Story: Actors and acting

More links and websites

• New Zealand Actors Equity

  The industrial and professional organisation for New Zealand actors and performers.

• Theatreview: The New Zealand Performing Arts Review & Directory

  A directory and review of New Zealand performing arts.

• Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School

  New Zealand’s national drama school, in Wellington.

More suggestions and sources

• Downes, Peter. The Pollards: a family and its child and adult opera companies in New Zealand & Australia 1880–1910. Wellington: Steele Roberts, 2002.

• Downes, Peter. Shadows on the stage. Dunedin: J. McIndoe, 1975.

• Guest, Bill. Transitions: four decades of Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Wellington: Victoria University Press; Toi Whakaari, New Zealand Drama School, 2010.

• Harcourt, Peter. A dramatic appearance: New Zealand theatre 1920–1970. Wellington: Methuen, 1978.

• Mason, Bruce. Every kind of weather. Auckland: Reed Methuen, 1986.

• Smythe, John. Downstage upfront: the first 40 years of New Zealand’s longest-running professional theatre. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2004.