Call Number

HMSS 0233

David Branson Papers

Date Range

ca. 1985-2001

Quantity

Access Conditions

Restricted access; restricted reproduction

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QUANTITY

DATES

ARCHIVISTS’ NOTES

1

1-8; 40

SCRIPTS (inclusive dates are dates of script not dates of files)      

1

1

Absurd Liberty – Sean Monro

1

3/2/1997

Original; marked “For David Branson - 33”

1

1

An Actor Confesses –Author?

1

Undated

Handwritten photocopy; marked, “Steve” (author?)

1

1

Accidental Death of An Anarchist - Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published Script

1

1

After the Rain – Phil Doyle

1 

Undated 

Ring-bound unpublished original

1

1

The Agony of Love: Two Japanese Women and a Barking Dog – A Film Script - Author?

 1

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

1

All Souls – Daniel Keen

1

1993

Unpublished original

1

1

Annie: Charles Darwin’s War on God – Steve J. Spears

1

Ninth Draft – December 1992

Photocopy of unpublished script; cover letter to D. Branson

1

1

An Ordinary Day – Author?

1

First performed 9 October, 1986

Photocopy of published script; heavily annotated

1

1

The Arbitrary Abattoir of Fate – Sean Monro

3 

Undated 

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

1

Arcadia – Author?

1

First performed 13 April, 1993

Photocopy of published script

1

1

Autogeddon – Heathcote Williams

1 

Undated

Photocopy; photos on almost every page

1

1

Baurnhof: A Play in Three Parts – Kate Herbert

1

Draft Six – July 1999

Unpublished original

1

1

Beneath Heaven – Daniel Keen

5

31 August, year? 1994?

All copies heavily marked and highlighted; “Winner of the 1995 Wal Cherry Play of the Year”

1

1

Betrayal – Harold Pinter

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

1

Big River – Alexander Buzo

1

1979

Original, marked “From Pol magazine”; enclosed note to David, from “Dee”

1

1

The Blessing – Author?

1

Undated

Original handwritten Short; incl. Piece of Tie-Dyed Fabric and photocopy of published poem, “A Breastplate Against Death”

1

1

The Board – Author?

1

Undated

Faded original of handwritten script

1

1

Border Country – Anne-Marie Mykta

1 

1985

Unpublished original

1

2

A Boy for Me A Girl for You – Ian Nash

1 

1983

Published book

1

2

The Boy in My Closet – Kelly West

1

Undated

Unpublished original

1

2

Brainscrew – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script. (Applications To Perform Play made to Margaret Ramsay Ltd.)

1

2

But Where’s Duncan? – Lally Katz

1

1996

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

2

Can You Keep A Secret...? - Anne-Marie Mykta

1

1987

Unpublished original (bound)

1

2

Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! – Author?

1

First staged London, 15 July 1981

Photocopy of published script

1

2

The Card Index/The Interrupted Act/Gone Out – Tadeusz Rosewicz

1

1960-1969

Photocopy of published scripts

1

2

The Censorship of Hysteria – Author?

1 

Undated 

Original script, heavily marked, headed “David’s Script”

1

2

Chamber Music – Arthur Kopit

1 

Undated 

Photocopy of published script

1

2

The Changeling – Thomas Middleton and William Rowley

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script; bound, marked in pencil

1

2

Cold Pizza – Daniel R. Lillford

1

Undated

Original unpublished script

1

2

The Collector – John Fowles and David Parker

1

1973

Photocopy of published script

1

2

Cowboy Mouth – Sam Shepard

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

2

Cross Purpose – Samuel Beckett, author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

2

Cut Strings – Elspeth Tremblay

1 

Undated 

Film Script; unpublished original

1

2

Cybergrrrls – Jerry and Morgana Everrard

1 

1997

Unpublished original; cover note to David from Jerry Everrard

1

2

DB Meets C of A – R. Millington

2

Undated

Unpublished original

1

2

Darkness – Author?

2

Undated

1 unpublished photocopied original printed; 1 unpublished photocopied original, handwritten; in envelope marked “David Branson”

1

2

Dead Caucasians – Christos Tsolkios

1

5^th Draft - September, 2001

Unpublished original

1

2

Decibels – Deborah Rogers, author?

1 

 Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

2

Demon – Kate Herbert 

1 

 Fifth Draft – January 1993

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

2

Designer Deathbeds – David Shinner and Pia Rada

1

Undated

Marked, unpublished original

1

2

Dialogues with the Oracle – Kate MacNamara

1

September 1986

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

2

Don Juan – Moliere  (Translated by Nicholas Enwright)

1

1984

Published book

1

2

The Driven – A Two-Act Play – A Black Comedy – Daniel Lillford

 1

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished original, marked

1

2

Duck Seasoning – Author?

2

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished original, marked

1

2

Duet for A Schizophrenic – A Short Play in Three Parts – Chris Johnson

1 

1972-1973

Photocopy of published script

1

2

The Education of Skinny Spew – Author?

2 

First staged June 1969

Photocopy of published script

1

2

An Ego Trip, or Bringin’ Jesus Home – Khalil Juredini

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

2

Escape From Wonderland – A Play in Two Acts – Bruce Hoogendorn

1 

1997-1998

Photocopy of unpublished original, marked

1

2

‘Esenin and Mayakovski’ – Full title? Author? 

1

Undated

Marked original with separate handwritten notes; partial script only

1

2

Estrella – Daniel Keene

1

First performed 4 December 1990

Bound, photocopied original; includes reviews of production

1

2

The Evil Queen – Larry Buttrose

1 

May 1992

Bound photocopy of unpublished original

1

2

The Exploitation of Youth in Today’s Society – Author?

 2

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

3

Faust- the Heat of Knowledge – Author?

1

Undated

Bound photocopy of unpublished original

1

3

Fire on the Snow – Douglas Stewart

1

1990

Published book

1

3

The First Day of Peace – Horst Laube (Translated by Hans Werner)

 1

 1980

Bound photocopy of published script

1

3

The First Train – Daniel Keen

 1

1999

Bound photocopy of unpublished original

1

3

The Five Dollar Mother – Kelly West

1 

 Undated

Bound photocopy of unpublished original

1

3

A Flea in Her Ear – Author?

 1

First presented 8 February, 1966

Photocopy of published script, bound in notebook headed “David Branson’s script”, heavily-marked

1

3

Fox and Zero – Author? (Enclosed in envelope with notes for David Branson)

 Undated

MISSING FROM MATERIAL TRANSFERREDTO ACTHL

1

3

The Four Elements, the Death of Empedocles Prearranged – Gerald Keaney. (“A performance for Splinters Theatre Company by Gerald Keaney. Outdoors, near Lake Burley Griffin.”)

1 

Undated

Unpublished original; includes note from author  to Splinters Theatre

1

3

Frankenstein, or the Ordered Life – Wolfgang Deischel (Translated by Chris Burton)

1

Undated

Photocopied original; marked “Goethe Institute Canberra”

1

3

Fur Elise (A Short Play) – Graham Henderson

2

1997

Marked, unpublished photocopies

1

3

The Glass – Author?

