Rees, Nonnita, active 1970s-1990s

Date: 1974

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1974

Description: Includes: Yellow folded pamphlet promoting membership of Downstage Invitation to Downstage 10th birthday at the Hannah Playhouse, 21 November 1974, 11 pm "The adventures of Gervase Becket; or, The Man who changed places"; a play for children with music, by Peter Terson. Directed by Nonnita Rees; costume design Gwen Kaiser. Wellington, Wainuiomata, Porirua and Upper Hutt venues. Flier only (2 copies) Downstage Theatre Society newsletter. "The good person of Setzuan", by Bertolt Brecht. 10th birthday production. 6 November 1974. Directed by Phillip Mann; designed by Raymond Boyce. Pamphlet (2 copies) "Rookery nook", by Ben Travers. Directed by Sunny Amey; designed by Raymond Boyce; costumes by Gwen Kaiser. Hannah Playhouse. 18 December 1974. Programme (2 copies). "The two tigers", by Brian McNeill. (re Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry). Directed by Colin McColl; designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse. 13 June 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Wait and see. The end", by John Banas. Directed by John Banas with Nonnita Rees; designed by Russell Craig; lighting by Rex Gilfillan. [Programme headed "A need for change?"] Production manager Chris Collie; stage manager Colin McColl; film sequences John Reid. Hannah Playhouse, 6 March 1974. Programme in envelope (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and flier, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1974

By: Downstage Theatre Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-DOWNSTAGE-1974

Description: Includes: Newsletter announcing talk by Dr W A Storrer, 21 July "Can the theatre survive literacy?" Programmes for: "Equus", by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Mervyn Thompson. Hannah Playhouse, 18 June 1975. Programme. Hedda Gabler", by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Raymond Hawthorne, designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse, 17 July 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Obstacles", by Joseph Musaphia. Directed by Sunny Amey with Joseph Musaphia. Designed by Ron Highfield. Hannah Playhouse, 2 October 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Rookery nook", by Ben Travers. Directed by Sunny Amey, designed by Raymond Boyce. Costumes by Gwen Kaiser. Hannah Playhouse, 18 December [1974]. Programme (2 copies) "The sea", by Edward Bond. Directed by Sunny Amey, designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse, 10 April, 1974. Directed by Sunny Amey, designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse, 10 April 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Valdramar" a rock opera by Clive Cockburn, Val Murphy and John Banas. Directed and designed by John Banas; musical direction by Clive Cockburn. [September?] 1974. Programme (2 copies) and flier. "Victims", by Joseph Musaphia. Directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Peter Ridder. Hannah Playhouse 23 May 1974, Opera House New Plymouth 21-23 June 1974, Opera House Palmerston North 27-29 June 1974. Programme (2 copies) "Well hung", by Robert Lord. Directed by Anthony Taylor; designed by Russell Craig. Hannah Playhouse, 21 January 1974. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs or typescripts, size below 350 mm.

Date: 1974

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

Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1974

Description: Includes posters for: Downstage's 10th birthday. Brecht's "The good person of Setzuan", opens Nov 6th. A week of birthday celebrations Nov 15-21. Open day Tues Nov 19th [1974] (2 copies) "Marat / Sade" [and] "O! Temperance!". Downstage on tour, with the support of the Arts Council, Queen Elizabeth II and Radio New Zealand. Wellington Memorial Theatre Victoria University 2-19 April; Lower Hutt Little Theatre ("O! Temperance" only), 26 April [1974] "The sea", [by] Edward Bond [Downstage Theatre. 1974] (2 copies) Late night show "Smack!", by Dean Parker. 4-13 October [1974] Hand-drawn poster "Valdramar"; a rock opera, by Clive Cockburn, Val Murphy, John Banas. Directed and designed by John Banas; musical direction by Clive Cickburn; lighting designed by Rex Gilfillan. Downstage Theatre from Aug 23rd [1974]. Gold poster and yellow programme Coming in June! Downstage Theatre Co. of Wellington presents "Victims", a N.Z. comedy by Joseph Musaphia; directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Peter Ridder. New Plymouth Opera House 21-23 June; Palmerston North 27-29 June [1974] (2 copies) "Wait and See The End" [WASTE], by John Banas. Downstage, from 27 February [1974] (2 copies) Quantity: 8 posters. Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm.

