BOX
NO.

DESCRIPTION

QUANTITY

DATE RANGE

1

Human Veins: media releases, newsletters, draft review and notes, programs, poster

1 folder

1987 – 1988

1

Dance in Canberra – miscellaneous: mainly Dance Australia and Canberra Dance Theatre plus a variety of local, interstate and international companies; programs, correspondence, newsletters, reviews, newscuttings

1 folder

1988 – 1993

1

Performing and visual arts publicity material, including posters, brochures, catalogues, calendars

1 folder

1989 – 1993

1

Monica Barone, and connections with People Next Door 1988 – 1989, WBK Theatre 1993 – 1994: includes programs, reviews, correspondence, newsletters
A few items from Galerie Constantinople 1988, Stage Coach, Jigsaw

1 folder

1988 – 1994

1

School of Arts Cafe, Queanbeyan: flyers, reviews, correspondence, media releases, biographical material

1 folder

1992 – 1994

1

Arts Council of Australia, and ACT Branch: 4^th National Conference, Canberra 1992; newsletters, flyers, media releases, annual report 1987, agendas and minutes, 1987 School Arts Programme

1 folder

1987 – 1992

1

School and college performances (see also Narrabundah College): programs, media releases, correspondence, newscuttings

1 folder

1988 – 1993

1

ANU Arts Centre: programs, flyers, photocopied journal articles as background biographical information. Also Eureka! 1990

1 folder

1988 – 1990

1

Momentum Theatre: programs

1 folder

1993

1

Small group – women’s theatre (see also Women on a Shoestring, and The Company)

1 folder

1991 – 1993

1

Narrabundah College: the College produced many high standard productions under artistic direction of Peter Wilkins; this file contains both teaching and production related material.
Reports of national and international drama in education conferences, background papers, correspondence, course outlines, posters, flyers, programs, media releases, Artnews newsletter. Also Canberra Repertory newsletter

1 folder

1989 – 1993

2

Domenic Mico and Tuggeranong Community Arts: programs, flyers, media releases, posters, reviews, text of play by Mico Sirocco and the Angel

1 folder

1993 – 1994

2

Backstage Theatre Restaurant, aka Backstage Performing Arts Cafe, Braddon: posters, flyers

1 folder

1990

2

The Street Theatre: opening program and brochure, biographical material

1 folder

1993 – 1994

2

Irish Club: program, flyer, media release

1 folder

Early 1990s

2

Eureka! Theatre Company Inc: programs, media releases, calendars of performances, background notes, correspondence, biographical information, newscuttings and reviews, grant application
Transcript of interview between Martin Portus and Ann Nugent broadcast on ABC Arts National, with annotations by Phillip Mackenzie, President/Artistic Director, Eureka! Theatre Company
Text of illustrated talk on ephemera and the need to collect it: Junk mail, jubilees and Dame Joan

1 folder

1988 – 1993

2

Theatre-as-Education Project: program and review notes

1 folder

1993

2

Ensemble Theatre Project 1986: correspondence, programs
Interact Theatre 1987-1988: programs, reviews, newscuttings, biographical information
Canberra Theatre Company 1989-1990: season and individual programs, correspondence, reviews and review notes, background information, newscuttings,
Victorian Arts Centre 1989, Riverina Theatre Company: programs

1 folder

1986 – 1990

2

Latin America Alive: programs, poster, correspondence, programs, flyers

1 folder

1993 – 1994

2

Gunna Productions Pty Ltd: background information, biographical information, program notes

1 folder

1988

2

Canberra Amateur Dramatic Society (CADS): programs, correspondence, notes on Ewa Czajor Memorial Award
Also Canberra University Theatre Troupe 1991 and Goethe Institut film season 1990-1991

1 folder

1992

2

Corille Fraser productions: programs, flyers, correspondence

1 folder

1992 – 1994

2

Tango 160 – Fiona McVilly and Renal Navarro:  background information, flyers, correspondence

1 folder

1990 – 1991

2

Belconnen Community Centre Theatre: various theatre groups; flyers, correspondence, media releases

1 folder

1991 – 1993

2

Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust: newsletter Front Row, membership booklet, media releases

1 folder

1990 – 1991

2

ACT Arts and Special Events: mailouts [newsletters], calendars of events, discussion paper Towards a Preferred Cultural Future for Children and Young People in the ACT; a performing arts perspective June 1992 and submissions, ACT Cultural Council newsletter Enigami, ministerial statement on Arts Grant program 1993

1 folder

1992 – 1993

2

ACT arts management organisations, including National Arts Week, Arts Council of the ACT, Arts Industries Association, ACT Cultural Industries Council: policy platforms of political parties and arts organisations, Arts:ACT a Forum papers and notes from the discussion, media releases, background information, notices of meetings, newsletters, minutes

1 folder

1987 – 1994

2, 3

Programs: includes programs, calendars of performances, media releases, newscuttings, reviews, review notes. Programs are for plays, operas, concerts, puppet theatre, both local and national
Also, Ralph Wilson. Chekhov Plays in Performance. Background Notes to the Canberra productions of Chekhov March-May 1987.

