From child stars to lost theatres: capturing our ephemeral history of live performance
In 1825, Reverend Lancelot Threlkeld watched an Aboriginal Dance of Welcome at Newcastle's East End Settlement. From the AusStage database – the research gateway to crucial information about live performance in Australia – we can learn it was held "in consequence of our coming among them". The papers and reminiscences (1824-1859) of Threlkeld, who trained […]