Clark, Brian, 1932-

Date: 2000 - 2009

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-DC-2000/2009

Description: Includes: 2000: Soul food; stories for a new millennium. 1-5 March 2000. Flier (2 copies) 2002: "A Christmas carol", by Charles Dickens, adapted by Tim Priestley. December 2002. Programme. 2003: Drama Christi presents two plays: "Thursday night and Friday morning"; and "The long noon", by Patricia Chown. Drama Christi Studio 10-13 April 2003. Programme and flier. "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. 15-24 August 2003. Flier only 2004: "The fortieth man", by Freda Collins; and "Tryst", by Colin Crowther. Directed by Wilf Cable. April 2004. Programme. 2005: "Back to the land", by Do Shaw. Directed by Chris Fisher. Programme and flier. "The Farnsdale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's production of A Christmas Carol". Directed by Andrew Bartle. Drama Christi Studio, 6-11 December 2005. Programme and flier. 2006: A pocketful of plays: The Lorax, The Mechanicals, The Glorious whitewasher, The dear departed, Man's inhumanity to man. Drama Christi Studio, 6-9 April 2006. Flier only. "Papa Panov's magic Christmas", by Paul Thain from the story by Leo Tolstoy. Directed by Bill Thomas. December 2006. Programme (2 copies) and flier. 2007: Drama Christi presents a duet of plays for Easter. "No name in the street"; "The trial". Drama Christi Studio, 75 Taranaki Street, 29 march - 1 April [2007]. Programme and flier "The happiest days of your life". 5-14 October 2007. Flier only 2008: Drama Christi presents three plays on the theme of human existence. "Passing lives". Drama Christi Studio, 10-13 April 2008. Flier only Drama Christi presents "Roads to Bethlehem". Drama Christi Studio, 19-20 December 2008. Flier only Drama Christi presents "The taming of the shrew", by William Shakespeare. 29 August - 7 September [2008?]. Flier only 2009: Henrik Ibsen's "An enemy of the people". Drama Christi Studio, 4-13 September 2009. Flier only Drama Christi was established in 1947 (Sixtieth anniversay production "The happiest days of your life" performed in 2007. Quantity: 15 programmes / fliers. Physical Description: Offprint on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

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: 1980

From: Downstage Theatre :[Ephemera and posters for productions. 1964-2013]

Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1980

Description: Includes posters for: Amnesty benefit concert; a unique comic occasion. "Prisoners of Mother Russia". On stage together Annie Whittle, David McPhail, Roger Hall, Jon Gadsby, Dave Smith, Ginette McDonald, Michael Wilson, Davina Whitehouse, Peter Hayden, Rawiri Paratene, Sue Wilson, Danny Fahy, Vale Murphy, John Banas, A K Grant, Stephen McCurdy, Chris McVeigh, Michael Noonan, Ian Fraser, Tom Scott. Downstage Theatre, 24 February [1980] (2 copies) "Bent", by Martin Sherman. From 19 September [1980] (2 copies) "Bodies", by James Saunders. June - July [1980] (2 copies) "Crown matrimonial", by Royce Ryton. Downstage Theatre, from 23 October [1980] (2 copies) "Da", a lyrical comedy by Hugh Leonard. Hannah Playhouse opening 21 Feb [1980] (2 copies) Theatre Corporate presents Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis", adapted for the stage by Steven Berkoff. Centrepoint Theatre Palmerston North 6-11 May; Downstage Theatre Wellington 14-24 May; Theatre Corporate Auckland, 3-21 June 1980. (2 copies) "No orchids for Miss Blandish", by Robert D Macdonald, adapted from the novel by James Hadley Chase. April 1980 (2 copies) "Premier palace of varieties" Music Hall. Mr John Callen our esteemed chairman. From 12 December [1980] (2 copies of each of 2 sizes) "The seagull", Chekhov. First performance 21 July 1980 (2 copies) "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. From 14 November [1980] (2 copies) "Wings", by Arthur Kopit. Downstage Theatre, May-June [1980] (2 copies) "Yerma", by Federico Garcia Lorca. Downstage Theatre, 9-13 September [1980] (2 copies) Quantity: 13 posters. Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm.

