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The Theatre Collection is a collection of some 4000 books and journals bequeathed to the Library in 1976 by Miss Angel Symon, with some later additions. It relates principally to British theatre of the late 19th to mid-20th century and has works on dance and significant collections of theatre programmes and illustrative material.
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Item Open Access Adelaide Album : Wirth Brother's Wild West Combined Shows(1891-04-17)Circus acts inluding trapeze, clowns, actrobats, trained animals, throwing hats and songs with hippodrome races and five scene wild west frontier life including Hunter's Cabin, picking an object from the ground, Emigrant Train, Cowboys illustrating hanging a Horse Thief and lassooingItem Open Access Item Open Access Item Open Access Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. 24 June 1939.(1939-06-24)Item Open Access Item Open Access "Aida" Grand Opera Company. September 24, 1928(1928-09-24)Theatre Royal, J. C. Williamson LTD and Dame Nellie Melba Grand Opera Season.Item Open Access Allan Wilkie in Australia : the work of a Shakespearean actor-manager(Please direct copyright enquiries to: Lisa Warrington, Senior lecturer, Theatre Studies, University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand. email: lisa.warrington@stonebow.otago.ac.nz, 2007-01-22T04:19:55Z) Warrington, Lisa J. V.This thesis discusses the work of Allan Wilkie (1878 - 1970), actor-manager, with particular reference to his efforts to maintain a permanent Shakespeare company in Australia during the 1920s. It concentrates on Wilkie's productions of Shakespeare's plays, giving details of stage business, settings, costumes and individual performances, and also discusses their reception by the public. In addition, Wilkie's work is compared with other attempts to stage Shakespeare in Australia in the years 1900 - 1931.Item Open Access American Hippodrome(1858-07-06)The Largest and most Celebrated Equestrian, Gymnastic, and Acrobatic Company that ever appeared in Melbourne; and the only one in the Colonies capable of producing Spectacular Pageants, which will be placed in the Ring in a style of Unexampled Splendour, with New and Gorgeous Costumes, Properties and Appointments. WONDER-INSPIRING FEATS NIGHTLY! Embracing Equestrian, Gymnastic and Acorbatic Display, in which all the great Riders and Acrobats of this Monster Company will appear.Item Open Access Andorra(1969)Andri was the illegitimate son of the teacher and the Senora from over the enemy border. The teacher was afraid to reveal his association with one of the enemy and said that Andri was a Jew whom he had saved from their persecution. Just as Andri had accepted hiself as a Jew, as one who was differenct [different] from the rest of the people of Andorra, it became necessary to tell him that he was if fact one of them - the son of the teacher. But Andri could not believe them now; he would not trust them. The people at any rate refused to believe it, not because they mistrusted the teacher's work, but because it was expedient to have Andri, the Jew. They needed a scapegoat as a cover for their own guilt.Item Open Access Angels in Love(1978-04-10)Fauntleroy is here a young man - married but, as might be expected, totally ingnorant of what is to be expected of him as a husband. Linked with the story of the desperate, but hesitant, attempts to explain the nature of things are numerous co-plots, including a variant of the classical farce situation, mistaken identity, and an attempt at poison sustained throughout the play, with just suffcient exaggeration to poke gentle fun without tipping the whole thing over into adsurdity.Item Open Access Item Open Access Auntie Mame(1959) Lawrence, Jerome; Lee, Robert E.Mame is an unconventional individualist socialite from the roaring 20's. When her brother dies, she is forced to raise her nephew Patrick. However, Patrick's father has designated an executor to his will to protect the boy from absorbing too much of Mame's rather unconventional perspective. Patrick and Mame become devoted to each other in spite of this restriction, and together journey through Patrick's childhood and the great depression, amidst some rather zaney adventures.Item Open Access The Bacchae(1977)"The Bacchae", Euripides last tragedy, is often described as his greatest work. In the play he focuses on Dionysiac myths and cult-worship in order to formulate a comment on the situation of the Antheian world he wrote for - a disillusioned world feeling the strain of a generation of war and attempts to organize public life according to the strict dictates of reason.Item Open Access Beauty and the beast(1954-12-27) Gray, Nicholas StuartNicholas Stuart Gray's version of the fairy-tale has an exhilarating freshness, and while it contains a great deal of light-hearted fun it also has serious and moving passages-and it is dramatic throughout. Its simplicity is of the best of its kind, that is, which is endearing to children and adults alike.Item Open Access Bela Siki. 29 November 1961.(1961-11-29)Item Open Access Blithe Spirit(1979-07-05)Blithe Spirit is essentially a light-hearted sophisticated comedy with overtones of farce, written in 1941 by the master of wit and sophistry, Noel Coward. After a seance, the now re-married Charles is confronted with the materialization of his previous wife, Elvira. He is the only one who can see or hear her. This, naturally, is too much for his present wife, Ruth. Is Madame Acarti to blame? Or are Doctor Bradman, Mrs. Bradman or Edith the cause? As can be imagined this produces the best conditions for a high class farce with co-plots within the plot.Item Open Access The Blood of Agamemnon Parts 1 and 2(1996-06-29) Croser, RobThree Greek tragedies in one night...adapted from Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Independent Theatre transports the audience to the House of Atreus on Argos, and delivers the tale of sacrifice, revenge and justice, over three generations...nothing less than good theatre.Item Open Access Item Open Access The Boy Friend(1956)Item Open Access Brecht on Brecht(1987-03-10)An anthology of the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in cabaret.