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Repertory Club
The Playhouse Theatre was a theatre in central Perth, Western Australia. It was purpose-built for live theatre in 1956 and remained one of the city's principal venues for performing arts for over half a century until replaced by the State Theatre Centre of Western Australia in January 2011. It was home to the National Theatre Company from its establishment until 1984, and then to its successor, the Western Australian Theatre Company, until its disbandment in 1990. The theatre was demolished in October 2012 as part of a redevelopment of Cathedral Square. History Background On 11 December 1919 the Repertory Club was established in Perth, with about forty members. Its earliest productions were ''The Amazons'' and ''Lady Windermere's Fan'', staged in 1920. The Repertory Club initially worked out of a basement room at the Palace Hotel, then a room in Commerce Buildings, King Street, before moving into a cottage in Pier Street from 1921 to 1932. Their next move was to the old co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theater (structure)
A theater, theatre or playhouse, is a structure where theatrical works, performing arts, and musical concerts are presented. The theater building serves to define the performance and audience spaces. The facility usually is organized to provide support areas for performers, the technical crew and the audience members, as well as the stage where the performance takes place. There are as many types of theaters as there are types of performance. Theaters may be built specifically for certain types of productions, they may serve for more general performance needs or they may be adapted or converted for use as a theater. They may range from open-air amphitheaters to ornate, cathedral-like structures to simple, undecorated rooms or black box theaters. A thrust stage as well as an arena stage are just a few more examples of the multitude of stages where plays can occur. A theatre used for opera performances is called an opera house. A theater is not required for performance (as in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Majesty's Theatre, Western Australia
His Majesty's Theatre is an Edwardian Baroque architecture, Edwardian Baroque Theatre (structure), theatre in Perth, Western Australia. Constructed from 1902 to 1904 during a period of great growth for the town, the theatre is located on the corner of Hay Street, Perth, Hay Street and King Street, Perth, King Street in Perth central business district, Perth's central business district. At the time the theatre was opened, it was the largest theatre in Australia, and had seating for over 2,500 people. It is also thought to be the first reinforced concrete building constructed in Perth. Over its life, the theatre has hosted large-scale musicals, ballet, opera, Shakespearean plays and many other events. It has been renovated numerous times, most notably in the late 1970s when the state government purchased it and performed an ornamental restoration whilst modernising the facilities provided. Since that time, it has been the home of the West Australian Ballet and West Australian Op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robyn Nevin
Robyn Anne Nevin (25 September 1942) is an Australian actress recognised with the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards and the JC Williamson Award at the Helpmann Awards for her outstanding contributions to Australian theatre performance art. Former head of both the Queensland Theatre Company and the Sydney Theatre Company, she has directed more than 30 productions and acted in more than 80 plays, collaborating with internationally renowned artists, including Richard Wherrett, Simon Phillips, Geoffrey Rush, Julie Andrews, Aubrey Mellor, Jennifer Flowers, Cate Blanchett and Lee Lewis. Nevin is also known for her roles in films and televisions series, including ''Water Under the Bridge'' (1980) as Shasta, role that earned her a Logie Awards and a Penguin Award, '' Upper Middle Bogan'' (2014) and '' Top of the Lake'' (2014), and international film acting as Councillor Dillard in ''The Matrix Reloaded'' and '' The Matrix Revolutions'' (both 2003), and as Edna in the horror f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honor Blackman
Honor Blackman (22 August 1925 – 5 April 2020) was an English actress and singer, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in '' The Avengers''Aaker, Everett (2006). ''Encyclopedia of Early Television Crime Fighters''. McFarland & Company, Inc. . P. 58. (1962–1964), Bond girl Pussy Galore in '' Goldfinger'' (1964), Julia Daggett in '' Shalako'' (1968), and Hera in '' Jason and the Argonauts'' (1963). She is also known for her role as Laura West in the ITV sitcom '' The Upper Hand'' (1990–1996). Early life Honor Blackman was born on 22 August 1925 at 200 Cumberland Road, Canning Town, West Ham, England, the daughter of Edith Eliza (Stokes) and Frederick Blackman, a civil service statistician. She attended North Ealing Primary School and Ealing County Grammar School for Girls. For her 15th birthday, her parents gave her acting lessons and began her training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1940. While attending the Guildhall School, Blackman worked as a clerical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell (born Warren Misell; 14 January 1926 – 14 November 2015) was an English actor best known for playing bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner. In the 1950s, Mitchell appeared on the radio programmes '' Educating Archie'' and ''Hancock's Half Hour''. He also performed minor roles in several films. In the 1960s, he rose to prominence in the role of Alf Garnett in the BBC television sitcom '' Till Death Us Do Part'' (1965–75), created by Johnny Speight, which won him a Best TV Actor BAFTA in 1967. He reprised the role in the television sequels '' Till Death...'' ( ATV, 1981) and '' In Sickness and in Health'' (BBC, 1985–92), and in the films '' Till Death Us Do Part'' (1969) and '' The Alf Garnett Saga'' (1972). Mitchell's other film appearances include '' Three Crooked Men'' (1958), '' Carry On Cleo'' (1964), '' The Spy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Barry
Stephen Leon Reid Barry (4 July 1945 – 18 October 2000) was a British arts administrator, drama producer, and artistic director. He was chief executive of two Edinburgh theatres, the Festival and the King's, prime venues of the famed Edinburgh International Festival. In his short career, he also supervised artistic live-theatre rejuvenations at The Playhouse Theatre (Perth), Australia, the Lyceum Theatre (Sheffield) and the Theatre Royal, Bath.Allen, PauStephen Barry (obituary)''The Guardian'', London, 9 November 2000 Early life Barry was born in Welwyn Garden City. His father, Gerald, was editor of the ''News Chronicle'', and his first contact with the theatre was through his mother, the actress Vera Lindsay. He was educated at Marlborough College and Manchester University, where he studied drama under Hugh Hunt and Stephen Joseph. In 1973, he married Jacqueline Lindsay with whom he had one son and one daughter. Professional career Stephen Barry trained as a direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Metcalfe
