University of Canterbury Drama Society

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The University of Canterbury Drama Society (DramaSoc) is a student performing arts club at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

The Canterbury University College Drama Society began in 1921 under the leadership of Professor Sir James Shelley. It enjoyed a reputation as one of New Zealand's leading theatre groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Society was most notably active in the 1942-1969 era under Dame Ngaio Marsh, with critically acclaimed productions (especially of Shakespeare plays) and a 1949 theatre tour of Australia.

The Society was wound up sometime in the late 1980s due to financial difficulties but was resurrected by an ad hoc committee in October and November 1993, and restarted as a full student club in the beginning of 1994. Since 1994, it has had a regular and active membership numbering from dozens to hundreds (including both students and non-students as members), and has performed at least three productions each year. It is currently a significant presence in the small Christchurch theatre scene.

Its traditional home is the Ngaio Marsh Theatre at the University of Canterbury Students' Association, but as well as there the society regularly performs in the Association's Upper Common Room (also known as "Cloud 9"), most notably for its annual festival of student-authored one-act plays called 3some. The Society has also performed in outdoor theatre settings on campus, the University Theatre in the Christchurch Arts Centre, and in roving street theatre events.


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[edit] Productions

Here follows a partial list of productions staged by the society, from most to least recent, with authors and directors, if known:

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[edit] 2004

[edit] 2003

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[edit] 2001

[edit] 2000

[edit] 1999

[edit] 1998

  • Ophelia Thinks Harder - Jean Betts and William Shakespeare (dir. Melanie Camp)
  • Daughters of Heaven - Michelanne Forster (dir. Louisa James & Stephen Brinkhurst)
  • The Hangman - Joseph Musaphia (dir. Natasha Gunn)

[edit] 1997

[edit] 1996

  • Seedgrown - Sarah Axcel
  • High on Play - Chris Girdler (dir. Chris Girdler)
  • Antigone - Sophocles (dir. Lucette Hindin)
  • An Echo Of My Trance - Simon Gibson

[edit] 1995

  • Badjelly the Witch - Spike Milligan (dir. Lucette Hindin & Andrew Johnson)
  • Ngaio's Will - Various authors (dir. various)

[edit] 1994

[edit] 1993

[edit] 1969-1991

  • Unknown

[edit] 1969

[edit] 1967

[edit] 1964

[edit] 1963

[edit] 1962

[edit] 1959

[edit] 1958

[edit] 1957

[edit] 1956

[edit] 1953

[edit] 1952

[edit] 1951

  • The Rose without a Thorn - Clifforn Bax
  • Kate Kennedy - Gordon Bottomly

[edit] 1950

[edit] 1949

[edit] Australian Tour

Performed at the Conservatorium of Music, Sydney, Albert Hall, Canberra, and Union Theatre, Melbourne University

[edit] 1948

[edit] 1947

[edit] 1946

[edit] 1945

[edit] 1944

[edit] 1943

  • Golden Boy - Clifford Odet
  • Mirror to Elizabeth - T. C. Morris
  • Ceeso - Lord Dunsany
  • The Flaw - Cyril Roberts
  • Fumed oak - Noel Coward
  • Where's That Bomb? - Two London Busdrivers
  • Sanseneise Impromptu - Bob Gormack
  • Clay - Eric Bradwell

[edit] 1942

[edit] 1941

[edit] 1940

  • Ali the Cobbler - Martin Shepherd
  • Veiled Menace - Ella Adkins
  • Fancy Free - Stanley Houghton
  • Denouement - Leonard J. Hines
  • Two Gentlemen of Soho - A. P. Hebert
  • Quality Street - J. M. Barrie
  • The Man in Half-Moon Street - Barre Lyndon
  • The Dear Departed - Stanley Houghton
  • Anti-clocwise - Muriel & Sydney Box
  • The Stepmother - Arnold Bennett
  • The Young Idea - Noel Coward

[edit] 1939

[edit] 1938

[edit] 1937

[edit] 1936

[edit] 1935

[edit] 1934

[edit] 1933

[edit] 1932

[edit] 1930

  • Woman's Honour - Susan Glaspell
  • Hallmarked - John Galsworthy
  • Lonesome-Like - Harold Brighouse
  • For Love of Appin - Alan Mulgan
  • The Man on the Kerb - Alfred Sutro
  • The House With the Twisty Windows - Mary Pakington

[edit] 1929

[edit] 1928

[edit] 1927

[edit] 1926

[edit] 1923

[edit] 1922

[edit] 1921

  • The Two Mr Wetherbys - St John Hankin - the first play of The Canterbury College Drama Society

[edit] External links

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