Wooster, Derek, active 1970-1990s

Date: 1970 - 1979

By: Reid, John Cowie, 1916-1972

Reference: Eph-B-MERCURY-1970s

Description: 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.

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: 1977 - 1979

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

Reference: Eph-B-FORTUNE

Description: Includes: 197_?: Uncle Vanya, by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Tony Richardson. Programme with photographs of company members (Tony Richardson - director, Iain Aitken - designer, Peter Drake - associate director, Margaret Blay, Paul Gittins, Caroline Claver, Pamela Pow, Brian NcNeill, Sylvia Rands, Arthur Ranford, Peter Verstappen, Aline Sandilands - administration and publicity, Tony Rabbitt technical director, Anne Coombs - graphic and wardrobe, Gillian Bailey - stage management, Peter Williams - technician, Alistair Robertson - stage management, Ian Norton - set construction) 1977: Newsletter 1977. Booking form for "The bed before yesterday", "Sweeney Todd", "What the butler saw" (2 copies) "The bed before yesterday", by Ben Travers. Produced by Richard Barker. 21 November - 10 December [1977]. Programme (2 copies) "Female transport", by Steve Gooch. Directed by Alex Gilchrist. 19 March - 2 April [1977]. Programme "The glass menagerie", by Tennessee Williams. With Louise Petherbridge. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. 2-16 July [1977]. Programme "Glide time", by Roger Hall. Directed by Derek Wooster. [1977] Programme. "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. 23 April - 14 May [1977]. Programme "Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet St", by Mr George Dibdin Pitt. Directed by Mr Hutchinson. 13 December [1977] - 14 January [1978]. Programme 1978: "What the butler saw", by Joe Orton. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. 21 January - 11 February [1978]. Programme. 1979: Newsletter July 1979 including advertisement for "You're a good man, Charlie Brown", 21 July - 12 August [1979]. Flier (2 copies) "Arms and the man", by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Peter Drake. [June 1979?] Programme (2 copies) "Charley's aunt", by Brandon Thomas. Directed by Alex Gilchrist. [1979]. Programme "Crown matrimonial", by Royce Ryton. Directed by Alex Gilchrist. [September 1979]. Programme (2 copies) "Dear Liar", by Jerome Kilty. (With John McKelvey and Marijke Mann). Directed by Patrick Libby. [1979]. Programme (2 copies) "Free as a bird", by Jenny Dodge. Directed by Peter Drake. World premiere. [1979]. Programme / flier (2 copies) "Hedda Gabler", by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Alex Gilchrist. [25 July - 11 August 1979]. Programme (2 copies) Schiller's "Mary Stuart", adapted by Stephen Spender. Directed by Murray Hutchinson [1979]. Programme (2 copies) "My fat friend", by Charles Laurence. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. [1979]. Programme / flier (2 copies) "Sherlock Holmes", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. [1979]. Programme "Sweet nothin's", devised and written by Janet Findlay and Cathy Downes. (With Kim McGovack, Janet Findlay, Eli Gray-Smith, Murray Hutchinson, Mike Parminter [Parmenter]) [1979]. Programme / flier "The Winnie the Pooh Show", adapted by Murray Hutchinson from the stories of A A Milne. Directed by Murray Hutchinson. [1979]. Programme / flier. 1988: "After the crash", by Roger Hall. Directed by Campbell Thomas. Fortune Theatre, 1 July - 6 August 1988. Programme (autographed by Roger Hall) and flier. Quantity: 25 programmes. Physical Description: Offset prints, sizes varying Provenance: One programme donated by Joanna Newman, Wellington, in 2006.