Contributor |
Dr Amy Gladys McGrath OAM
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Other Names |
Amy Cumpston
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Gender |
Female |
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Administrator, Librettist, Playwright
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Notes |
Amy McGrath (nee Cumpston) has had a very versatile career as an author – writing poetry, plays, musicals, epic novels and books on electoral politics and certain proteins and sugars in food.
Amy McGrath was attracted to the art of poetry by friends at university, then set out to learn the craft by writing eighty sonnets. Tempted into writing burlesque comic TV scripts for eminent actor, John Bluthal, in early television, she acquired a taste for play writing which brought her into an association with the theatre at a time when drama was undergoing a revolution in the way plays were being staged.
A live-in seminar at the University of New England, organised by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust, led her to found two showcase theatres for new dramatic work. One was the Mews Theatre, seating 60, for play readings in an old coach house in the family backyard in Centennial Park, Sydney. The other was the Australian Theatre, seating 160, in Coronation Hall, Lennox St. Newtown, for public performance. In the 1970’s the Australian Theatre provided flexible staging where many newcomers – actors, directors and writers – could develop their skills including Amy McGrath. http://www.amymcgrath.com.au/about.htm |
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- Sir Walter Raleigh, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, May 1976
- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- China: The Way of Life, Recording Hall (Sydney Opera House), Sydney, NSW, 14 September 1974
- The Dragon Throne, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 10 July 1974
- The Fatal Island, Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 8 August 1971
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Playwright- Sir Walter Raleigh, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, May 1976
- The Dragon Throne, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 10 July 1974
- The Fatal Island, Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 8 August 1971
Librettist- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
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- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- The Fatal Island, Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 8 August 1971
- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
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- The Crusade, The Australian Theatre, Newtown, NSW, 18 February 1975
- The Fatal Island, Independent Theatre (1939-1977), North Sydney, NSW, 8 August 1971
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Identifier |
227605 |
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