Dyer, Charles, 1928-

Date: 1978

By: Reid, John Cowie, 1916-1972

Reference: Eph-A-MERCURY-1978

Description: Includes: Announcement of charter season ticket offer for season May-December 1978. Newsletter, end of year 1978. A decade of dedication; acknowledgement to Tony Richardson by Warwick Brown Mercury Theatre. The tenth anniversary 1968-1978. Booklet (2 copies) "Ashes", by David Rudkin, directed by Roy Hope. Starring Bridget Armstrong. Mercury 2, [July 1978]. Programme. "Cole" (The Mermaid Theatre's "Cole"), devised by Benny Green and Alan Strachan. Staged by Ian Mullins, Margaret Barron and Chris Sheil. [Jan-Feb?] 1978. Programme (2 copies) "Dirty linen" and "Newfoundland", by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Robert Alderton 7 August 1978. Programme. "The good doctor", by Neil Simon. Directed by Mary Amoore. Mercury 2, [1978]. Programme (2 copies) "Habeas corpus", by Alan Bennett. Directed by Chris Sheil. 2 August 1978. Programme (2 copies). "The last of the knucklemen", by John Powers. Produced by Jonathan Hardy (by arrangement with Melbourne Theatre Company). 2 March 1978. Programme. "The Merchant of Venice", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Ian Mullins. Mercury 2, 31 May 1978. Programme. "Middle age spread", by Roger Hall. Directed by Roy Hope. 24 May 1978. Programme and promotional pamphlet for members of the PSIS. "Middle age spread", by Roger Hall. Directed by Roy Hope. Mercury Company at His Majesty's Theatre, 8-16 September 1978. Programme (2 copies) and flier. "Mime International '78", directed by Robert Bennett. [22-24 April 1978]. Programme. "Pippin", by Roger O Hirson and Stephen Schwartz. Directed by Robert Alderton. 8 November 1978. Programme (2 copies) "The plotters of Cabbage Patch Corner", by David Woods. Directed by Waric Slyfield. 8 May 1978. Programme. "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 4 October 1978. Programme (2 copies). "Rattle of a simple man", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Waric Slyfield. Mercury 2, 27 February 1978. Programme. "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 5 July 1978. Programme. "The Royal hunt of the sun", by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Ian Mullins. 17 March 1978. Programme. "State of revolution", by Robert Bolt. Directed by Ian Mullins. [Late 1978]. Programme. Beryl Te Wiata in "Mrs Kiwi Arthur presents more ..." and "The white cliffs". Auckland Festival, 28 March - 9 April 1978. Programme. Beryl Te Wiata in "Mrs Kiwi Arthur presents more ..." and "The white cliffs". 11-16 September 1978. Programme. "Tomorrow will be a lovely day", by Craig Harrison. Directed by Mervyn Thompson. Mercury 2, 9 October 1978. Programme. Quantity: 24 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to octavo.

Date: 1970 - 1989

By: Hutt Repertory Theatre

Reference: Eph-C-HUTT-REPERTORY

Description: Includes: "Life with father". Little Theatre Lower Hutt - 1st to 9th December at 8 p.m. Matinees, Saturdays at 2 p.m. Hutt Repertory's Christmas comedy. [1970-1980s?] "Rattle of a simple man", [by] Charles Dyer. Theatre 108, 108 Oxford Terrace, April 6-11 [1979] "The real Inspector Hound", by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Kerry Moore. Hutt Repertory Theatre, 11-13, 16-20 April [1980] "Twelfth night", a comedy by William Shakespeare, directed by Graeme Tetley. Hutt Repertory Theatre, 108 Oxford Terrace. 20 April 4 May [1983]. (2 copies) Quantity: 4 posters. Physical Description: Photolithographs, sizes below 500 mm.

