Preparations

Written by Paul Goetzee, contains script with stage management directions, cues, lighting directions; performance list, newspaper reviews, press releases and promotional material; 8 black and white show photographs; "Dear Red Ladder, have a good tour" message; correspondence with Paul Coetzee re royalties.

In a dual storyline the piece looked at a local council Civil Defence committee as they discuss plans for the nuclear armageddon (comedy/satire) and in the other a teenage girl is admitted to a psychiatric clinic suffering from a morbid fear of nuclear annihilation (psychological). The two overlap in a major geopolitical concern that was current in the early 1980s.