Shakespearean plays

Date: 1990

From: BATS Theatre :[Posters for productions at BATS Theatre. 1985- ].

By: BATS Theatre

Reference: Eph-D-BATS-1990

Description: Includes posters for: The Bats Theatre Benefit Concert; all proceeds go towards rebuilding the fire-damaged Bats Theatre. "Got a light?". Sunday 13 May, 7.30, St James Theatre. (2 copies) "Blue sky boys" Where were you in 64? A new play by Ken Duncan, featuring Timothy Balme, Michael Galvin, Emily Perkins, Stephanie Creed, Colin Kitchingman, Peter McAllum. Directed by Simon Bennett. June 14 - July 2 [1990]. (2 copies) "The Everlys are coming" - [blue block print re "Blue Sky Boys"] (2 copies) "Blue Sky Boys" [Blue block printing on newsprint paper]. (2 copies) Transferring to St James Theatre July 3-7 [banner re "Blue Sky Boys"] (2 copies) The Eclectic Company presents John Leigh as "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare. Directed by Simon Bennett. Bats Theatre until 14 April. (2 copies and two without dates) Kilda Northcott and Douglas Wright at Bats Theatre. "A new dance", assisted by QEII Arts Council. 21, 22 + 24 February [1990] (2 copies). Bats Fringe Fest. March 5-24. (2 versions of poster, blue, red and black on white; two triangular, two rectangular) "Faxial DBX"; comedy nationwide tour 1990. Fringe Festival March 5-10 midnight. Bats Theatre. New Zealand Students Arts Council (2 copies). Paul Jenden [and] Louis Solino. "Hansel und Gretel" Tanztheater / Komodie. March 5-10 6.30 pm [1990]. "Woman with head" [and] "The urinal, Mrs Fish, the Prime Minister"; two plays by Mark A Casson. Bats Theatre. 13-17 March 1990. Sponsored by Mataura Licencing Trust, Bats Theatre + Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council / K A Madwick 1990 . 7/66 (Linocut? 7th in a print run of 66) "Merchants of Venus"; dances by Shona McCullagh, Marianne Schultz, Felicity Molloy, Debra McCulloch with John Gibson, Kilda Northcott, Judith Froude, Taiaroa Royal. Bats Theatre Kent Terrace. 13-17 March [1990]. (2 copies) "The faces of Eve", written and performed by Brigid McVeigh; a solo performance with soul. Bats Theatre. 19-24 March [1990]. "Woman without shadow"; Holly Cooper in a solo dance show at Bats. Mar 20-24 at 10 pm. (Hand painted poster) Bats is back! June 1-8 "The visitor", by Full of Piraniyahs; June 2-23 "The brute", by Anton Chekhov, directed by Leigh Ransfield; June 13-July 7 "Blue sky boys", by Ken Duncan, directed by Simon Bennett. Full of Piraniyas Dance Company presents "The visitor". Music by Igor Stravinsky, Talking Heads, Kitaro, Jethro Tull, Vangelis, This Mortal Coil, and Peter Gabriel. Bats Theatre 16-22, 25-28 April [1990] (2 copies). Posters and photographs are commissioned by each production (not BATS), so theatre does not have copyright in them Quantity: 16 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on posters. Physical Description: Photolithographs on posters sizes varying around 600 x 400 mm. Provenance: Some donated by Bats Theatre in 2002 and 2007. Transfers: Some posters previously housed at: MSI-Papers-8941-01.

Date: 1919

From: [Ephemera concerning individual schools, with names beginning with Q ... 1900-2000s]

By: Blundell Brothers Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-SCHOOLS-QMC-1919-01

Description: Programme for a drama production starring members of Queen Margaret College, with photographs of the group of actresses and of Miss Lottie Clift (as the Prince of Morocco) and Miss Marion McCaw (attendant). Other actresses listed in the cast are: Jean Broome (Antonio), Nancy Wilson (Salarino), Marjorie Townshend (Salanio), Hazel Davies (Bassanio), Evelyn Claridge (Lorenzo), Eleanora Geere-Watson (Gratiano), Doreen Kersley (Portia), Ina McFadzean (Nerissa), Isabel Smith (Shylock), Josephine Bailey (Launcelot Gobbo), Kathleen Smith (Old Gobbo), Olive Munt (Leonardo and Balthasar), Joyce Humphries (Jessica), Eileen Naismith (Salerio), Jessie Alexander (Duke of Venice), Isabel Alexander, Effie cameron, Peggy Wilson, Noreen Spear, Edna Gilbert. Some local businesses are advertised in the programme: Veitch & Allan's, Glaxo, International Correspondence Schools, Scoullar Company (home furnishers), S & W Mackay (bookseller), George & Kersley (clothing retailer). Accompanying newsclippings report that the director was the principal Miss Jobson. Quantity: 1 booklet. Physical Description: Booklet of 8 pages, each 186 x 122 mm.

