"History of Queensland Theatre of the Deaf"
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- Title
- "History of Queensland Theatre of the Deaf"
- Description
- History of Queensland Theatre of The Deaf. Queensland Deaf Society Superintendent Leslie Abnett’s proposal for a Queensland Theatre of the Deaf in 1974, initiated via arrangement with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to have the National Theatre Trust perform in Brisbane and for a workshop at La Boite Theatre in 1974. Formation Founding Committee (Kerry Prior, Mary Gibbs, John O’Donnell, Leslie Abnett as Office Bearers, Lloyd Nickson as Artistic Director, Keith Puddlefoot as Technical Director, and N. Bricknell, R. Hilsdon, K. Donnell, M. Bergman, P. Arnold, A. Lynch, D. Villis as Committee Members). Company Aims, Workshops at the Queensland School for the Deaf, rehearsals for a core adult group and a junior group at the new D.M. Chadwick Hall at the Queensland Deaf Society at Newmarket in Brisbane – production history including changes in Artistic Director (from Llyod Nickson in 1975, to Nickky Bricknell in 1977, to Ken Donnell in 1979). Company technique, stated as “Our Technique is a combination of Visual Language, Sign-Mime (visual vernacular), Mime and the Spoken Word – a blending of hearing actors and conventional acting ideals with imaginative mime, expression and manual language of the Deaf.”
- Identifier
- WK00195
- datePublished
- 1998
- Relation
- Brisbane
- Queensland
- Queensland Theatre of the Deaf
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"Queensland Theatre of the Deaf - Actors Since 1975 - Reported 1990s"
- A. Lynch
- Alana Casey
- Bruce Blaker
- Cathie Foster
- Charles Bergman
- Coleen Farnham
- Damian Lee
- Dawn Casey
- D. Villis
- Elanor Davis
- Elizabeth Hanifax
- Gavin Ferguson
- John O’Donnell
- John Worthington
- Julie Southerland
- Karen Gotthe
- Keith Puddlefoot
- Kelie Shaw
- Ken Donnell
- Kerry Prior
- Laurie Cornwall
- Leslie Abnett
- Lesley Bell
- Lorraine Olney-Wilkins
- Maree Holley
- Maria Hanifax
- Martha Follent
- Mary Bergman
- Mary Gibbs
- Mary Hanifax
- Narelle Robinson
- Nicky Bricknell
- Pamela Arnold
- Pamela Trace
- Peter Adams
- Peter Williams
- Ray Hilsdon
- Rebecca Alexander
- Roy Julin
- Sam Cranston
- Sam Gibson
- Shelley Hensdale
- Sue Blackwell
- Tressa Obah
- Valerie Julin
- Vicki Woods
- category
- CreativeWork
- Type
- Article<Report
- Format
- DigitalDocument, Text
- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- d/Deaf Arts and Artists
- Theatre and Performance
- Participation in cultural life
- Equity and non-discrimination
- Access
- Education and employment
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