1

Undated

Unpublished original

1

3

The Golden Age – Louis Nowra

1 

First staged 8 February, 1985

Photocopy of published script

1

3

Golden Boy – Clifford Odets

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

3

The Goodbye – Lally Katz

1

1996

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

3

Gormenghast – A Two-Act Play Adapted By Marce O’Hare

1

Undated

Unpublished original

1

3

The Great Tale – Paschal Daantos Berry (In collaboration with Canberra Youth Theatre)

1

Undated

Unpublished original

1

3

The Ham Funeral – Patrick White

1

Undated

Marked photocopy of published script

1

3

Hamlet Prince of Denmark – William Shakespeare

1

Undated

Partial photocopy of published script

1

3

Homage – Daniel Lillford

 1

Undated

Unpublished original; also contains D Lillford CV and letter to D. Branson from author

1

3

Hotel Sorrento – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

3

The House on the Rock – Author?

1 

Undated

Marked photocopy of published script

1

3

The Human Voice – Jean Cocteau

1 

First staged 17 February 1930

Photocopy of published script

1

3

Identity Unknown – A Short Film – Ivo Lovric

2 

Undated

Unpublished originals

1

3

In A Moment of Loss – Author?

1

Undated

Heavily-marked original

1

3

In Camera – Author?

1

Undated 

Photocopy of published script

1

3

In the Grand Hotel – A Play About Street Kids – Anne-Marie Mykta

1 

1989

Photocopy of unpublished script

1

3

In the Secret Room – Kate MacNamara

1 

April 1988

Unpublished original

1

3

Isabella the Astrologer – Author?

2 

Undated

Photocopies of published script

1

3

Jesus Christ on A Bicycle – Kelly West

1 

Undated

Bound, unpublished original

1

4

The Joker of Seville (For Ronald Bryden) – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

4

Journey Home – Anne-Marie Mykta

1 

May 1992

Unpublished original; includes cover letter to David Branson from author

1

4

The Journey of the Fifth Horse – Author?

1 

First staged 13 April, 1966

Photocopy of published script; included in workbook, heavily marked

1

4

Kalldewey, Farce – Botho Strauss (Translated by Fred Haynes)

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script, marked “Goethe Institute Canberra”

1

4

Kings, Queens, Castles and Crowns – Author?

1

Undated

Marked original (also contains Latin-pictorial)

1

4

Kurtz – Larry Buttrose (‘Based On “Heart of Darkness” By Joseph Conrad’)

1

 1991

Unpublished original

1

4

Kylie and Luke’s Plane Script – Author?

1 

Undated

Unpublished original

1

4

La Cambiale di Matrimonio – Gioacchino Rossi (Translated by Ditta Zizi)

1

Undated

Marked photocopy of published script

1

4

Last To Go – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script (from “Revue Sketches”)

1

4

Laughter and Fear – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

4

Lazarus and His Beloved – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script (featuring several sketches)

1

4

A Letter To Havik/Role Call (Two Parts of “Chocolate Rules! Ok? A Play in Two Parts”) – Anne-Marie Mykta (C. October 1992; includes letter to D. Branson)

1 

October 1992

Bound, unpublished originals; cover-sheet for “Chocolate Rules, OK? – A Play in Two Parts” by Anne-Marie Mykta.  Are the two parts ‘Letter to Havik’ and ‘Role Call’?

1

4

Life in Tuscany – Gina Dow and Individual contributors of Text

 1

Undated

Unpublished original (“Second Draft – Based On the 1859 Travel Book By Mabel Sharman Crawford”; includes ‘Note To Patrick Troy’)

1

4

Light Particles – Sean Monro

1 

Undated

Heavily-marked photocopy of unpublished script

1

4

The Little Match Girl – Author? (incl. “Legs On the Wall”, “Sealskin Soulskin”, “Bottle O’ Brains” and Other Sketches)

1 

Undated

Heavily-marked unpublished original

1

4

The Lonesome Man – Lally Katz

1

1997

Unpublished original

1

4

Lovelocks Dream Run – Author?

1 

Undated

Heavily-marked photocopy of published script, included in workbook

1

4

Lovestories – Doug Mason

1

 Draft 1 - 16/6/1995

Bound, unpublished original

1

4

Low-A Play – Daniel Keene

1 

1990 (First performed 30  May, 1991)

Marked, unpublished original

1

4

Mrs Thally F – John Romeril

1

First performed 16 July, 1971

Marked photocopy of published script

1

4

Macbeth (Shortened Version) – William Shakespeare

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

4

The Maids – Jean Genet

2 

Undated

Photocopies of published script

1

4

The Malevolence – A Play in Three Acts – Adriano Dino Cugola

1 

Undated

Bound, marked original

1

5

Meat Party - A Play in Two Acts – Le Quy Duong (“Vietnamese to English translation By Lien Yeomans; Performance Version By Yaron Lifschitz”)

1

March1988

Heavily-marked original

1

5

The Man With the Flower in His Mouth – Author? (Translated by Gigi Gatti and Terry Doyle)

1

1923

Photocopy of published script

1

5

Marathon – Ricardo Monti

1

10/6/1997 (“New Version”)

Unpublished original

1

5

The Massacre at Paris – Christopher Marlowe

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

5

Merlin, Or the Barren Land – Tankred Dorst with Ursula Ehler (Translated by Neville and Stephen Plaice)

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

5

Stephen King’s Misery – Adapted and directed by Joe Woodward

1

1994 

Ring-bound original

1

5

Moonlight at Midday – Terry Aulich

1

1998 (‘Version 5’)

Marked photocopy of unpublished script; headed, “David Branson”

1

5

Morganna Le Fey – Kate McNamara

2

January 1987

Photocopies of published script; includes re-write from 1991

1

5

Munjong (Hopeless) – Richard Walley

1

Undated

Bound, marked unpublished original

1

5

My Foot My Tutor – Handke

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

5

My Funny Old ---! – Niamh Kearney (1998)

1 

1998

Unpublished original (marked “David”)

1

5

Napoleon’s Bananas – A Short Play – Graham Henderson

1 

1997

Photocopy of published script

1

5

Nell Amor Confido – Music By Pergolesi, Libretto By Elio Gatti

1

1997

Photocopy of published script; includes reviews of production

1

5

The New Employee – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished film script

1

5

A New Wives’ Tale – Bill Fleming

1

1997 (Version of March 1999)

Published original

1

5

No Coffee, No Apple Pie: A Screenplay - Joel Swadling (Based On the Play “At the Cafe Tapas Tonight”, by Peter Knox)

1 

 Undated (1994/1995?)

