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Kester Berwick's (Frank Perkins) plays were were digitised by AustLit in 2018 as a part of the Australian Drama Archive project. The project, which began in 2016 with Ian Potter Foundation funding, is in the process of selecting and digitising a number of plays from the first half of the 20th century.
The original playscripts, in typescript, are held in the Fryer Library at The University of Queensland. Each were scanned and run through OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software and then hand-corrected in AustLit's content management system. The transcripts have been corrected by AustLit Intern, Taylor Johnson.
We gratefully acknowledge Kester Berwick's family for their permission to publish these plays. Please contact AustLit for further information: austlit@uq.edu.au
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Source: Mail (Adelaide) 16 January 1932, p.1See full AustLit entryKester Berwick was an actor, dramatist, journalist, author and teacher. Also known as Frank Perkins and Kester Baruch, he was a journalist, playwright, actor, author and teacher whose career in the arts in Australia was carried out between the mid-1920s and 1935, and again between 1940 and 1952. Although he completed several novels, only one, Head of Orpheus Singing (1973) has been published. As a theatre practitioner he (as Kester Baruch) and Alan Harkness were at the forefront of Australian experimental theatre during the early 1930s.
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