Guide to the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia
EPH PROMPT .Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2023
Collection Summary
- Title
- Adelaide Festival Centre Trust : programs and related material collected by the National Library of Australia
- Date Range
- 1975 - 1996
- Collection Number
- EPH PROMPT .Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
- Extent
- 1 collection
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Printed Collections
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Material in the Australian performing arts programs and ephemera (PROMPT) collection consists of programs and related items of the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust including press releases, entertainment updates, and theatre programs.
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust is the heart of the arts in South Australia. Established in 1973, it is Australia's first capital city arts venue and hosts more than one million people annually. As well as presenting theatre, dance, music, and exhibitions, Adelaide Festival Centre Trust creates diverse festivals to inspire, challenge, educate, and entertain. We welcome audiences of all ages, experience, and cultures.
The list is based on imperfect holdings and is updated over time as gaps in the Library's holdings are filled.
Item Descriptions
Class. Material received before 2023
New shows for Festival Centre, 3rd November, 1975 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Press release
Press release of new performances in November includes June Bronhill, Ballet Victoria, Senior Citizen's Christmas Concert, the Threepenny Opera, the Tasmanian Puppet Company, Theatre in Education, and a Breeze from the Gulf
Festival Centre success, 4th November, 1975 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Press release
Reporting of the first full year of the Trust's operation
Flowers, [c. 1976] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Program
The mime musical presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust in association with Eric Dare. Starring Douglas McNicol, Maurice Tarragano, Neil Caplan, and others
Leonard Teale in While the billy boils, [c. 1978] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Flyer
The play presented by the Queensland Arts Council by arrangement with the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and Canterbury Productions
Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett, 1981 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Program
The play directed by Don Mackay, designed by Michael Pearce, lighting designed by Les Bowden with Pat McDonald, Carl Bleazby, Roy Baldwin, Liz Burch and Irene Hewitt
The most successful new Australian comedy produced in this country is coming to Adelaide, 23 November 1990 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of Nick Enright's Daylight saving, starring Jacki Weaver, Neil Fitzpatrick, Tony Sheldon, Maggie Millar, Gerda Nicolson, and Vince Colosimo
Australian showbiz stars bloom in new comedy, [c. 1991] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of Wallflowering, a new comedy starring Jill Perryman and Kevan Johnston
Children's classic comes to stage in major new production, [c. 1991] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of the classic children's novel, the Secret garden, starring Rosalind Aylmore, Damian Madigan, Anna O'Connor, Cathy Purling, Geoff Revell, and Rory Walker
Ignatius Jones to appear with the DE Waldorf Swing Orchestra, [c. 1994] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Ignatius Jones officially opened the third Swingshift season on Saturday, October 10
Bass Adelaide's entertainment update, March - April '95 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Flyer
Listing of up coming entertainment events
Skylight by David Hare, 18 - 28 September 1995 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Flyer
A play presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust by arrangement with the Royal National Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company. Performing at the Space, Adelaide Festival Centre
Comedy-hit Mikado returns to Adelaide … with a new star, 8 May, 1996 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of Simon Gallaher's award winning hit production of Gilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado.
The Umbilical Brothers, the Schmaltzarellas, Paul Capsis, Crying in public places, Pull my finger and Stand up Australia - Greg Fleet, the Empty pockets & Sue-Ann Post at the Space Cabaret, December 11, 1997 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of Australia's best stand up comics and cabaret artists performing in January 1998
The Queen and I: the royals down under, [c. 1996] (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of the play's national tour opens in Melbourne on June 13. Starring Eileen Darley, Ronald Falk, Judi Farr, Stephanie Fayerman, Robert Goodale, Goerge Kapiniaris, Susan Lyons, Fiona Press, Pearce Quigley, and Harris the Corgi
Hold onto your hats rodeo is in the theatre!, August 1997 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Media release of Rodeo noir, a gutsy new musical comedy in the Space Theatre from 12 to 20 September
Mem Fox's Koala Lou now a musical, August 1997 (Item) - Box 1
Physical Description Note
Media release
Presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre and Flinders University Drama Centre at the Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, October 7-11