Date: 1970 - 1973

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

Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1970/1973

Description: Includes posters for: 1970: Downstage Theatre, with the support of the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council of New Zealand. Join Downstage!! [Season schedule and membership form. 1970] Max Adrian's "G.B.S.", "Gilbert and Sullivan"; a Downstage presentation at the Paramount Theatre, April 9th-18th [1970] "Santa's liquid dream". Producer Ian McDonald; designer Paul Hansen ... music direction Tony Backhouse; drama direction Lewis Rowe; dance direction Deborah Pearson ... management Ken Blackburn; publicity Marilyn Duckworth. 4th to 12th December, Concert Chamber [1970]. (2 copies, only one with production details on verso) "Zoo zoo widdershins zoo", by K B Laffan. Produced by Dick Johnstone, designed by Andrew McAlpine, lighting by Rex Gilfillan. Poster / programme [1970] (2 copies) 1972: "Flint", a play by David Mercer, directed by Ken Blackburn. Opens Downstage Nov. 16 [1972] (2 copies) "The importance of being Earnest" [by] Oscar Wilde. Director Anthony Taylor. Downstage Theatre [1972] (2 copies) "Luv", by Murray Schisgal; directed by Ian Mune & designed by Grant Tilly. 2nd - 21st October [1972] "Narrow road to the deep north"; a play by Edward Bond, directed by Ian Mune. April 26 - May 27. Downstage Theatre [1972] (2 copies) Harold Pinter's "Old times"; produced by George Webby. Opening June 21, Downstage Theatre [1972] "Wind in the branches of the sassafras", by Rene de Obaldia; directed by Sunny Amey. Downstage Theatre, opening July 26th [1972] (2 copies) 1973: "Alpha beta", [by] E A Whitehead, directed by Murray Reece. Opens May 16 [1973] (2 copies) "The Ballygombeen bequest". John Arden & Margaretta D'Arcy. Directed by Sunny Amey. Downstage, March 13 [1973] (2 copies, 1 foxed) "The dragon" [by] Yevgeny Schwartz; a political folktale for adults and children. Downstage from Dec. 5 [1973] (2 copies) Beggars Bag Theatre presents "Games we play". Downstage late night 11.15 pm, Thurs Jan 18th, Fri Jan 19th [1973] "O! Temperance!" [by Mervyn Thompson. 1973] Banner (2 copies) "Victims", a play by Joseph Musaphia, directed by Nonnita Rees. Opens April 18th Downstage Theatre [1973] (2 copies) Quantity: 16 posters. Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Downstage Theatre Trust in 2013.

Date: 1972 - 1973

By: Downstage Theatre Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-DOWNSTAGE-1972/1973

Description: Includes: 1972: AGM agenda and report 1972 "A collier's Friday night", by D H Lawrence. Directed by Sunny Amey; designed by Raymond Boyce; costumes by Gwen Kaiser; lighting Rex Gilfillan. Opening 22 March 1972. Programme (2 copies) "The end of the golden weather", by Bruce Mason. Downstage, 19 and 26 November 1972. Promotional flyer Downstage presents The new poets (David Mitchell, Russell Haley, Murray Edmond, Jan Kemp, Brian Turner, Rhys Pasley; guitarist Steve Robinson). [1972?] Flyer Late night programme. "The coffee powered freak show" from 11 June; "Old times" by Harold Pinter, from 21 June' "Wind in the branches of the sassafras" (July) and "Heartbreak House" (August). Mimeographed flyer Pinocchio Travelling Circus", written & directed by Ian Mune; technical director and stage manager Jacquie Hardinge (With Michael Haigh, John Banas, John Reid, Richard Russell, Tony Ditchburn, Sarah Banas, Marilyn Gotlieb, Craig Ashley, Janice Finn) [1972]. Flyer (2 copies) Theatre Action. 5 clowns in "Once upon a planet". Downstage Theatre, 6-17 June [1972]. [and] "The coffee powered freak show". Flyer "Wind in the branches of the sassafras", by Rene de Obaldia. Directed by Sunny Amey; design Barbara Collinson-Smith; lighting design Rex Gilfillan. Star Boating Club, from 26 July 1972. Programme /flyer (2 copies) 1973: Downstage Theatre wine list [1973?] "As you like it", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Sunny Amey; designed by Raymond Boyce and Val Horridge; lighting Trevor Wells with Rex Gilfillan. Opening 16 October 1973. Programme (2 copies) "The best of all possible worlds", with Theatre Action. Concert Chamber Wellington, opening 16 July 1973. Programme / flyer (2 copies) "The dragon", by Yevgeny Schwartz. Directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Russell Craig. Hannah Playhouse, opening 5 December 1973. Programme (2 copies) "The innocents", by William Archibald. Directed by Phillip Mann. Star Boating Club, opening 5 February 1973. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Photolithographs or typescripts, size below 350 mm. Provenance: One item donated by Judith Fyfe, Wellington, in 2017.

