Martin Deeley, internationally recognized dog trainer, writer, and commentator inducted into the International Association of Canine Professionals Hall of Fame. Many of Australia’s creative interpretations of the outback over the last two centuries have reflected a mostly immigrant people’s interpretation of a landscape. Below is a list of all references used in the 2012 IUCN Red List assessment of Birds. This list includes the most recent references used in the 2012 assessment as. Highlights in Australian theatre history. European settlers brought Western traditions of theatre to Australia in the 1. Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and developed over time, shaped by local and international artistic movements, events and trends. Australian theatre history incorporates the stories of many actors, entrepreneurs, playwrights, directors and others, working behind the scenes and on stage, across many cities and towns. Countless performances have entertained, enchanted, bored, captivated and confronted Australian audiences. There have been amateur and professional groups, local performers and artists visiting from other countries, lavish large- scale productions and small community- based shows featuring plays and performances written by Australians and imported from other countries. Focusing mostly on professional theatre in Australia's capital cities, here are a few highlights. Establishing theatre - the early years 1. Princess Theatre, Melbourne c. Image courtesy of the National Library of Australia: an. Dad and Dave from Snake Gully was a long running Australian radio drama series based on the stories of Steele Rudd. The show was enormously popular and only ended. Australian Film Posters. Part 1 - Australian Feature Films. Compiled by Michael Organ. 1 - Listing 1906-1970 Dad and Dave Come to Town is a 1938 Australian comedy film directed by Ken G. Hall, the third in the 'Dad and Dave' comedy series starring Bert Bailey. European settlers brought Western traditions of theatre to Australia in the 1780s. Like other art forms, Australian theatre has built on previous traditions and. Early colonial drama consisted mostly of English- style musical theatre, comedies and pantomimes that took on local themes. The disordered fun of the theatre at this time did not match the idea of Australia as a penal colony, a place of punishment for convicts. Some authorities believed theatre to be a bad influence, others felt it was useful entertainment and these views affected the way theatre developed here. The authorities struggled with issues such as badly- behaved theatre audiences, theatre licences and crime. Meanwhile, a few people set up theatres and presented performances, with varying, and then growing, success. As part of the June celebrations of King George III's birthday in 1. George Farquhar's comedy, The Recruiting Officer, in Sydney. Governor Phillip attended the play with around sixty other people including Captain Watkin Tench, who recorded the occasion in his journal. Robert Sidway established a theatre in Sydney where performances continued until at least 1. Barnett Levy established Sydney's Theatre Royal in 1. Adelaide's Theatre Royal, the first in that city, opened in the same year as Sydney's Royal Victoria Theatre, in 1. The Pavilion, Melbourne's first theatre, opened in 1. George Coppin arrived in Australia in 1. Sydney stage in the plays The Performer and The Loan of a Lover. Golden years 1. 85. The gold rushes of the 1. AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY FROM NFSA. 12 Episodes (approx 12 mins each) Total 147 mins on 2 CDs. DAD AND DAVE FROM SNAKE GULLY first went to air in 1937. Books on New South Wales Australian locations, local history regional history Australian society culture travel, localities, topography. Secondhand out-of-print. Australian internet bookshop. There was a growing demand for theatre entertainment, and Shakespeare and opera performances increased. Touring companies such as the New York Serenaders (1. Backus Minstrels (1. Australia from California. George Coppin brought actor G V Brooke to Australia in 1. The Wizard Jacobs, sparking a stream of visits by English and American magicians over decades to follow. The Lyster Opera Company came to Australia in 1. Most touring minstrels now came from Britain. Actors Barry Sullivan, Charles and Ellen Kean and Walter Montgomery toured Australia. Walter Cooper's comedy, Colonial Experience, premiered at Sydney's Royal Victoria Theatre in July 1. Cooper's play was acclaimed at the time by the Sydney Morning Herald as 'the most successful colonial play produced on the Sydney boards.'1. In the 1. 87. 0s, entrepreneur W S Lyster added Italian and English opera, and a variety of other acts, to his touring program. Visiting stars included Harry Rickards, JC Williamson, Maggie Moore and Adelaide Ristori. Improvements to transport brought more American companies to Australia, such as the Georgia Minstrels in 1. These were the heydays of Australian star Nellie Stewart. Alfred Dampier presented Sydney audiences with plays such as His Natural Life in 1. The Life and Death of Captain Cook in 1. Janet Achurch, on tour from England, performed Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1. Many major theatres were built during the 1. The Princess and The Alexandra in Melbourne, Her Majesty's and the Criterion in Sydney, and the Theatre Royal and Her Majesty's in Brisbane. The international star Sarah Bernhardt toured Australia in 1. American touring ensembles brought vaudeville- style theatre to Australia. In 1. 89. 3 Harry Rickards founded Sydney's Tivoli Theatre and the Tivoli vaudeville circuit. Shifting concerns 1. Early 1. 90. 