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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

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?: Two Gentlemen of Soho (Herbert). Reading

?: The Moon is Down (Steinbeck). Reading

?: Love on the Dole (Gow and Greenwood). Reading