A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
1944
1944
15-16,18 March: Of Mice and Men. Teachers' Training College Hall
7 May: lecture: 'Ibsen', Ron Meek, with readings and folk dancing. SCR rooms 28 May: According to Plan. SCR celebration of the second anniversary of the Anglo-Soviet Treaty. Time Theatre
18 June: Take Back Your Freedom (Holtby). Reading, with folkdancing. SCRrooms
25 June: 'Landmarks of working class drama': readings and extracts from Spender, Saroyan, Steinbeck and The Reichstag Fire Trial (Falconer). Unity Centre
2 July: lecture: 'J. M. Synge, the famous Irish playwright', Blackwood Paul. SCR rooms
16 July: Watch on the Rhine (Hellman). Reading (produced by John Gray). SCR rooms
26 July: The Cave (Galitsky). BDL festival (second place)
27 August: The Cave, with lecture: 'Is there a Jewish problem in New Zealand?', Ron Meek. SCR rooms
17 September: Sur le Pont (Gray); Who Killed Me? (Chantel); The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shaw). Unity Theatre
24 September: lecture: 'Hollywood and the status quo', Gordon Mirams. Unity Theatre
28-30 November, 2 December: They Came to a City (Priestley). Teachers' Training College Hall
?: Sur le Pont. Army, Navy and Airforce Social Club