NEED FOR A SMALL THEATRE
To The Editor Sir,—lt is both exciting and refreshing to read of the proposed art gallery and museum for Southland. Can we not, however, go one further and add a fully equipped small theatre? The repertory people need it badly, and we have no suitable concert chamber in Invercargill at the moment. Given proper seating, acoustics, and atmosphere such a little building would give the repertory players a chance to develop in their proper environment; musical societies would be stimulated; and the building would also be an excellent one for lectures, repertory films, and so on. We have the money in the. community. Adult education is vigorously tackled in other countries. Can we not expand the present proposal into something bigger and deeper? We tend to be rather isolated and “left” down here. Can we not envisage a “cultural centre” in which all cultural activities .will be co-ordinated and vigorously stimulated? Possessing such a creative and virile artistic life, we should then have no fear of being “left out in the cold” by, for instance, such companies as the Russian Ballet. —Yours, etc., SAILOR April 21, 1937.
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Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 12
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192NEED FOR A SMALL THEATRE Southland Times, Issue 23180, 22 April 1937, Page 12
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