“Australia Council praises NSW Theatre of the Deaf and provides some funding to the Deaf theatres throughout the 1970s”
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- Title
- “Australia Council praises NSW Theatre of the Deaf and provides some funding to the Deaf theatres throughout the 1970s”
- Description
- The 1976/77 Australia Council annual report stated: "The NSW Theatre of the Deaf is a significant achievement. The only funded organisation in Australia working in nonverbal theatre, its production of King Lear received widespread praise. This company is now accepted as operating in a legitimate area of theatre rather than performing mime works for the deaf. This offers wide scope for innovation." The Council’s 1977/78 annual report recorded that it granted funding to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, deaf director, and tutors’ fees in 1978” for $25,000; the “presentation of theatre pieces (mime, clowning, puppetry) in public performance” for $2,500, and “towards costs of a production in 1978” for $4,000. It also awarded $1,980 to Queensland Theatre of the Deaf “towards the cost of transporting company to Sydney for seminar with NSW Theatre of the Deaf”. Drama Resource Centre (Victoria) received $2,840 “to develop student theatre at Victoria School for Deaf Children” and $630 went to Children’s Activities Time Society (Western Australia) for the “cost of deaf mime artist, Rae Gibson, to undertake four week visit to Melbourne and Sydney to work with deaf artists”. The following annual report for 1978/79 recorded that the Council granted $25,000 to the NSW Theatre of the Deaf “towards salaries of artistic director, administrator and tutors” in 1979. The Council also awarded $1,800 to the Queensland Theatre of the Deaf towards a salary for Geoffrey Rush to work with the company in 1979. The 1979/1980 Australia Council annual report mentions funding “provided for a playwright-in-residence at the NSW Theatre of the Deaf.”
- Identifier
- AC00042
- Publisher
- Disability Arts History Australia
- datePublished
- 1970s
- sourceOrganization
- Creative Australia
- Australia Council
- Australia Council for the Arts
- NSW Theatre of the Deaf
- QLD Theatre of the Deaf
- category
- Action
- Type
- Create Action
- Format
- Text
- inLanguage
- English
- keywords
- Disability Arts Practice, Theatre and Performance, D/deaf Arts and Artists, Grant
- copyrightNotice
- © Disability Arts History Australia, Contributed by Annie Rolfe
- creator
- Rae Gibson
- Item sets
- Action
Linked resources
| Title | Class |
|---|---|
| Australian Theatre of the Deaf | Organization |
| NSW Theatre of the Deaf | Organization |
| Theatre of the Deaf | Organization |
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