Jay, Jeremy, active 1970s

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: 1976

From: Unity Theatre :[Programmes, fliers and small posters relating to plays and dramatic performances]

Reference: Eph-B-UNITY-1976

Description: Includes: 'The bulletin'. 11 November 1976 Changes at Unity Theatre [1976]. Yellow flier "Cheek", by Howard Barker. Director Jan Prettejohns; designer Kate Jasonsmith. [1976?]. Flier / cast list "Christie in love", a play by Howard Brenton; directed by Stanley Harper (with Ken Blackburn, Peter Hayden, Stephen Tozer. Unity Theatre, 15-17, 21-24 July [1976]. Small poster (2 different) "A doll's house, by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Paul Maunder; designed by Fiona Lindsay. [Undated]. Programme / flier (2 copies) "An evening with Eveling", a double bill by Stanley Eveling. "Sweet Alice" [and] "Dear Janet Rosenberg, Dear Mr Kooning". Director Jeremy Jay; designer Iain Aitken. 23 October - 13 November [1976]. Programme and small poster "Fanshen", by David Hare. Director Richard Mays [1976]. Programme / flier "The glass menagerie", by Tennessee Williams; directed by Jan Prettejohns. Unity Theatre, from 14 February [1976]. Programme (2 copies), and small poster "I suspect we're ridiculous", a one-act play written & produced by Debbie Graham. Unity, 3-5, 10-12 Feb [1976]. Small poster "King Lear", by William Shakespeare; directed by Russell Aitken; designed by Janet Williamson, with Terence Nonweiler as Lear. Unity Theatre, 1 April - 1 May [1976]. Programme (4 copies, each on a different coloured paper); and 2 different small posters (2 copies of each) "Lenz", a new play by Mike Stott; director Phil Mann. Unity Theatre 30 June - 24 July [1976]. Late nights: Schubert's last serenade, director Deborah Guthrie, 1-3 July; "Christie in love", director Stanley Harper, 15-17 July [1976]. Small poster (2 different colours) "The moon lovers". An evening of poetry, drama, music and satire [with Gary McCormick, Keren Rickard, Roger Drury, Jean McAllister. Unity Theatre, 15-20 November 1976. Programme / flier (2 copies) "The moon lovers", & "Naked and nameless", devised and directed by Gary McCormick. Unity Theatre 15-20 November 1976. Flier "... Or what you will!". Late night at Unity. 22-23 April [1976]. Flier "Not I", by Samuel Becket; a New Zealand premiere. 28-30 October; 4-6 November [1976]. Flier. "Breath"; "Come and go" and "Not I", by Samuel Becket. 28-30 October; 4-6 November [1976]. Yellow flier (2 copies) "Saved", by Edward Bond. Directed by Stephen McElrea; designed by Stephen La Hood. Unity Theatre, 22 September - 16 October 1976. Programme/flier (2 copies) and small poster (2 copies) Theatre for kids! at Unity Theatre. "Mr Jumpo Jellylegs", with Jean Betts, Michael Wilson, Claire Overman. Directed by Carole Beu. August school holidays, daily 2 pm [1976]. Flier (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photocopies and offset prints, sizes varying around 300 x 200 mm.