Performing Arts
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# 46546
WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (Melbourne)
Report for the Theatre Board of the Australian Council for the Arts, for Jan. to Jul. ’78, from Women’s Theatre Group, Melbourne.
[Melbourne : Women’s Theatre Group, 1978]. Foolscap folio (330 x 220 mm), stapled self-wrappers, [10] pp, roneo-printed; very good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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![[FEMINISM] Angel In The House : a film by Jane Jackson : extracts from Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse & Professions For Women.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0540-300x300.jpg)
# 46303
SYDNEY FILMMAKERS CO-OPERATIVE LTD.
[FEMINISM] Angel In The House : a film by Jane Jackson : extracts from Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse & Professions For Women.
[Drop title]. Darlinghurst, NSW : Sydney Filmmakers Co-Operative Ltd., [1978]. Foolscap folio sheet, printed on both sides, illustrated; very lightly creased. ‘Angel in the house is suitable for women’s studies and film study courses, women and community groups as well as being an ideal theatrical short.’ (Text at foot of detailed synopsis verso) No copies …
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![[MELBOURNE] International Women's Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_1203-300x300.jpg)
# 46555
3CR
[MELBOURNE] International Women’s Day. 8 March [1990]. 3CR 855 kHz.
[Melbourne] : 3CR Community Radio, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; 24-hour programme schedule for IWD; light corner creasing, otherwise good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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# 46573
VICTORIAN WOMEN'S ORCHESTRA
Victorian Women’s Orchestra. Inaugural Concert … Friday, March 9th, 1990, 8.00pm … at Toorak Uniting Church …
Program will include: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Greig: Norwegian Dances, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Ravel: Bolero. Parkdale, Vic. : VWO, 1990. A5 flyer, printed recto only; fine. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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![[SEXUALITY] Desire : a film directed by Bill Mousoulis.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0552-300x300.jpg)
# 46306
[MOUSOULIS, Bill]
[SEXUALITY] Desire : a film directed by Bill Mousoulis.
[Melbourne] : Innersense Productions, 1999. Foolscap folio flyer, printed recto only, illustrated; faint original folds, very good; [TOGETHER WITH] Invitation to a sneak preview of Desire, for ‘cast, crew and invited guests’; identical format to the flyer, original folds. Desire (1999) is a 16mm film by legendary Melbourne filmmaker Bill Mousoulis, starring Juliet Hone and Belinda …
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# 46645
DE LA MANO. [DREITZEHN, Zell, 1830-1882?]
Conjuring; or, magic made easy.
Containing an extensive collection of conjuring and legerdemain; sleights with cards, ribbons, rings, fruit, coin, balls, handkerchiefs, etc., all of which may be performed in the parlor or drawing room. New York Popular Publishing Company, n.d. [c 1878]. [Cover title : De La Mano’s great magic book]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers, 30 pp + 2 pp …
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![Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L'Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0809-300x300.jpg)
# 46292
[Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt]
Théatre Sarah Bernhardt : programme [L’Aiglon : drame en six actes et en vers de M. Edmond Rostand]
Paris : Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt, [1900]. Octavo (210 x 130 mm), stapled pictorial wrappers with portrait of Bernhardt in profile; pp. [18], with 3-page fold-out at centre, illustrations, advertisements; upper wrapper with some light foxing and partially remnant decorative blue ribbon, contents very clean, an excellent example. Original programme for Sarah Bernhardt and M. Guitry in …
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# 46396
HASKELL, Arnold (editor)
Memorial exhibition of Russian ballet. Illustrated catalogue
London : The Claridge Gallery, 1930. Octavo, printed wrappers with inlay illustration, portion of original wrap around banner, pp. 58, (6), photographic illustrations by Sasha. A fine, near mint copy. A rare contemporary catalogue of an important exhibition of material relating to the Ballets Russes. As well as many beautiful photographs it includes a list …
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# 41732
WRIGGLESWORTH & BINNS
Studio portrait of two actors in costume as Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Wellington, New Zealand, 17 October 1881.
Albumen print photograph, cabinet card format, 163 x 116 mm; verso with imprint of ‘Wrigglesworth & Binns, Willis Street, Wellington, New Zealand’, and contemporary inscription in ink ‘Oct. 17th 1881’; both the print and mount are in fine condition.