Unpublished original

1

5

Norma – Alan Owen

1

Undated

Photocopy of published original

1

6

The Old Familiar Juice – Jim McNeil

1

1973

Photocopy of published script

1

6

Old Rose – Heinrich Henkel (translated by Robert David Macdonald)

1

1985

Photocopy of published script

1

6

The Open Couple – Franca Rame (translated by Stuart Hood)

1

First staged 30 November 1983

Photocopy of published script

1

6

The Pale Woman – Hal Judge

4 

22 November 1997 Draft

Photocopies of unpublished original

1

6

Party Time – Harold Pinter

1 

First staged 31 October 1991

Marked photocopy of published script

1

6

P.E.T.A.L – Cate Kennedy, Huw Davies, Sid Walker, Joss Davies

 1

Undated

Marked photocopy of unpublished script; partial script only

1

6

Piano Plays (Klavierspiele) – Friederike Roth (translated by Estelia Schmid and Billy Colvill)

1

 Undated

Marked photocopy of published script

1

6

Picnic With Fatima – Mark Stratford and Tahir Cambis

1 

24 August 1988

Marked photocopy of published script

1

6

Play Dough Format – Author?

Undated 

MISSING FROM MATERIAL TRANSFERREDTO ACTHL

1

6

Poets In Motion – Rob Millington

1

1994

Marked original

1

6

The Possessed – Albert Camus (Published Script; “Based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky”)

2 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

6

Pre-Paradise Sorry Now – Rainer-Werner Fassbinder (translated by Peter Zander)

2 

First staged 2 February 1972

Photocopies of published script

1

6

Pretty Little Memory – Lally Katz

2 

1997

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

6

Princess Speach – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished, handwritten original

1

6

The Rabbi of Ragged Ass Road – A Play in Two Parts – David Copelin

1

Draft 7, April 2001

Marked, unpublished original

1

6

Rare Earth – Sam Shepard, author?

1

First staged 5 December 1973

Photocopy of published script

1

6

The Red Priest – Ronald Evans

1 

Rehearsal script - April 1985

Published original

1

6

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui – A Parable Play – Author? (Translated by Ralph Manheim)

2

Undated

Marked photocopy of published script

1

6

The Restaurant – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of hand-written 3-page script

1

6

Revolutionary Witness and Nobody Here But Us Chickens – Peter Barnes

1

Undated

Photocopy of published scripts

1

6

Right of Birth – Daniel R. Lillford

1 

Undated

Unpublished original

1

6

The Rover – Aphra Behn

1 

 First staged 3 July, 1986

Published book

1

7

The Saliva Milkshake – Author?

 1

 First staged 23 June 1975

Photocopy of published script

1

7

Sanctimony - Joe Woodward

 1

1995

Unpublished original

1

7

That Scoundrel Scapin (Les Fourberies De Scapin) – Author?

 1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

7

Second Scream – Graham Henderson

 1

1995

Marked, unpublished original

1

7

Silent Partner – Daniel Keene

1 

1987

Unpublished original

1

7

Silicon Spies – A Cyber Play Set in the Year 2020 – Hal Judge

1

Draft 2 February 1996

1

7

Six Characters in Search of An Author – Luigi Pirandello

2 

1979

Photocopies of published script

1

7 

Soap – Author?

 Undated

MISSING FROM MATERIAL TRANSFERREDTO ACTHL

1

7

Speaking in Tongues – Andrew Bovell

 1

 1996

Unpublished original

1

7

Spitting Chips – Peta Murray

1

1989

Photocopy of unpublished script, in Work-book

1

7

Stray Toasters – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script  in workbook; heavily marked

1

7

Suit – Author?

1

Undated

Unpublished original

1

7 

The Surgeon’s Arms – Author?

1 

Undated

Photocopy of unpublished original

1

7

A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

7

Taxi – Author?

1 

Undated

Marked, unpublished original

1

7

Terminus – Daniel Keene

1 

1996

Unpublished original

1

7

Three – Victor Sheehan

1

Undated

Unpublished original; includes letter/notes to “David and Sarah”

1

7 

Three Sisters Called Eve – Matthew Aberline

1 

Undated

Marked, unpublished original

1

7

The Too Hard Basket – Bruce Hoogendorn

1 

1997

Marked, unpublished original

1

7

The Tourist Guide – Botho Strauss (Translated by Anthony Vivis and Tinch Minter)

1 

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

7 

The Tower – Graham Henderson and Catherine Hassall

1 

Draft of 23/3/1993

Unpublished original

1

7

To Whom It May Concern – Author?

1

January 1999

Unpublished original

1

8

Trojan Women – Author?

1

Undated

Marked unpublished original

1

8

Triptych – Kate Herbert

1 

1993

Unpublished original

1

8

24 Hours in the Life of A Revolutionary: A Play About the Life and Death of Che Guevara – Jose Marques

1 

Undated

Heavily-marked, unpublished original

1

8

Ubu Rex – Author?

1

First staged 1896

Photocopy of published script

1

8

Untitled script (Characters: Green eyes; LeFranc; The Guard) – Author?

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

8

The Virtuous Burglar – A One-Act Farce – Author? (Translated by Joseph Farrell)

1

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

8

‘Vladimir and Estragon’ (Actual title?) – Samuel Beckett 

1

Undated

Heavily-marked photocopy of published script, pasted into workbook

1

8

‘Voice 1 Voice 2 Voice 3’ (Actual Title?) – Author?

 1

Undated

Heavily-marked photocopy of published script; marked, “David’s Director’s Script”

1

8

Waking Up – Author?

2

Undated

Photocopy of published script

1

8

We’ll Let You Know – A Play in One Act – Author?

1 

Undated

Unpublished original

1

8

What If My Bladder Explodes Upon Impact? – Kelly West

1 

Undated

Unpublished original

1

8

Winter Is Tomorrow – Ronald Evans

1 

1^st Draft – October/ November 1984

Unpublished original

1

8

A Woman Alone – Author?

2

Undated

Heavily-marked photocopy of published script

2

9-19, 41

PRODUCTION FILES

2

9

A Bit Like Alice
Grant acquittal report (19/10/95); financial report; artistic report; project documentation (photocopied photographs; copy of invitation; “TEA” text by Regina Heilmann, grant recipient).

1

1995

2

9

Agnes and Plod [working title]
 Production notes and stage directions on photocopied poetry (marked ‘David’).

1

31 January-5 March1994

2

9

Alice
Canberra Youth Theatre, July 1994. Program; notes on running order.

1

July 1994

2

9

Amongst the Wild Things
Canberra Youth Theatre (CYT), July 1998 School Holiday show. Directed by D. Branson and Simone Penkethman. Includes program; CYT newsletter (July 1998); handbill; reviews (newspaper clippings and radio FM 103.1 transcript).

1

11-18 July 1998 

2

9

And We Hold Each Other’s Hands and Nobody Weeps
Produced by The Company, performed Thursday, 3rd December1998.  Includes text excerpts by David Unwin, Charles Roberts and Larry Kramer, forming basis of performance material.

