Alegria, Alonso, active 1960s

Date: 1978

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

Reference: C-134-237

Description: Includes two designs for Blondin. On the designer's own inventory as item number 10/99. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and gouache on board, 680 x 660 mm.

Date: 1977 - 1978

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

Reference: Eph-C-DOWNSTAGE-1977/1978

Description: Includes posters for: 1977: "Ashes", by David Rudkin; by arrangement with Michael Codron (With Catherine Wilkin and Bill Stalker). 2-26 November [1977]. Poster / booking form (2 copies) "The balcony", by Jean Genet. Downstage Theatre, 10 August - 3 September [1977] (2 copies) "Children", by A R Gurney jr. Downstage Theatre 14 September - 15 October [1977]. Poster / booking form (2 copies) Palace of Varieties presents ... music hall. "East Lynne"; festive family fare. 1 December [1977] - 28 January [1978]. Programme / song sheet (2 copies), and poster / booking form (2 copies) "Halfway up"; Autumn season of late night and Sunday shows in Downstage's new theatre space Halfway Up in the Hannah Playhouse, from March 23 for nine weeks [1977] (2 copies) "Judgement", by Barry Collins, by arrangement with the National Theatre of Great Britain. Limited season Hannah Playhouse, 18-29 October [1977]. Poster / booking form (2 copies) "Love's labours lost", by William Shakespeare. Downstage, 26 May t0 2 July [1977] (2 copies) "Otherwise engaged", by Simon Gray. 6 July - 6 August [1977] "Perfect strangers", by Craig Harrison. From April 20; "Fat little Indians", by Gordon Dryland. From May 5 [1977] (2 copies) Tom Stoppard's "Travesties". Directed by Anthony Taylor. 2 March - 2 April [1977] (2 copies) 1978: "Crossing Niagara", by Alonso Alegria. Downstage Theatre, 9 February - 18 March [1978] (2 copies) "Heroes & butterflies", by Robert Lord. Downstage Theatre newsletter February 1978. Poster / booking form (2 copies) "Same time next year", by Bernard Slade. Downstage Theatre newsletter October 1978. Poster / booking form (2 copies) "Savages", by Christopher Hampton. Downstage Theatre newsletter April 1978. Poster / booking form (2 copies) Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Screenprints on posters, sizes varying around 400 x 550 mm.

Date: December 1977, February-March 1978

From: Downstage Theatre (Wellington): Photographs of productions

By: McCurdy, Stephen John, 1949-

Reference: PAColl-7704-04

Description: Photographs of the Downstage Theatre productions of 'Palace of Varieties - East Lynne' (December 1977) and 'Crossing Niagara' (February to March 1978), including 7 colour postcards with images of Niagara Falls. Quantity: 74 b&w original photographic print(s). 3 b&w original photographic print(s) contact sheets with 19 images. 7 postcards.

Date: 1978

Reference: Eph-B-DOWNSTAGE-1978

Description: 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