| Summary |
MS 5062 comprises playscripts, readers' reports, correspondence, minutes of meetings, subject files, funding applications, notes, press cuttings, photographs and printed material. The subject files include records relating to the Austral-Asian Playwright Conference, 1992, Belvoir Street Theatre, 1987, Conference of Australian Professional Performing Arts Ltd., 1985-1986, Music Board, 1983-1987, Music Theatre, 1986-1987, Salamanca Theatre Company, 1988, Sydney Writers Festival Committee, 1992, Sydney Theatre Company, 1988-1989, and Young Playwrights Weekend, 1993 (95 boxes, 1 fol. box, 1 map folio).
The Acc98.204 instalment comprises minutes, correspondence, scripts, financial records, files on events, posters, readers' reports, plays by young Aboriginal playwrights, brochures, scrapbooks, files on other organisations, publicity and advertising (2 boxes, 17 cartons, 2 poster tubes).
The Acc07.002 instalment comprises board papers, including agenda, annual reports, funding applications and acquittals, newsletter, membership records, script assessments, conference programs and flyers, administration files, conference administration files, conference scripts, financial and audit papers, personnel files, correspondence, media files, photographs, Young Playwrights, publications, special project files, Hotshot, audio-visual material, conference papers, posters and exhibition material (92 boxes).
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| Biography/History |
The Australian National Playwrights Conference was established in 1972 as the peak body in play development for Australian theatre. The Conference aimed to promote and develop script writing by Australian writers, to produce such plays by professional companies, to offer critical and practical theatrical assistance to playwrights and rehearsed readings of selected play scripts. Following the first conference in 1973, when Alan Seymour was a special guest, conferences were held annually. They brought together playwrights, actors, dramaturges, directors, administrators and theatre critics. The 33rd, and final conference, was held in Perth in 2006, and the Conference ceased operating on 30 November 2006.
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