Downstage Theatre :[Programmes, pamphlets and fliers for productions in 1978].

Includes:

"Candide", the best of all possible shows. Music by Leonard Bernstein; book adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler. Director Anthony Taylor; musical director Peter Marshall. Hannah Playhouse, 30 November 1978. Programme (2 copies)

"Candide", the best of all possible shows. Packaging (2 copies)

"Crossing Niagara", by Alonso Alegria, translated by Gwenda Pandolfi. (With Bill Stalker as Blondin; John Banas as Carlo). Direction Jan Prettejohns. 9 February 1978. Programme / flier (2 copies)

Press release 7 March 1978: re "Heroes and butterflies", "Stage-Truck" and "Crossing Niagara"

Press release 2 May 1978: re "School for clowns", "Three New Zealand poets read their work", "Standard safety"

Press release 1 June 1978: re "State of the play", publication of "Middle Age Spread", "Standard safety"

Newsletter 1 June 1978: re Downstage Theatre-in-Education '78. ("Varnished faces", "The merchant of Venice")

Press release 23 August 1978: re "Fancy's child", Shakespeare the sadist"

News sheet re: "The Palace of varieties", and "Crossing Niagara"

Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Physical Description: Programmes and fliers, sizes varying below 330 mm.

Provenance: One item donated by Stella Milne, Wellington, in 2014