3 folders

1987

3

Programs: includes programs, review notes, calendars of performances, for plays, concerts, films, dance

2 folders

1989

3

Theatre space v Casino project – arguments: includes
- correspondence, newscuttings, list of grant recipients, media releases
- Muse
- Consultancy on Civic Square Redevelopment Theatre Proposals for the Civic Square Project Group May 1989: proposals, submissions and notices of meetings
- Kingston Power House Project brochure
- Brief for the Assessment of Need of Additional Performing Arts Facilities in the ACT and consultation notes 1988

1 folder

1988 – 1991

4

Alpha Theatre: correspondence, media releases, flyers, programs, posters

1 folder

1988 – 1993

4

Superflak Publicity and Promotions / Coralie Wood: media releases, flyers, correspondence, posters, programs; realia includes painted wooden boomerang, silk hibiscus flower, small paper parasol, each attached to a flyer for a production; the flyer for The Good Ship Lollipop, with its sticky lolly, has been replaced by a photocopy of the original
Kuban Russian Cossacks publicity material

1 folder

1992 – 1993

4

Splinters Performance Group: flyers, newscuttings, reviews, media releases, correspondence, programs, biographical information
David Branson performance poetry

1 folder

1987 – 1993

4

Canberra Southern Cross Club: programs, media releases

1 folder

1989 – 1993

4

Australian National Word Festival: includes
- programs, flyers, newscuttings
- Salman Rushdie campaign newscuttings
- Australian Feminist Book Fortnight catalogue and poster
- newscuttings marked ‘editorial ideas’

1 folder

1989

4

Programs

1 folder

1979 – 1982

4

Programs

1 folder

1983 – 1985

4

Programs

2 folders

1986

4

Photographs, many relating to productions with programs in Box 5:
1. The Imaginary Invalid by Moliere, Antill Theatre Company, Armoury Lawns, Adelaide Festival March 5-17
2. Beyond the Flesh by Leigh Warren; dancers top to bottom Xioa-Xiong Zhang, Kim Hales McCarthur, Michael Whaites. Australian Dance Theatre, Adelaide, February 1990
3. Hamlet, Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Adelaide Festival, early 1990s
4. Don Juan, Georgian Film Actors’ Studio, Adelaide Festival, early 1990s
5. Under Milk Wood, cast in rehearsal, Canberra Repertory, directed by Ross McGregor
6. Two women: left Kate Nelson [?], right Judy Burnett, photographer Robert Roach, Canberra, 16 May 1992
7. Untitled. Couples dancing, 1960s setting
8. Siroco and the Angel, rehearsal, actors Silvio Ofrea and Tony Trimboli; with note from Evol McLeod dated 12 November 1993
9. Country and Western, Melbourne University Comedy Revue; undated
10. Woodenhead, Back to Back Theatre production; Voula Hristeas as the peasant Louise, accused as a witch; undated
11. Cinderella [ballet]; National Capital Dancers, ‘Cinderella’ Annabel Reid, guest artist Robert Jackson, choreographer Robert Ray; Llewellyn Hall, 28-29 August 1992; photographer Allan Nichols
12. Cinderella [ballet]; National Capital Dancers, ‘Cinderella’ Annabel Reid, choreographer Robert Ray; Llewellyn Hall, 28-29 August 1992; photographer Allan Nichols
13. Torvill and Dean [skaters], undated
14. Untitled, undated. Principal male and female actors, five seated females. Photographer Tanya Hart
15-17. Through a Kid’s Eye, Stage Coach, Henry’s Family Restaurant, Phillip, April 5-9 1994; three untitled photographs of children in the cast; with letter from Joe Woodward, Stage Coach
18. Through a Kid’s Eye, Stage Coach, Henry’s Family Restaurant, Phillip, April 5-9 1994; Ben Pik, Isaac Reilly and Lara Croucher
19. The Village in the Jungle, curtain call at a private performance, March 1994
20. The Village in the Jungle, the Sri Lankan peasant and a government official, 28 March 1994
21. Feast of Fools, probably Stage Coach, undated
22. Feast of Fools, Isaac Reilly, Lara Croucher, Chris Lauf, Anna Hahn, Ben Pik, Rhiannon Box, Zara Warne, Susan Kohlsdorf; probably Stage Coach, undated
23. Oh, Christmas, cast, director Peter Robinson, centre; undated
24. Visions by Louis Nowra; rehearsal, Rowena Odgers and Leah Mottram, Phillip College Drama Production, November 9-13
25. Visions by Louis Nowra; rehearsal, Leah Mottram and Rowena Odgers, Phillip College Drama Production, November 9-13
26. Pandora Slams the Lid, Rip and Tear Theatre, at Lake Tuggeranong College Theatre, 11-14 October
27. Inti-Illimani [musicians]; in front, John Williams, Paco Pena, early 1990s
28. Marat / Sade, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Adelaide Festival 10 March 1990; photographer David Wilson
29. Woman wearing a mask and folding a length of cloth; untitled and undated, but collocated with a poster for Mother Madre Daughter Girl Child, Women on a Shoestring, at the Rehearsal Room, Canberra Theatre Centre, 3-21 June
30. Mr Squiggle, Rebecca, Mr Squiggle, Norman Hetherington; undated
31. Camry Chicken; star of the all new Toyota Camry CSi Interactive Cinema Advertising campaign which Toyota has pioneered in Australia. Toyota Australia Press Picture No 920903-51-1
32. Wind in the Willows, Alpha Theatre, undated
33. HMS Pinafore by Gilbert and Sullivan; Patrick Oxley as Ralph Rackstraw, Amanda King as Josephine, undated
34. Compagnie Philippe Genty, Canberra Theatre Centre, 10-14 May
35. Offending the Audience, left to right, front: Caroline Shakespeare, Iain Sinclair; back Rohan Busteed, David Branson; at Canberra Rep, undated

