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1 Sex, Gender and the Industrial : Plays Performed by Broken Hill Repertory Society, 1945-1969 Jonathan Bollen , Murray Couch , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 64 2014; (p. 277-296) 'The Broken Hill Repertory Society (BHRS) was established in 1944. Sixty-two years earlier, in 1883, the ore body which provided the base for the silver, lead and zinc mining industry in western New South Wales was discovered. The municipality of Broken Hill was incorporated in 1888, and the city developed over the decades with a dense and locally specific political, industrial and cultural fabric. The establishment of BHRS added a new element to that fabric, at a time when the city was experiencing a period of renewed industrial and civic expansion after World War II.' (Publication summary)
1 From the Silver Lining to the Roaring Days! : Amateur Theatre and Social Class in Broken Hill, 1940s-1960s Jonathan Bollen , Murray Couch , 2014 single work
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , April no. 64 2014; (p. 257-276) 'By the early 1960s, the Broken Hill Repertory Society came to be recognised - alongside the Barrier Industrial Unions' Band, the Philharmonic Society and the Quartette Club - as a pillar of the civic infrastructure, a testament to the vitality of the city's cultural life. Reporting on Broken Hill in 1963 for ABC Television's Four Corners, Frank Bennett profiled the recently constructed Repertory Playhouse as 'Broken Hill's biggest, best and newest cultural landmark' and acknowledged the financial support given by the mining companies, although his story was criticised by locals for not representing Broken Hill as a 'progressive' city and overlooking the range of cultural activities to be found there. With its repertoire of modern drama from London and New York, the Repertory's contributions to Broken Hill were accommodated within a broad mix of live entertainments, some imported, much locally produced, that sustained audiences into the 1960s.' (Publication abstract)
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