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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 Melbourne Theatre Company was founded in 1953 by John Sumner as the Union Theatre Repertory Company, based at the Union Theatre of the University of Melbourne's Student Union building. [3] Sumner's original idea was to present a season of plays over those months when the Union Theatre was not being used by student drama societies.
The Union theatre section was partially retained, leaving only a single Gothic window to the north, and four of the roof trusses. [ 65 ] With the construction of a new Student Precinct in the south east corner of the campus in 2022, demolition of the old Union has been mooted.
The then Union Theatre Repertory Company (later the MTC) used the building for half the year as their city venue from 1960, and took over the building five years later. Architect Robin Boyd renovated the theatre and decorated it in shades of red. The theatre closed in 1994 when the MTC moved fully to the then Victorian Arts Centre. [1]
The Union Theatre, [3] also known as the Union House Theatre, [4] was founded around 1953, along with the Union Theatre Repertory Company. A large number of notable Australian performers, writers and other notable people did some of their earliest work there, including Cate Blanchett , Barry Humphries , Steve Vizard , Barrie Kosky , Graeme ...
Classes at the University of Melbourne began in 1853 and in 1862 the university established Australia's first medical school. [5] Appointed as professor of anatomy and pathology at the university in 1882, H. B. Allen oversaw the design process of the new building. His first task was to create a large and efficient museum.
Printable version ; In other projects ... Union Theatre may refer to : Union Theatre, London, England ... Melbourne, at the University of Melbourne; Union Theatre ...
The Old Physics Conference Centre is a two-storey neo-Gothic style building divided into two wings. The building housed a lecture theatre, laboratory, workshop and apparatus room. Its building elevation consists of buttressed stone walls, square headed windows and turreted gable ends. The roof has a steep pitch covered with slates. [10]