 1

December 1998

2

9

Anti-Village of Captive Hearts
Co-production, Splinters and Outback Theatre. Director, Stephen Howard. Locations: Hay, Deniliquin, Wagga, Bathurst. Includes stage directions and copies of administrative faxes (including 1 to Gavin Findlay).

 1

1993

2

9

Apocalypse Club (at the Gypsy Bar)
Thursday, February 13, ongoing until (at least) August, 1997. Evening of performance-poetry. Hosted by Simone Penkethman. File includes press release, reviews and photos.

 1

February-August 1997 

2

9

Autogeddon
SPLINTERS production. Performed at Gorman House as part of the Festival of Contemporary Arts (FoCA). Sponsors include Australia Council, 2XX radio and Arts ACT. Files include posters/fliers; reviews (including Lorena Param in Canberra Times); administrative letters; stage/set-designs; heavily marked copy of script.

2

14-18 October 1997 

Heavily marked copy of script labelled ‘L Morris’ (Louise, David Branson’s partner).

2

9

Baal
Theatrical production by Culturally Innovative Artists (CIA). With the assistance of the Goethe Institute and the National Multicultural Festival. Performed at Street Theatre. Directed by Joe Woodward. File includes fliers; reviews; marked scripts.

 1

 19-31 January 1998

2

9

Beyond the Gates of Heavenly Peace
Directed by David Branson for La Mama’s Theatre, Melbourne; sponsored by Arts Victoria. Performed at Carlton Courthouse. File includes press release; performance dates; pencil-marked script; rehearsal schedule and production credits.

 1

7-24 November2001

2

9

Big Throat Cabaret
Cabaret review produced by the “Drinker’s Club” and performed at IDs Night Club, Prahran. Files include running order; flier; press release; administrative letter to David Branson from venue owner.

 1

2

9

Bleedlines – The Limits of Performance
Conference event, organised by University of Sydney Centre for Performance Studies. File includes: Call for Proposals; letter to David Branson from conference coordinator John Baylis.

 1

8-10 October 1993

2

9

Blue
CIA production, performed at Street Theatre. File includes reviews; press release; photos; stage directions; application for funding a tour of the show (projected for 2002).
Performance period 26-30 June  2001

 1

26-30 June 2001

2

9

Boot
File includes source-material by Graham Henderson; David Branson’s director’s statement; reviews of other work by Henderson.

 1

Can’t tell if this was ever produced!

2

9

Bouffon
CIA production. File includes project budget; script excerpts.

 1

No indication of year or location.

2

9

Butoh
Workshop directed by Cheryl Heazlewood for Sideshow Theatre company (Sept. ’94). File includes administrative letter to Gavin Findlay of Splinters; Heazlewood bio and press release; contract between Heazlewood and Splinters theatre company (April 1995). 

 1

September 1994- April 1995

2

10

Careful He Might Hear You – the Musical

 1

TIED IN BUNDLE. UNOPENED.

2

10

Cathedral of Flesh
Splinters production; performed at Old Adelaide Gaol. File includes press release; rehearsal and production schedule; programmes; director’s notes; budgets; administrative letters.

2

1992

2

10

Characters in A Crowd
Splinters production; performed at ‘The Rock’ (Croatian-Deakin club, Canberra). File includes grant application to Australia Council.

1

28 January – 7 February; year?

2

10

Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Victoria College/Rusden Theatre, Clayton, Victoria. Production by 3^rd and 4^th year students.  Includes rehearsal schedule; program; flier; David’s copy of script, heavily marked.

1

1989

David Branson, cast-member and props.

2

10

Circo
Meryl Tankard Company studio, Gorman House. Includes flier and David’s marked script.

1

July 1991

2

10

Circus Maximus
Splinters production (in Greek amphitheatre style). Includes project outline (“Temple State ‘95”); photo of set; photos of ancient Greek ruins (used as archetypal role-models).

 1

1995

2

10

The Cook, the Fox and the Bride
Production by STOPERA, performed at the Street Theatre. Three one-act operas (2 Stravinsky, 1Rossini). Includes rehearsal schedule and invitation to opening (to ‘D. Branson +1’).

 1

1999

2

10

Crash Cabaret
Co-production of Canberra Performance Poets and Second Stage. Poetry evening, held at Tilley Devine’s night club, Lyneham. File includes heavily marked copies of running order; press release; text excerpts.

 1

Tuesday, 4 April 1997

2

10

Crime of Yelling
Splinters production, performed at the Old Gardener’s Cottage, Downer Oval, ACT. Includes reviews and fliers.

 1

30 April-1 May 1987

2

10

Crowd Theory
Splinters production, performed at Old Canberra Brickworks, Yarralumla. Includes funding application to Australia Council (budget and project-outline); notification of Performing Arts Board grant of $11,325).

1

1991

2

10

Cry Stinking Fish
Splinters production, performed at Gorman House. Includes photos/press release/notes towards program/reviews.

 1

1987

2

11

Curse of the Starving Class
Frontline Production Company, North Melbourne. Includes poster, program, marked copy of script (DB?), review.

 1

19 July-6 August, year?

2

11

Cut Out
Pivot Theatre Company. Contains career-profile for director, Rebecca Headlam.

 1

 Undated

2

11

Delires/Delirius
Includes budget, set designs, director’s notes on structure of performance, background material on (and writings by) author, Arthur Rimbaud.

 1

Undated

Production company? Location?

2

11

Demons
Culturally Innovative Artists’ production at the Street Theatre. File includes fliers/postcards; David Branson’s master script (04/10/01); company contact list; set designs; Post-review notes.

 1

2001

2

11

Desire
Jigsaw Theatre production; stage one, Gorman House Arts Centre (Braddon, ACT). Includes project outlines.

 1

17-29 August 1994

2

11

Desperate Acts
Uta Anneke presents Desperate Acts theatre group, in Harold Pinter’s ‘Family Voices’. Double-billed with Splinters’ In Tristitia Hilaris: File includes program; fliers; funding application (budget/schedule/outline).

 1

27-31 March, 3-7 April 1991

2

11

Diary of A Dwarf
Pure Theatre production at the Street Theatre. Includes media release, program, photo proof-sheets, reviews, set designs, administration/funding letters, artistic biography - author Graham Henderson.

 1

7-15 March 1997

2

11

A Doll’s House
Canberra Repertory Theatre at Theatre 3, Ellery Crescent, Acton ACT. Includes “Casting requirements”; marked copy of script; program.

 1

2 September- 1 October 1994

2

11

Dragon Boat Festival
Splinters production, “Dreams of a Better World”. Includes programs; budget; press release; company administration letters; project outline; minutes of production meeting; contract, Splinters/Dragon Boat organisers (ACT Sporting and Cultural Association).

 1

3 February-24 May 1994

Festival date -18/03/1994.

2

11

Dreams-Myths-Monsters-Magic
Splinters performance at the Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre. File includes project outline; administrative letter.

