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This brief column reports on a 'Theatre Royal, capable of containing about 400 persons' opening in Adelaide, South Australia. The 'acting and stage manager' was Charles Bonnar 'formerly a compositor in The Colonial newspaper office ... and subsequently in The Monitor and Herald offices'. The report continues; 'An opening address written expressly for the occasion was spoken by Mr. Bonnar, in the character of a strolling manager. The pieces selected to open with were The Mountaineers and The Lancers.' A report, 'Theatre at South Australia!', published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser, 28 July 1838, describes the theatre as a room. The first purpose built theatre in Adelaide, the Queen's Theatre, was not opened until January 1841.
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