Dreamers and visionaries : Adelaide's little theatres from the 1920s to the early 1940s / Thelma Afford ; additional research by Kerrie Round
- Bib ID:
- 3167363
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Afford, Thelma, 1908-1996
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Description:
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- Sydney : Currency Press, 2004
- xvi, 240 p. : ill., ports ; 22 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0868197505
- Summary:
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Tells the story of Adelaide's diverse amateur theatres that existed from the 1920s to the 1940s when there was a flowering of inventive, experimental, creative theatre ahead of its time and which helped form the basis of Adelaide's reputation as the city of culture.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Chapter 1 THE TRADITIONAL LITTLE THEATRE 77
- Adelaide Repertory Theatre: 1908- 77
- Chapter 2 THE MOST EXPERIMENTAL LITTLE THEATRE 45
- Ab Intra Studio: 1931-1935 45
- Chapter 3 LITTLE THEATRES, DIVERSE INSPIRATION 73
- Patricia Hackett and the Torch Theatre: 1934-35
- 1952-55 73
- Brenda Kekwick and the Junior Theatre: 1934-36
- 87
- Heather Gell and the Heritage Centenary
- Production: 1936 94
- Chapter 4 SHORT-LIVED LITTLE THEATRES 99
- Esmond George and the People's Theatre:
- 1936-37 99
- The Tree Players: 1937-early 1940s 701
- Lloyd Prider and the Playbox Theatre:
- 1932-46 7o8
- Marion Sauer and the Marion Sauer Players / The
- United Players: 1938-47 77
- The United Players: 1940 79
- Chapter 5 THEATRE GROUPS WITH INDIVIDUAL FUNCTIONS
- 121
- The WEA Little Theatre: 1926-48 727
- Agnes Dobson and the Independent Theatre:
- 1936-40 134
- The Adelaide University Theatre Guild: 1938- 146
- Chapter 6 MAJOR FIGURES 163
- Max Afford 163
- Frank Bailey 172
- Colin Ballantyne 773
- Kester Berwick 775
- Lesley Cox 776
- Ken Fraser 178
- Heather Gell 779
- Alan Harkness 182
- Mimi Mattin 786
- Ralph Peterson 187
- Betty Roland 188
- Thelma Thomas o90
- APPENDIX SELECTED LITTLE THEATRE PRODUCTIONS 197
- Endnotes 2o8
- Index 279.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 208-218.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Round, Kerrie
- Copyright:
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