In this month’s Video History, join Witness historian Robert Reid for a tour of Melbourne’s vanished theatre district

Season 2 Episode 1: In this fascinating Video History, Robert Reid takes us down the top end of Bourke Street and reveals the stories of its now vanished theatres. Before the focus moved to the Arts Precinct in Southbank, this was the flourishing centre of Melbourne’s entertainment life, with disreputable histories galore, 19th century versions of immersive theatre, wax museums and more.

Filmed and edited by Sayraphim Lothian