Date: 1955 - 1959

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-1955/1959

Description: Includes: 1955: C.A.S. Theatre (Regional Council of Adult Education). "The tempest", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Harold Baigent. Autumn tour 1955. Programme Palmerston North Operatic Society; Manawatu Repertory Society; Palmerston North Little Theatre Society present "Peter Pan", by J M Barrie. Produced by Mavis Mortland. Palmerston North Opera House. 19-26 March 1955. Programme. Victoria University College Council of Adult Education. "Gaslight", by Patrick Hamilton, a Community Arts Service. Programme. Auckland University College Drama Society. "The alchemist", by Ben Jonson. August 1955. Pelorus Press. Flier only. The Ralph Richardson 1955 tour of Australia and New Zealand, presented by Garnet H Carroll in association with H M Tennent Ltd. Illustrated booklet (2 copies). 1956: Theatre Arts Guild. "The taming of the shrew", by William Shakespeare. Abberley Park, Christchurch. 3-11 February 1956. Caxton Press. 1956. Programme. Wairoa Combined Arts Council Drama Festival. Gaiety Theatre 10-12 July 1956. Adjudicator Mr Percy Cousins. (Tuai Drama Circle, producer Michael G Allison; Country Women's Institute Players, producer Joan Roberts; Gisborne Tamarau C.W.I., producer Mrs Moles; Wairoa College, producer Michael Martin; Wairoa Jaycee, producer Des Cairns; Gisborne Country Girls' Club, producer Mrs June Daniels; Wairoa Play Reading Circle, producer Doreen Parker; Gisborne Little Theatre, producer Jack Roderick) Theatre Guild NZ Ltd. "York Nativity Play". Directed by John N Thomson. Auckland, Otahuhu and Hamilton season, 9-16 December 1956. Programme. 1957: Shoestring Players presents "The Bathroom door", "The fair and the lovely". 2 July 1957. Flier. Shoestring Players. "The happiest days of your life". St Thomas Hall Newtown. 12-13 November [1957?]. Flier only. NZ Drama Council, 8th annual Residential Theatre School. Massey Agricultural College Palmerston North. 7-16 January 1957. Flier. Theatre Arts Guild presents Shakespeare's "Tempest"; the Guild's 7th outdoor production. Producer Arnold Goodwin. Abberley Park, 15-23 February 1957. Programme Quantity: 11 programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Offset prints, varying sizes up to quarto.

Date: 1842

From: [Various artists] :[English and European engravings from the Webster collection]. - [1600s to 1890s?]

By: Sargent, G F, active 1836-1860; Carter, James, 1798-1855

Reference: A-012-030

Description: Scene showing the lake in the foreground and Temple of Diana on the hill in the distance. There are other buildings near the lake and in the middle distance. A woman is boarding a boat at the lake edge. Inscription below title - `This is the Fairy land'. Other Titles - Shakespeare. Illustrated in a series of landscape & architectural designs. 1842. 8 vols. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - Title Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Engraving, 140 x 220 mm

Date: 1978

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-134-074/083

Description: Includes costume designs for Trial scene, Salanio (Paul Shirrifs), Salerio (Arthur Ranford), Gratiano (Garth Frost), Bassanio (Kevin Wilson), Antonio (Lewis Rowe), Morocco and attendants, Shylock (John Callen), Launcelot, Lorenzo, Jessica, Nerissa (Prue Langbein), Portia (Ginette McDonald), Tubal (Desmond Kelly). On the designer's own inventory as item number 12/107. Quantity: 10 drawing(s). Physical Description: Dyes and gouache on sheets approximately 520 x 640 mm.