Edgar Metcalfe, (18 September 1933 – 13 September 2012) was an English-born actor, director and author, who widely contributed to theatre in Perth, Western Australia. Personal life Edgar Metcalfe was born in 1933 in Burnley, Lancashire, United Kingdom. Edgar's father died before he was born and his mother before he was one year old. His aunt and uncle adopted him and he went to live on a farm in Lancashire. When Metcalfe was 10, his adoptive parents moved to the seaside town of Blackpool, where he gained a scholarship to the Arnold House School, a local boys' grammar school. In 2010, Metcalfe returned to Blackpool, intending to retire there, but he soon returned to Perth, finding himself somewhat disillusioned with the differences between what he remembered and what he found.Stephen Bevis"Old stager gives name to new playhouse" ''The West Australian – Arts'', 22 March 2011 He died in Perth, WA, on 13 September 2012. Career Actor On leaving school, rather than go to drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Teahouse Of The August Moon (play)
''The Teahouse of the August Moon'' is a 1953 play written by John Patrick (dramatist), John Patrick adapted from the 1951 novel by Vern Sneider. The play was later adapted for The Teahouse of the August Moon (film), film in 1956, and the 1970 Broadway musical ''Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen''. The play opened on Broadway in October 1953. It was a Broadway hit, running for 1,027 performances and winning awards including the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of the Year, the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, and the Tony Award. The play, well regarded for several decades, came to seem old-fashioned with increased understanding and sensitivity of racial issues. The portrayals of the Okinawa characters in the play were seen as offensive, and the generational humor began to lose its impact in the 1970s. Plot summary In the aftermath of World War II, the island of Okinawa was occupied by the American military. Captain Fisby, a young army officer, is transferred to a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes () are 23 annual awards given by Columbia University in New York City for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters". They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes in 2024 were awarded in these categories, with three finalists named for each: Each winner receives a certificate and $15,000 in cash, except in the Public Service category, where a gold medal is awarded. History Newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer gave money in his will to Columbia University to launch a journalism school and establish the Pulitzer Prize. It allocated $250,000 to the prize and scholarships. He specified "four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one in education, and four traveling scholarships". Updated 2013 by Sig Gissler. After his death on October 29, 1911, the first Pulitzer Prizes were awarded June 4, 1917; they are now announced in May. The '' Chicago Trib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Patrick (dramatist)
John Patrick (May 17, 1905November 7, 1995) was an American playwright and screenwriter. Biography He was born John Patrick Goggin in Louisville, Kentucky. His parents soon abandoned him, and he spent a delinquent youth in foster homes and boarding schools. At age 19, he secured a job as an announcer at KPO Radio in San Francisco, California, marrying Mildred Legaye in 1925. He wrote over 1,000 scripts for the '' Cecil and Sally'' radio program (originally titled ''The Funniest Things''), broadcast between 1928 and 1933. The show's sole actors were Patrick and Helen Troy. In 1937, Patrick wrote adaptations for NBC's ''Streamlined Shakespeare'' series, guest-starring Helen Hayes. Produced on a tight budget, his first play, ''Hell Freezes Over'', directed by Joshua Logan, had a brief run on Broadway in 1935. However, the credit opened the door for him as a Hollywood scriptwriter. His unpublished play ''Glory Lane,'' was premiered in January 1935, at the Golden Bough Playhouse i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brutalist Architecture
Brutalist architecture is an architectural style that emerged during the 1950s in the United Kingdom, among the reconstruction projects of the post-war era. Brutalist buildings are characterised by Minimalism (art), minimalist constructions that showcase the bare building materials and Structural engineering, structural elements over decorative design. The style commonly makes use of exposed, unpainted concrete or brick, angular geometric shapes and a predominantly monochrome colour palette; other materials, such as steel, timber, and glass, are also featured. Descended from Modernism, brutalism is said to be a reaction against the nostalgia of architecture in the 1940s. Derived from the Swedish phrase ''nybrutalism'', the term "new brutalism" was first used by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson for their pioneering approach to design. The style was further popularised in a 1955 essay by architectural critic Reyner Banham, who also associated the movement with the Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iwan Iwanoff
Iwan Iwanoff (; 2 July 1919 – 7 October 1986) also known as Iwan Nickolow () and Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff () was a Bulgarian-born Australian architect known for working in the modernist and brutalist architectural styles. Iwan Iwanoff studied architecture in Europe before arriving in Perth to work as an architect. He eventually became renowned for his design characteristic which is mainly working with concrete blocks. Biography Early years and education Iwan Iwanoff was born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria into an artistic family, with his father, Nickolai Iwanow, a journalist and a poet, and his mother, Maria, née Schopowa. Originally named Iwan Nickolow Iwanow, he changed it to Iwan Nickoloff Iwanoff during his educational years, and shortened it later to Iwan Iwanoff. After enduring a period of training in the military, Iwan Iwanoff studied fine arts under a famous Bulgarian Watercolourist and was himself a fine painter. As a result of his talents, he was offered a scholarship to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
