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Venue	Playbox Theatre (Crown Street)
Other Names	Ingersoll Hall Rationalist Hall
Address	256 Crown Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
First Date	July 1929
Last Date	June 1931
Notes	In mid-1929 the Playbox Society was forced to move to larger premises in Crown Street, an unfavourable location where its following declined. Another move to Young Street in July 1931 saw the Playbox's disintegration within five months.
Related Venues	Formerly located at Ingersoll Hall
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Latitude \| Longitude	-33.87925 \| 151.21521
Events	Date Contributor Organisation
	Just One Slip, 21 October 1930 Hellfire, 6 June 1930 Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 The Front Page, 18 September 1929 The Good Hope, 24 July 1929
	Playbox Society, Sydney Just One Slip, 21 October 1930 Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 The Front Page, 18 September 1929 The Good Hope, 24 July 1929
	Duncan MacDougall - Actor, Director, Producer Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 The Good Hope, 24 July 1929 Eugene O'Neill - Playwright Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Frank Cayley - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Robin Copp - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Gertrude Dalley-Scarlett - Playwright Hellfire, 6 June 1930 Arthur Dodds - Actor Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Mattie Doyle - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Charles Gray - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Ben Hecht - Playwright The Front Page, 18 September 1929 Herman Heijermans - Playwright The Good Hope, 24 July 1929 Madeleine Howell - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Geoff Lempriere - Actor Strange Interlude, 30 November 1929 Charles Macarthur - Playwright The Front Page, 18 September 1929 W J Stewart McKay - Playwright Just One Slip, 21 October 1930 M C Mott - Actor Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Bill Parsons - Actor Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930 Tory Taunton - Actor Desire Under the Elms, 8 February 1930
Resources	Article: The New Playbox, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 July 1929, 12 Article: Who knows Sydney? Artful Dodgers, The Sun (NSW), 20 November 1932, 18
Venue Identifier	14972
Dataset	AusStage