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24 June - 1 October 2006
2nd floor, Central City Library, 44-46 Lorne street
Take a slice each of melodrama, vaudeville, comedy and tragedy, traditional, contemporary, musical, opera and dance, then throw in touring shows such as the Rolling Stones. Sound tasty? Auckland On-Stage presents ‘something for everyone’.
Treasures on show are from Auckland City Libraries’ extensive performing arts archives, held in Special Collections on the Heritage Floor.
Diverse in content, the exhibition includes early Auckland play bills printed on fragile silk, photographs of productions, programmes such as Colin McCahon’s design for Sargeson’s play Cradle and the Egg and Maurice Shadbolt’s original script for A Tale of Chunuk Bair. There is even the script for the first episode of Shortland Street and from the amazing Phil Warren Archive, a list of drinks requested back stage by the Rolling Stones during their 1973 Western Springs performance.
Mercury, Auckland’s longest running professional theatre is featured with fabulous images of productions as well as examples of working papers. Also highlighted are Central Theatre, Theatre Corporate, Watershed, Perkel Opera Company, Limbs Dance Company, Douglas Wright and Benny Levin. The list is long and the faces familiar.
The richness of the archive and the many stories waiting to be told tantalise and inspire further research.
View exhibition list (pdf)
Exhibition hours
Monday to Friday: 9.30am to 5pm
Saturday: 10am to 4pm
Sunday: noon to 4pm
For more information see our Performing arts collections |
