A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
1943
1943
14 March: lecture: 'The international theatre of protest', WJ. Scott, with reading: The Earth Is Ours (Kozlenko) (performed by Wellington Teachers' Training College students). English Speaking Union rooms
18 April: lecture: 'Mime and satire as a weapon of the theatre', Elsie Lloyd, with reading: Awake and Sing! (Odets). SCR rooms
16 May: lecture: 'The American theatre and drama', Rona Meek, with reading: My Heart's in the Highlands (Saroyan). SCR rooms
?: Waiting for Lefty (Odets). Reading (for members only)
30 May: lecture: 'Unity Theatre, London', Robert Stead, with reading: Life is Calling. SCR rooms
13 June: Paul Green evening, with reading: In Abraham's Bosom. SCR rooms
27 June: social evening with play reading, singing and entertainment. SCR rooms
11 July: lecture: 'The non-commercial theatre, i.e. the amateur theatre, the Soviet theatre, and the Federal Theatre, USA', S. Williams, with reading. SCR rooms
25 July: Distant Point (Afinogenov). Reading. SCR rooms
8 August: lecture: 'The Greek drama', Nance Potter, with reading: The Iphigenia in Tauris (Euripides). SCR rooms
22 August: reading and discussion of three one-act plays. SCR rooms
1-3 September: The Artist (Chekhov); According to Plan (Parsons); The Red Velvet Coat (Niggli). British Drama League Festival
5 September: lecture: 'Anton Chekhov', Howard Wadman, with reading: excerpt from The Russians (Simonov). SCR rooms
18 September: two-act Noel Coward comedy (Fumed Oak?). SCR social and dance
19 September: The End of the Beginning (O'Casey); Sweeney Agonistes (Eliot); Guerilla Wedding; excerpts from The Ascent of F6 (Auden and Isherwood), with folk dancing. RSA Hall
17 October: three-act play reading. SCR rooms
23 October: one-act play performed for CP national conference
31 October: lecture: 'The working class theatre in London', with reading: excerpts from Dirge Without Dole (Mount). SCR rooms
14 November: Squaring the Circle (Katayev). Reading. SCR rooms
27 November: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck). Reading. Social evening, Grey Cabs Hall
page 244?: Two Gentlemen of Soho (Herbert). Reading
?: The Moon is Down (Steinbeck). Reading
?: Love on the Dole (Gow and Greenwood). Reading