institute - producer Roma Delicate; Blenheim Women's Institute - producer Chris Ashley; Redwoodtown Women's Institute - producer Patricia Rees) (2 copies). 1953: National Final Festival of Community Drama. Adjudicator W J Mountjoy. Opera House Wellington, 17 September 1953. (Auckland University College Drama Society - producer Douglas Drury; Timaru Catholic Dramatic Club - producer Mrs M Clarke; W.E.A. Drama Group - producer Keith M Bennett). Programme 1954: Wellington Area 23rd Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 26-31 July 1954. Adjudicator Frank Newman. (VUC Drama Club - producers Bruce Hillyard and David Bridges; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Edna Wiggs; Bluebird Readers - producer J Halkett Millar; Wainui-o-mata Country Women's Institute - producer Joan Caldwell; Paparangi Drama Group - producer Joan Stone; Maranui Drama Group - producer Nan Lambert; Khandallah Thespians - producer Margaret Easther; Curtain Theatre - producer Dorothy Whittaker; Wellington Area Federation of Townswomen - producer Alison Tindill; I.C.I. Staff Drama group - producer H M Taylor; Khandallah Townswomen's Guild - producer R L Carey; Brooklyn Community Centre Theatre '52 - producer George Horwood; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy W Cousins; Strathmore Players - producer Ted Collie; Greek Olympic Youth Society - producers Christopher Lewis and Nick Galates; Onslow Girls' Drama Group - producers Irene Demchenko and Lois Lafrentz; Catholic Women's League - producer Meryl Goodson; WEA Drama Group - producers Keith Bennett and Terence Journet; Community Players - producer Georgie Fox). Programme (2 copies). 1955: Wellington Area 29th [ie 24th] Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 1-6 August 1955. Adjudicator: Mr John Thomson (Auckland). (Thursdays Drama Club - producer Wilfred J Wright; Wellington Jewish Social Club - producer Victor Corn; Pukerua Bay Country-Women's Institute - producer Ngita Woodhouse; WEA Drama Group - producer A Street; Tawa-Linden Drama Society - producer D C B Jenkins; Community Players - producer Basil Barker; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producers Bert Schonewille and Jeanie Longman; VUC Drama Club - producer Bruce Hillyard; Brooklyn Theatre '52 - producer Dorothy Whittaker; Wainui-o-mata Dramatic Club, "The licensed victualler" by Bruce Mason - producer Ivan Bushell; Peter Pan Players - producer H G Woolcott; Khandallah Thespians - producer Margaret Easther; The Crocks Club - producer Marie Bullock; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Country Players - producer P M Dryden; Unity Theatre, "The verdict" by Bruce Mason - producer George Webby; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Greville Wiggs) (2 copies). 1956: Wellington Area 25th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 30 July - 4 August 1956. Adjudicator Harold Pointer. (Lower Hutt Townswomen's Guild - producer Alison Tindill; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Dorothy M Battiston; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy W Cousins; Hataitai Methodist Drama Group - producer B J Stewart; Wainui-o-mata Dramatic Society - producer Nyra Bentley; Welsh Society Drama Club - producer Reg Davis; Thursday Club - producer Bruce Hamlin; Theatrical productions Academy - producer L Assheton-Harbord; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producer Mrs A Hildreth; Community Players - producer Stan Campbell; Strathmore Players - producer Doug G Edwards; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Penelope Ormerod; Federation of Townswomen's Guild (Wellington) - producer Dorothy Alecock; C[r]ocks Club - producer Marie Bullock, Helen Brew; Catholic Women's League - producer Marie O'Brien; Thursday Club - producer Irene Adcock and Mirna Wright; VUC Drama Club - producer Pauline Kermode) (2 copies). 