Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Unity Theatre, Wellington

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'''Unity Theatre''' was a theatre company in [[Wellington]], [[New Zealand]] founded in 1942 that ran until around 1979.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> It pre-dated professional theatre in New Zealand, which started in the mid 1970's.

Different to other theatre societies in the 1940's Unity's objective was to bring social, moral and political issues to audiences.<ref></ref> The early committee was lead from 1942 until 1949 by Robert Stead, he was a member of the Communist Party and a carpenter and he also had worked with the London Unity Theatre before he came to New Zealand in 1939.<ref> NZETC|last=|first=|date=|website=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection|publisher=Victoria University of Wellington Library|url-status=live|archive-url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BarPopu-t1-body-d9-d3-d4.html|archive-date=30/04/2020|access-date=2020-04-30}}</ref>

Notable members of Unity Theatre include [[Nola Leigh Millar|Nola Millar]]<ref name=":0">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> who opened up the focus of the company beyond politics.<ref name=":1">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>

Over the years Unity Theatre had an ongoing search to have a suitable location for their plays to be staged, and presented works at many places in Wellington, including the building 1 Kent Terrace, which is now home to [[BATS Theatre]].<ref name=":0" /> Many of the company members from Unity were part of forming both [[Downstage Theatre]] and [[Circa Theatre]] in the mid 1970's and earlier also part of the beginning of the [[Toi Whakaari|Toi Whakaari: The New Zealand Drama School]] (called the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council New Zealand Drama Training School when it started in 1970).<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== References ==




[[Category:Theatre companies in New Zealand]]



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