Date: 1977

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1977

Description: Includes: "Ashes", by David Rudkin. With Bill Stalker and Catherine Wilkin. Directed by Colin McColl; design by Janet Williamson. [November 1977?] Flier / programme (2 copies) "The balcony", by Jean Genet. Translated by Terry Hands and Barbara Wright. Directed by Phillip Mann; design by Raymond Boyce. 10 August 1977. Programme (2 copies) and booking form (2 copies) "Children", by A R Gurney jr. Directed by Anthony Taylor; design by Raymond Boyce. Lighting by Jacquie Hardinge; music by Stephen McCurdy. 14 September 1977. Programme (2 copies) "The foursome", by E A Whitehead. Directed by Colin McColl; designed by Raymond Boyce; lighting by Jacquie Hardinge. [February 1977]. Programme (2 copies) "Judgement", by Barry Collins, with John Banas as Vukhov. Direction Nonnita Rees; design Raymond Boyce; lighting Jacquie Hardinge; sound Stephen McCurdy. 18 October 1977. Programme (2 copies) "Love's labours lost", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Anthony Taylor; design Raymond Boyce; music Stephen McCurdy. 26 May 1977. Programme (2 copies) "Otherwise engaged", by Simon Gray. Directed by Antony Groser; design Rohanna Hawthorne; lighting Jacquie Hardinge. With Ray Henwood, Lloyd Scott, Patrick Smyth, John Callen, Donna Akersten, Lewis Rowe, Alice Fraser. 6 July 1977. Programme (2 copies) "Perfect strangers", by Craig Harrison, directed by Stuart Devenie; designed by Raymond Boyce. 20 April 1977; "Fat little Indians", by Gordon Dryland, directed by Jean Betts; designed by Raymond Boyce. 5 May 1977. Combined programme (2 copies) "Spring awakening; a children's tragedy", by Frank Wedekind, translated by Tom Osborne. Directed by Colin McColl; design Raymond Boyce. Music Stephen McCurdy. 5 September 1977. Programme (2 copies) "Travesties", by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Anthony Taylor; designed by Raymond Boyce. Lighting by Rex Gilfillan. 2 March 1977. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and flier, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1973

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1973

Description: Includes: Downstage Theatre Society newsletter. "The innocents", 5 February. Directed by Phillip Mann. "The place of Downstage", by Sir Bernard O'Connell. Comments by 10 people (portraits shown): W N Sheat, Sheilah Winn, Professor Frank Holmes, Gilbert H Stringer, Relda Familton, Ken Gray, Mrs T W M Tirikatene-Sullivan, Sir Francis Kitts, William Austin, John Drawbridge. "Alpha Beta", by E A Whitehead. Directed by Murray Reece; designed by Grant Tilly; lighting by Trevor Wells. Star Boating Club. 16 May 1973. Programme (2 copies) "The Ballygombeen bequest", by John Arden and Margaret D'Arcy. Directed by Sunny Amey; designed by John Banas; lighting by Trevor Wells. Star Boating Club. 13 March 1973. Programme (2 copies) "The dragon", by Yevgeny Schwartz. Translated by Mwx Hayward and Harold Shukman. Directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Russell Craig. Costume design by Val Horridge; lighting Trevor Wells. Star Boating Club. 5 December 1973. Programme (2 copies). "An evening with Katherine Mansfield", presented by Pat Evison. Star Boating Club. 23 July 1973. Programme (2 copies) "The innocents", by William Archibald, based on a Henry James story "The turn of the screw". Directed by Phillip Mann. Star Boating Club, 5 February 1973. Programme (2 copies) "Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in Paris". Directed by Jim Spalding; production manager Chris Collie; stage manager Barry Gibbs. [1973]. Programme (2 copies) "Uncle Vanya", by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Sunny Amey; designed by Raymond Boyce; costumes by Gwen Kaiser; lighting by Trevor Wells. Star Boating Club. 27 June 1973. Programme (2 copies) and invitation card "Victims", by Joseph Musaphia. Directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Peter Ridder; costumes designed by Gwen Kaiser; lighting by Trevor Wells. Star Boating Club. 18 April 1973. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and flier, sizes varying below 250 mm.

