Companies and venues may come and go, but theatre in Sydney over the last hundred years is a story of growth: more venues, with more seats, presenting more performances in a wider range of genres to more spectators. This is the finding of…
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Performance MemoriesAccess to the Dennis Wolanski Library collection
Mapping the story of theatre in Sydney over one hundred years in a new exhibition at UNSW Library Theatre is sometimes imagined as an art form at risk – from talking pictures in the 1920s and television in the 1950s to coronavirus in the…
The first part of this blog generated irresistible questions. Why was Sir Tyrone Guthrie (1900-1971) such a towering figure? Why was he obsessed with Oedipus? Why was there such a mixed reaction to the local production? And what sources lead to a deeper…
Work on the Wolanski collection has underscored the vital role UNSW has played – and continues to play – in Australian cultural life. It has illustrated the value of bringing photographs, objects, oral history interviews and other production material together to gain a…
Welcome to the Performance Memories Project blog. As part of project, we have now made available as downloads more than 160,000 unedited Dennis Wolanski Library collection records from the project site. The records are in three spreadsheets – a subject list of research…