New Zealand Drama School

Date: 1982

Reference: Eph-A-OPERA-1982

Description: Includes: Auckland Opera & Ballet Workshop magazine. Marcus Craig's "Gems from French Opera". May 1982. Programme Shoestring Opera. "Albert Herring", by Benjamin Britten. Directed and designed by Penny Giddens; musical director John Pattinson. Repertory Theatre (Christchurch), 21-23 October [1982]. Programme (2 copies) Perkel Opera Inc. Jubilee 25th production. "Carmen", by Bizet. Produced by Paul Person. Auckland season 20-27 March; other touring dates 2nd April - 29 May [1982]. Programme (2 copies) Wellington Polytechnic. "Doctor Miracle", by Georges Bizet. New Zealand Drama School, 19 October [1982]. Programme Shoestring Theatre Company. "For whom the road tolls", [and] "Roundabout", both by Charles Harter. [1982?] Programme De La Tour Wellington Regional Opera Trust presents a gala concert featuring Anthony Benfell [and many others]. State Opera House, 11 September [1982]. Flier "Love in a village", by Dr Thomas Arne. Proesented by Central School of Music, Speech and Drama, pupils of George Scott Morrison. Studio, 11 and 13 August; Intimate Opera Theatre, 18, 20-21 August [1982? or 1976?]. Programme Light Opera Club. Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" Directed by Lee Grant; musical director Tim Jenkinson; choreographer Robert Henderson (With photographs of all principal performers and support staff). His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 30 September - 9 October 1982. Programme Northern Opera (Inc) present Opera Boutique in "A programme of opera excerpts", produced by Neil Jenkins. Symphonia Theatre Auckland, 27 & 29 April, 1 May 1982. Programme Stewart Macpherson's Stetson Productions on behalf of 4444 Ltd proudly present "Rose", by Andrew Davies, with Judy Cornwell as Rose. New Zealand tour October - December [1982]. Programme Wellington Polytechnic. "Thomas and Sally, or The sailor's return", by Thomas Arne. Produced by Flora Edwards; musical director Simon Tipping. New Zealand Drama School, 21 October [1982]. Programme Shoestring Theatre Company presents "Scrooge!", written and directed by Charles Harter. The De La Tour Opera Trust presents "La Traviata", by Verdi. University Memorial Theatre, 21-25 September [1982]. Programme (2 copies) and typescript flier Auckland Opera and Ballet Workshop presents the Opera "The turn of the screw", by Benjamin Britten. Director Janette Heffernan. Pumphouse, Lake Pupuke, Takapuna, 21-24 January [1982]. Programme. Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Programmes and fliers, sizes ranging under 250 mm. Provenance: Donated from various sources.

Date: [1970s-1980s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2963

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis 1970s or 1980s showing individual and group portraits of children, some in dramatic poses, likely pupils of the New Zealand Drama School founded by Nola Millar. Transparencies showing New Zealand Drama School students also at PA12-2962 and PA12-2964. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Nola [Millar's] Dancing School". Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1970s-1980s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2962

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis 1970s or 1980s showing individual and group portraits of children, some in dramatic poses, likely pupils of the New Zealand Drama School founded by Nola Millar. Transparencies showing New Zealand Drama School students are continued at PA12-2963 and PA12-2964. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Nola [Millar's] Dancing School". Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies.

Date: [1960s-1980s]

From: Beavis, Cyril Denis Archibald, 1911-2000: Transparencies, negatives, and photographic prints

Reference: PA12-2964

Description: Transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis 1970s or 1980s showing individual and group portraits of children, some in dramatic poses, likely pupils of the New Zealand Drama School founded by Nola Millar. Also includes one transparency taken by Cyril Beavis 1960s showing a portrait of a woman holding a feather fan. Also includes transparencies taken by Cyril Beavis circa 1960s showing scenes from "Let's See", a New Zealand television programme for children. Transparencies showing scenes from "Let's See" are continued at PA12-2965. Title supplied by Library. Arrangement: Slides delivered in housing with annotations that read "Nola [Millar's] Dancing School" and "Here are the Hits". Quantity: 22 colour original transparency/ies. Processing information: Reference number changed in June 2022 during re-processing of the collection. Formerly PAColl-7715-78.

Date: 20 April 2019

From: SOS: Stories from the Sisters Overseas Service oral history project

By: Calvert, Sarah Jane, 1953-

Reference: OHInt-1581-01

Description: Interview with Sarah Calvert by Georgie Craw recorded on 20 April 2019. Topics covered in the interview include: emigrating from England to New Zealand; first activism experiences protesting against Spiro Agnew, and the Vietnam War; attending drama school and studying psychology at the University of Waikato; feminism meetings; discrimination against women; promoting 'Broadsheet'; writing about women's health including book 'Healthy Women'; International Women's Year in Waikato in 1975; teaching women's studies paper at the University of Waikato; setting up Hamilton Rape Crisis in 1972; involvement with Women's Conventions in Wellington (1975), Christchurch (1977), and Hamilton (1979); alcohol; sex; rape and double standards; abortion and reproductive freedom; beginnings of Sisters Overseas Service (SOS) in Hamilton; fundraising for SOS; logistics of SOS; role at SOS; Māori sovereignty; interactions with police, airlines; success and challenges of SOS; and tensions between feminists and women in social and communist movements. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Interview(s). 2 Electronic document(s) digital abstract and recording agreement form. 1 digital sound recording(s). 1 printed abstract(s) includes recording agreement form. Search dates: 2019-04-20