Date: 1976

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1976

Description: Includes: Ticket folder March 1976, and two typescript fliers for "Miss Julie"; "Songs to Uncle Scrim" and "Sweet nothin's". "Absurd person singular", by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Elric Hooper; designed by Janet Williamson. 15 December 1976. Programme (2 copies) and newsletter. "As Dorothy Parker once said", devised by Elric Hooper, featuring Alannah O'Sullivan / "Sweet nothin's", devised by Janet Findlay and Cathy Downes, directed by Jean Betts. May 1976. Flier. Cometogether 76: "An evening with Charles Dickens", presented by Derek Bolt, courtesy of the Fortune Theatre Dunedin. Programme (2 copies) Cometogether 76: Amamus Theatre group presents "Gallipoli". Directed by Paul Maunder. Programme Cometogether 76: "A marvellous party", with Noel Coward and his music. A Mercury Theatre production. Programme (2 copies) Cometogether 76: Yass Hakoshima Mime Theatre. Programme (2 copies) Bruce Mason. "Courting Blackbird; a theme and variations in the baroque style", written and performed by Bruce Mason. Stage management and lighting by Stephen Crane. Hannah Playhouse. 19 October 1976. Programme (2 copies with turquoise colouring, one black and white) "Equus", by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Mervyn Thompson; designed by Raymond Boyce; horses trained by Elric Hooper and Deirdre O'Connor. Downstage on tour (with "A state of siege", "Songs to Uncle Scrim", "A day in the life", "As Dorothy Parker once said", "All's fair in love and war". Hastings, Napier, Waipukurau, Hawera, New Plymouth, March - April 1976. Programme (2 copies) "Female transport", by Steve Gooch. Directed by Colin McColl; designed by Janet Williamson. Hannah Playhouse, 10 November 1976. Programme (2 copies) and newsletter. "Happy birthday Wanda June", by Kurt Vonnegut jr. Directed by Nonnita Rees; designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse, 29 March 1976. Programme (2 copies) "Miss Julie" by August Strindberg. Directed by Jan Prettejohns. Hannah Playhouse, 3 July 1976. Folded programme or poster. "Not Christmas but Guy Fawkes", by Bruce Mason, a new solo performance. Hannah Playhouse. 10-22 May 1976. Programme (2 copies) "Not Christmas by Guy Fawkes", by Bruce Mason; a new solo performance. 26 - 31 July 1976. Programme. "The Robbie Horror Show" [political revue about Sir Robert Muldoon], written and directed by John Banas; musical direction Stephen McCurdy; design Garth Frost; "Songs to Uncle Scrim", devised by Mervyn Thompson, music by Stephen McCurdy; "Songs for the Fourth Reich", by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Paul Dessau and Hans Eissler; musical direction Stephen McCurdy. Touring programme [1976 or 1977]. (2 copies) Double bills: "A state of siege", adapted by Mervyn Thompson from the novel by Janet Frame; designed by Garth frost; "Songs to Uncle Scrim", lyrics by Mervyn Thompson, music by Stephen McCurdy. [April-May 1976]. Programme (2 copies) "Sweet nothin's", devised by and starring Janet Findlay and Cathy Downes. Directed by Jean Betts. Flier (2 copies) "Three sisters", by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Mervyn Thompson; designed by Raymond Boyce. Hannah Playhouse. 27 May 1976. Programme (2 copies) "Ubu", by Alfred Jarry. Directed by John Banas; designed by Murray Hutchinson; musical direction by Stephen McCurdy; lighting design by Stephen Crane. With Elric Hooper as Ubu. Hannah Playhouse, 22 September 1976. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and flier, sizes varying below 250 mm. Provenance: Some programmes donated by Downstage Theatre, 2014.

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Downstage Theatre Company Ltd; Gibbs, Barry R, -1999

