Box 1

Productions 1933-1969

Mollie and the Milliner , Poached Eggs and Pearls. 25 July 1933 ;

The Roundabout. 1935 ; Dearest Mama, Shanghai, The Mere Man. 18 -19 July 1934 ; No no Nanette. 4-7 Nov. 1935 ; London Wall. 1936 ; Short story. 1939 ; The Sacred flame. 1944 ; The Years back. 1946 ; Painted sparrows. 1948 ; Dear Ruth. 1949 ; No medals. 1949 ; Home and Beauty. 1947 ;Mr Pim passes by. 1950 ; The shop at Sly Corner.1950 ; They came to the city. June 1950 ; Portrait of an author. 1951 ; The happiest days of your life. 1952 ; Junior 1 act plays includes Magpie Gully, Queen's progress, Even this evening. 1953 ; Double door. 12 - 14 October 1953 ; Black chiffon. July(?) 1954 ;An inspector calls. 1954 ; Love's a luxury. October 1954 ; Springtime for Henry. November 1955(?) ; Senior 1 act plays Sordid story, Sunshine on the righteous, Exit for seven , The neighbours. 1955 ; Fresh fields. 1955 ; Jupiter laughs. 1956 ; Bonaventure. 15-18 October 1956 ; The day's mischief. 1956 ; Mountain air. 1957 ; Miss Mabel. 1957 ; Family coach. 1957 ; Don't listen ladies. 7-10 October 1957 ; Quiet wedding. 1958 ; World Theatre. 1958 ; The dashing white sargeant. 1958 ; Mad about men. 21-24 September 1959 ; House by the lake. 1959 ; The same sky. 1959 ; Riders to the sea. April 1960 ; Night must fall. 19-22 September 1960 ; Plantiff in a pretty hat. 1960 ; Our town. 1960 ; The shifting heart. 1961 ; The remarkable Mr Pennypacker. 1961 ; Come back, little Sheba. 1962 ; Doctor in the house. 25-30 November 1962 ; Lady Precious Stream. 1962 ; The chalk garden. 1962 ; Life with father. 12-14 October 1964 ; My three angels. 20-25 June 1966 ; Time murderer please. 1967 ; Shock tactics. 20-22 November 1967 ; Picnic. 16-21 September 1968 ; Doctor in the house. 25-30 November 1968 ; Summer of the seventeenth Doll. 1968 ; Murder in the Cathedral. 5-8 March 1969 ; The subject was roses. 7-10 May 1969 ; Billy Liar. 19-22 November 1969 ; The hostage. 15-20 September 1969 ; The dancing donkey. June 1969.

  Box 2

Productions 1970-1975

Pygmalion. 16-26 March 1970 ; The drunkard. July 1970 ; Wait until dusk. 28 September - 3 October 1970 ; The fire-raisers. 7-12 December 1970 ; The blue bird. 1970 ; The au-pair man. 1970 ; A man for all seasons. 26 March - 8 April 1971 ; Charley's Aunt. 7-13 November 1971 ; Rock Revue. 29 September - 2 October 1971 ; Wind in the branches of the Sassafras. 6-14 August 1971 ; Sweeney Todd the barber. March 1972 ; The hollow crown. April 1972 ; The real Inspector Hound. 19-24 June 1972 ; Lovers. 10-19 August 1972 ; Aladdin. 18-25 November 1972 ; The dumb waiter. A phoenix too frequent. 1973 ; Lock up your daughters. 2-14 April 1973 ; The glass menagerie. 9-14 July 1973 ; Lady Julie. 1973 ; Robin Hood. 17-24 November 1973 ; Boeing, Boeing. 13-20 July 1974 ; The princess and the swineherd. 24-31 August 1974 ; LLoyd George knew my father. 19-26 October 1974 ; Dracula. 1974 ; Cinderella. November 1974 ; Look back in anger. April 1975 ; Boys in the band. 31 May-7 June 1975 ; What the butler saw. 26 July - 2 August 1975 ; Butterflies are free. 13-26 September 1975 ; Robinson Crusoe. November 1975 ; New Plymouth Music Hall. 4-19 December 1975.

  Box 3

Productions 1975 - 1979

A day in the death of Joe Egg. 17-27 March 1976 ; Vivat vivat Regina. 31 May-12 June 1976 ; The nuns. July 1976 ; Mothers and fathers. 18 September - 2 October 1976 ; Peter Pan. 12-27 November 1976 ; The physicists. 14-26 March 1977 ; Loot. 16-28 May 1977 ; Desperate hours. 12-24 September 1977 ; Mother Goose. 12-26 November 1977 ; West Side Story. May 1978 ; Constant wife. 1978 ; Not now darling. 18 March - 1 April 1978 ; Queen of Hearts. November 1978 ; Absurd person singular. 9 -23 September 1978 ; Bad Jelly the Witch. 22 August 1979 ; Boulder Rock Revue. 30 July - 4 August 1979 ; How the other half loves. 17 - 31 March 1979 ; A picture of Dorian Gray. 26 May - 9 June 1979 ; Cinderella. 24 November - 1 December 1979 ; A flea in your ear. 29 September - 13 October 1979.

