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Richard Wherrett's production of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' for the Sydney Theatre Company in the Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House January 1990

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Don McMurdo
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McMurdo, Don

National Library of Australia

Theatre

European theatre in Sydney began before the first Fleet made landfall, with a convict play on board the Scarborough. While theatre was always popular, a commercial theatre scene did not emerge until the 1830s, and theatrical fortunes rose and fell with the city's prosperity.

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