 1

November 1994

Tuggeranong Show, 19/11/94

2

11

The Dumb Waiter
Co-production of Culturally Innovative Artists and Canberra Youth Theatre Performed at.  Gorman House Arts Centre. File includes poster; photos; administrative letters; project outline.

 1

June-July,1995

2

11

Elektra/Miss Julie
La Mama’s theatre group at the Carlton Courthouse, Melbourne. File includes photos; reviews; first draft script for “Elektra”.

 1

14-25 March 2000

Part of Antipodes Festival.

2

11

Fall of the Roman Empire
Conceived and performed by Deborah Pollard and Victoria Spence. Ralph Wilson theatre, Gorman House. Includes flier; program; letter to David Branson from Pollard and Spence.

 1

Undated

2

12

Fertile Millennia
Co-production, Invisible Circle/Splinters. Includes fliers and workshop notes.

 1

1996

2

12

Ficky Stingers
Letter to David (on “Ficky Stingers” letterhead) regarding poetry-benefit.

 1

24 June 1992

2

12

Fire and Meat
La Mama presentation. Two one-act plays by Graham Henderson (‘Fire’ and ‘Meat’). File includes program and reviews.

 1

1990

2

12

Filthy Lucre
2 photos of outdoor musical performance, featuring D. Branson on violin.

 1

 Undated

2

12

Flowers of Gold
Splinters at the Old Kingston bus depots. Includes project proposal, administrative letters, grant acquittal, reviews.

 1

November-December 1992

2

12

Fuck Jesus Coke
Splinters at Woodman’s Inn, Grenfell St. Includes fliers, entitled “Heckling Instructions” (production-related, graffiti-based handouts).

 1

1990

2

12

Galactic Fantasy
Joy Warren of Solander Gallery at National Press Club. File includes letter to D. Branson from Joy Warren.

 1

25 August 1995

2

13

Gumboot Full of Blood
Splinters production. Files incl. income/expenditure estimate; fliers; funding-related letters (application and acquittal); petty cash receipts; hand-written production/performance notes.

 2

February-May 1988

2

13

Halcyon Days/The Furore/Blue Funk
Splinters at the Performance Space, Redfern.  File includes contract for hire of theatre; season program; production abstract; 2 copies of play – one typed, one handwritten.

 1

17-23 August 1992

2

13

Heinrich Heine – I, Fool of Fortune
Culturally Innovative Artists at the Street Theatre. Includes copy of script, marked for lighting/backdrop designer. Letter and contract for shooting and editing of productions ‘Heine’, ‘Conbrio’, ‘Short Stabs’ and “BAAL’. Program/reviews for ‘Heine’. Collection of writings about/by Heinrich Heine.

 1

November 1997

2

13

Holocaust
No apparent production company or location of performance. File consists of hand-written notes and pieces of script/prose—writing.

1

Undated

2

13

Howling in the Halls of Night
Splinters at the Performance Space. Includes Splinters publicity-sheet; reviews; budget; 1990 company report; handwritten text excerpts; administrative letters (including invitation to the production from D. Branson – addressee blank).

 2

May 1990

Also contains numerous untitled prose/script excerpts. Requires culling!  

2

13

I Can’t Explain
Project dealing with homeless youth in Canberra.  File consists of 3-page outline of aims/operations/schedule/developmental aspects.

 1

 Undated

No evidence of follow-through.

2

13

ICON
Splinters’ participation in 20^th Anniversary of Sydney Opera House. Files Includes administrative letters (Splinters/program organisers); festival outlines/programs; certificate of participation; outdoor stage/seating designs.

 2

April-October 1993 

2

13

Il Matrimanio Segreto (The Secret Marriage)
Co-production by Conbrio and Stopera, under the direction of D. Branson, for the National Multicultural Festival. File includes bound and marked copy of script; press release; review; set designs; material on history of Commedia del’arte. Also: invitation to D. Branson to attend Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre production of ‘Patapumfete’, by Dario Fo (co-presenter, the Italian Embassy). 

 1

11-15 February 1998

2

13

In Its Infancy
Splinters funding application (under D. Branson as individual applicant).

 1

July 1987

Part of Spoleto Fringe Festival, Victoria.

2

13

In Tristitia Hilaris in Hilaritate Tristis
(Shared bill; see file on “Desperate Acts”.) Includes fliers; heavily-marked scrapbook of production notes and script excerpts.

1

27 March-7 April 1987

Note on front page: “looks like David’s writing”.

2

14

Island of the Sun
Splinters/Jigsaw co-production. Springbank Island, 1991 File includes grant application, budget, set designs, hand-written production abstracts.

 2

October-November 1991

2

14

Ivan Dougherty Gallery – 25 Years of Performance
Splinters at the University of New South Wales. Includes administrative letters; project outline; loan agreement; diagram – “tricycle with cannon”.

1

December 1993-October 1994

2

14

Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Black Inc theatre and the Arts Council, performed at Gorman House. File consists of newspaper reviews (2); program.

1

 Undated

2

14

King Lear
Bell Shakespeare; Canberra Playhouse. File consists of newspaper reviews (3).

1

August 1998

2

14

Klub Kabarett
Various performers; Street Theatre. File consists of a single review (Canberra City News).

1

25 August 1994

2

14

Larger Than Life-Drawing
Splinters at Gorman House. Art Theory Workshop; semester 2, 1992. File consists of brief abstract.

1

1992

2

14

Last of the Sun
Splinters/Jigsaw Theatre. Springbank Island. File includes contract between the two companies; budget and logistics; Splinters company history (including member-bios).

1

1992

2

14

Lettice and Lovage
Looking Glass Theatre (co-starring DB) at Street Theatre. File includes program; reviews; heavily-marked script (in scrap-book) and complimentary ticket issue.

1

13-21 June 1995

2

14

Like Hell
Splinters at Old Canberra Brickworks. File incl. funding application to Australia Council; letter to Performing Arts Board from Gavin Findlay re grant application; rejection letter from Oz Council.

2 

27 February 1992

2

14

Long Time Earth View Gone
Splinters at Old Academy of Science. File incl. fliers; outlines; review; administrative letters and budget; application to Australia Council for funding. “Long Time Earth View Gone” – Appendix 1 - Fragged Mentations from the Welter: Synoptic Contribution to Terms of Acquittal of Production – Khalil Juredeini (30 September 1996)

1

 1996

2

14

Love Song in Asia Minor

MISSING FROM MATERIAL TRANSFERREDTO ACTHL

2

14

Love Songs To Welcoming Shores

MISSING FROM MATERIAL TRANSFERREDTO ACTHL

2

14

Lust On A Spiritual Plain
Splinters magazine. (Short-lived? One-time-only?) Consists of poems and sketches, on photocopied white and blue A4-sized paper.

1

May 1988 

2

14

Mag and Bag/Savage Love
Currong Contemporary Arts Theatre at Gorman House, Braddon. Double-bill directed by D. Branson. File includes reviews; photos; fliers; rehearsal schedule; script excerpts.

1

6-9 April, year??

