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Alfred Dampier as Reverend North in the adaptation of 'For the Term of His Natural Life' at Her Majesty's Theatre 1895

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Albert James Perier
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State Library of New South Wales
[perier_34583 / Home and Away 34583]
(Mitchell Library)

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Perier, Albert James

State Library of New South Wales

Culture and customs

Sydney's pre-industrial culture was comprehensive and public, and most European inhabitants were players, performers or spectators. After 1850, distinct but overlapping cultures emerged, imported and adapted from Europe and America. New forms of cultural transmission after World War I enabled the elaboration of new cultures based on ethnicity, age and gender, which have combined to produce Sydney's cultural diversity.

Her Majesty's Theatre

There have been three Her Majesty's Theatres in Sydney, spanning nearly a century of the city's theatrical history.

Theatre

Her Majesty's Theatre Pitt Street

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Largest and best-equipped theatre in Sydney when it opened in 1887, Her Majesty's was rebuilt after a fire destroyed the theatre in 1902. Closed as a theatre in the 1930s, the building survived until the redevelopment of the site for Centrepoint in the 1970s.

Dampier Company

Theatre company that presented first Sydney production of For the Term of His Natural Life, in 1886.

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