Date: 1985

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1985

Description: Includes: Wellington Playwrights' Association presents Rosalie Carey in "Charlie", and "Come-back", with Peace poets. Newtown Community Centre, 27 February - 2 March [1985]. Flyer only Wellington Playwrights' Assn presents Rosalie Carey in "Charlie"; a solo performance by actress, playwright Rosalie Carey of Wellington, and "Come-back", at Newtown Community Centre 27 Feb - 2 March. For the Peace Movement. Yellow flyer Mana Little Theatre presents "The dresser", by R Harwood. Studio, Plimmerton, Oct 31, Nov 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9. Flyer only "Faust; ein Schauerspiel". Drama House Studio Theatre, 93 Kelburn Parade, 19-21 July 1985. A performance in German. Flyer Come and see "The frogs", a comedy by Aristophanes performed by Rongotai College's Apollo Club and Wellington East Girls' College. Rongotai College, 6 & 9-10 May [1985]. Green flyer Spot-Litez presentz playz by Harold Pinter; poemz by Roger McGough. St Aidan's Hall, 22-24 April [1985]. Flyer "Stop that romantic staring"; a selection from the plays, poetry & songs of Bertolt Brecht, performed by Drama Studies students directed by Phil Mann. Hunter [Building, VUW], 3-5 May [1985]. Flyer only Mervyn Thompson. [Circular letter] To the women attempting to stop my play. 19 [February] 1985. The New Players present "Whose life is it anyway", by Brian Clark; directed by Olga Harding. Stage Door Theatre, Newland College, 16-27 April [1985]. Flyer "Wild cabbage", by James Beaumont; director James Beaumont. [23.10.1985]. Flyer / programme Quantity: 10 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Printed programmes and flyers, varying sizes up to quarto. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: 1977 - 1982

By: Fortune Theatre (Dunedin, N.Z.)

Reference: Eph-C-FORTUNE-1970/1989

Description: Includes: 1977: "The bed before yesterday", a comedy by Ben Travers. proudly presenting our 50th production. 21 November - 10 December [1977] (2 copies) "An evening with Katherine Mansfield", by Pat Evison. 6-10 September [1977] (2 copies) "Female transport", by Steve Gooch. 19 March - 2 April [1977] "Gentlemen prefer blondes", by Anita Loos. 23-27 August [1977] "The glass menagerie", by Tennessee Williams, featuring Louise Petherbridge. 2-16 July [1977] "Glidetime", by Roger Hall. Director Derek Wooster. 23 July - 13 August [1977] "The lover & silence", by Harold Pinter. Directed by Derek Wooster. 15 October - 5 November [1977] "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Elric Hooper. Regent Theatre, 11-18 June [1977] (2 copies) "Not Christmas but Guy Fawkes". Written and performed by Bruce Mason. 16-20 August [1977] "The prince of rags & jingles". [1977] (2 copies) "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Featuring Elric Hooper. 23 April - 14 May [1977] "Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet St". 13 December [1977] - 14 January [1978] "Three sisters" by Anton Chekhov. Regent Theatre, 12-16 April [1977] 1978: "The fall of the house of Usher", by David Campton, based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale. 6-20 May [1978] "Irma La Douce", starring Yolande Gibson. 27 May - 10 June [1978] (2 copies) "Long day's journey into night", by Eugene O'Neill. 16-30 September [1978] (2 copies) "What the butler saw", by Joe Orton. 21 January - 11 February [1978] (2 copies) "Middle-age spread", by Roger Hall. 1-22 April [1978] "The fall of the house of Usher", by David Campton. 6-20 May [1978] "Pygmalion", by George Bernard Shaw. 8-29 July [1978] (2 copies) "The real Inspector Hound", by Tom Stoppard. "After Magritte", 5-19 August [1978] Robert Bennett. Mime international. 23-24 June; workshop 25 June [1978] (2 copies) "Toad of Toad Hall". Directed by Sherril Cooper. 22 August - 2 September [1978] 1979: "Aladdin", an exciting original pantomime by Murray Hutchinson; musical director Russell Sheppard. 13-20 December [1979] April - June programme - Bullshot Crummond, The diary of Anne Frank, The Winnie the Pooh Show, and Sweet Nothin's" "Bullshot Crummond". Roxburgh Theatre, 7 April [1979] "The club; the game they play even dirtier off the field!". 10 February - 3 March [1979] (2 copies) "Crown matrimonial", by Royce Ryton. 13 September [1979] (2 copies) "Dear liar", by Jerome Kilty, starring John McKelvey as George Bernard Shaw and Marijke Mann as Mrs Pat Campbell. [Season in Balclutha, Invercargill and Gore, 22-29 September 1979] (2 copies) "Hay fever", by Noel Coward. 17 November - 8 December [1979] June / July programme. Schiller's "Mary Stuart", "Dear liar", "Arms & the man" (2 copies) "Leonardo's last supper", by Peter Barnes, directed by Murray Hutchinson, designed by Bill Haycock, opens downstairs March 1 [1979] "President Wilson in Paris", by Ron Blair, directed by Alex Gilchrist, designed by Bill Haycock, opens April 4 [1979] "Sherlock Holmes". 27 October - 17 November 1979. (2 copies) "State of the play", by Roger Hall, directed and designed by Murray Hutchinson, opens March 10 [1979] "Suddenly last summer", by Tennessee Williams, directed by Murray Hutchinson, designed by Bill Haycock, opens downstairs March 29 [1979] "Uncle Remus Show" [and] "Charley's aunt" [1979] 1980: "Deathtrap", by Ira Levin. Dunedin, 8-29 March; Invercargill 15-17 April [1980] "Just between ourselves", by Alan Ayckbourn. 12 February [1980] (2 copies) "The lion in winter", by James Goldman. Invercargill 10-12 April; Dunedin, 19 April - 10 May [1980] "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. Directed by Tony Richardson. 6 November [1980] 1981: "Accidental death of an anarchist", by Dario Fo. Directed by Simon O'Connor, designed by Tony Rabbit, cast James Beaumont, john Hudson, William Kircher, Blair Park, Louise Petherbridge and Peter Verstappen. 17 September - 10 October [1981] 1982: "Duet for one", by Tom Kempinski. February 18 to March 13 [1982] "Female parts", by Dario Fo and Franca Rame. Fortune downstairs, 5-21 March [1982] "The glass menagerie", by Tennessee Williams. Fortune Theatre at The Depot. 26 October - 6 November [1982] (2 copies) "Life with the lions; the life and songs of John Lennon", a performance by John Gibson and Michael Gilchrist. Downstairs Fortune Theatre, 4-19 December [1982] "The perfumed businesswoman", by Brian McNeill. Fortune downstairs, 30 April to May 10 [1982] The philanthropist", by Christopher Hampton. 15 April - 8 May [1982] "We can't pay; we won't pay", by Dario Fo. 18 March - 10 April [1982] (2 copies) 1984: "Tales from Hollywood", by Christopher Hampton. 22 June [1984] 1985: "Chinchilla", by Robert David MacDonald. 12 April [1985] (2 copies) "Wednesday to come", by Renee [Taylor]. Fortune Theatre from June 7 [1985] 1987: Fortune Theatre in association with Wilson Elsom Greenslade Ltd presents the world premiere of Roger Hall's latest comedy, "The share club". Mayfair Theatre, 26 June - 11 July [1987] Quantity: 50 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints, 440 x 317 mm. Provenance: Some items donated by the Hocken Library, Dunedin, in 2012.