2

14

Massive Love of Risk
Splinters at Corroboree Park, Ainslie. Includes stage program; review; notes.

1

September 1986

2

14

Medea
Powerhouse Players at The Open Stage, Carlton Victoria. Includes poster; heavily-marked copy of script; program.

1

18-27 May 1987

2

14

Metamorphosis
Jigsaw Theatre at Gorman House. Includes application for funding (MEAA); creative writing exercise (“Solitude, My Mother”); drawings of scorpions.

1

September 1993

2

14

Moneydreams
Splinters; location? File includes heavily-marked copy of script (titled “Patrick” – Troy?).

1

 Undated

2

14

Moving On
Dramatic Video. File consists of project outline; budget; letter from video producer Trevor Ellis to ACT Impact Youth Grants.

1

3 April 1991

2

14

Mutter Courage
Splinters presents Snuff Puppets; outside ANU Arts Centre. Includes posters; marked copy of script; review, Canberra Times.

1

May 1991

2

15

Mysteries
Splinters at the Playhouse Theatre. Includes scripts (copies both marked and unmarked); reviews; director’s note; administration between Splinters/Canberra Theatre Trust/Canberra Festival organisers; acquittal of Australia Council grant; individual employee contracts; rehearsal schedule; personalised opening-night invitation to David Branson; program and promotional postcards.

4

Performances 8-16 March 1996

2

15

The Naked Splinter
Performance and film night; Gertrude St Gallery, Fitzroy. File consists of single photocopied hand-drawn handbill.

1

Sat, July 30, year?

2

15

Nocturnal Submissions
Collection of short prose/poetry, by various authors. Includes 2 letters (8 January, 15 October) to David Branson, from literary editor David Lumsden. Also contains final draft of manuscript; copy of final product, as published.

1

January-October 1990

2

15

No Tickee/No Shirtee
File consists solely of handmade double-pass “tickees for two” (designed in the shape of old-style floppy discs).

1

 Undated

2

15

Old-Age Mutant Ninja Grannies
Impact Youth Grants application for money to produce a line of comics (“Heroes with a Handbag Comix”), by and for ACT Youth. Includes budget, outline, timeline, reference from MegaLo Arts Centre.

1

1991

2

15

The Oracle
Splinters; outdoor parade at Weston Park Maze. Includes flyers; reviews; budget; Australia Council application materials; requests for corporate sponsorship (on Splinters letterheads); press release; performance permits; source material for script; heavily-marked copy of script; acquittal and documentation of grant; contract for rental of 100 cassette machines (via “Acoustiguide”); box office reports; guest list; design plans.

10

 1^st May-30th November 1994

 2

15

Ornament and Crime
Splinters at Gorman House. Includes script; Splinters’ group statement (by David Branson); show statement; hire contract for Gorman House theatre use.

1

1-14, July 1991

2

15

Orpheus
Splinters’ contribution to National Opera Festival. File includes letter from Colin Slater, executive director of festival; script outlines; extracts from source-texts (Aristophanes/Euripides/Agamemnon).

1

November 1997-  August 1998

2

15

Pentagram
Canberra composer Jim Cotter; Street Theatre. File includes Muse magazine (Feb ’94); Canberra Times article; David’s heavily-marked copy of script.

1

February 1994

Initially planned for Feb ’94, rescheduled after industrial action re Street Theatre.

2

15

Persephone
Upfront Theatre at Ralph Wilson theatre, Gorman House. File contains Canberra Times review (Helen Musa).

1

Undated

15

Pet Shop/The Medium
Stopera at Street Theatre. File contains program and reviews

1

5-8 September 2001

2

16

Pinter Festival
Canberra Independent Artists at Street Theatre. Includes media release; reviews; photos/proof sheets.

1

September-October 1998

2

16

Piper at the Gates of Hell
Canberra Youth Theatre. Includes programs; reviews; marked script; media release; contact list; Hong Kong tour itinerary.

1

ACT: October 1994;     Hong Kong: November 1994

 Includes material on Hong Kong Tour

2

16

The Planets
Splinters and Temple State Illusions. Includes production outline (“The Planets – A Cosmic Spectacle in Seven Orbits”); application to (and receipt from) Australia Council for funding.

1

March 1997

2

16

Poets of the Machine
File contains tour itinerary, list of performers.

1

1989-90

2

16

Poverty
Application for Impact Youth Grant, skateboarding promotional project. Includes project outline; timeline; budget; references.

1

January-March 1990

2

16

Presenting the Self
Splinters performance/lecture at Canberra Institute of the Arts, Artforum project. Includes program; letters to Splinters from the Institute. 

1

June-October 1992

2

16

Project X
Short film project. File includes grant application and acquittal; letter of support.

1

October 1990

2

16

Punch
Canberra Independent Artists at Currong Theatre. Includes reviews; marked copy of script.

1

July 2001

2

16

Puppet Machine
Puppet show for public places and events in Canberra (basis for “Snuff Puppets”). Includes list of venues; outline; sketches; budget; puppet core-group CVs.

1

December 1990-June 1991

2

16

Rameses-Fictations
Splinters at John Edmund Theatre, Adelaide. Includes hiring agreement (for use of theatre); certificate of performance dates and ticket statements.

1

February 1988

2

16

The Red Chihuahua
Matthew Aberline, New Erektions; Ralph Wilson theatre, Gorman House. File contains reviews.

1

24-26 September, year?

2

16

The Revenger’s Tragedy
Canberra Independent Artists at ANU Arts Centre. File includes program and flyer; marked copy of script; heavily marked notebook; contact list; photographic proof-sheets.

1

1993

2

16

Ribbons of Steel
Closing of Newcastle BHP.

1

EMPTY FOLDER

2

16

Ritual of Time and Place
Splinters at the Performance Space. File consists of letter to AAP Media Marketing, requesting transmission of news services during a performance on 8 July, 1992.

1

Letter dated 7 July1992

2

16

Roading Home To Aunty
Splinters at the Canberra Contemporary Arts Space. Includes project outline; schedule; budget.

1

 May-July 1991

2

16

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Black Inc at Theatre 3, Ellery Cres., Acton. File includes program; flyer; contact list; script.

1

 Undated

2

16

A Sandcastle Culture
Jigsaw Theatre Educational Training Program. File contains 23-page Teacher’s Notes.

1

 Undated

2

16

Scent of the Wind
Self-contained part of a larger performance (“Michael plus four others”)

1

 Undated

Context and circumstances unclear.

2

16

Second Scream
PURE Theatre (David Branson/Graham Henderson) at Street Theatre. Files include funding applications; scripts; production schedules; photos; poster; programs; reviews.

3

1994

2

17

Second Stage
“An evening of cultural diversity with new music, poetry and art; successor to the Terrace Sessions. Files include poster (lists various performers); photos; fliers (for 27 January, 1996); performance schedule; review (Canberra Times).  

2

From 29 December 1995

2

17

Seen To Be Gone
Splinters at the Performance Space. Includes fliers; running order; production notes; loose performance excerpts.

