• Title
  Item 1: Katharine Brisbane interview by Martin Portus
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  30 April 2021
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9661540
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (3 hr., 38 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Katharine Brisbane is interviewed by Martin Portus at Forbes Street Studios, Woollomooloo, New South Wales on 30 April 2021. Having suffered from a stroke two years prior, she is supported by her daughter, Harriet Parsons, in the studio. Brisbane discusses her early life being born in Singapore and the family moving to Perth, Western Australia. She talks about her interest in drama at university, which leads her into a career as a national drama critic for The Australian newspaper and her marriage to drama academic Philip Parsons. Brisbane talks about the social and cultural shifts of theatre in Australia since the 1960s and the forming of the performing arts publishing house, Currency Press, with her husband. She discusses her reasons for writing her book, 'Not wrong - just different: Observations on the rise of the contemporary Australian theatre'. She also discusses her retirement and the objectives of the performing arts advocacy organisation, Currency House, which she founded in 2001.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studios, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, on 30 April 2021
• Subject
  Brisbane, Katharine--Interviews.
  Publishers and publishing--Australia--Interviews.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20475413

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