Nights Off [The Hairy Ape]

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Title Nights Off [The Hairy Ape]
Abstract/Description Playbox theatres are general everywhere but in the Commonwealth, and now Mr. Duncan Macdougall, late of the Barn Theatre, New York, has brought Australia in to line. Laboring under all the difficulties that beset upheavals, he produced 'The Hairy Ape' at St. James' Hall last Monday. The scenery—such as it was; and the stage — players had only tried out an hour before the curtain rose. The electric lights fused, except one overhead light, which had to serve all purposes, helped by hastily-equipped colored spots at the back of the gallery. The production was primitive; but, to the forceful intelligence, more effective than the elaborated mechanism to which the commercial theatre has accustomed us.
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  • The Hairy Ape, St James' Hall (1887-1961), Sydney, NSW, 12 November 1923
Source The Sydney Stock and Station Journal, Robert McMillan for the Stock Journal Newspaper Company Ltd., 3 April 1896
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Page 2
Date Issued 16 November 1923
Language English
Citation Nights Off [The Hairy Ape], The Sydney Stock and Station Journal, 16 November 1923, 2
Resource Identifier 74296
Dataset AusStage