Canterbury Regional Theatre
Sir,—lt was pleasing to learn from John Kim’s reported remarks from London that there still existed a pious hope that New Zealanders would predominate in our first “indigenous” theatre company. Should this hope be realised there would be seven Kiwis in a company of 12, so that Mr Kim is auditioning 60 English, 90 American and an unstated number of Australian actors for five positions in the company. It is surely essential that Kiwis predominate in the company, or how shall we cast the great New Zealand play when it comes to be written? I had thought one of the major aims of the provincial companies was the encouragement of native drama. How would “The Summer of the Seventeenth Doil” have fared with a company of Americans and Englishmen trying to interpret the essentially Australian characters created by Ray Lawlor?—Yours, etc., P. DAWSON. April 8, 1967.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31340, 10 April 1967, Page 12
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