Dynamic Approach

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 14

Dynamic Approach

In a constantly changing world, the theatre of today needs a dynamic approach to acting and production if it is to flourish, says the New Zealand Drama Council in a brochure advertising its seventeenth residential summer school, to be held at Rathkeale College, Masterton, next January. “Theatre today” will be the school’s theme. AH plays to be studied will be contemporary. Students will work on the preparation, rehearsal and presentation of scenes and the course will also include creative work in movement and mime. The tutors will include Miss Nola Millar of Wellington who has directed the last two summer schools: Alan Wilson, full-time staff tutor

to the Drama Council, who has had wide experience in the English theatre, both as actor and producer: Alan de Mahnanche of Christchurch, the leader of the 1965 New Zealand Players Drama Quartet: Mrs Rona Bailey of Wellington, one of the Dominion's foremost tutors in movement: and Mrs Rosemarie Wilson who has followed a career on the English stage as well as in radio and television.

The visiting tutors will be John Roberts, of the Victoria University of Wellington, who will lecture on contemporary drama and Dennis Garrett, lecturer-in-charge of the Department of University Extension, Palmerston North, who has been invited to lecture on stage lighting.