The Emerald Hill Theatre was a theatre company and venue in Melbourne, Australia, which operated from 1962 to 1966. The 140-seat Emerald Hill Theatre was at 250 Dorcas St, South Melbourne, in a former church converted by architect
Robin Boyd.
It was established by director
Wal Cherry
Walter John Cherry (10 May 1932 – 7 March 1986) was an Australian theatre director, producer, and manager. He was also an academic, playwright, and drama scholar. He was Foundation Chair of Drama at Flinders University in Adelaide from 1967 unt ...
and actor, writer/director
George Whaley. Cherry described it being inspired by three characteristics appearing in Australian arts at the time: "dissatisfaction with the pose of the Artist as Garret Dweller, impractical and effete; a desire to break through the elite circle which surrounds the arts into a more popular culture;
nda definite need to bring the arts closer together in order to put pressure on the community".
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Former theatres in Melbourne