Date: 1980

Reference: Eph-A-MERCURY-1980

Description: Includes: "Showcase" season, June - December 1980. Brochure "Adventures of Robin Hood", by Roger Hall. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 4 January 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Bedroom farce", by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 9 February 1980. Programme (2 copies) "The boy friend", a musical by Sandy Wilson. Produced and directed by Robert Alderton. Mercury Theatre, 28 November 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Comedians", by Trevor Griffiths. Directed by Mervyn Thompson. Mercury Theatre, 8 August 1980. programme "Conversations with a faint-hearted feminist, by Jill Tweedie, Heather Lindsay. Directed by Susan Wilson. Limited season, Mercury II, 22 October - 8 November [1980s?]. Flier only Mercury Theatre presents George Henare in "Gershwin", a love affair with music, with Margaret Barron and Alex Wiltshire. Devised and directed by Robert Alderton; and "Life in the theatre", by David Mamet. Directed by Robert Alderton (with John Atha and Robert Shannon). Two-sided flier "Godspell", music and new lyrics by Stephen Schwartz. Produced and directed by Robert Alderton; choreography Margaret Barron; musical director Alex Wiltshire; lighting Chris Mangin. Mercury Theatre, 13 June 1980. Programme and flier. "Just one last dance", by Robert Hewett. Directed by Jonathan Hardy (With photos and biographical notes about Gay Dean, Alan and Joan Whiting. Mercury Theatre Auckland, 31 October 1980. Programme Mercury Theatre presents John Atha and Robert Shannon in "A life in the theatre", by David Mamet. Directed by Robert Alderton; [and] George Henare in "Gershwin", with Margaret Barron and Alex Wiltshire; devised and directed by Robert Alderton. Flier "A midsummer night's dream", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Richard Campion; composer John Rimmer (With photos and biographical notes about Richard Campion, John Rimmer, Paul Sonne, David Weatherly, Dean Ellis). Mercury Theatre, 11 July 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Once a Catholic", by Mary O'Malley. Directed by Jonathan Hardy (With photos and biographical notes about Jonathan Hardy, Rima Te Wiata, Fiona Samuel, Louise Dunne, Georgina Monro, Kate Ward, Elizabeth McCrae, John McKay). Mercury Theatre, 5 September 1980. Programme Beryl Te Wiata in "P and O 1930", by Noel Coward. Director Dick Johnstone; music arranger Moya Rea. Mercury Theatre, 8 March 1980. Flier "Prisoners of Mother England", by Roger Hall. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre [1980]. Programme "Stage struck", by Simon Gray. Directed by Simon Phillips. 10 April 1980. Programme (2 copies) "Uncle Vanya", by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Ian Mullins; design Chris Booth. Mercury Theatre, [April? 1975]. Programme (2 copies) "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. Directed by Waric Slyfield; design Chris Booth; lighting Chris Mangin (With photos and biographical notes about Sheila Hammond, Waric Slyfield, George Henare, Diana Turner (house manager)). Mercury Theatre, 3 October 1980. Programme Quantity: 2 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to octavo.