Q Theatre records, Sydney, New South Wales, 1948-2007

MLMSS 10293
MLMSS 10293/5X
MLMSS 10293/6X

fonds

1948-2007

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Photographs

9606814

1.12 metres of textual material (6 boxes) includes photographs

The Q Theatre company began life on the 2 December 1963 with a lunch hour production of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Dumb Waiter’ in the theatrette of the AMP Building at Circular Quay, Sydney. By 1968 the company was touring suburban and regional areas, and in 1977 the move was made to Penrith in western Sydney.
Reference:
Q Theatre, https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/ (accessed 30 August 2019)

Records of the lunchtime theatre programme run by the Q Theatre company in Sydney, New South Wales, 1948-2007. Includes financial and administrative records, scrapbooks, clippings, programmes, scripts, posters, and production photographs. Productions include Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Mrs Dalley Has a Lover, Salad Days, Slight Ache, and Madly in Love.

BOX 1
Folder 1
Minute book, 1969-1970
Articles of Association

Folder 2
Financial records, 1966-1975

Folder 3
Account books, 1966-1975

Folder 4
Correspondence, 1973-1980

Folder 5
Correspondence between Doreen Warburton and Jack Mundy, 1971-1972

Folder 6
Correspondence with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 1968-1972

Folder 7
Correspondence with the Professional Drama Council, 1967-1972

Folder 8
Submission to the Whitlam Industries Assistance Enquiry regarding performing arts, 1975


BOX 2
Folder 1
Press clippings regarding the Q Theatre and related topics, 1948-1970, 2007

Folder 2
Press clippings regarding the Q Theatre and related topics, 1963-1965

Folder 3
Press clippings regarding the Q Theatre and related topics, includes a copy of The Bulletin magazine, 13 December 1969, 1965, 1969

Folder 4
Press releases, advertising leaflets, clippings and correspondence, ca. 1964-ca. 1976

Folder 5
Programmes from Q Theatre productions, ca. 1964-ca. 1977

Folder 6
Play scripts and production notes from the Q Theatre productions The Governor's Lady, Business of Good Government, Manly Ferry, Anniversary, and Henry VI. Also includes production notes, correspondence and clippings from the Q Theatre production of The Chocolate Frog which was staged in the forecourt of the newly built Sydney Opera House, November 1971.


BOX 3
Folder 1
Queensland Tour, 1965.Research notes, clippings, financial accounts, 10 black & white publicity photographs of the and company, and 1 black & white tour photograph.

Folder 2
Touring correspondence and research notes, 1972

Folder 3
Western Suburbs tours, research notes, clippings, itineraries, correspondence etc., 1975

Folder 4
Q Lunch Hour Monthly Tours bound notebook containing contact details, correspondence and address lists and some loose notes

Folder 5
Industrial Subscription seminar, ca. 1972

Folder 6
Community and Educational Uses of the Sydney Opera House seminar, 1972

Folder 7
Community Arts seminar, 1974


BOX 4
Folder 1
Production photographs. Identified performers include Colin Croft, Judi Farr, Garry McDonald, and Doreen Warburton. Also includes a photograph of the Q-Lunchtime 10th Birthday party, Hickson Road, The Rocks, Sydney. 48 black & white photographs, ca. 1963-1977.

Folder 2
Production photographs, unidentified. 34 black & white photographs, ca. 1963-1977.

Folder 3
Production photographs. Includes Jacki Weaver. 10 contact sheets of black & white photographs, ca. 1963-1977.

Folder 4
Scrapbook containing clippings, programmes, correspondence and ephemera, 1969-1970.

Folder 5
Scrapbook containing clippings, programmes, correspondence and ephemera, 1971-1972.

Folder 6
Scrapbook containing clippings, programmes, correspondence and ephemera, 1973-1975.


BOX 5X
Original artwork, graphic and stage designs
Scrapbook containing press clippings, 1975


BOX 6X
Large production photographs. Identified performers include Janice Copland, Ben Gabriel, Anne Haddy, Max Meldrum, Peter O'Shaughnessy, Moya O'Sullivan and Doreen Warburton. Also included is an interior photograph of the AMP Theatre, Sydney. 43 black & white photographs chiefly mounted on board.

POSTERS
4 posters for the Q Theatre lunch hour plays have been catalogued separately at Call Nos.: POSTERS/2020/276-279

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