Nicholas Enright - papers, 1924-1936; 1959-1990

MLMSS 7000/Boxes 1-9
MLMSS 7000/Box 10X

fonds

1924 - 1998

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Clippings, Photographs, Posters

133073

1.67 metres of textual material (9 boxes, 1 outsize box) includes photographs - manuscript, typescript

Nicholas Enright, actor, director, dramatist and translator, was born in Maitland, New South Wales in 1950. He was educated at Sydney University, and worked with the Nimrod Theatre for a year before joining the Melbourne Theatre Company as their first trainee director in 1973. After studying playwriting with Israel Horovitz at New York University from 1975-1977, he was assistant director at the South Australian Theatre Company (later the State Theatre Co. of South Australia) and head of acting at NIDA 1983-1984.

Enright has written numerous plays, including First Class Women' (1980), On the wallaby (1982); Daylight saving (1990); 'Mongrels' (1991); St James infirmary (1992); 'A Property of the Clan' (1993) which won a Golden Awgie; Good works (1994) and Blackrock (1995). Enright has also written for musical theatre, having collaborated with Terence Clarke on 'Variations' (1982 - winner of the New South Wales Premier's Award);' Summer Rain' (1983 - substantially revised for a professional production in 1989); and 'The venetian twins' (1996). He has translated and adapted the works of Sophocles, Euripides, Carlo Goldoni, Carlo Gozzi, Pierre Beaumarchais and Moliere. Enright has also published the humorous children's poem The Maitland and Morpeth string quartet (1980), which was later made into a film. He was nominated for an Oscar in the American Academy Awards for the screenplay Lorenzo's Oil (1993) which he wrote with George Miller.

1. Correspondence, ca.1980-1988.
2. Literary notebooks and manuscripts, 1981-1990.
3. Scripts collected, 1979-1998.
4. Printed Material, 1924-1936; 1959-1989.
5. Miscellaneous records, being certificates, photographs and badges, ca. 1980-1988.
6. Posters, ?1978-1988.
7. Artwork, chiefly costume designs, 1973-1979

This collection comprises 7 manuscript and pictorial record series. You may navigate to a more detailed description of each series from this collection record.