Actor-Managers: Colourful, disreputable and largely forgotten

Name: Actor-Managers: Colourful, disreputable and largely forgotten
Uploaded: 2018-05-17T11:32:28+10:00
Channel: Robert Reid
Description: Witness Histories, Episode 3 Part 1: Robert Reid tracks Australian theatre through the 19th century, through the often disreputable careers of the early actor-managers.

by Robert Reid May 17, 2018 0 comments

Witness Histories Episode 3: Part 1. One of the subtle and long-lasting processes of colonisation is the importation and imposition of the cultural forms and narratives of the coloniser onto the colony. Here Robert Reid tracks some of that process as it occurred through Australian theatre in the 19th century, through the often disreputable careers of the early actor-managers.

Episode 3 Part 2

The Witness Interview: Director and historian Jane Woollard on the lost history of women in Australian theatre

australian theatre history

Robert Reid

Robert Reid is co-editor and co-founder of Witness and runs our educational resources. He is a playwright, director and academic. His award-winning plays have been produced by the Melbourne Theatre Company and his own independent companies. He is artistic director of the games-based performance company, Pop Up Playground, and his Platform Paper on theatre and digital marketing was published by Currency Press in 2011. He recently completed his PhD in Australian Theatre History.

Actor-Managers: Colourful, disreputable and largely forgotten

Actor-Managers: Part 2

The Witness Interview: Jane Woollard

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