Reference: Eph-D-DOWNSTAGE-1970s

Description: Includes posters for: "Marat/Sade" and "O! Temperance". Downstage on tour 1970s [ca 1974] (2 copies) Downstage Theatre presents "Victims", a comedy by Joseph Musaphia, directed by Nonnita Rees. Tour. 1973 (2 copies) Downstage. "The Bed-Sitting Room" directed by John Banas. 22 August 1973. (2 copies) "Fancy's Child; a festival of Shakespeare": The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; and other sketches etc. 19 July - 7 October 1978. (2 copies) Court Theatre. "O! Temperance!" Downstage 18-23 June 1973. Written and directed by Mervyn Thompson. (2 copies) "Play Strindberg", by Friedrich Durrenmatt, directed by Stuart Devenie. 20 March 1975. (2 copies) "Subjects of scandal and concern": "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare; "The Gingerbread Man" by David Wood; "Design for living" by Noel Coward; "The Second Mrs Tanqueray" by Arthur Wing Pinero. April - June 1979. (2 copies) Council gives green light to Hannah Playhouse - Hub of City's theatre scene. Reprinted from Evening Post, Thursday 11th March 1971 (2 copies) "Candide". Australasian Premiere season. With David McKenzie, Tony Forster, Ken Blackburn. 3 November 1978. (2 copies) "The Foursome" by E A Whitehead. 8-26 February 1977. "The Robbie Horror Show", with "Songs to Uncle Scrim", plus "Songs for the Fourth Reich". 1976. (2 copies) "Ground level", by Craig Harrison, directed by Colin McColl. Opens 3rd Feb[ruary]. Late night show - Dean Parker's "Two fingers from Frank Zappa". 22 Feb - 2 March 1975. "Well hung", a new play by Robert Lord, directed by Anthony Taylor. From 21 Jan[uary 1974]. (2 copies) Quantity: 13 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters (and some duplicates). Physical Description: Photolithographs, on posters, sizes varying around 700 x 450 mm. Provenance: Some posters from Barry Gibbs estate 1999; some from Downstage Theatre.

Date: 1983 - 1988

From: Kirkpatrick, Brownlee Jean, 1919-2007:Papers relating to Katherine Mansfield

Reference: MS-Papers-11923-09

Description: Correspondence regarding research for Katherine Mansfield bibliography with publishers and printers from the period 1983 to 1988. Includes the following correspondents: - Adelphi Edizioni (Milan, Italy) - The Alden Press (Oxford) - Sandra Cox - Allen & Unwin (Wellington) - Bridget Williams - Beacon Press (Boston) - P A Gallo - Butler & Tanner Ltd (Somerset) - Ross Cornish - Jonathan Cape Ltd (London) - Carcanet Press Limited (London) - Robyn L Marsack - Cassell Ltd (London) - Barry Holmes (Marketing Manager) - Century Hutchinson Limited (London) - Kate Moss - includes pages from printed promotional material - Century Hutchinson New Zealand Limited (Auckland) - Chris Price (Editorial Assistant) - Clark Constable (Printers) (London) - K Dickson (Sales Office Supervisor) - Collins Publishers (Glasgow) - Gerald McFadden (Central Business Administration) - Collins Publishers (London) - Gillian R Gibbins - Constable Publishers (London) - Ben Glazebrook (Chairman and Managing Director); Christine Senior - Coward McCann (New York) - Dover Publications (New York) - Monica Berger (Office of the President) - J M Dent & Sons Limited (London) - Judy Tagg (Everyman Editor) - Antaeus - The Ecco Press (New York) - Megan Ratner (Managing Editor) - The Favil Press of Kensington (Worthing, Sussex) - F Chow - Howard Fertig, Incorporated Publisher (New York) - Howard Fertig - Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (Frankfurt am Main) - Ingrid-Maria Gelhausen (Belletristisches Lektorat) - The Folio Society Limited (London) - Seu Bradbury (Editorial Director) - The Franklin Library (New York) - Diane Shapiro (Rights Director) - Franklin Watts, Incorporated (New York) - Rose Carrano (Editor) - Golden Press Pty Limited (Auckland) - Alan Smith (General Manager); (Drummoyne, New South Wales) - Susan Yell (Editor) - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Incorporated (Orlando, Florida) - Margaret Mary McQuillan (Senior Vice President and Secretary) - Harrap Limited (London) - D Colley (Contracts Manager) - Hodder and Stoughton Limited (Auckland) - Bert Hingley (Publishing Director) - Insel-Verlag Anton Kippenberger (Leipzig, Germany) - Roland Links (Director) - Kenkyusha Limited Publishers (Tokyo, Japan) - Yoshiaki Hamamatsu (Chief of Publications Department) - Gomer Press - J D Lewis & Sons Limited (Dyfed, Wales) - John H Lewis - Lloyd O'Neil Pty Limited (South Yarra, Victoria) - Lloyd O'Neill - Longman Group Limited (Harlow, Essex) - Andrew MacLennan (Publisher) - Macmillan of Canada (Toronto) - Dougas M Gibson (Publisher) - The Macmillan Press Limited (London) - Frances A Arnold (Editor); Jill Swainson - Michael Joseph Limited (London) - Sally Holloway - Penguin Books Limited (London) - Naomi Caplin (Secretary to Peter Carson) - Playmarket - Script Reading Service and Playwright's Agency (Wellington) - Ann Paetz; Nonnita Rees - Price Milburn Publishers & Co Ltd (Petone, Wellington) - Jill Cunningham (Research Officer) - Society of Master Printers of Scotland (Edinburgh) - J B Raeburn (Director) - Stanford University Press (California) - Charlene R Androes (Assistant to Director) - Taplinger Publishing Company (New York) - Unwin Hyman (London) - Doris M Ayres - Virago Press (London) - Rosalind Smith; Lynn Knight - Victoria University of Wellington - Fergus Barrowman (Editor - Victoria University Press) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, holograph, typescript and printed matter

