''Dimboola'' is a 1973 film. It is a filmed recording of a performance of
Jack Hibberd
John Charles Hibberd (12 April 1940 – 30 August 2024) was an Australian playwright best known for his plays '' Dimboola'' (1969) and '' A Stretch of the Imagination'' (1972). He was also a physician.
Biography
John Charles Hibberd was bor ...
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play of the same name by the
Australian Performing Group
The Australian Performing Group (APG) was a Melbourne-based experimental theatre repertory ensemble formed in an official capacity in 1970 from the La Mama Theatre (Melbourne), La Mama theatre group. Created to address a dissatisfaction with Austr ...
at
The Pram Factory.
Cast
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Bruce Spence
Bruce Robert Spence (born 17 September 1945) is a New Zealand-born Australian actor. Spence has amassed over 100 film and television credits and has also acted in theatre.
Career
Spence won an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in the 197 ...
*Fay Mokotow
*Wilfred Last
*Rosslyn de Winter
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Tim Robertson
Tim Robertson is an Australian actor and writer.
Early life
Robertson was born in 1944 in Braintree, Essex, in the UK. He relocated to Australia in 1952.
He is a graduate of the University of Western Australia (1965). After graduating, he ta ...
*Jan Friedl
*Charles Kemp
*Robert Meldrum
*Evelyn Krape
*Peter Cummins
*Jude Kuring
*Eileen Chapman
*Bill Garner
*Kerry Dwyer
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Jack Charles
Jack Charles (5 September 1943 – 13 September 2022), also known as Uncle Jack Charles, was an Australian stage and screen actor and activist, known for his advocacy for Aboriginal people. He was involved in establishing the first Indigenous t ...
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Max Gillies
Maxwell Irvine Gillies AM (born 16 November 1941) is an Australian actor and a founding member of the 1970s experimental theatre company, the Australian Performing Group.
Early life and education
Gillies studied art teaching at Frankston Te ...
Production
The film was shot during an actual performance at the Pram Factory, Carlton, Melbourne on the evening of 22 May 1973.
External links
''Dimboola''at Oz Movies
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1973 films
Australian comedy-drama films
Australian films based on plays
1970s English-language films
1970s Australian films
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