The Third Tasmanian Drama Festival

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Event The Third Tasmanian Drama Festival
Venue National Theatre, Launceston, TAS
First Date 3 March 1949
Opening Date 3 March 1949
Last Date 5 March 1949
Dates Estimated No
Status Amateur
World Premiere No
Description The participants were: The Launceston Players with Campbell of Kilmhor, The Launceston Players with Hands Across the Sea, The Youth Players with Paradise Enow, The Devonport Repertory Society with In a Glass Darkly, group 1 of the Burnie Little Theatre with The Bridge of Sighs, The Unnamed Players of Hobart with The Tenor, group 1 of the Devonport Repertory Theatre with The House in Fern Road, The Marlowe Society with The Philanderer and the Fiend, and group 2 of the Burnie Little Theatre with Playgoers.
Description Source Programme
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Irene Mitchell Adjudicator
Anne Godfrey-Smith Administrator
Cecil Woodroffe Administrator Assistant
Mac Woodroffe Assistant Stage Manager
Ronald Tyson Front of House
Geoff Downie Lighting Operator/Technician
Frank Thyne Stage Manager
Hugh Duncan Publicity
Elizabeth Fysh Furnishings
Lucy Grounds Billeting Officer
Irene Wesley Furnishings
Resources
Production Nationality Australia
Further Information The individual performances have been entered separately. The winner of the Third Tasmanian Drama Festival, the Catherine Duncan Cup, was The Unnamed Players of Hobart with The Tenor. In second place was The Marlowe Society with The Philanderer and the Fiend and in third place was the Launceston Players with Hands Across the Sea.
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper The Examiner, 7 March 1949, p. 7
Programme CHS 15, 6/1, Launceston Players Society Collection, Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery
Data Set AusStage
Event Identifier 89308