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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 ...
On March 12, 1964, Café La MaMa was officially renamed La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (La MaMa E.T.C). The "passing of the hat" ended with this transition from café to a members-only club. [5] Even operating as a club, this space was often visited by civic authorities, frequently interrupting performances.
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 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.
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.
The Polish Girl (Playbox Theatre, 1977) Stravanganaza (Napier Street Theatre, 1992) No Room for Dreamers (La Mama Theatre/Spoleto Fringe Festival, 1986) Life (Randall Theatre, St. Martins Theatre, 1991) The Secret Garden (Rippon Lea, 1994) Anne of Green Gables (Rippon Lea, 1996) Fresh Pleasures (Pleasance Theatre, London, 2005)