Date: 1984, 2016

By: Beatson, Peter Robert, 1942-

Reference: MS-Papers-12154

Description: Collection comprises a 54 page partial transcript by Peter Beatson of the proceedings of a conference on the conservation of records of the performing arts, held at Victoria University of Wellington on 13 October 1984. The transcription is entitled 'The preservation of theatre records: a conference on the conservation of records of the performing arts, organised by Dr John Thompson, Victoria University'. The transcript includes conference presentations by Elric Hooper, Nonnita Rees, Jennifer Shennan, Jonathan Dennis, David Carnegie, Rosemary Collier, Mary Ronnie, Georgina Christensen, and summary discussions after each session. Folder also contains a 2016 corrigenda with notes provided by David Carnegie, Emeritus Professor of Theatre at Victoria University. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescript Provenance: Donated by Mr D Carnegie, Wellington, September 2016.

Date: 1984-1985

From: Dryland, Gordon Boyce, 1926-1989 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4197-021

Description: Correspondence with William Morris Agency/Esther Sherman; theatre companies, in particular the New Independent Theatre, Auckland; `NZ Literary Fund newsletter', n17, Jan 1984; and with Nonnita Rees of Playmarket Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: [ca 1970s-1990s]

From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions

Reference: PAColl-9545-31

Description: Photographs of people associated with Downstage Theatre, including directors, designers, and playwrights Quantity: 56 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour original photographic print(s). 7 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheets. 2 colour original photographic print(s). Physical Description: Photographic prints

Date: 1983-1985

From: Dryland, Gordon Boyce, 1926-1989 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4197-019

Description: Includes reviews and production papers re `Paddington red' produced by Q Theatre Penrith, photographs of Dryland and the producer, Jennifer West; correspondence wikth Anthony A Williams, Management Pty Ltd, Potts Point, NSW, letters from Margaret and paintings by Ben, correspondence with Leone (including copy of letter from Dryland), and other papers. Identified persons entered under Name. Other Titles - Paddington red (play) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1984-1985

From: Dryland, Gordon Boyce, 1926-1989 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4197-023

Description: Most of the correspondence is with Ross (Roscoe Mackie) and Esther Sherman of William Morris Agency; also includes correspondence with The Company, Johannesburg; Paper Jacks Ltd, Fort Lee, New Jersey; The Second Stage; The Myer Foundation; Marmalade Films, Sydney; Anthony A Williams; contract for `Think of Africa'; reviews and other papers (identified persons entered under Name) Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1984-1985

From: Shadbolt, Maurice Francis Richard, 1932-2004 : Papers and recordings

Reference: 91-047-17/06

Description: Identified persons entered under Name. Also includes correspondence with Steve and Mary Becker, agents, a film proposal for Gallipoli from Peter Jackson, letters from Jerzy of Warsaw, Poland, correspondence with Kas, copies of letters to various friends, including Priscilla and Ian (possibly agents), correspondence with Adele Sarkissian of the [?] Gale Research Co, Michigan re `Contemporary Authors autobiography series', article about Frank Devine; praise for David M Taylor. Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1999-2000

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-7118-035

Description: Correspondence and other papers relating to Peppercorn Press but mostly concerns arrangements for Lauris Edmond's 75th birthday and publication of `50 poems, a celebration' Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1981-1983

From: Dryland, Gordon Boyce, 1926-1989 : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-4197-013

Description: Includes correspondence and papers relating to the Playbox Theatre Company, Melbourne, Victoria; some tax and financial papers including applicataion for grant from Qantas; photographs of Dryland; letters from pbl Productions, Sydney, New Theatre, Newtown, and New South Wales Film Corporation; Dryland's thoughts on living in Newcastle Quantity: 1 folder(s).