Elizabethan Theatre Trust
Subcategory of Awards — Australian Awards
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History

'The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust stands to support the arts of Australia by Australian’s and for Australian’s in our Country and beyond.

'Established in 1954 as a non-profit public company The Trust sponsors and proactively supports various Australian artists and organisations with the aim to ensure the development of arts and its practices.' (Source : Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust website)

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 1984

winner (National Playwright's Award) Best New Play y separately published work icon The Family Room Ted Neilsen , Melbourne : Yackandandah Playscripts , 1987 Z273777 1987 single work drama humour
recipient y separately published work icon Captain Bloody Grahame Bond , Jim Burnett , 1984 Z850214 1984 single work musical theatre

'Captain Bloody is an Australian musical comedy by Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett.

It concerns a young gynaecologist, Eric Blood, whose closet fantasy is to be Errol Flynn. He finds out about a club, Heroes Anonymous, where people can live out their fantasies without hurting anyone, run by a man who thinks he is Winston Churchill.

Captain Bloody opened at the Footbridge Theatre in Sydney on 1 May 1984 and ran to 23 June 1984, produced by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and Dunsinane Enterprises. It then played a short season at the Canberra Theatre from 3-7 July 1984. The cast included Bond, Arky Michael, Elizabeth Lord, John O'Connell, Greg Stone and George Washingmachine. A Melbourne season played at the Princess Theatre from March 1985.

The Sydney Morning Herald described the musical as "a Boys Own adventure, slightly bent but harmless enough. It features snappy dance routines, excellent music, and jokes about police corruption and Young Liberals are kept to a tasteful minimum."Bond reflected that Captain Bloody "did well in Sydney but was savaged in Melbourne". (Source website)

Year: 1962

recipient y separately published work icon The Season at Sarsaparilla : A Charade of Suburbia in Two Acts Patrick White , 1962 (Manuscript version)x400826 Z865952 1962 single work drama (taught in 11 units)

Year: 1959

recipient y separately published work icon Fire on the Wind The Bastard Country Anthony Coburn , 1959 (Manuscript version)x400818 Z863551 1959 single work drama

Year: 1958

recipient y separately published work icon Lola Montez Peter Benjamin , Alan Burke , Peter Stannard (composer), 1958 1958 (Manuscript version)x402075 Z1172778 1958 single work musical theatre

Musical

Set in Ballarat during the gold rush year of 1856, the story concerns the visit to the town Lola Montez (aka Dolores Eliza Gilbert), the famous Irish-born courtesan and mistress of a king. Her notoriety was also in part due to her sensational strip-tease 'The Spider Dance.'

recipient y separately published work icon The Slaughter of St. Teresa's Day : A Play Peter Joseph Kenna , 1959 Sydney : Currency Press , 1972 Z541474 1959 single work drama

'Two released prisoners interrupt a feast day party given by an 1950s ex-Sydney gangster.'

Source: AusStage (http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/work/4704). (Sighted: 9/10/2013)

Year: 1956

recipient y separately published work icon Ned Kelly : A Play Douglas Stewart , 1942 (Manuscript version)x400875 Z858560 1942 single work drama
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Works About this Award

y separately published work icon Australian Literature, 1950-1962 A. D. Hope , Parkville : Melbourne University Press , 1963 Z250229 1963 single work criticism
Culture in Australia - The Year's Clip 1958 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Affairs Bulletin , 15 December vol. 23 no. 4 1958; (p. 51-64)
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