Scenes from "Shaw! Coward! Foster!", three plays presented by Whitehall Productions, Minerva Theatre, from 26 January 1948 / photographed by Robert Johnstone Studios

PXA 1374

fonds

from 26 January 1948

Graphic Materials, Textual Records, Photographs

954556

1 p. (5 copies) - printed - 25.5 x 18.7 cm
13 photographic prints - gelatin silver - 20.3 x 25.6 cm

Reviewed in "Three short plays", The Sydney Morning Herald, Tuesday 27 January 1948 p. 4

One of the first Australian professional plays produced on the stage

Flyer/poster:

"Commencing Anniversary Day - January 26th

Limited season only

Shaw! Coward! Foster!

Whitehall Productions presents three plays
Village wooing ... Bernard Shaw
Lost generation ... Lynn Foster
Fumed oak ... Noel Coward

Players - Kathleen Robinson, Fifi Banvard, John Sykes, Richard Parry, John Tate; Magaret [i.e. Margaret ?] Raynor, William E. Raynor, Lynne Murphy, Sumner Locke-Elliott, Carmel Sexton, Frank Waters, Ronald Folkard, Desmond Rolfe, Morris Unicombe

Produced by John Sykes

Plans: Minerva (FA 8141), Palings, Nicholsons, Hotel Australia

Minerva

Patterson and Beck Pty. Ltd. Printers"

Out of copyright: Created before 1955
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

Photographer's stamp on the reverse

Photographs are chiefly of the play Lost generation / Lynn Foster

"Commencing Anniversary Day - January 26th" -- on the flyer/poster for the plays

"In 1948-49 Fifi produced a number of plays, including Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!, for the Whitehall management at the Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross. She moved to Hobart in 1950 ... " -- excerpt from Fifi Banvard biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au/ (accessed January 17, 2012)