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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 ...
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 group. . Created to address a dissatisfaction with Australia's theatrical climate, the APG focused primarily on producing new works by then-emerging Australian writers such as Barry Oakley, Jack Hibberd, Kris Hemensley, Bill Garner ...
Betty Margaret Burstall AM (born Betty Margaret Rogers 4 February 1926 – 14 June 2013) was an Australian theatre director who founded the La Mama Theatre in Melbourne in 1967. [1] Burstall and her theatre are credited with leading the growth of contemporary theatre in Melbourne during the 1960s and 1970s.
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]
It was Bovell's first play, written in 1984, when he lived in Carlton, Melbourne. [1] After Dinner was first performed at La Mama Theatre in 1988, [2] and went on to be performed throughout Australia. It is still regularly performed. [3] [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
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Dimboola is a play by the Australian author Jack Hibberd.It premiered in 1969 at La Mama Theatre under the direction of Graeme Blundell. [1] The whole action of the play supposedly takes place at a real wedding at which the actors represent the families of the bride and groom and the audience are "invited guests".