  Box 4

Productions 1980 - 1983

Knuckle. 31 May 1980 ; Kennedy's children. 25 January - 1 February 1980 ; Ten little niggers. 26 July - 9 August 1980 ; Godspell. 13 - 22 November 1980 ; Breath of Spring. 8 - 22 March 1980 ; Baggage. 27 April 1981 ; Post horn gallop. 1 - 15 August 1981 ; The arbitration. 17 October - 31 October 1981 ; Old times. February - March 27 1981 ; Virtue triumphant. 17 April - 1 May 1982 ; Rumpelstiltzkin. 3 - 12 December 1982 ; The poker session. 19 June - 3 July 1982 ; Foreskin's Lament. 16 October - 30 October 1982 ; Confusions. 14 August - 21 August 1982 ; Fifty fifty. 6 - 30 April 1983 ; Grease. 12 - 27 August 1983 ; Dangerous Corner. 15 - 29 October ; N.Z. Truth Show. 9 - 10 September 1983.

  Box 5

Productions 1984 - 1987

Terra Nova. October 1984 ; A tomb with a view. 23 March - 7 April 1984 ; Same time next year. 1984 ; One flew over the cuckoo's nest. 24 - 31 August 1985 ; New Plymouth Music Hall. 4 - 19 December 1985 ; Female Transport. March 1985 ; Move over Mrs Markham. 15 - 29 June 1985 ; Puss 'n Boots. 15 - 23 November 1985 ; A funny thing happened on the way to the forum. 6 - 20 December 1986 ; Accidental death of an anarchist. 2 August - 16 August 1986 ; The chalk garden. 26 August - 3 May 1986 ; A scent of flowers. 11 - 18 October 1986 ; Gulls. 28 February - 15 March 1987 ; Aladdin. 13 - 21 November 1987 ; Wait until dark. 2 - 16 May 1987 ; A peck of pickled players - A kind of Alaska. Nudes in waning light. 25 - 29 July 1987.

  Box 6

Productions 1988 - 1991

Caravan. 6 - 20 August ; Outside edge. 10 - 17 December 1988 ; Sunshine Boys. 20 February - 5 March 1988 ; The killing of Sister George. 1 - 11 June 1988 ; The Gunge Christmas Show. 19 November - 3 December 1988 ; Humpty Dumpty. 24 November - 2 December 1989 ; An evening of one act plays. The bespoke overcoat. Is it something I said? 29 March - 8 April 1989 ; The art of coarse acting. 3 - 17 June 1989 ; Benefactors. 28 September - 7 October 1989 ; Sweeney Todd the Barber. 13 - 27 October 1990 ; Shakers. 24 November - 8 December 1990 ; Local affairs. 24 June - 7 July 1990 ; Once on Chanuk Bair. 20 - 28 April 1990 ; Groping for words. March 1990 ; Children of a Lesser God. 13 - 27 April 1991 ; Brighton Beach memoirs. 22 June - 6 July 1991 ; I'll be back before midnight. 31 August - 14 September 1991 ; Frankenstein. 30 November - 7 December 1991.

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Productions 1992 -

Lovers: Winners. Conversations with a golliwog. 31 July - 7 August 1992 ; Stepping out. 21 March - 4 April 1992 ; Extremities. 15 - 29 October 1992 ; The Share Club. 13 - 21 November 1992 ; The BFG. 22 - 31 May 1992 ; Via satellite. 3 - 17 April 1993 ; Turn of the screw. 1993 ; Intimate exchanges. 11 - 18 September 1993 ; Up and under. 19 June - 3 July 1993 ; Ali Baba and the fourty thieves. 26 November - 4 December 1993 ; Stag and Hens. 14 - 28 May 1994 ;Sex and other frustrations 16 -23 July 1994 ; The fourposter. 3 - 10 September 1994 ; Season's Greetings. 5 - 18 November 1994 ; Plays not identified by year

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Inventory of records held at the Taranaki Museum. Undated (Limited access) ; Membership lists and registers. 1937 - 1990 ; Cast of plays read. 1939 - 1964.

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Minute Books 1933 - 1941 ; 1941 - 1946 ; 1946 - 1950 ; 1950 - 1953 ; 1953 - 1955 ; 1955 - 1958 ; 1958 - 1962 ; 1966 - 1969.

