New Theatre Promotional Posters

161 [New Theatre Promotional Posters] c1958-1973. Collection of 28 posters in colour screenprint, one printed on foil paper, some initialled "D.E.M." or "J.C." in image, sizes range from 36.5 x 25.5cm to 61.2 x 51.8cm. Some with crazing and surface loss, stains, missing portions to corners, repaired tears, creases and old folds. All Linen-backed. The New Theatre moved three times over a 20 year period. The earliest poster in this collection lists the Theatre's first address at Sussex Street, Sydney (1954-1963). The rest of the posters advertise either St Peter's Lane, Darlinghurst (1963-1973) or Newtown (from 1973). The collection $18,500 Titles of featured performances are as follows:

1. Black Diamonds by Frank Hardy (not illustrated) 2. Macbird by Barbara Garson

3. War and Peace, adapted from Leo Tolstoy 4. The Skin of Our Teeth by Tornton Wilder

5. Purlie Victorious, a Deep South comedy by Ossie Davis 6. America Hurrah

7. Our "Dear" Relations, a farce by Mona Brand 8. The One Day of the Year by Alan Seymour

9. Pirates at the Barn, a play for children by Eleanor Witcombe 10. Androcles and the Lion by Bernard Shaw

11. Night of the Auk 12. An Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol

13. Exposure 70, a revue at New Theatre 14. On Stage Vietnam by Mona Brand & Pat Barnett

15. Tartuffe by Molière 16. Herr Puntila and his Manmatti by Bertold Brecht

17. Smugglers Beware! A play for children by Eleanor Witcombe 18. The Sunday Walk by Georges Michel

19. Othello by William Shakespeare 20. Sholom Aleichem to the World

21. The Advocate by Robert Noah 22. The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry

23. A Penny for a Song, a comedy by John Whiting 24. Operation Olive Branch, an adaptation of Lysistrata by Ewan MacColl

25. Trumpets and Drums by Bertold Brecht 26. The Good Soldier Schweik by Jaroslav Hašek, adapted by Ewan MacColl

27. Reedy River, an Australian musical by Dick Diamond 28> Sam, the Highest Jumpter of Them All by William Saroyan.