1957: Programme for social evening, Monday 15 April 1957. Community Centre Hall, Campbridge Terrace Wellington ("Reminiscences of the early days of BDL" by Amy Kane; Community Players present "Clouded crystal", by Norman Holland; produced by Peter Downes) Wellington Area Annual Festival of Drama. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 29 July - 3 August 1957. Adjudicator John Thomson. Cover title British Drama League New Zealand Branch Inc. Silver jubilee. (Crocks Club - producer Marie Bullock; Brooklyn Theatre '52 - producer Ronald Gillies; Wainuiomata Dramatic Club - producer Patricia Griffin; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Thursday Theatre Society - producer H G Woolcott; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy W Cousins; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producer Ellinore Ginn; Community Players - producer Mirna Wright; Thursday Theatre Society - producer Larry Williams; Welsh Society Drama Club - producer Peg Davies and Allan Jesson; The Leader Studio Dramatic Club; Thespians Monday Club). (2 copies) 1958: 27th annual Festival of Drama. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 28 July - 2 August 1958. Adjudicator Miss Frona King. (Welsh Society Drama Group - producer G A and Allan Jesson; Brooklyn Theatre '52 - producer Lewis Evans; Wainuiomata Dramatic Society - producer Joan Caldwell; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producer J R Laybourn; Pukerua Bay C.W.I. Drama Circle - producer Ngita Woodhouse; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Thursday Theatre Society - producer Bruce Hamlin; Studio Theatre - producer Catherine Fulton; Wainuiomata Dramatic Society - producer Marjorie Oaks; Tawa-Linden Drama Group - producer Jean Roberts; Peter Pan Players - producer Harry Woolcott; The Ariel Players - producer Marjorie Williams; Shoestring Players - producer Mae Cleall; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Vida Stokes; Area Federation of Townswomen's Guilds (Khandallah) - producer Myrna Wright; Thespian Monday Club - producer Anne Lane). (2 copies) 1959: 28th Annual Festival of Drama. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 27 July - 1 August 1959. Adjudicator Mrs Lesbia Paine. (Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; The Out of Town Players - producer Mollie Lennane; Stagecraft Theatre - producer Keith M Bennett; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Greville Wiggs; Northland Community Players - producer Lesley Webb; Lower Hutt Townswomen's Guild - producer Alison Tindill; Tawa-Linden Drama Group - producer Jean Roberts; Thursday Community Players - producer Michael G Dunne; Shoestring Players - producer Meredith Paterson; I.C.I. Social Club Drama Group - producer Stanley Campbell; Khandallah Arts Theatre - producer Pauline McLean; Thursday Community Players - producer Myrna Wright; Titahi Bay Little Theatre - producer Gloria Power; General Motors Amateur Dramatic Group - producer Betty Childs; Wainuiomata Dramatic and Operatic Society - producer F M Renner). (2 copies) Quantity: 11 programmes plus duplicates. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1965

