A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
3. People's Theatre (Auckland) Productions, 1936-40
3. People's Theatre (Auckland) Productions, 1936-40
1936
8-10 December: Waiting for Lefty (Odets). Avondale Municipal Centre
?: Waiting for Lefty. Trades Hall
1937
10 April: Waiting for Lefty. Hamilton
11 April: Waiting for Lefty. Huntly
12-18, 21-2 June: Till the Day I Die (Odets). WEA Hall
8 September: short adaptation of Waiting for Lefty. Carpenters' union meeting (also performed at meetings of the general labourers' and local bodies' labourers' unions)
1938
25, 27-8 June: Judgment Day (Rice). Town Hall Concert Chamber
1939
18, 20-22 March: Falls the Shadow (Hamilton). Town Hall Concert Chamber
14 May: International Brigade (Mason). Spanish Medical Aid Committee meeting, Regent Theatre
1 October: BMA (Mason). Auckland Unitarian Church
5 November: sketch performed at a rally to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of the Russian revolution
12 November: Rehearsal (Maltz); Good Blood—Bad Blood; BMA. Fabian Club Rooms
12 November: Skull on Silence (Mason). Rally
10 December: Squire Speaks (Mason); Eleventh Hour; People's Court; This Dark Will Lighten (Mason). Fabian Club Rooms
?: Rehearsal. WEA social evening
?: BMA. Performed for Labour Party branches and other organisations
?: Perkins and the Butler (Mason). People's Theatre dance ?: Better Bayonets (Mason)
1940
19 March: variety fundraising concert