• Title
  Item 1: Neil Armfield interview by Martin Portus, 15 April 2019
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  15 April 2019
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9650265
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (approx. 4 hrs., 13 mins.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 khz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  In the first of four interviews, Sydney-born theatre, opera, film and television director, Neil Armfield, describes growing up in Concord, Sydney, and how his early involvement in theatre and music as a student at Homebush Boys High School led him to pursue a career in the performing arts. He discusses producing and acting with the Sydney University Dramatical Society in the early 1970s, his move to the Nimrod Theatre, Surry Hills as an associate director, his role in the evolution of the Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney and his time with South Australia's Lighthouse Theatre.
  Neil also speaks at length about working with prominent Australian writers and actors including Patrick White, Louis Nowra and Geoffrey Rush and the challenges faced by theatre companies such as limited funds and internal politics.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at REC Studios, 301 Castlereagh Street, Sydney, New South Wales, on 15 April 2019.
  Acquired in digital format, access copy available
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Armfield, Neil, 1955-
  
• Subject
  Theatrical producers and directors--New South Wales--Interviews.
  Theater--Production and direction--Australia.
  Armfield, Neil, 1955---Interviews.
  White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE18995019

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