THEATRE IN SHOPS
Australian venture i The sounds of theatre will mingle with the ringing of cash registers this month in a $50,000 theatre promotion in Sydney and Brisbane. The producer for the new Toybox Theatre Company, Ross Honeywill, said: “To have tied ourselves to a Government body would have killed the whole thing. Gov-ernment-subsidised bodies are frightened to stick their necks out; they don’t want to take theatre to the people, they expect the people to come to them.” So, instead of applying for a Government grant the group approached the Westfield Development Corporation in Brisbane; and as a result it will stage children’s shows in two shopping centres in Brisbane and three in Sydney over the next three weeks. It expects audiences of at least 300,000.
The play which the group is performing was written by Mr Honeywill’s wife, a lecturer in speech and drama at Kelvin Grove Teachers’ College, Brisbane.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32497, 6 January 1971, Page 10
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