From: Victoria University of Wellington Drama Club :[Programmes. 1960-1969].

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1965-02

Description: Written by: Bruce Lawson, John Sadleir, Colin Bickler, Mel Dickson, Les Cleveland, William Sheat, Marie Bullock, John Ross and John Mahaffey. Cast included: Karin Blomeyer, Margaret Kemp, Nicolette McKenzie, Rosalind Orwin, Susan Smith, Laurie Atkinson, Les Cleveland, Murray Gronwall, Michael Hattaway, Ken Pearson, Gilbert Roper. The designer was Don Ramage, musical direction by Jenny McLeod, costumes designed by peter Jeffries, stage manager Jeremy Parsons, publicity by Jeremy Cornford. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on programme. 1.30 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Offset print and typescript, on programme, 227 x 180 mm.

Date: 1940 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-BDLW-1940s

Description: Includes: Centennial celebrations. Wellington Elimination Festival, and Wellington provincial final. Flyer. Centennial celebrations. Drama festival of one-act plays. Wellington provincial final. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 24 July 1940. Adjudicator Mr W S Wauchop. (Wellington Repertory Society - producer Francis M Renner; St Matthew's Drama Club Masterton - producer Mrs E J Rich; Palmerston North Little Theatre - producer Patricia Harman; Peter Pan Players - producer Rosina Bligh). (2 copies) Twelfth Annual Festival of Community Drama. Tin Hat Hall. 1-3 September 1943. Flyer only (2 copies) (programme at Eph-B-DRAMA-BDLW-1943). "The whiteheaded boy", by Lennox Robinson. Produced by Mrs Bernard Beeby. Town Hall Concert Chamber. 18-21 October 1944. Programme (2 copies) 13th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 26-29 July 1944. Adjudicator Mrs Craig MacKenzie. Area Committee: Mr A S Farquhar, Mavis Ring, N L Martin, Doris Black, Helen Mitchell, Elizabeth Arya, G A Jesson, Percy Cousins, F V Sanderson, H G Woolcott, Bernard Jones. Secretary & treasurer Nola Millar. (Peter Pan Players - producers Rosina Bligh and Kenneth Aitken), Strathmore Play Readers - producer H Baigent; Unity Theatre - producer John Grey; Victoria University College Drama Club - producer Nada Martin; Daphne Violich Players - producer Daphne Violich; Hutt Valley H S Old Pupils Dramatic Club - producer Joan A Cowie; Young Pretenders Drama Club - producer Alric Toogood; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Nola Millar and Valmai Stone; Waterloo Fabians Dramatic Society - producer Mary Dowse; Karori Plunket Readers - producer Greville Wiggs). (2 copies) 14th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 19-21 July 1945. Adjudicator Miss Doris Symes. (Young pretenders' Drama Club - producer Jocelyn Beaumont; Hutt Valley H S Old Pupils' Dramatic Club - producer John B Stanton; Unity Theatre - producer Robert Stead; Victoria University College Drama Club - producer K Jordan; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Nola Millar; Strathmore Play Readers - producer Isobel Andrews; Peter Pan Players).(2 copies) 15th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 7-10 August 1946. Adjudicator Maria Dronke. (Karori Players - producer Edna Wiggs; Victoria University Drama Club - producer Maryanne Beaglehole); WEA Drama Group - producers R G Milne and W L ALexander; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Nola Millar and Noeline Myers; Hutt Valley H S Old Pupils' Dramatic Club - producer John B Stanton; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Mollie Matthewson; Wellington Catholic Women's League, Drama Circle - producer Mrs P Gilligan; Otago High School Ex-Girls Association (Wellington Branch) - producer Mrs Esther Caughley; Curtain Theatre - producer Baernard Hurrell; Peter Pan PLayers - producer Percy W Cousins; Otaki Women's Institute Drama Circle - joint producers Jean Harrington and Rosa Mills; Pioneer Players - producer Anne Lane) (2 copies). 16th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 22 - 24 July 1947. Adjudicator Maria Dronke. (WEA Drama Group - producers Jacqueline Beere and Nat Beatus; Hutt Valley Federation of New Zealand Women's Institutes; Strathmore Players - producer Doug Edwards; Springlands-Farnham Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Isabel Annie Neilson; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producers Nola Millar and Olga E Harding; Picton Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Mrs H Budge; Tawa Flat Women's Institute - producer Mrs A E Edmonds) (2 copies) 17th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 2-5 August 1948. Adjudicator Bessie Thomson. (Belmont Women's Institute - producer Winifred Martin; Taita Women's Institute - producer A G Wilson; Upper Hutt Women's Institute - producer Muriel Dalton; WEA Drama Club - producers Cecil Chambers and Nat Beatus; Peter Pan Players - producer Percy W Cousins; Paremata Women's Institute - porducer Jean Power; The Thespians - producers Noeline Myers and J P Delahunty; Curtain Theatre - producer Lilian Millar; Karori Dramatic Society - producer Greville Wiggs; Picton Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Mrs H Budge; Wellington East Old Girls' Dramatic Society - producer Nola Millar; Plimmerton Women's Institute Drama Circle - producer Roma Delicate) (2 copies). 18th Annual Festival of Community Drama. Concert Chamber Town Hall. 18-21 July 1949. Adjudicator W Russell-Wood. Stage Managers G A Jesson and R Browne; house manager Nola Millar. (Upper Hutt Women's Institute - producer Muriel Dalton; Student Thespians - producer A S Farquhar; E;lizabeth McCombs Drama Group - producer Lucy Gibson; Peter Pan Players - producers Percy W Cousins and Cecil G Chambers; Paekakariki Drama Circle - producer P M Dryden; WEA Drama Group - producer Nada Martin [withdrawn]; Wellington East Dramatic Society - producers Nola Millar and Noeline Armstrong; Unity Theatre - producers Jim Delahunty and Kathleen Ross; Strathmore Players - producer Doug G Edwards; Redwoodtown Women's Institute - producer Elizabeth Hounsell; Victoria College Drama Club - producer Mrs Patricia Evison) (2 copies). Quantity: 9 programmes plus duplicates. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: [ca 1950-1980]

