Australian Plays
* Summer of the Seventeenth Doll - debut at Union Theatre 28 Nov 2955 then toured
*We Find the Bunyip by Ray Mathew at the Independent in 1955 - given a sponsorship guarantee by the Trust see here
*The Tintookies - puppets - debut 1956
*Ned Kelly - debut Oct 1956 - disastrous production*The Shifting Heart - Oct 1957 - done a few times
*Curly on the Rack - Sept 1958 - rejected by ABC
*Little Fella Bindi - puppets - 1958 toured
*Lola Montez - Union Theatre early 1958, Sydney in Oct 1958
*The Bastard Country - May 1959
*The Magic Pudding - puppets - July 1960
*Mystery of the Hansom Cab - gaslight version - Jan 1961 at Union Theatre - filmed by GTV9
*The One Day of the Year - April 1961 (Adelaide debut) - offered to ABC but done by GTV-9
*Naked Island - Jan 1962 Union Theatre in Syd - ABC wanted to to it but UK had rights
*Shipwreck by Douglas Stewart - Jan 1962 Union Theatre in Syd - rejected by ABC
*The Break by Phil Albright - Feb 1962 Union Theatre in Syd - rejected by ABC
*The Ballad of Angel's Alley - July 1962 Union in Melb
*The Ham Funeral by Patrick White - July 1962 in Syd (Adelaide debut)
*Season at Sasparilla by Patrick White - Oct 1962 in Melb (Adelaide debut)
*The No-Hopers by Peter Batey - Dec 1962 in Melbourne
*And the Big Men Fly by Alan Hopgood - June 1963 in Melbourne
*The Golden Legion of Cleaning Women by Alan Hopgood - June 1964 in Melb - by June 1964 trust said that sixteen Australian plays professionally produced see here
*Night of the Ding Dong by Ralph Peterson - Aug 1966 - already been performed
*Barbara by Mona Brand - Aug 1966 New Theatre
*Private Yuk Objects - Oct 1966 Melbourne
*Burke's Company by Bill Reed - May 1968 at Russell St Melbourne
*The Explorers - puppet show Jan 1969
More detail
1955
Sydney - 27 Jul 1955 The Sleeping Prince (d Lionel Harris), 5 Aug 1955 Separate Tables (d Lionel Harris), 11 Oct-5 Nov 1955 Medea (with Judith Anderson first production of Aust Drama company) (then toured), Nov 1955 The Little Hut (d Lionel Harris)
Union Theatre - Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (28 Nov 1955)
1956
The Tintookies - profit 1,458, Twelfth Night, 11 Jan-27 Mar 1956 The Doll, 31 Jan 1956 The Boyfriend (then tour), 19 May 1956 The Rivals, 12 Jun-7 July 1956 The Tinktookie, 14 Jul 1956 Witness for the Prosecution, 3 Oct -27 Oct Ned Kelly* (lost 17,118), 20 nov 1956 The Rainmaker
ACT - The Day Before Tomorrow*
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll* - 6,834 profit, London, 27, 421 in 1959
- Ned Kelly* - lost 9,317
- THe Beggar's Opera - lost 8,097
- 27 April Hamlet (toured)
- The Relapse (toured)
- 4 Oct 1957 The Shifting Heart - profit 9,780 see here - also 1,831
- Look Back in Anger - lost 2,997
-The Happiest Days of Your LIfe 23 Dec 1957 Cinderella
1 Jan 1958 The Shifting Heart again
3 Sept 1958 Curly on the Rack* - lost 5,621
22 Oct 1958 Lola Montez * - lost 31,581
6-30 May 1959 The Bastard Country* 3 June Long Day's Journey into nIght 1-25 July 1959 Julius Caesar
- Slaughter of St Teresa's Day*
- Man and Superman
* UTRC: Waltz of Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Venus Observed, Rape of the Belt* Ah Wilderness
*The Hostage - lost 8827
*Candida - lost 4619
*Charley's Aunt - flop - lost 7116
*The Magic Pudding - lost 1085
*UTRC- Roots, She Stoops to Conquer, Visit to a Small Planet, Taste of Honey, See How they Run
*Taste of Honey
*Glass Menagerie
*The One Day of the Year* - lost 1867
*Merchant of Venice
*Lock Up Your Daughters - lost 3870
*Come Blow Your Horn - gained 6158
*The Most Happy Fella - lost 10172
*UTRC: Mystery of Hansom Cab, See How they Run, Importance of Being Earnest, Five Finger Exercise, Lady's Not for Burning, The Guardsman, Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Rhinoserous, Thataway the Kings Go, Romanoff and Juliet
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