1

19-23 August 1992

2

17

Servants
Floriade performance. File includes notes on running order.

1

Undated

2

17

Short Stabs
“A Season of Short Plays by Contemporary Australian Playwrights”. A co-production of CIA and Arts ACT, presented in three different programs. Venues include Tuggeranong Arts Centre and the Street Theatre (for December performances) and Gorman House (for December). Includes lists and descriptions of plays in each program; fliers; reviews; CIA program launch running order (for 19/05/98).

1

December 1997-May 1998 

2

17

Smug Club
Splinters at Street Theatre. File includes hand-drawn poster; list of performers; letter to DB from Street Theatre.

1

 Undated

2

17

Snuff Puppets
Splinters at Bogong Theatre, Gorman House; funding through Impact and CAPO. File includes theory papers on puppetry; photos of Snuff Puppets; fliers; stage notes; review; letter to DB from Jill and Liam Keneally (article attached).  

1

 Undated

2

17

Spinifex City
File consists solely of production outline.

1

 Undated

No indication of company or dates.

2

17

Spiral City
A Second Stage production, in three parts. File includes heavily-marked scripts for each part, with dates and performers.   

1

 June-August 1995

Within the marked scripts, a special focus on sound effects.

2

17

Spitting Chips
Jigsaw Theatre at Currong Theatre, Gorman House. File includes reviews; director’s notes on character-discussion; Actor’s Equity contract; poster for Jigsaw.

1

May-June 1994

2

17

Stray Toasters
Splinters/Canberra Repertory Theatre at Theatre 3. Files include production outline; funding application; heavily-marked copies of script.

4

Production run 24-28 June 1992 

2

17

A Streetcar Named Desire
Includes rehearsal/production schedule; letter to DB (from “Geoffrey”); quote from Tennessee Williams (1973).

1

 Undated

No indication of company or dates.

2

17

Stuffed, Carved and Plastered
St. Martin’s Youth Arts Centre at St. Martin’s Theatre, South Yarra. File consists solely of reviews.

1

 Dec. 1986

2

17

Summernats performance, “Machine War”
Splinters at Summernats (ACT)/Festival of Sydney. Includes production proposals; funding applications; production/rehearsal schedule; notes on explosive (and other) effects during performance.

1

December 1993-January 1994

2

17

Temple State
Voyager Productions/Beyond the Drain Dance Party. “Temple State” – an outdoor fire-sculpture produced by Splinters in the courtyard of EPI Centre – location?? - dance party. File consists of a one-page synopsis (by Clint Hurrell of Splinters) of all events to be staged as part of the larger event.

1

 Undated

2

17

Theatre of Spectacle
Splinters at Old Canberra Brickworks, Yarralumla. Includes invitations and Splinters promotional flyers.

1

22 May 1995

2

18

Theatrical Fiasco
Splinters at 279-281 Smith St. Collingwood Includes media release; photocopy of handbill; reviews.

1

 18-28 April 1990

Venue name?

2

18

Thirst Is A Place...Water To Burn
Splinters at National Exhibition Centre (NATEX). Includes outline/synopsis; performance reports; funding applications; promotional materials; reviews.

1

1993 

2

18

This Fantastic Lake
Splinters on ‘the Lake’. Includes designs for stage and sets.

1

 Undated

Lake Burley Griffin? Ginninderra?

2

18

This Side of Heaven
Tuggeranong Community Arts Centre; DB and Patrick Troy of Splinters involved. File includes rehearsal schedule and script.

1

1996

2

18

Thousand Mile Stare
The Choreographic Centre at Gorman House Arts Centre. Includes program; contract with D. Branson; script excerpts and notes; reviews.

1

12-14 June (1997/8?)

2

18

Threepenny Opera
CIA and Stopera at Street Theatre. Includes poster; script (and partial breakdown); set design; VIP invite list.

1

6-15 August 1998 

2

18

Tile Landscape
Application to Impact Youth Grants for design and construction of tile mosaic, Action bus shelter (Marcus Clarke St/Barry Drive, Civic). File consists of application form and supporting reference letter from ACT Skateboard Association.

1

February 1991

2

18

‘Tis A Pity She’s A Whore
Desperate Acts and Defunked Productions at Gorman House Arts Centre. Includes application for CAPO grant; budget; CV, Annette Salkeld; nude sketches.

1

July-August 1992

2

18

Trouble in the Works
Cafe Artists’ Collective, Harold Pinter festival at Dickson College. Includes programs; Collective manifesto (“Dapa Hawa”)

1

 Undated

2

18

Utopia/Dystopia
Splinters’ 10^th Anniversary celebrations at Springbank Island. Includes Muse magazine interview with David Branson; publicity materials; budgets (“finance and personnel”); set designs; artists’ contracts; reviews; postcards. 

7

15-25 November1995 

2

18

The Vengeance
Performing Arts Centre, Wesley college, Glen Waverley. Consists of cast list and rehearsal schedule.

1

 July-September Year?

2

19

Village of Captive Souls
Splinters, South-west regional NSW Tour, 1996. Tour includes Wagga, Cootamundra, Hay, Deniliquin, and Wodonga.  Files include production outline; company manifesto and members-list for tour; invitations; reviews; VOCS stickers;  photocopies of “$50 Reward” fliers for stolen Splinters banner

3

 27 June-4 September 1996

Grant correspondence is with Gavin Findlay of Splinters.

2

19

Violine
The Company at Currong Contemporary Arts Theatre. Includes marked script, director’s notes, production flier and correspondence between David Branson and playwright Joe Woodward. 

1

April-May 1996

2

19

Viva Verdi
Stopera at the Street Theatre. Includes rehearsal schedule; marked script (translated, Italian into English; audiovisual cues).

1

November 2001

2

19

Waiting for Godot
Waiting Women present at Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre. File consists of single newspaper advertisement.

1

 October-November year?

2

19

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
The Company at the Rehearsal Room, Canberra Theatre Centre. Includes production outline; preliminary budget; program; review.

1

January-February 1992

2

19

Whirled On A Fatal Floor
Splinters at the Old Canberra Brickworks. Includes budget; press release; contracts; marked copy of script; notes; DB’s open-letter to Yarralumla residents; handbills; reviews.

1

 8-11 March 1989

2

19

The Wilderness Room (First Fleet Project)
Gilgul Productions. Unspecified location (reference to “gallery venue”). File consists solely of Artistic Report by director Barry Kosky.

1

 Undated

2

19

Wildest Dreams (play reading)
The Company at the Currong Contemporary Arts Theatre. File incl. DB’s marked copy of script; reviews; notes to DB.

1

June 29 1997

2

19

Winter of the Rutting Moon
Splinters at the Performance Space, Redfern. File incl. press-release; handbills; contact list; “possible advert” list; fax correspondence; box office record. 

1

July 1991 

2

19

Women Beware Women
Splinters at Old Adelaide Gaol. Includes press release; review; program; material on history of show.