Date: 1979

Reference: Eph-A-MERCURY-1979

Description: Includes: Announcement of 2nd subscription ticket offer, January-July 1979 3rd subscription season flier and ticket, 1979 "Abigail's party", devised by Mike Leigh. Directed by Noreen Craven, designed by Chris Booth. Mercury 2 [July 1979?]. Programme (2 copies) "Cinderella", a traditional pantomime by Roger Hall. Directed by Ian Mullins; set designer Arthur Thompson. Mercury Theatre 5 January - 10 February 1979. Programme (2 copies) "The club", by David Williamson. Directed by Howard Rubie. Mercury Theatre, 10 August 1979. Programme "Don Juan comes back from the war", by Odon von Horvath, translated by Christopher Hampton. Directed by George Pensotti. Mercury 2 Theatre 13 August 1979. Programme "Henry IV, part one", by William Shakespeare, preceded by a prologue devised from "Richard II". Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 1979. Programme "Home", by David Storey. Directed by Chris Sheil. With Alma Woods. Mercury Theatre, 26 November 1979. Programme "Just between ourselves", by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by George Pensotti. Mercury Theatre, 30 May 1979. Programme "Man Friday", by Adrian Mitchell. Directed by Paul Robinson. Mercury Theatre, 4 June 1979. Programme "The naval officer", by Brian McNeill. Directed by Ian Mullins. World premiere, Mercury Theatre, 4 July 1979. Programme "Old King Cole", by Ken Campbell. Directed by Robert Alderton and Margaret Barron. Mercury Theatre 7 May 1979. Programme "Privates on parade", by Peter Nichols. Directed by Robert Alderton. Mercury Theatre, 23 November 1979. Programme "Same time next year", by Bernard Slade. Directed by Mary Amoore. Mercury Theatre, 25 April 1979. Programme (2 copies) "The school for scandal", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Ian Mullins. Mercury Theatre, 19 October 1979. Programme (2 copies) "Something's afoot", by James McDonald, David Vos and Robert Gerlach. Directed by Chris Sheil. Mercury Theatre, 14 February 1979. Programme "Spider's web", by Agatha Christie. Directed by Chris Sheil. Mercury Theatre, 14 September 1979. Programme "Staircase", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Karl Bradley. Mercury 2, 24 October 1979. Programme "State of the play", by Roger Hall. Directed by Anne Flannery. Mercury 2, 30 April 1979. Programme "Writer's cramp", by John Byrne. Directed by Stephen Dee. Mercury 2, 1979. Programme Quantity: 20 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Photolithographs in booklets and pamphlets, sizes varying up to octavo.

Date: 1968

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1968

Description: Includes: Annual report (2 copies), membership form. "The apple tree", a new musical by Sheldon Harnick and Jenny Bock. Produced and choreographed by Dick Johnstone, music directed by Jenny McLeod. Programme (2 copies) "Awatea", by Bruce Mason. Produced by Dick Johnstone. Set designed and painted by Peter McIntyre. With Inia Te Wiata as Werihe Paku. Programme (2 copies) "Birds in the wilderness", written and produced by Bruce Mason. [March?] 1968. Programme (2 copies) "A delicate balance", by Edward Albee. Directed by George Webby, designed by Grant Tilly. [April] 1968. Programme (2 copies) "Inadmissable evidence", by John Osborne. Directed by William Austin; designed by Raymond Boyce. [October] 1968. Programme (2 copies) "The killing of Sister George", by Frank Marcus. Directed by Dick Johnstone; designed by Raymond Boyce. [May?] 1968. Programme (2 brown copies, 2 black & white) "Knickers" stickers: Next to myself I like "Knickers" at Downstage. Blue sticker (2 copies) See Piggy Keith & Norm in "Knickers" at Downstage. Yellow sticker (2 copies) Pop into "Knickers" at Downstage. Red sticker Meter maid, please don't give me a ticket. Pop into "Knickers" at Downstage. Pink on white sticker "The price", by Arthur Miller. Produced by Antony Groser; designed by Grant Tilly. Star Boating Club, 8 October 1968. Programme (2 copies) New Zealand Players Drama Quartet (Heather Eggleton, David Williams, Richard Weir, Merilyn Hey). "The prince of rags and patches", adapted by Peter Tullock from the short story "The thirteen clocks", by James Thurber. [21 December 1968]. Programme (2 copies) "Private lives", by Noel Coward. Directed by Antony Groser; set designed by Cedric Leeming. [August?] 1968. Programme (2 copies) "Rattle of a simple man", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Dick Johnstone. [April?] 1968. Programme (2 copies) "Staircase", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Anthony Taylor; designed by Grant Tilly. [November] 1968. Programme (2 copies) Crescent Theatre Company, Sydney. Three modern American plays, by Saul Bellow.. "A wen", "Out from under", and "Orange souffle". Directed by Ron Ferrier. Programme (3 copies - pink, 2 yellow, blue) Two plays. "The sponge room", and "Squat Betty", by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall. Produced by Roy Hope. [February?] 1968. 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: 1983

Reference: Eph-A-WELLINGTON-REPERTORY-1983

Description: Includes: "The constant wife", by W Somerset Maugham. Directed by Ian Carrie. [1983]. Programme (2 copies) "Rattle of a simple man", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Brian Staniland. 26 February - 12 March 1983. Programme (2 copies) "The return of A J Raffles", by Graham Greene. Directed by David Austin. [1983] Programme. "Sleuth", by Anthony Shaffer. Directed by Ewen Coleman. [September?] 1983. Programme. "Tarantara Tarantara", by Ian Taylor, directed by Mrs Elizabeth Martin; musical director John Jerome. [1983]. Programme (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Offset lithographs on programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: One programme donated by Mrs Shirley Megget in 2006; one from the papers of Raymond Hedges 2002.

