Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol. 40 Number 4. March 21 1977

Your Drama Society Needs You!

Your Drama Society Needs You!

Theatre, it is said, flourishes in adversity (not to say university) and this perhaps explains the strange paradox that university drama societies everywhere are often either extremely good or quite moribund, or more usually both things in regular succession.

This year Drama Soc. is reviving, and with a little effort from a lot of people it could once again come to be an important force on the Wellington scene, as indeed it ought to be! This will happen easily if all the considerable resource of the University can come together and work in harmony.

In fact it's amazing how many of the things necessary for a successful theatre group are already here—a good-sized, well equipped and well-run (not to mention over-booded) theatre, a number of staff members experienced and active in theatres downtown, a group of about fifty students working intensively in drama as part of their academic careers, and, most important of all, a large body of presumably young, enthusiastic, vital and intelligent students who must always form the heart of any university theatre society.

So far, plans for this year include possible productions of Dr Faustus and A Midsummer Night's Dream. If you are interested in the reestablishment of Drama Soc and want to be a part of either of these two productions, or if you have any ideas of your own you want to try out, then come along to the AGM in the Student Union Lounge at 7.00 on Thursday 24th March and lend your support. The potential is here let's make it happen!

—Michael de Hamel

—Michael de Hamel