From: Bailey, Rona, 1914-2005 : Papers and recordings

Reference: MS-Papers-6441-8

Description: Programmes for Wellington Teachers College production of `A Streetcar named desire' by Williams (1978); `Amadeus' by Shaffer at Downstage (ca 1981); `HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan, by Wellington Gilbert and Sullivan Society (1964); `Noel and Gertie' by Morley, `The Queen and the rebels' by Betti, `The Young Elizabeth' by Dowling and Letton (1953), `St Joan' by Shaw, `Virtue in danger', by Vanbrugh (1956) by the NZ Players; `The Altuist in spite of himself' by Marie Bullock; `Experiment in a wide wood' by Journet (1963), `Road to paradise' by Reid, `The Poker session' by Leonard, `Fairy tales of New York' by Donleavy, `Hot summer night' by Willis, all produced by Stagecraft Theatre; `Free' by Joseph Musaphia and `Three women and the sea' by Baxter, performed by Theatre Workshop of the NZ Theatre Company at VUW; `A Surfeit of lampreys' by Marsh and `The Living Room' by Greene performed by the Thespians (1955) Also Victoria University Contemporary Arts Group, Living Theatre Group (1972), the Bullfit Family Players doing `East Lynne', `Old time music hall' by Banot Wizo; `The Rivals' by Sheridan, produced by Victoria University Drama Club (1952); Benson & Hedges drama festival with list of entries (1968); the First Festival of Wellington (1959); British Drama League 22nd and 29th Annual Festival of community drama, Wellington area (1953, 1955) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1959

From: Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings

Reference: f-90-341-01

Description: Score and programme for the Victoria University Drama Club production by Richard Campion, 24-27 June 1959 Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holograph and typescript

Date: 1924-1967

From: Yaldwyn, John Bradley, 1900-1975 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-10932

Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) (25 pieces). Finding Aids: List of contents in folder. Transfers: To Ephemera Collection - Theatrical ephemera.

Date: 1950-2000

From: Dominion Post (Newspaper): Photographic negatives and prints of the Evening Post and Dominion newspapers

Reference: PAColl-7327-1-029

Description: Photographs relating to drama and theatre, including theatre companies from overseas visiting New Zealand, taken and collected by the Evening Post. Images taken in New Zealand and abroad, by a range of photographers, between 1950 and 2000. Quantity: 1 box(es) of prints, grouped in folders.

Date: 1927 - 1949

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-VUDC-1920/1949

Description: Includes: 1929: Victoria University College Dramatic Club presents "The young idea", produced by Miss Mary Cooley; stage manager Miss Helen Dunn. Blue Triangle Hall, 16-17 August 1929. Programme (2 copies). 1931: "The dark angel", by H B Trevelyan. Produced by Mary Cooley. Blue Triangle Hall Boulcott Street, 25-27 June 1931. Programme 1932: "The ship", by St J. Ervine. Produced by Mary Cooley. Blue Triangle Hall Boulcott Street, 28-30 July 1932. Programme 1939: The V.U.C. Dramatic Club presents "The Dover Road", by A A Milne. Producer Mr A B Gordon. 16-17 March [1939]. Programme (2 copies) 1944: "Anna Christie", by Eugene O'Neill, presented by the Victoria University College Drama Club, in the College Gym. Produced by Allona Priestley. 10-12 August 1944. Programme. (2 copies) Victoria University College Drama Club presents One act plays ("The women", by Clare Booth; "Poor but honest", "Death sends for the doctor" by Eugene Heltain; "Ways and means", by Noel Coward). Gymnasium, Friday 23 June 1944. Programme (2 copies) 1946: "Ghosts", by Henrik Ibsen. Produced by Catherine Crosse. 21-23 August 1946. Programme (2 copies) "Mr Bolfry", by James Bridie. Produced by Pix Hurrell. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 5-6 April 1946. Programme (2 copies) 1947: "The infernal machine", by Jean Cocteau. Production and decor by Sam Williams, music composed by Douglas Lilburn. Technical College Hall, 7-9 August 1947. Programme (2 copies) "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Produced by B L Hurrell. The Gymn [sic], 20-22 March 1947. Flier / programme (2 copies) 1949: "She stoops to conquer", by Oliver Goldsmith. Produced by Ralph Hogg. Concert Chamber, 24-26 March 1949. Programme (2 copies, one autographed). Victoria University Drama Club presents two one act plays: "The wedding" by Anton Tchekov and "A phoenix too frequent: by Christopher Fry. Little Theatre, 15-16 July [1949?]. Programme Quantity: 8 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.