Date: 1966 - 1969

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

Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1966/1969

Description: Includes posters for: 1966: Downstage presents "Death watch", by Jean Genet. Opens Jan 24 [1966] "The lover" [by Harold Pinter. Produced by Dick Johnstone. June 1966]. 1967: An invitation to bring yourself ... to Downstage Theatre Cafe, 11.30 pm Tuesday 21 Nov & help us celebrate 3d birthday, all night! [1967] (2 copies) 1968: Downstage sponsored by the N.Z. Players Theatre Trust. "Rattle of a simple man" [by] Charles Dyer. Produced by Dick Johnstone [With rubber stamp for Extrav '68] 1969: "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead", a play by Tom Stoppard, produced by George Webby; designed by Grant Tilly, with Ray Henwood, Grant Tilly. Dowstage May 1969 Quantity: 5 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm.

Date: 1969

Reference: Eph-A-DOWNSTAGE-1969

Description: Includes: Invitation - Downstage and Mrs Sheila Winn invite you to an April Fool' Party. Star Boating Club. Monday March 31st till noon on 1 April [1969?] 'America Hurrah", by Jean-Claude Van Itallie. Produced and designed by Ian Mune. Programme (2 copies). Also a typescript programme for "Interview" from "America Hurrah", 14 March 1969. "The Au Pair Man", by Hugh Leonard. Directed and designed by Phillip Mann. Star Boating Club, 11 November 1969. Programme (2 copies) "Black comedy", and "The White liars". Two plays by Peter Schaffer, directed by Dick Johnstone; designed by Grant Tilly. [1969]. Programme. (2 copies) "Celebration", a musical about winter. Words by Tom Jones, music by Harvey Schmidt. Directed and choreographed by Dick Johnstone; musical director Robert Love. [Late 1969]. Programme (2 copies) and invitation card (2 copies) "Face to face", devised by Frank Davis, co-ordinated by Marjorie Webster. [1969]. Programme. "Ghosts", by Henrik Ibsen. Directed by Anthony Taylor; designed by Grant Tilly. [1969]. Programme. (2 copies) Gulbenkian Sunday Theatre; plays by New Zealand authors ( Warren Dibble, David Yerex, Dora Somerville, Owen Leeming, Max B Richards). September - December 1969. Flier / Downstage membership form "Lord dismiss us", and "Lines to M", written by Warren Dibble; produced by Ken Blackburn. [1969]. Programme (2 copies) "The man who loved trains", a New Zealand play by Marie McMahon. Produced by Dick Johnstone; designed by Eric Wood. [Jan. 1969]. Programme (2 copies) "The mischievous adventures of Rocket Ship LX1", by Alan Farquhar. Directed and designed by Lewis Rowe. [1969]. Programme (2 copies) "Oh, Captain Cook", an original musical with music composed by David Farquhar; script adapted by Dick Johnstone. Based on the play "An appendix to the voyages of Captain Cook", by Jean Giraudoux, as translated by John Dunmore. Decor by Barbara Collinson-Smith. [1969]. Programme. (2 copies) Downstage Theatre presents a workshop presentation od the double bill "One by two", by David Yerex; and "One man goon", by Dora Somerville; directed by David Williams. [October? 1969] Downstage presents Out of Wellington tour 1969. "The stronger", by August Strindberg; "Krapp's last tape", by Samuel Beckett; "The wooded island", by Marie McMahon; "George the mad ad-man", by Peter Bland. Produced by Dick Johnstone; stage direction Eric Wood. [1969]. Programme (2 copies) "The price", by Arthur Miller. Produced by Antony Groser; designed by Grant Tilly. Star Boating Club. 8 October 1969. Programme (2 copies) "Princess and the drummer boy", a play for children by Edwin Thornley. Presented by the Children's Art Theatre, Wanganui. [1969]. Programme. (2 copies, 1 pink and 1 blue) "The quarry game", by Owen Leeming. Produced by Judith Dale. (Workshop presentation). [1969]. Programme. "The real Inspector Hound", by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Antony Groser; designed by Raymond Boyce; lighting by Rex Gilfillan. [ca April 1969]. Programme (2 copies) "Staircase", by Charles Dyer. Directed by Anthony Taylor; designed by Grant Tilly. [February 1969]. Programme / flyer. "Tango", by Slawomir Mrozek, adapted by Tom Stoppard. Produced by Nola Millar; designed by Grant Tilly. [1969]. Programme (2 copies) and invitation card "The zoo story", by Edward Albee. [Second revival]. Directed by Anne Flannery; lighting by Rex Gilfillan. [1969]. Programme (2 copies) and ticket Also includes a flyer invitation to Five-year-old Downstage late birthday celebration and pre-Christmas soiree at the Star. 20 December [1969] Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Booklets and flier, sizes varying below 250 mm.