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# 45876
EDEN SOCIETY STUDIOS
Studio portrait of a man in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, late 1890s.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 168 x 107 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Eden Society Studios’; the print is in very good condition; the mount has a couple of spots of foxing.
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# 45878
PEEL'S MODERN STUDIOS
Studio portrait of Master Laban Rixon in Salvation Army uniform, posed with his tuba. Sydney, 1909-10.
Sepia-tone gelatin silver print photograph, cabinet card format, 165 x 106 mm (mount); recto with the imprint of ‘Peel’s Modern Studios, 482 George St., Sydney’; verso with a fully contemporary inscription in pencil ‘Mr. Laban Rixon’; the print has a few light marks, and the mount is toned. We believe the young sitter is Laban …
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![[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0607-300x300.jpg)
# 46315
[Anon.]
[FEMINISM] Gynergy, Sat 18 April : wimmins energy wimmins dance. Benefit for the Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum. Carlton Community Centre 150 Princes St. Hens Teeth & Toxic Shock. $4-3.
[Carlton, Vic.] : The Forum, 1981. Handbill, 205 x 295 mm, printed in b/w recto only; corner creasing and a few marks; unmounted. The Wimmin Patriarchy and the Future Forum was held 17-20 April 1981 at Princes Hill High School in Carlton, Melbourne. This is a rare handbill for a benefit dance associated with the forum, …
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![[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women's films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women's Group.](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0698-1-300x300.jpg)
# 46329
[BLACK, Wendy, designer & printer]
[FEMINISM; SEXUALITY] Life as a Body : 4 programmes of women’s films. Two sessions 12.30 / 5.30 daily. Presented by RMIT Union Arts Activities & RMIT Women’s Group.
Lipstick Addiction with The Blister Sisters, For Whom the Avon Bell[e] Tolls, The Object, Size 10, Farewell to Charms. Forester’s Lounge, July 30. / Taking Off Stereotypes: The Invisible Woman, Age Before Beauty, Take Off, The Stripper, A Comedy in Six Unnatural Acts. Forester’s Lounge, Wed. Aug. 6. / Bodies, We Should Call it a …
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# 46152
DURYEA, Townsend, junior
Four studio portraits of a vaudeville performer named Jessie. Adelaide, late 1890s.
Four albumen print photographs, cabinet card format, 161 x 103 mm (mounts); rectos all with the embossed silver imprint of ‘T. Duryea, 51 Rundle Street, Adelaide’; to the verso of one is a dedication inscription in ink written by the sitter which has been scratched out (possibly by a jealous later partner?), of which we …
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![[MELBOURNE] Amazon Theatre. To celebrate International Lesbian Day with Spot the Dyke. Friday 5th + Saturday 6th October [1990], Footscray Community Arts Centre ....](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_1094-300x300.jpg)
# 46479
AMAZON THEATRE (Melbourne)
[MELBOURNE] Amazon Theatre. To celebrate International Lesbian Day with Spot the Dyke. Friday 5th + Saturday 6th October [1990], Footscray Community Arts Centre ….
… Please note: This is definitely last performance of Spot the Dyke. [Melbourne] : Amazon Theatre, [1990]. Handbill, A4 size, printed recto only; faint original folds, good condition. Provenance: From the estate of Virginia Fraser (1947-2021), feminist, artist, writer, editor and curator.
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![[FEMINISM] Reel Women](https://douglasstewart.com.au/app/uploads/2025/02/2025_DSFB_0549-300x300.jpg)
# 46307
REEL WOMEN (Melbourne)
[FEMINISM] Reel Women
[Carlton, Vic. : Reel Women, 1980]. Broadsheet, 205 x 410 mm, folding to 205 x 95 mm, [8] pp., illustrated; catalogue of 20 independent women’s films, all by Melbourne and Sydney filmmakers including Sue Ford, Kerry Dwyer, Jacqui Fine, Carla Pontiac, Monique Schwarz, Carole Sklan, Natalie Green, Maureen McCarthy and Claire Jager; very good condition. …