Actor Lydia Miller, Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, 1988 / photograph, Robert McFarlane
- Bib ID:
- 7087397
- Format:
- Picture
- Author:
- McFarlane, Robert, 1942-, photographer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Description:
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- 1988
- 1 photograph : black and white ; image 30.4 x 20.3 cm, on sheet 41.8 x 29.6 cm
- Biography/History:
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The National Black Theatre or Black Theatre (Sydney) was a theatre group formed by Paul Coe, Lester Bostock, Gary Foley and Jenny Sheehan. The group invited Bob Maza from Melbourne to join them and started to write plays with an Aboriginal perspective. In 1974 the National Black Theatre secured government funding and opened an Art and Cultural Centre in a warehouse in Botany Street, Redfern. In 1977 the Centre closed due to lack of funding but the National Black Theatre continued to influence and inform other Indigenous theatrical initiatives. In 1987 the First National Black Playwrights' Conference was held under the artistic directorship of Brian Syron, thanks to a push from people like Chicka Dixon, Gary Foley and Rhoda Roberts. Out of this came the Aboriginal National Theatre Trust (ANTT), established in Sydney in 1988."--Dictionary of Sydney and Wikipedia web sites.
- Notes:
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- Title devised by cataloguer based on inscription.
- Inscriptions: ""Lydia Miller", Black Theatre, Belvoir St, 1988"--In pencil of reverse; "Photograph Robert McFarlane"--In pencil of reverse; "Hahnemuhle pigment print"In pencil of reverse.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-276818413
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- Purchased from the photographer, 2015.
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- Creation date:
- 1988
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