Date: 1990

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-152-001/006

Description: Includes designs for Act I, Scene 1 (Carnival fuigres in a gondola); Act I, Scene 2 (Interior with pool); Act I, Scene 3 (interior); Act II, Scene 1 (with a cannon on higher platform); Act III, Scene 3; Act V, Scene 2 (bedroom scene). On the designer's own inventory as item number 46. The director of the play was Philip Mann. Quantity: 6 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, pencil and dye on board, 300 x 500 mm.

Date: 1977

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-134-236

Description: Includes design for princess and one other woman. On the designer's own inventory as item number 10/101. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 610 s 426 mm.

Date: 1989

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-134-273/283

Description: Includes costume designs for Cypriot soldiers, The Council, Senators, Duke, Lodovico, Montano, Adjutant, Venetian soldiers, Othello (George Henare), Iago, Desdemona, Cassio, Rodrigo, Brabantio, Emilia, Gratiano. On the designer's own inventory as item number 105. Quantity: 11 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pastel, dyes and gouache on board 500 x 770 mm.

Date: 1951

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-150-001/004

Description: Includes design sketches for three figures in Restoration drama costume, and one design sketch for the character of Gloucester in Act I, Scene II of "Richard III". On the designer's own inventory as item number 19/136. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Signed or initialled] Quantity: 4 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink and gouache on sheets, szies ranging from 260 x 160 mm to 400 x 290 mm.

