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In recent years, La Mama artists such as The Rabble, Daniel Schlusser and Nicola Gunn have gone on to perform at the Melbourne International Festival and Melbourne Theatre Company's NEON Festival of Independent Theatre. La Mama veteran Jack Charles continues to work across the country, and in 2013 La Mama regular Ben Grant was touring ...
In his early years, Blundell worked at La Mama Theatre, the Pram Factory, Hoopla, the Playbox Theatre Company, and the Melbourne Theatre Company. He directed and acted in the premiere performance of Jack Hibberd's play Dimboola at La Mama. His first television appearance was as an uncredited extra in the debut episode of Homicide (1964).
It is based on the stage play Disclosure by Helen Collins as presented at La Mama Theatre (Melbourne) during the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival. [2] It was shot on location in Melbourne , Australia .
Part of the Theatres Building of the Arts Centre Melbourne [21] The Sumner, Southbank Theatre: 140 Southbank Boulevard: 2009: 550: theatre: Home of the Melbourne Theatre Company [22] Tower Theatre, Coopers Malthouse: 113 Sturt Street: 2005: 99: theatre: Converted from a brewery built in 1892 [10] Plenary Hall, Melbourne Convention and ...
One of the results of the trip was the founding by Burstall's wife, Betty, of La Mama Theatre, in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton. La Mama opened on 30 July 1967, modelled on the "off-off-Broadway" theatre of the same name in New York City.
Jones joined La Mama Theatre in 1973 as a performer and administrator and acted in a number of productions. She took over from Betty Burstall [4] as artistic director in late 1976 and remained in that role until 2023. [5] [6] In 1985 in an effort to redress gender balance, she found six women directors to workshop plays, half of them by women. [4]
La Mama (band), a German disco group La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in East Village, Manhattan, New York City, founded 1961 La Mama Theatre (Melbourne) in Carlton, Victoria, Australia, founded 1967
The La Mama Theatre near the University of Melbourne was created by director Betty Burstall in 1967 to recreate the vibrancy and immediacy of the small on-off Broadway ventures in New York. The production of Australian plays was almost non-existent at the time, and La Mama became the venue for the performance of new experimental Australian theatre.