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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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.
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.
Perfect English (La Mama Theatre 1990) [46] Hymie (La Mama Theatre 1991) [47] A Dickins Christmas (Playbox Theatre Melbourne 1992) [48] The Foibles (Budinskis Theatre of Exile 1992) [49] Funny Fiction at La Mama [with Wendy Harmer, William Henderson & Sue-Ann Post] (La Mama Theatre/Melbourne International Comedy Festival 1992) [50]
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]
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.