Date: 1936 - 1999

By: Whitehouse, Jocelyn A, active 1950-2000

Reference: Eph-B-DRAMA-VUDC-1900s

Description: Includes productions of the Victoria University College Drama Club and the VUWSA Drama Club. Includes: 1936: "Hay fever", by Noel Coward. Directed by Mr Ashley-Jones. College Gymnasium, 12-13 March 1936. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies) ca 1939: "Stage door", by Edna Ferber. Produced by Marie McWilliams. Typescript flier / programme One act play evening: "E and O.E.; a farce in one act", by E Crawshaw Williams, produced by Guy C Bliss; "An evening at the Rodways'; a low comedy in one spasm:, written and produced by Ronald L Meek' "The royal inn", by Ronald Elwy Mitchell, produced by J D Freeman". [ca 1939]. Programme. Three one-act plays: "Flickering light", by Ethel Madeley, produced by H M Williamson; "Where's that bomb?" by Roger Gullan and Buckley Roberts, produced by A B Gordon; "Danger", by Richard Hughes, produced by Miss June Cummins. [ca 1939]. Typescript programme / flier. 1940: "Harvest in the north", by James Lansdale Hodson, produced by A Donald Priestley. 14-16 March 1940. Typescript programme / flier. ca 1947?: V U C Drama Club presents "Mr Bolfry", by James Brodie [i.e. Bridie]. Produced by Pix Hurrell. Programme / flier 1950: "Coriolanus", by William Shakespeare, produced by Patricia Evison. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 21-25 March 1950. Programme (2 copies) 1951: "The typewriter", by Jean Cocteau. University Little Theatre, 26-28 April 1951. Flier announcement. Three one-act plays: "The corridors of the soul", by Evreinov [?], produced by Klaus Neuberg; "The dark lady of the sonnets", by George Bernard Shaw, produced by Elizabeth Oliver; "Lord Byron's love letter", by Tennessee Williams, produced by Robin King. Typescript flier / programme. 1952: "The rivals", by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Produced by Ralph Hogg. Town Hall Concert Chamber, 18-22 March 1952. Programme (2 copies) 1953: "The circle", by Somerset Maugham. produced by Harold Baigent. Scenery constructed in the CAS workshop and painted by John Holmwood. North Island tour 1953. A Community Arts Service. Programme 1957: "I am a camera", by John van Druten. Produced by Ann Flannery. 7 August 1957. Typescript flier / programme (2 copies one with date in ink) 1960s: "The last half-crown; V.U.W. Drama Club's Christmas revue. Producer Roger Hall [1960s - ca 1967?]. Programme (2 copies) 1963: 1963 Inter University Drama Festival. Allen Hall, 19- and 21 August [1963]. Judge Patric Carey (Canterbury University "The respectable prostitute; Auckland University "The public eye"; Massey University "Electra"; Contemporary Arts Society "The sandbox"; Victoria University "Crawling Arnold"; Lincoln College "The eccentric"; Otago University "The rattle"). Programme (photocopy only) "Lysistrata", by Aristophanes, traslated by Dudley Fitts. produced by Owen Leeming. Victoria University Memorial Theatre, 22 June - 3 July 1963. Programme (2 copies) 1967: "Twelfth night", by William Shakespeare, produced by William Austin. 14-21 April 1967. Programme. 1972: Shakespeare is alive and well and living in "The winter's tale", by William Shakespeare. Produced by Anthony Taylor. May/June 1972. Programme (2 copies) ca 1977-1979: "Doctor Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe, directed by Jeremy Jay; and "Everyman", directed by Judith Dale. [ca 1977-1979?]. Typescript programme 1979: "The marriage of Figaro", by Beaumarchais, directed by Adrian Kiernander. Victoria University of Wellington Drama Studies. Drama House, 7-14 Juiy [1979] Flier only. 1983: One act plays: "The stationary 6th form poetry trip", by Rachel McAlpine; "The pen of my aunt", by Gordon Daviot; "The end of the picnic", by David Compton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. Also "The ruffian on the stairs", by Joe Orton; "The man who turned into a dog", by Dragun. 16-18 August [1983] (2 different fliers) 1984: "Setting the table", by Renee. Drama House, 93 Kelburn Parade, 11-16 September [1984]. Flyer 1985: "Twelfth night, or what you will", by William Shakespeare. Director David Copeland. With new and beautiful scenery and effects by Mr Richard Till. Majestic Theatre, 6-16 February 1985. Flier only (2 copies) 1986: Victoria University Drama Studies production directed by John Downie. "Everyman", a contemporary version of the medieval play. Drama Studio, 93 Kelburn Parade, 30 April - 3 May [1986] "Whose life is it anyway?", by Brian Clark. VUW Union Hall, 6-13 September [1986]. Flyer only 1987: VUW Drama Studies presents "Promptings of the Devil"; scenes of temptation from Elizabethan drama [Marlowe, Webster, Shakespeare, Middleton]. Drama House Studio, 30 September - 3 October [1987]. Flyer 1988: Much ado about nothing; Summer Shakespeare Trust 1989. Auditions. 2-day audition/workshop for 1989 Victoria University Summer Shakespeare. Dance Room, University Recreation Centre, 8-9 October [1988]. Flyer 1990s?: Cocktail: wine, beer, vodka and ... blood. VUW Drama Department's composition class present the premiere of four original plays: "In", "Terrace", "Loaf" and "The red death". Studio 77, 77 Fairlie Tce, Wednesday 11th- Friday 13th [1990s?]. Green flyer only 1991: Victoria University Drama Club & Summer City present "A midsummer night's dream", by William Shakespeare, with original music composed by Ivan Patterson. Director David O'Donnell; asst director Jeremy Scrivener. [1991]. Programme 1992: Summer Shakespeare. "Richard III". Directed by David O'Donnell. The Dell, 1992. Programme (2 copies) 1995: "Macbeth", by William Shakespeare (Summer Shakepeare). Directed by Gabrielle Bishop. [February 1995]. Programme and two tickets (inside) 1996: Summer Shakespeare "As you like it" in Civic Square, Summer 1996. Programme VUWSA Drama Club. "A fish with 2 tales"; two plays: "To be a fish you must get wet", by Eliot Pryor and Virginia Fenton; "Eyepie", by Virginia Fenton. Directors Melinda Collie and Judy Dale. Bats Theatre, 3-9 March [1996]. Programme "Tall stories and short yarns"; 75th anniversary production. Circa Studio 5-14 September; Dionysus Ball, Boatshed 6 September; Archives alive - launching of Drama Club archives 14 September [1996]. Flier 1997: VUW Theatre and Film Department presents Bertolt Brecht's "The resistable rise of Arturo Ui", directed by Vanessa Byrnes. Studio 77, 16-19 April 1997. Programme. Quantity: 31 theatre programmes and fliers.. Physical Description: Offset print or typescript on programmes, sizes below 320 mm.

Date: 1950s-1960s

From: Marsh, Ngaio :Photographs of theatrical productions

Reference: PAColl-0285-1-001

Description: Ngaio Marsh seated on the left hand side of the stage set with the cast of Macbeth arranged across the rest of the stage. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1982

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: C-138-002

Description: Shows a set design with stairway at left, and lighted arched windows at the back of the stage. Katherina Cavalieri was played by Louise Dunne, and Teresa Salieri by Dulcie Smart. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Ink, charcoal and watercolour on card, 510 x 730 mm.

