NEW REPERTORY PRODUCER

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29278, 9 August 1960, Page 19

NEW REPERTORY PRODUCER

Wide Experience In England

Mr Heath Joyce, who will be the Canterbury Repertory Society’s producer for 1961 and 1962, has had 30 years' continuous professional experience in all branches of the English theatre. He has been actor, producer, writer, and is probably the last Pageant Master in England.

Withir a year of beginning his stage career, he was playing a second male lead in the West End, and since then he has played and produced at the Bristol Old Vic and in the major cities of the United Kingdom. Mr Joyce’s productions have ranged from spectacle in the Stroll Theatre, and guest-produc-tions of Shakespeare and Restoration comedy for special repertory

companies, to modern plays for experimental groups such as the Glasgow Citizens’ Theatre. Writing his own material he produced revues at the Prince of Wales, the Coliseum and Drury Lane as well as in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Mr Joyce has also been responsible for 23 pantomime productions in London and the provinces.

More recently he produced jevues, pantomime, and drama in Australia, and did radio and television work there. In Auckland, Mr Joyce wrote and produced a series of revues “Tonight At 8” and toe touring production of “Round the Bend.” Mr Joyce, who will arrive in Christchurch early next year, has a two-year contract to produce five plays a year.