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Financial Statements 1959 - 1981 ; Minutes 1969 - 1992 ; 1991 - 1995 (incomplete run)

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Inward and Outward Correspondence 1969 -1976

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Inward and Outward Correspondence 1977 - 1984

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Subject files

The records of the New Plymouth Little Theatre Society. Undated. (limited access) ; Little Theatre logo ; Format for tickets and signage ; Rules and By-laws ; Little Theatre profiles for Cydie Strang, Evelyn Farrington-Atkinson, John Peters, Brian Hannam plus first draft of the theatre's history ; Officers duties A, B, C (3 files) ; Production team flow chart ; Production budgets / expenses 1969 - 1974 ; Licensing Control Commission of New Zealand standards of premises April 1979 ; Annual programmes for members, incomplete run 1954 - 1965 ; Awards Night 1971 -1993, incomplete run ; Drama festivals 1968 - 1969 ; Undated plays ; Wardrobe miscellaneous items ; Photographs of Little Theatre members T. Pankhurst, Cydi Strang, Evie Atkinson, Aggrayd Evans, Richie Poole, Barbara Rae, Tony Burton, Cecily Greatbatch, Malcom Cunninghame, A. B. McDonald ; Insurance policies for New Plymouth Little Theatre 1969 - 1981 ; Sammy Davis Junior, documentation associated with a visit to New Plymouth 1978 ; Fiftieth Jubilee 1983 ; Sixtieth Jubilee 1992, including authority form for uplifting of Archive from New Plymouth Museum ; Report of amalgamation / co-operation between New Plymouth Repertory and New Plymouth Little Theatre 1991 ; Drama workshops ; Aubrey Street Building correspondence 1955 - 1977 ; Aubrey Street Building correspondence 1980 - 1981 ; Aubrey Street Building re-development project c1980 ; Aubrey Street Building seating sponsorship and purchase 1972 - 1976 ; Schedule of acquisitions, works and development 1972 - 1974 ; Aubrey Street Theatre usage ; Productions at the Opera House ; Sonne et lumiere at St. Mary's Church 1981 ; Bowl of Brooklands 1959 ; Access Youth Theatre 1990 ; Val Deakin Dance Group 1973 ; Miss Letitia, Okato High School Drama Group 1977 ; Inglewood Dramatic Society newsletters1980 - 1982 ; British Drama League Festival 1968 ; New Zealand Theatre Federation newsletter 1977 - 1981.

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New Plymouth Little Theatre Newsletters. 1968 - 1983 ; 1984 - 1989 ; 1990 - 2000

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Newsletters - Other societies

New Plymouth Operatic Society 1980 - 1981 ; Eltham Little Theatre 1980 - 1981 ; New Plymouth Repertory Society 1980 - 1981 ; Act : Theatre in New zealand 1978 - 1981 ; Central Regional Arts Council 1979 - 1981 ; Hawera Repertory Society 1977 - 82 (incomplete) ; Nelson Repertory Theatre 1977 ; New Zealand Federation of operatic societies 1978 - 1980 ; Drama publications Amateur Stage and Drama News 1980 - 1981 ; Selecon-Reid Ltd. Catalogues of the play-lending library ; Play Bureau library catalogue 1979 - 1981 ; New Zealand Theatre Federation ; Visitors Book 1975 - 1984.

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Play scripts

Music score and script for Mother Goose ; Script for Knuckle ; Script for Arbitration (2 items) ; Script for The picture of Dorian Gray (2 items) ; Cinderella : a traditional pantomime by Roger Hall ; House Full : a sketch by Vera Beringer ; The perils of an orphan girl. By Marcus Craig ; Pansy the Mill Girl. By John Melluish ; Mothers and Fathers. By Joseph Musaphia. (5 copies) ; Robin Hood (3 copies) ; British Council play bulletins Jan. - Dec. 1976, Jan. - Mar. 1977.

  Box 17

Play scripts

Cinderella : a pantomine by John Crocker and Eric Guilder. Music score and script (3 copies).

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Play scripts

West Side Story. Music score (4 copies) and script (7 copies) ; Photocopies of music.

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Posters

Large A3 format posters and large photographs from productions. Not catalogued.

  Box 20

Uncatalogued photographs.

  Box 21

Framed posters from productions

Look back in anger 7-12 April 1975 ; Dearest Mama 18-19 July 1934 ; Lloyd George knew my father 19 - 24 Oct. 1974

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Financial accounts 1970 - 1971 ; Petty Cash book 1937 -1971 ; Cash receipt book (2) 1975 - 1976 ; TSB Statements, General Account and Building Account December 1968 - 1970 ; Bills for payment 1981 ; Building committee accounts 1969 ; Petty cash book 1977 ; Cheque butts 1968 - 1971 ; Deposit books TSB General and Building accounts 1969 - 1970 ; Ticket books How the other half lives 27 March 1979 and 1 unused

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Photograph Album 1953 - 1957 ; Book. Designing and painting scenery, by Harald Melvill. 1948. Has signatures of the cast of No medals. 1949 inscribed on flyleaf ; Book. A dramatic appearance : New Zealand theatre 1920 - 1970, by Peter Harcourt. Has inscription on flyleaf from the 50th anniversary of the theatre.

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Photograph Album 1934 - 1952 ; Photograph Album 1957 - 1962.