1 bundle

1990 – 1993

5

Programs, unsorted but generally from 1990-1993. Many of the photographs in Box 4 relate to productions with programs in this group

Festival programs, mainly from Adelaide Festivals 1990 and 1992 but also from Festival of Sydney. Includes festival programs, fringe festival programs, music and art events associated with the festival, tourist brochures and maps etc relating to the festival city, newscuttings and reviews, newsletters and Festival publications:
- Stephanie Schrapel. A Brush with the Stage; South Australian Visual Artists involved with the Stage 1930-1991. Royal South Australian Society of Arts, 1992
- The Adelaide Review nos 99-100, Festival 1992
- Songlines issue 1, March 1992

1 box

1990 – 1993

6

Programs, unsorted: productions by Canberra arts bodies, for example, Canberra Rep, Meryl Tankard, ANU Arts Centre, Q Theatre, Canberra Philharmonic; some national bodies,  and several international visiting productions

1 bundle

1980 – 1993

6

Correspondence, mainly with Ann Nugent in her role as reviewer and critic for the Canberra Times

1 folder

1986 – 1988

6

Independent productions: flyers, correspondence, posters, programs, background information on the companies, media releases, newscuttings, reviews, invitations

1 folder

1990 – 1994

6

Dance theatre
Dance North: correspondence, programs, media releases 1988-1992
The One Extra Company: newsletters, programs, review notes, flyers, media releases 1988-1989

1 folder

1988 – 1992

6

Canberra Theatre (mainly as a venue for both local and touring productions), Canberra Philharmonic and others, and National Festival of Australian Theatre 1993: media releases, posters, flyers, sticker, programs

1 folder

1987 – 1994

6

Dinawan Koori Productions: programs, flyers

1 folder

1992

6

Bell Shakespeare: documents the early years of the company, with corporate statements, actors’ biographies and journal article by Linda van Nunen ‘The compleat work of John Bell’, The Australian Magazine December 22-23, 1990; also media releases, correspondence, flyers, reviews, newscuttings

1 folder

1990 – 1993

7

Programs, including Bicentennial productions and Adelaide Festival 1988, and the inaugural ACT Playwrights’ Drama Festival 1987: correspondence, annual reports, flyers, programs, posters, newscuttings, media releases
Artefact volume 1 numbers 1-3 1990

1 bundle

1986 – 1990

7

Programs, mainly Canberra plus Festival of Sydney: programs, correspondence, flyers, review notes

1 bundle

1992

7

Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Theatre: flyers, postcards, media releases, newsletters, newscuttings, programs, review notes, reviews, biographical information

1 folder

1989 – 1993

8

ANU Arts Centre, including CADS (Campus Amateur Dramatic Society): drama course catalogue, flyers, media releases, biographical information, posters, review notes, newscuttings

