Scripts

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Carbon typescript of 'Barabbas: a fable in three acts.'

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Contains pages 120-221 of LC’s radio fantasy story, ‘The Erewhonians’. Also includes handwritten notes. The script is edited and annotated. All documents are undated. [See ‘The Erewhonians’ folder].

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Folder containing: a) 'Salient' Special Extravaganza Programme issue (for Extravaganza production June 1-6, 1953); b) clippings; c) advertising and other ephemera; d) typed script (c37 pp). Cover note states: "Authors: Frank Curtin, Jill Lescher, Pat Burns, Jeff Stewart, Con Bollinger, Dave Cohen, Bill Sheat, Bob O'Brien, Pete Crowe, Ian Free, Jim Hutchison, Dave Crowe, and others who suggested odd things at odd times, Orland Sundry." The cover only has been scanned to date.

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Contains a copy of the ‘Gold Fever: A Ballad Opera’ script both in typed and handwritten form. The play is set “during the West Coast gold rush in 1865”. It is labelled “Version 2, Jan. 14 2007”.

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The collections consists of photographs, negatives and photocopied documents (mostly programmes and reviews) collected by John Thomson during th writing of 'New Zealand Drama 1930-1980: an illustrated history' (OUP, 1984).

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Attached note reads: 'Shackleton out-shacked by A.H. Bogle, D.N. Isaacs, G.M. Hogben and J.M. Hogben, performed on 24 and 25 June 1909 in Town Hall Concert Chamber (this is the script of Rat O'Pegan, a 'photographic artist of communistic tendencies', who was played by Julius M. Hogben).'

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Contains a copy of ‘The Sounds of War’, with annotations. Also includes some handwritten notes. All documents are undated [See ‘Sounds of War, Original Mick Shepherd Script 1983’ folder].

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Contains the an annotated script of ‘The Sounds of War’ along with a letter from LC to Mick Shepherd in which he offers constructive criticism of the work. Only indicated date is from the correspondence, September 30, 1983.

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Attached note reads: 'South Sea Bubbles', by G.M. and J.M. Hogben, performed on 25 and 27 June 1908. Former title 'Dominio Idealis'.

Scope and Contents A note with this item reads: 'I have been unable to find out whether this was ever performed. It deals with Victoria University College and may have been submitted for the Capping Carnival of 1907, but the play performed that year was 'The Golden Calf' by 'Munchums'. No idea either who Box and Cox were, but as this script was with the others, presumably they were Julius Hogben and his brother George.'Full title on item is 'The Rhodes Scholar: being a new and (almost) entirely...

Summary of contents Contains a script by LC titled ‘Walking on my Feet: an Entertainment’, correspondence, an extra source list, a department of Education Social Studies Newsletter and song lyrics. The songs are based around “swagmen and frontier life”. The script is for a short sketch that is set in a country school in rural Otago and is primarily structured to inform the audience of Otago’s swagmen history. The only indication of date is a printed poem titled “The Spearwah”, 1940, and the correspondence...