Ngaio Marsh Her Life in Crime by Joanne Drayton Page A

with her father Henry Marsh, still playing tennis on his 80th birthday in May 1943. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)
    Cast members from Othello (right to left): Dundas Walker, Barbara Reay, Paul Molineaux (Othello), Ngaio, (unknown woman), and Jack Henderson (Iago). ATL, PA1-q-173-73-2
    Ngaio Marsh’s first proper meeting with Agatha Christie at a Crime Writers’ Association ‘prize winners party’ at the Savoy, London, 1962. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)
    Ngaio as guest of honour at the ‘Marsh Millions’ party given by Collins and Penguin, with author and critic, Ivor Brown (left), and William Collins (right), London, 1949. St Margaret’s College (SMC1-4e)
    Ngaio Marsh with George Baker in the role of Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn on the set of Vintage Murder, 1977 ATL , PAColl-0957-01
    Set designed by Tom Taylor for Julius Caesar produced in the Great Hall of Canterbury University College, Christchurch, 1953. Collection of Annette Facer
    A quiet moment for Ngaio while directing. Collection of Annette Facer
    Ngaio and Gerald Lascelles in rehearsals for the inaugural production of Twelfth Night at the Ngaio Marsh Theatre, Christchurch, 1967. Collection of Annette Facer
    David Hindin (Earl of Kent) and Annette Facer (Cordelia) in King Lear, 1956. Collection of Annette Facer
    Ngaio directing King Lear, with Annette Facer, David Hindin, and Mervyn Glue (Lear) in the background. Collection of Annette Facer
    Jonathan Elsom in Sweet Mr Shakespeare, 1975. He also wore this costume as Chorus in Henry V, 1972. Collection of Jonathan Elsom
    Elric Hooper as the Fool in King Lear, 1956. ATL, PA Coll-0285-1-042
    Ngaio, 15 April 1936. atl, ½-046800-f
    Sylvia Fox, c. 1930. Collection of Richard and Ginx Fox
    Ngaio in the 1940s, atl, ½-144512-f
    Dame Ngaio Marsh, Buckingham Palace, 1966. St Margaret’s College (SMC 1-4e)

Play Productions
    1913 Sep The Moon Princess by Ngaio Marsh, and directed by Helen Burton, at the St Michael’s School Hall, Christchurch
    1922 Little Housebound by Ngaio Marsh. Toured to Hastings and Havelock North (performed in Christchurch in 1924 and 1931)
    1923 Sep Belinda by A.A. Milne, and The Little Stone House by George Calderon at Coral Hall
    1924 Oct Bluebell in Fairyland by Seymour Hicks for Unlimited Charities at Theatre Royal
    1924 Oct Little Housebound by Ngaio Marsh for Wauchop School of Drama at the Caledonian Hall
    1925 Jul The Sleeping Beauty for Unlimited Charities at Theatre Royal
    1935 Oct Exit Sir Derek by Ngaio Marsh and Henry Jellett for Canterbury University College Drama Society (CUCDS) at the Little Theatre
    1938 Sep A Man’s House by John Drinkwater for Dunedin Repertory at His Majesty’s Theatre in Dunedin and in Christchurch at Radiant Hall
    1938 Nov The Late Christopher Bean by Emlyn Williams for Dunedin Repertory at His Majesty’s Theatre in Dunedin
    1939 Mar The Anatomist by James Bridie for Dunedin Repertory at His Majesty’s Theatre in Dunedin
    1940 Aug The Last Hour by Charles Bennett for Ashburton Repertory at Radiant Hall
    1941 Jul Outward Bound by Sutton Vane for CUCDS at Little Theatre
    1941 Nov The Soul of Nicholas Snyders by Jerome K. Jerome for Ashburton Repertory at Radiant Hall
    1942 Blithe Spirit by Noël Coward for Canterbury Repertory at Radiant Hall (Aug) and Wellington Repertory Theatre Society, Wellington (Dec)
    1943 The Corn is Green by Emlyn Williams for Wellington Repertory, Wellington
    1943 Aug Hamlet by Shakespeare for CUCDS at Little Theatre
    1943 Nov Hamlet by Shakespeare for CUCDS at Little Theatre
    1944 Jul Othello by Shakespeare for CUCDS at Little Theatre
    1944 Oct Distant Point by Alexander Afinogenev for Canterbury Repertory at Radiant Hall
    1944-1945 Hamlet and Othello toured by Dan O’Connor
1944 Dec His Majesty’s Theatre, Dunedin
    1945 Jan Town Hall Concert Chamber, Auckland
    1945 Jan Town Hall, Wellington
    1945 Feb Radiant Hall, Christchurch
    1945 Jul A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare for CUCDS at Radiant