1 folder

1988 – 1993

8

Canberra Theatre (mainly as a venue for both local and touring productions), Australian Theatre Festival 1990-1993, and programs for interstate  productions: media releases, calendar of performances, posters, flyers, programs, review notes, reviews, newscuttings, correspondence, background and biographical information,

Performance; bimonthly magazine of Canberra Theatre Centre, 1988-1993

Currency Press, the performing arts publisher: a brief history. 1994

2 bundles

1987 – 1993

8

Tempo Theatre: Ragtime issues 1987-1992 [these issues not held by ACTHL]
Correspondence, media releases, flyers, list of councillors, programs

1 folder

1987 – 1992

8

Tau Community Theatre, renamed Upfront Community Theatre March 1991: media releases, programs, holograph text of article for Muse [on the back of typescript text of play Persephone], newsletter Update, flyers, calendar of events, annual reports 1986 and 1989, newscuttings, documents relating to ACT Playwrights Drama Festival 1989, publicity material relating to children’s drama workshops, correspondence

1  folder

1986 – 1992

8

Phillip Mackenzie, publicity agent, as Polonius Enterprises: publicity releases 

1 folder

1993

9

Women on a Shoestring: programs, newscuttings, correspondence, media releases, history of the company 1979-1991, posters

1 folder

1992 – 1994

9

Programs, mainly 1991: local and interstate productions by professional, school and community companies, theatre, dance, music; includes some flyers, posters and workshop programs

1 folder

1991

9

Wagga Wagga region, including Charles Sturt University, Rivcol Drama, Murray River Performing Group and Riverina Theatre Co: media releases, programs, biographical material, calendar of performances, flyers, newscuttings,

Newsletters: Riverina Theatre Co,

1 folder

1988 – 1993

9

Ann Nugent reviews and articles, mainly in draft, for Muse and 2XX Reviews, including programs. Also July 1985 issue of Wimminews

1 folder

1983 – 1985

9

Fortune National Capital Theatre, successor to Theatre ACT: programs, background on the company, biographical material, newscuttings

1 folder

1985 – 1987

9

Unsorted programs and media releases for theatre and musical performances in Canberra; draft review, correspondence

1 folder

1986 – 1992

9

Skylark Theatre Company, formerly Skylark Puppet and Mask Theatre Association: programs, media releases, flyers, posters, correspondence, history of the company, Friends of Skylark newsletter no. 1 September 1994, The Sounds of the Seasons; a Resource Guide for Teachers 1992, newscuttings

Also, newsletters, correspondence and programs from other companies, including National Festival of Australian Theatre, Riverina Theatre Company RTC Whispers, ACT International Cultural Club The Link, Narrabundah College, Tempo Theatre Ragtime, Street Theatre

1 folder

1987 – 1994

9

Canberra Repertory Society: correspondence, flyers, posters, media releases, programs, calendar of performances, biographical material, annual report 1992, agenda and minutes AGM 1992 and 1993, history 1932-1992

Also, newsletters, media releases from other organisations, including National Library of Australia 25^th anniversary programme of events, Eureka! Theatre Co

1 folder

1987 – 1994

10

Ralph Wilson, also as Rawil Productions: correspondence, programs, media releases, review notes, background information

1 folder

1987 – 1993

10

Gaudeamus: programs, farewell statement by Judith Clingan, flyers, media releases, biographical information

1 folder

1988 – 1991

10

Jigsaw Theatre Company: programs, media releases, posters, flyers, correspondence, calendar of performances, review notes, newsletter 1992, biographical information

1 folder

1986 – 1993

10

Stage Coach Theatre School: correspondence, media releases, newsletter Scope May and September 1986, January, March, May, September/November 1988, 1992,

1 folder

1987 – 1994

10

Gorman House Arts Centre: calendar of events, newsletter Work in Progress volume 1 numbers 1-3, 1992, background on groups, review notes, flyers,

1 folder

1989 – 1993

10

Splinters: media releases

1 folder

1993

10

Break in the Silence (BITS): background and biographical information, media release

1 folder

1993

10

Canberra Youth Theatre: programs of activities, media releases, correspondence, flyers, newsletters 1988, 1989, 1992, reviews, programs

1 folder

1986 – 1993

11 over size

Photographs:
- “David Bennett in a Strategy for Two Hams at the Ralph Wilson Theatre until Sept 19”; photograph by Keith Bogg, 55 Creswell St, Campbell ACT, ref B332/34
- untitled; stage setting of a boy and a woman sitting at either end of a kitchen table and a man standing on the third chair declaiming

1 sleeve

12-13

Chronological archive of theatre reviews, articles and columns in newspapers, together with some undated

7 bundles

1987 – 1996