A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
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10-11, 17-18 February: They Came to a City (Priestley). Unity Theatre
10-11, 17-18 March: The Artist (Chekhov); The Enemy (Alexander); All Aboard (Bengal). Unity Theatre
8 April: lecture: 'Can the theatre be used as a propaganda weapon?', Rona Meek, with reading: All Aboard (Bengal). Unity Centre
6 May: film screening: Council for Education of Music, Drama and Art. Unity Theatre
20 May: Ladies in Retirement (Percy and Denham). Reading. Unity Theatre
3 June: Too True to be Good (Shaw). Reading. Unity Theatre
17 June: lecture: 'Can the theatre be used as a propaganda weapon?', Rona Meek, with reading: Journey for an Unknown Soldier. Unity Theatre
1 July: Down on the Farm (Brown); The Bear (Chekhov); Something to Talk About (Phillpotts). Readings. Unity Theatre
15 July: lecture: 'Drama and the community', Maria Dronke. Unity Theatre
19 July: Sur le Pont. BDL festival
3-5,11-13,18-19, 25-6 August: Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Werfel). Unity Theatre
page 24516 September: The Hairy Ape (O'Neill). Reading. Unity Theatre
14 October: The Children's Hour (Hellman). Reading. Unity Theatre
28 October: Awake and Sing! (Odets). Reading. Unity Theatre
11 November: lecture: 'Stage make-up', A. Peacock. Unity Theatre 15-16 December: The Feminine Touch (Kvasnitsky); Hello Out There (Saroyan); excerpt from My Sister Eileen (Fields and Chodorov). Readings. Unity Theatre