0s. Nance O'Neill starred in a Melbourne production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabbler in 1. Australian Federation in 1. Australian identity. The Squatter's Daughter, or, The Land of the Wattle (1. Bert Bailey and Edmund Duggan was a highly successful play of this time with a bushranger plot. Theatre continued to take up Australian themes. Steele Rudd's landmark play, On Our Selection, and Louis Esson's play, The Time Is Not Yet Ripe, were highlights of 1. Through the world of characters Dad, Mum, Dave, Joe and Sarah Rudd, the comic melodrama, On Our Selection, took a look at success, struggle and work in the lives of ordinary Australians. Director Bert Bailey also played the role of Dad in this runaway success, which played to over one million Australians and New Zealanders between 1. It is still performed by Australian theatre companies to this day. During this period vaudeville continued on but fewer actors and travelling troupes could be imported due to World War I. Shows now rested on local performers such as Stiffy and Mo (Nat Phillips and Roy Rene). This duo starred in the highly successful Australian pantomime, The Bunyip (1. Musical comedy was popular in America at this time and Australia followed suit. Gladys Moncrieff starred in The Maid of The Mountains in 1. Alfred Frith, Cecil Kellaway, Dorothy Brunton and Minnie Love were among other Australian musical theatre performers of this period. Following the 1. 92. Great Depression hit the Australian theatre world very hard. Live shows were taxed and had to compete with cinema and radio entertainment. However, many amateur, semi- professional and smaller theatre groups began springing up at this time. In 1. 93. 4 J C Williamson staged the spectacular musical White Horse Inn. In contrast, the international New Theatre movement was responding to political issues with radical theatre. Groups such as Sydney's New Theatre League (formed in 1. Melbourne's New Theatre Club and Brisbane's Unity Theatre (both formed in 1. This movement was active for many decades to come and involved writers such as Betty Roland, Katharine Susannah Pritchard and Oriel Gray. World War II brought home many Australian performers who had been away in Europe and other continents, while many international performers waited out the war years on Australia's shores. Despite a shortage of male actors, materials and scripts for productions, Australian theatre fulfilled an important role providing morale- boosting entertainment. New American musicals included Annie Get your Gun , which played in Melbourne and Sydney from 1. Evie Hayes. New foundations 1. The Festival of Perth was established in 1. The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust was founded in the following year. In 1. 95. 5, the plays Rusty Bugles by Sumner Locke Elliott and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll by Ray Lawler marked a turning point in Australian theatre. After its premiere with the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the University of Melbourne's Union Theatre, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll quickly gained acclaim and popularity for its uniquely Australian voice and universal themes. Australian bush legends and city life came to the stage with laughter and sadness through the memorable characters of cane- cutters Roo and Barney, and the women in their lives Olive, Pearl, Nancy and Emma. John Sumner directed a cast including Malcolm Billings, Carmel Dunn, Noel Ferrier, June Jago and Fenella Maguire. Summer of the Seventeenth Doll won a national play competition run by the Playwrights Advisory Board in 1. London, the Evening Standard Award for the best play of 1. Lawler later wrote Other Times and Kid Stakes, creating The Doll Trilogy. The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) was established in Sydney in 1. Performance of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, 1. Image courtesy of the National Archives of Australia: A1. CU2. 26/2. 1. 96. The biennial Adelaide Festival of Arts was founded in 1. Brisbane's first Warana Festival was held in 1. Betty Burstall founded Melbourne's La Mama theatre company in 1. In 1. 96. 8, the Australian government established The Australian Council for the Arts (later renamed The Australia Council). The Australia Council has helped to nourish Australian theatre by establishing major state theatre companies and providing arts funding. Australia's new wave of theatre began in the 1. In 1. 97. 0, the Australian Performing Group (based at the Pram Factory in Carlton, Melbourne) developed as an offspring of the La Mama theatre company. With writers such as David Williamson, Barry Oakley, and Jack Hibberd, this collective brought many new and significant Australian plays to the stage. Actors associated with the Pram Factory included Graeme Blundell, Lindy Davies and Max Gillies. In Sydney, Nimrod Theatre (now known as the Belvoir Street Theatre) was also founded in 1. Belvoir Street Theatre, home of the theatre company, Company B. With leadership from John Bell, Richard Wherrett and Ken Horler, Nimrod presented work of Australian playwrights including Alex Buzo, Alma de Groen, Nick Enright, Peter Kenna, Jim Mc. Neil, David Williamson, and Stephen Sewell. Nimrod players also performed Shakespeare and other classics in new and sometimes cheeky ways. In 1. 97. 3, Australia's landmark Sydney Opera House opened. The Adelaide Festival Theatre opened in 1. The Victorian College of the Arts was established in 1. The following year Louis Nowra's acclaimed first work, Inner Voices, was presented at Sydney's Nimrod Theatre and the first Festival of Sydney took place. In 1. 97. 9, Australia's first Theatre of the Deaf was established. A number of experimental women's theatre groups emerged in the 1. Melbourne's Home Cooking Theatre Company (1. Adelaide's Vital Statistix (1.
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