Records [manuscript]. 1976-1982.

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Records [manuscript]. 1976-1982.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225842558

The collection comprises numerous photographs of Australian actors, actresses and playwrights, and of recent stage productions, as well as the magazine's own records, consisting or reports and business correspondence. There is also valuable correspondence with Australian actors, actresses, critics, playwrights, producers and directors like Alex Buzo, Kern Brodziak, Bob Ellis, Nick Enright, Dorothy Hewett, Jack Hibberd and Ken Horler. A substantial amount of material submitted for publication in the magazine (but never used) is also included. There are as well many brochures, prospectuses, programmes and handbills relating to recent Australian theatre. As a whole these records offer excellent "documentation on subsidized theatre in Australia and, on another level, of subsidized publishing - the magazine itself"

11.62 m. (83 boxes containing 518 folders), 11 folio items.

Libraries Australia

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SNAC Resource ID: 7076701

Libraries Australia

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Enright, Nicholas, 1950-

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Director, actor, scriptwriter, playwright. Variations was awarded the NSW Premier's Award in 1982. From the description of Nicholas Enright manuscript collection. 1983- (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 220460088 ...

Horler, Ken, 1938-

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Hibberd, Jack, 1940-....

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Playwright, poet and novelist. Practised as a doctor in Melbourne until 1973. Plays include "A sketch of the imagination" (1973) and "Dimboola" (1974). From the description of Papers of Jack Hibberd, 1965-2000 [manuscript]. 1965-2000. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225636432 Playwright and novelist. A key figure in the Australian Performing Group, which was based at the Pram Factory, Carlton, Victoria. From the description of Papers [manuscript]. 1967...

Ellis, Bob

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Scriptwriters for film, theatre and television. From the description of [Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank manuscript collection]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 220460191 ...

Brodziak, Kern

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Theatre Australia.

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The records of the magazine "Theatre Australia", launched in 1976, provide a valuable insight into the diversity of Australian theatrical activity and theatre journalism between 1976 and the magazine's demise in 1982, when the Australia Council withdrew funding for it. From the description of Records [manuscript]. 1976-1982. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225842558 ...

Buzo, Alexander, 1944-2006

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Alex Buzo is one of Australia's leading playwrights. When it was performed in Queensland in 1968, Buzo's first major production, Norm and Ahmed, came to national attention as a result of a prosecution for obscenity. The case reached the High Court of Australia, where it was dismissed. Since the early 1970s, Buzo has written many plays including The front room boys and Rooted (1969), Macquarie (1972), Coralie Lansdowne says no (1974), Martello Towers (1976), Makassar Reef and Big Riv...

Hewett, Dorothy

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Julian Wrigley graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1992. He produced this book as his final assessment for his degree. From the description of Alice in wormland [manuscript] : selected poems / by Dorothy Hewett ; photography by Julian Wrigley. 1992. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225847376 Perth-born writer. Married to the poet, Mervyn Lilley. Graduated from the University of Western Australia where she taught English literature for 9 years. Now...