1

 22^nd Feb-7 March - year??

Also: 2^nd production, ANU English Dept. Campus Amateur Dramatic Society: Sept-Oct – year??

2

19

Youth Party Day
Splinters on Springbank Island, as part of Weston Creek Community Service. Includes administrative correspondence and schedule outline.

1

19 November 1995 

2

41

A CHEERY SOUL
(Company? Location?) Folder contains photocopied script, pasted in scrapbook; on facing pages, pencil sketches of stage designs.

1

2

41

OFFENDING THE AUDIENCE
Green folder, contains photocopy of OTA script; also various letters, fliers and dramaturgical notes. Must still be properly sifted through.

1

2

41

ARIODANTE
Folder contains heavily marked copy of score.

1

Company? Location?

2

41

1 red folder: personal correspondence and journals. Folder contains 7 pages of handwritten notes, incl. history of staging “Midsummer Nights”; notes on John Hall, Cliff Hadley, Peter Ferago; sketch of stage-design; lighting designs (for “BAAL”?).

1

2

41

1 large black cardboard folder, containing heavily marked copy of several scripts: “The Desert”; “Heimann” (actual title “Terrible Knowledge”?)/”Snowstorm”/”Ulrike Meinhof Sings”/”Thirst Is A Place”. Also, excerpts from unnamed script; characters incl. Ursa Minor and the Water Woman.

 1

3

20-24, 49, 66-67

SPLINTERS COMPANY ADMINISTRATION

3

20

1991 Community Housing Application
Application Form (Anthony S. Vaskess, Splinters Director/Secretary); Community Organisation Rental Housing Assistance Program – Sept. 1990; ACT Housing and Community Services Bureau – Letter of Support for “Splinters” (Rachel Lalor, IMPACT Project Officer, 6/3/91; Addressed To Assistant Manager Community Housing Section, Janine O’Dwyer); Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Letter of Support for Splinters’ Housing Application (Anne Virgo Director CCAP Inc., 7/3/90); ACT Ministry for Health, Education and the Arts, Letter of Support for ACT Arts Bureau Grants (2) To Splinters Upon Incorporation of Company (Meredith Hinchliffe Senior Project Officer, 11 March 1991)

 1

3

20

1991 Australia Council Creative Development Application
Information Form for Applicants; application for Splinters show, CROWD THEORY; correspondence between Performing Arts Board of Australia Council and Splinters administrator, Andrew Miller.

1

April-June 1991

3

20

1991 Financial ‘Budgetry’
Three handwritten pages, detailing Splinters income and expenditure for productions and workshops.

1

1 July 1990-25 February 1991

3

20

1992 Audited Financial Statements
Auditor’s report; income and expenditure; statement by the committee of management.

1

Year ended 31 December, 1992

3

20

Manifesto and Rationale/Minutes, Management Committee Meeting, 4/5/92
Manifesto Draft 1 – “Spontaneous Combustion”; biographies of Management Committee; briefing for Splinters meeting, 9/11/1991; company mission statements; minutes for meeting, 4/5/1992.

1

1991-1992

3

20

1992 Theatrical Actors Award Contract (Actor’s Equity; Media Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA); Entertainment Industry Employers’ Association)
Memo from MEAA to ACT Theatre Companies re new minimum rates of pay (as of 1/2/1995); Actors Theatrical Award 1992 (Actors Equity), standard contract of service for single plays and/or productions (multiple copies); other legal documents from MEAA regarding performing theatrical employees’ rights and award-rates.

1

1982-1995

3

20

South-East Asia/Audiovisual Project – Application to ACT Arts Bureau (Lushun Tan)
 Dept. Of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Guidelines for Funding Assistance; ACT Arts Bureau – Individual Grant 1992 Arts Program; Australia Abroad – the Performing Arts in South-East Asia (the David Thompson report); untitled tour itinerary; original newspaper article on Dept. Foreign Affairs: “Australian cultural assault on Asia making an impact”.

1

1987-1992 

3

20

Business Plans, 1993-1995
Constitution – Articles of Association; “Explanation of the changes to Splinters constitution 1994”; “A Report on Splinters Inc and Proposed Business Plan” – Michael Mitchener (draft, May 1995; completed document, July 19995)”; “Policy on Membership and Decision-making”, by Gavin Findlay (Company secretary), 28/4/1993.

1

April 1993-July 1995 

3

20

1993 Budget/Member Survey/Company Structure/Internal Correspondence
Splinters Incorporated – Income and Expenditure  Statement – Year ended 31 December, 1993; report on 1993 program; member-lists; letter from member Sarah Moss, confirming membership.

1

1993 

3

20

1993 Articles of Association
2 copies of 14-page document. Valid as at 23 May, 1993; 21 June, 1993

1

23 May-2 June 1993

3

20

1993 NSW Arts and Heritage Project/Student Services Australia
Letter (20/7/1993) to Patrick Troy from Student Services Australia regarding SSA/National Union of Students’ Arts and Heritage project; handwritten receipt for “fabrication of breast-plates” ($500; 13/7/1993) and “hire of DAT recorder and tape” ($200; 15/7/1993).

1

 July 1993

3

20

1993 Jobskills Placement Program (CES)
Jobskills information for employees (participant, Lushun Tan); “Jobskills Employers Handbook – Clerical Assistants, Community Organisations (15/2/93 to13/8/93)”; correspondence between Splinters and Jobskills administrators; yellow envelope containing multiple copies of Department of Social Security Separation Certificate/Information for Employers; correspondence and registration forms for employment of Anthony Vaskess and Lushun Tan under Jobskills program.

1

 February 1993-October 1994

3

20

1994 Master class and Visiting Teachers Grant (Janine Peacock)
Correspondence between Janine Peacock, Splinters and the Performing arts Board of the Australia Council, regarding operation of workshops and classes; application and approval of grant for same.

1 

April-October 1994

3

20

1994 Grant Application – Administrative Improvement Consultancy (Alan Mathiesson)
Correspondence between Australia Council and Splinters (Gavin Findlay) regarding rejection of application for Improvement of management grant.

1

November 1993-April 1994

3

20

1994 Documentation of Grants – Applications, Submissions and Acquittals
Correspondence between Australia Council and Splinters (Gavin Findlay) regarding application, approval and request for acquittal of grant ($2000) for collation of Splinters material 1985-present.

1

 April 1994-January 1995

Where is this collated material currently stored?

3

20

1994 Financial Statements
Profit and loss statement (January-September 1994) for Splinters Inc; list of assets and liabilities, November 1994; agenda for Annual General Meeting, Sunday 23^rd May 1993; Splinters Inc. annual trial balance, 1/1-31/12/1994.

1

May 1993-December 1994

3

20

1994 Program and Budget (Revised)
Splinters application to the Australia Council for Creative Development; Members newsletter (22/3/1994); 1994 Revised program and Budget (dealing with specific shows); Splinters Inc. Articles of Association (1993 version).