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Peter Mann - Actor, Costume Designer, Producer
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Browning Version, Assembly Hall, Perth, WA, 29 August 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winthrop Hall, Crawley, WA, 11 June 1955
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
Brian Heydon - Actor, Properties Master / Mistress, Stage Manager
- Waiting for Godot, Assembly Hall, Perth, WA, 7 April 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Bald Prima Donna; The Lesson, The Skinner Galleries, West Perth, WA, 16 May 1965
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winthrop Hall, Crawley, WA, 11 June 1955
- Waiting for Godot, Assembly Hall, Perth, WA, 7 April 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winthrop Hall, Crawley, WA, 11 June 1955
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winthrop Hall, Crawley, WA, 11 June 1955
Tim Fry - Lighting Designer
- Waiting for Godot, Assembly Hall, Perth, WA, 7 April 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Waiting for Godot, Assembly Hall, Perth, WA, 7 April 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Two Gentlemen of Verona, Winthrop Hall, Crawley, WA, 11 June 1955
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- Ondine, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 20 January 1958
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
- The Duchess of Malfi, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 21 February 1950
- The Circle of Chalk, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 14 December 1954
- The Winter's Tale, University of Western Australia, The Sunken Garden, Crawley, WA, 19 January 1959
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Anthology:  Katharine Brisbane, Oriel Gray, Plays of the 50s Volume One, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, One, 2007
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Actor's Equity, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 23-24
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, An account of four productions at the Festival of Perth incl. The Beaux Strategem; Lysistrata; A Midsummer Night's Dream and Charley's Aunt, Australian Theatregoer, 1, 1 (Winter), 1960, 51-52
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, An act of faith, Weekend Australian, 24 June 1978
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, An odd duty: to lose money, The Australian, 25 May 1968, 12
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Australia Council, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 69-70
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Australian national Playwrights' Conference, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 1995, 72-74
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Bread and Butter on the Stage, National Library of Australia
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Bring Us a Diaghilev, The Australian, 9 December 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Confusion and Conflict over Culture, The Australian, 7 December 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Democracy and the Trust, The Australian, 26 June 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Entertaining Australia, Scarp, 24 (May), 1994, 31-38
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, From Williamson to Williamson: Australia's larrikin theatre, Theatre Quarterly, 7, 26, 1977, 56-70
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Herman Melville's Tragic Vision, The Australian, 23 August 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Investing in authors: a history of Currency Press, Voices, 3/3, Spring, 1993, 38-50
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, It's a Mini-boom, The Australian, 9 September 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Looking out from Australia: new directions in the Australian theatre, Island Magazine, 20, Spring, 1984, 36-40
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Mobilising for the Big Arts Battle, The Australian, 9 April 1968
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Theatre-restaurant in Neutral Bay Junction, Sydney, opened on 8 November 1961 by George and Lorna Miller. Closed 6 September 1980. first production East Lynne. Cast included Barry Creyton. Director: Bette Bailey Stainton. last production East Lynne.
At a time when serious theatre was renewing itself in smaller and smaller venues, the Music Hall Theatre Restaurant offered actors a rare opportunity to battle with an audience from the footlights on an almost Shakespearean scale. In its heyday the Music Hall was a red plush affair with stalls and a gallery seating 500 at tables covered with red-checked cloths, and a foyer crammed with Victorian bric-a-brac. Moustachioed waiters in Edwardian waistcoats would serve the hearty patrons while the genial George and Lorna Miller, moved among them, playing violin and accordion. At 8.30 p.m. the musical director, Don Harvie, would begin the overture at the piano and the velvet curtain would rise upon an extravagant setting and an absurdly complicated plot. The audience might choose to attend to it or not. It was a challenge for any actor. The Millers opened the Music Hall in 1961 with the melodrama East Lynne, which they had produced successfully at the Bowl Music Hall in Melbourne. The new Sydney production starred Barry Creyton. The early shows were rough affairs. The villain had to learn to duck not only bread rolls but spoons and other missiles. But it was secure work and as the Music Hall's reputation grew and seasons extended to a year or more, many well-known performers learned new skills there. David Atkins, Pat Bishop, Neva Carr Glyn, Beryl Cheers, Linda Cropper, Ron Haddrick, Alexander Hay, Sheila Kennelly, Frank Lloyd and John Unicomb were among them.
Barry Lovett, a versatile actor, was the much-loved master clown; he spent ten years with the company Alton Harvey was the longest-running villain. The designs, created by opera designers like Tom Lingwood, became more extravagant year by year.
The mood gradually changed after John Faassen, an actor and singer, took over as director in 1966 and began writing his own shows. The plays became more sophisticated burlesques of musical and dramatic genres, particularly opera. By 1968 nationalism was making its mark. Her Only Mistake was the first show set in colonial Australia. Stanley Walsh replaced Faassen in 1970 and his first show, The Trials of Hilary Pouncefortt, tapped the new preoccupation with Australian history. It was a melodrama, critical of military authority, set in colonial Sydney in 1850. Walsh in turn was succeeded by Michael Boddy as director and resident playwright. He mounted two successful shows in 1977-78 but when he retired in 1979 the Music Hall returned to revivals. It had run out of energy by 1980, when, despite protests by loyal supporters, it closed after a two-year battle with the local council and the state government over fire safety.
Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Music Hall Theatre Restaurant, Companion To Theatre In Australia, 380
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Not wrong - just different, The Australian, 20 March, 1971
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Perth Festival: Blasts of Stage Discord, The Australian, 24 February 1968
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Perth in perspective: a review of the events of the Festival of Perth including the Film Festival 1961, Australian Theatregoer, 1, 3 (Feb/Apr), 1961, 52-53
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Preserving the disreputable, Hemisphere, 15, 2, March 1971, 30-35
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Tangible assets: 10 years of Australian drama publishing, Overland, 86, December, 1981, 32-38
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 19 January 1974, 0
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The battler, the larrikin and the ocker, Commonwealth, 11, 1 (Autumn), 1988, 13-21
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The changing face of Australian theatre, Landfall, 37/1, 1983, [no pages]
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The Independent Repertoire, The Australian, 19 August 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The late flowering of Ray Lawler, The Bulletin, 99/5049, 19 March, 1977, 47-48
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The Most Secret Shakespeare, Elizabethan Trust News, The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Autumn, 1972, Number 2, 1972, 2-5
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The Old Tote: A Duty to Lose Money, The Australian, 25 May 1968
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The Wind of Change is Blowing, The Australian, 12 July 1967
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, The young lions: playwrights leading the new nationalism, The Australian, 18 May, 1973, 7
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Theatre bigger and healthier, The Australian, 14 June 1974, 11
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, Theatre in Australia, Hemisphere, 25/3, 1980, 145
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Article:  Katharine Brisbane, True Territorian Theatre, New Theatre Australia, July/August, 6, July 1988, 28-31
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Article:  Sharon Verghis, Great currency, The Australian, 19 November 2011, 6
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Book:  John Allen, Robert Walker, Entertainment Arts in Australia, Paul Hamlyn, Sydney, 1968
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, Australian Plays of the 50s Volume One, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, New South Wales, The University of Queensland, Fryer Library, 1, 2004
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, Australian Plays of the 60s Volume One, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, NSW, University of New England, 1, 1998
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, Entertaining Australia: An Illustrated History, Currency Press, Sydney, 1991
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, Not Wrong Just Different: Observations on the Rise of Contemporary Australian Theatre, Currency Press, Strawberry Hills, N.S.W., 2005
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, Plays of the 60s Volume 3, Currency Press, Sydney, The University of Queensland, Fryer Library, 1998
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Book:  Katharine Brisbane, The Parsons Lectures: The Philip Parsons Memorial Lectures on the Performing Arts 1993-2003, Currency House, Sydney, 2003
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Book:  Ross Honeywill, Wasted: The True Story of Jim McNeil, Violent Criminal and Brilliant Playwright, Viking, 2010, 312pp
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Record:  Katharine Brisbane, AustralianPlays.org, 2009
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Review:  Eric Irvin, Review: Katharine Brisbane, Entertaining Australia: An Illustrated History, Australasian Drama Studies, Australasian Drama Studies, c/- Department of English, Univ, 21, October 1992, 193 - 196
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, '...the rare confidence of the production...takes the play by the forelock', Theatre Australia, The University of Adelaide, Library Special Collections, August 1977, 31
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, 'Man And Superman' - A Period Piece, The West Australian, 27 October 1959
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, A historical surprise, The Australian, 10 May 1968, 8
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, A human's defiance of God, Theatre Australia, The University of Adelaide, Library Special Collections, May 1978, 24-25
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, A Look at the World Outside, The Australian, 12 June 1967
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, A pair of aliens, The Australian, 28 November 1970
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, A sharper O'Malley, The Australian, 15 August 1970
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, After 10 years, The One Day still stands up, The Australian, 18 April 1970, 21
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, An Australian Strindberg, The Bulletin, 99, 5055, April 1977, 65-66
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, An exultant debut, Theatre Australia, March 1979, 21-22
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Come out fighting: The Case of Fortune and Mens Eyes, The Australian, 29 February 1968
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Flowers for a lady, The Australian, 23 February 1979
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Hedda as a Young Woman, The Australian, 25 September 1967
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Incoming and outgoing, The Australian, 28 November 1968, 10
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Investigating the ethos, The Australian, 30 May 1970, 19
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, It should be a cell-out, The Australian, 29 February 1968, 7
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, New Nimrod: see how it runs, The Australian, 8 June 1974, 21
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Perilous Production, 25 October 1974
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Perilous Production, National Library of Australia, 25 October 1974
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Pictures without a story, The Australian, 5 March 1979, 10
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Playwright's perilous journey, The Australian, 27 January 1971, 10
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Rum doings, The Australian, 25 April 1970, 17
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Saved by a new image, The Australian, 5 August 1970, 17
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Seeking universal truth, The Age, 19 April 1980
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Students score a spectacular premiere success, The Australian, 30 September 1970, 14
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 11 October 1971
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 18 October 1974, 10
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 20 June 1970
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 8 February 1974, 0
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, 8 July 1970, 0
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Australian, Almost not a play at all, 29 March 1968, 8
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The invincibility of Major Biggles, The Australian, 12 December 1970, 25
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The men behind the camp humour, The Australian, 11 November 1967
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, The Valiant and the avenging angel, The Australian, 15 June 1971, 9
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Theatre for the Space Age, The Australian, 14 October 1967
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Triumph for Two Plays and One Man, The Australian, 19 June 1967
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Two hard blows at man's inhumanity, The Australian, 5 February 1968, 6
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, Windmill girls at Tivoli, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 1965, 6
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Review:  Katharine Brisbane, [On Stage Vietnam], The Australian, 17 June 1967
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