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Kōrero: Women’s movement

Women's theatre

Women's theatre

The Cure-All Ills All Star Travelling Women’s Medicine Show toured New Zealand in 1975. Playing at professional theatres, conferences and feminist gatherings, the troupe proved that when it came to theatre, women could do everything: write, direct, act, design, and produce the lighting, sound and set.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1975/4959

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Megan Cook, Women’s movement – Arts and spirituality, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/27923/womens-theatre (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Megan Cook, i tāngia i te 7 April 2011.