Downstage Upfront
Subtitle: A 40th Anniversary "Biography" of New Zealand's Longest Running Professional Theatre
Publisher: Victoria University Press
Published: April 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780864734891
Subjects: History - General History; History; History: World; Australia & New Zealand - General; Australian & Oceanian; History / Australia & Oceania
Description: In its first 40 years, from conception to maturity, through stages of growth both painful and pleasurable, Downstage - New Zealand's first and longest running regional professional theatre company - has lived an extraordinary life. This large and lavishly illustrated 'biography' is published to celebrate Downstage's birthday. It covers all the drama and larger-than-life personalities that have characterised Downstage's life, and the many great productions such as Colin McColl's internationally acclaimed relocation of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler to Karori. A major contribution to New Zealand's cultural history.