Mercury Theatre: [Programmes and fliers relating to plays and dramatic performances. 1970s].

Includes:

1973:

Elric Hooper at the Mercury 1973. "Cole Porter in the thirties". Robert Alderton at the piano. Flier with attached newsclippings.

1974:

NORTAF presents Mercury Theatre in festival; brochure for: "Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris", produced by Raymond Hawthorne; "Ground level", by Craig Harrison, produced by Ken Rea; "Voyages and new lands", produced the company; King Lear", by William Shakespeare; "The wizard of Oz", by Frank L Baum; Three plays by Tardieu.

"The wizard of Oz", by Frank L Baum. Adapted by Frank Gabrielson. Directed by Robert Alderton. May 1974. Programme (2 copies).

1975:

"Elephant", by Minoru Betsyaku. 5 March [1975?] Banner, and flier.

"Pinocchio's travelling circus", by Ian Mune. [1975]. Programme.

"The Pinocchio Travelling Circus", by Ian Mune, starring Darien Takle, George Henare, Rawiri Paratene, Roger Oakley. Music by Robert Alderton. Flier / programme and one folded programme

"Happy Arcadia", by W S Gilbert; music by Roger Harris, produced by Derek Wooster; "A marvellous party", with Noel Coward and his music; devised and directed by Raymond Hawthorne. Flier / programme.

"Puckoon", adapted by Don Mackay from the novel by Spike Milligan. Produced by Waric Slyfield. With Liam Sweeney, Robert Bell, Waric Slyfield, Karl Bradley, Roger Oakley, John Black, Fiona Fitzroy, Helen Smith, Peter Kelly, Simon Carr, Jo Donnelly. Flier / programme.

Roy Dotrice in "Brief lives". Limited New Zealand season 1975. Mercury Theatre Auckland 3-13 September; James Hay Theatre Christchurch 16-21 September; Regent Theatre Dunedin 24-27 September. With Roy Dotrice as John Aubrey. Promotional pamphlet.

"The taming of the shrew" by William Shakespeare. 25 June 1975. Programme.

Mercury in festival: "The taming of the shrew", by William Shakespeare; "Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat", by Timothy Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber; "The Pinocchio travelling circus", by Ian Mune; "A marvellous party", with Noel Coward, directed by Raymond Hawthorne; "Puckoon", adapted from the novel by Spike Milligan; "1895; diary of a New Zealand snowfall", by James McNeish for radio, adapted for stage by Derek Wooster; "Marieken", translated by Robert Leek. Produced by Ken Rea. (2 copies)

1976:

"From Berlin to Broadway". Music by Kurt Weill; text and format by Gene Lerner. Production by Donald Sadler. Flier / programme.

1976 Northland Mercury in festival, July 27-Aug 13. With "Agincourt", based on Shakespeare's "Henry V"; "Toad of Toad Hall", "Tarantara! Tarantara!"; "From Berlin to Broadway". Booklet.

1977:

"Macrune's Guevara"; by John Spurling. 23 February 1977. Flier.

The Lorna Hope Puppet Theatre presents "Once upon a Christmas time". (With Sarah Peirse, Sydney Jackson, Peter Morgan, and script by Roy Hope). [December? 1977]. Flier

1979:

"Mercury flyer". [March] and [April] issues 1979.

"Mercury newsletter". [November?] and December 1979.

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Physical Description: offset prints, varying sizes up to quarto.