Plays Production and direction

Scope and Contents note Includes files on:- Heather Lindsay : 1x Letters from a Fainthearted Feminist review dated 16-06-1984.- Living Wallies : 2 x Playbills; 2 x colour photographs; Performers: George Marriot; Guy Boyce- Stuart McKenzie (Free Theatre Inc.) :1984-1985 correspondence, Playmarket assessment of two plays 'The-rapist over Suzannah' and 'A letter from L'. - Maidment Arts Centre : 1984 Handbills for young writers & correspondence.- Selaelo...

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A collection of correspondence, a section of a script, handwritten notes, song lyrics and sheet music. The correspondence is between LC and Robin Maconie and regards the development of ‘Gold Fever: A Ballad Opera’. The piece of music is titled ‘The Canterbury Goldfield’. The correspondence is dated 2006-2007, which is the only indication of dates in the collection. The paper quality of other documents suggests a significantly older date.

Scope and Contents note Double-sided poster advertising a series of Wellington performances of the play Inside Out. The Front side includes a black & white image of a crouching man. Also includes the texts: 'Winners - Critics Award for Excellence, Adelaide Festival 1988. "Outstanding originality" London Daily Telegraph, "Stunning images" The Guardian. "The most inventive and entertaining theatre seen in Auckland this decade" NZ Herald. 18 August through September 1989 Bookings 849-639'. Also includes the logo...

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A collection of handwritten notes, email correspondence and two copies lyric book ‘Gold Fever: A Ballad Opera’, devised by LC with music by Robin Maconie. The correspondence is with Maconie and discusses the production of the aforementioned publication. The photocopied version of the publication is edited and annotated. All the documents are dated 2006-2007.

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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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A series of correspondence between LC and Graham McEwan of New House Publishers about the use of LC’s poem ‘Silent Generations’ in a play by Diane Bardsley. LC also uses the correspondence to propose his novel ‘A Secret Life’, which McEwan dismisses on the basis that New House Publishers exclusively caters to a secondary school market. The correspondence occurred between July 2996 and March 1998.

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Contains a series of correspondence between LC and Robin Maconie, along with an edited and annotated copy of the ‘Gold Fever: A Ballad Opera’ lyric book. The correspondence is primarily concerning the production of the publication, including meeting times and potential target markets. The documents are all dated 2006-2007.