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Records of the Australian National Playwrights Conference, 1972-2006 [manuscript]
Bib ID 1093433
Format ManuscriptManuscript
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Australian National Playwrights Conference
 
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Description [1972-2006] 
approximately 35.80 m. (189 boxes) + 17 cartons + 1 fol. box + 1 map folio + 2 poster tubes. 
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).

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.

Notes

Manuscript reference no.: MS 5062, MS Acc98.204, MS Acc07.002.

Related Material Proceedings of the conferences held in 1974, 1976, 1981 and 1987 are held in the; National Library of Australia Oral History collection. 
Cited In

Guide to collections of manuscripts relating to Australia ; C1178.

Index/Finding Aid Note Finding aid available in the Manuscript Reading Room and on the Internet at: http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/5062.html 
Subjects Australian National Playwrights Conference - Archives.  |  Australian drama - Congresses - Archives.  |  Australian drama - 20th century - History and criticism.  |  Dramatists, Australian - 20th century.  |  Playwriting.  |  Drama - Technique.
Occupation Dramatists.

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