Date: [ca 1950s-1960s]

By: Fox, Sylvia, active 1986

Reference: PA-Group-00358

Description: Includes scenes from University of Canterbury Drama Society productions `Henry V', 1957; `Hamlet', 1958; `Antony and Cleopatra', 1959; `Macbeth', 1962 Quantity: 49 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 colour original photographic print(s).

Date: 1982

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-150-030

Description: Shows two figures: an example of one of the two pallbearers at the left (pall bearers played by Euan Upston and John Callen); and the Priest at the right (played by Barry Empson). Includes written details at the top right. On the designer's own inventory as item no 09/96. Quantity: 1 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopy of original pencil drawing, on sheet 354 x 428 mm.

Date: 1941 - 1965

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-WSS

Description: Includes: 1941: Syllabus/programmes for 1941 and 1942 seasons 1942: Wellington Shakespeare Society NZ. "King Lear". Producer C G Bloore; directions Mrs E C Harvie. Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street, 6 August 1942. Programme. Wellington Shakespeare Society NZ. [Selections]. Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street, 10 September 1942. Programme Wellington Shakespeare Society NZ. "The merry wives of Windsor". Reading directed by Mrs W G Ross. Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street, 5 November 1942. Programme (2 copies). Wellington Shakespeare Society NZ, Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street. President E C Feltham. Programme arranged by W A Armour. 3 December 1942. Programme 1943: "The tempest", directed by Mrs W G Ross. Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street, 6 May 1943. Programme "Coriolanus". Directed by H F Von Haast; play in charge of C G Bloore. Alexander Turnbull Library Bowen Street, 5 August 1943. Programme Shakespeare commemoration on the occasion of the 381st anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. "This is my birthday". The Wellington Shakespearean Society, assisted by Mr Karl Atkinson, at the Wellington Public Library Hall, 23 April 1945. Programme (2 copies) First dinner by the Wellington Shakespeare Society NZ to commemorate the 392nd anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare, 1564-1616 at the Founders' Hall, Wakefield House Wellington. 23rd April 1956. Toast list and menu (formerly belonging to C R H Taylor, and autographed by several members on the back) Syllabus/programmes for the following seasons: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 Quantity: 21 theatre programmes and syllabuses. Physical Description: Offset print on pamphlets and programmes, sizes below 250 mm. Provenance: Some programme originally collected by member in 1943, Mr Melville E Hankins, and purchased at Dunbar Sloane auction, Wellington, 19 September 2013, lot 320.

Date: [1970?]

From: New Zealand Public Radio : Concert FM New Zealand Composer Sound Archive

Reference: MSDT-0129-04

Description: Ngaio Marsh remembers Douglas Lilburn and the music written for her Shakespearean productions at Canterbury University Quantity: 4.05 Minutes and seconds Duration. Finding Aids: NZ Public Radio listing. Provenance: Concert FM

Date: 1967

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-150-009

Description: Shows two views of the costume for the character of Polonius in Shakespeare's play "Hamlet". Comprises grey top, trousers and hat, and a russet cape. On the designer's own inventory as item no 09/95. Inscriptions: Recto - beneath image - [Signed titled and dated]. Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Coloured pencil on card, 334 x 290 mm.

Date: 1972

From: [Posters for drama productions in Great Britain featuring New Zealand performers and producers. 1960-1979]

Reference: Eph-C-DRAMA-GB-1972-01

Description: Poster announcing a drama production shows an arrangement of text and lists actors taking part. These include New Zealand actor Darryl Kavann. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset print on light card, 390 x 253 mm.

Date: 1964

By: Wilson, John Mclennan, 1940-

Reference: PAColl-4874

Description: University of Canterbury Drama Society production of Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Produced by Ngaio Marsh Quantity: 5 b&w original photographic print(s).

Date: 1989

By: Boyce, Raymond Stanley (Dr), 1928-2019

Reference: B-153-048/050

Description: Includes designs of hats for Rodrigo (Stephen Clements), Monta[n]o[?] (Cameron Rhodes), Iago (Ray Henwood), Adjutant (Mark Wright), Cassio (Stuart Devenie), and for the actors Peter Vere-Jones, David McKenzie, Lloyd Scott, Kevin Woodhall, John Wraight. On the designer's own inventory as item number 07/78. Quantity: 3 photocopy/ies. Physical Description: Photocopies, 420 x 280 mm.