Theatre Heritage Australia

... Lonsdale Streets. Rather historic theatrical stamping ground this, for on that very spot George Coppin built the Olympic, the famous ‘Iron Pot’ theatre, where G.V. Brooke himself was wont to fret his hour ...

... Herald, The Evening Standard and The Argus ridiculed both the WCTU women and Dr Smith with headlines such as * Old English Fairs On a more popular level, George Coppin, parliamentarian and actormanager, ...

... rge Coppin’s management, also began a season at the Salle on 8 January 1856. James Ellis, now apparently recovered from his fiscal hardships, had resumed proprietorship of the Salle by mid-April 1856 ...

... Music hall arrived about 1860. It was an amalgam of three popular elements: the pleasure garden with its saloon theatre (a Melbourne example was George Coppin’s Cremorne Gardens in Richmond, named after ...

... ith in Libel during August 1939. It was also in this year that the bronze plaque honouring George Coppin was installed in the Comedy’s foyer. Unveiled by his daughter Lucy on 26 March, it was dedicate ...

... heatre …Rowe’s American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly Rooms, The Argyle Rooms, The Australian Hippodrome, The Hippodrome The Paragon Pictures, Majestic Square, The ...

... el Smith and Griff Rhys Jones arrived for a week in Alas the World on 15 November and last up for the The Comedy Theatre …Rowe’s American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly ...

... American Circus, The Olympic Theatre, Coppin’s Olympic, The Argyle Assembly Rooms, The Argyle Rooms, The Australian Hippodrome, The Hippodrome The Paragon Pictures, Majestic Square, The Paragon Pictur ...

... first out-of-town theatre lasted just one historically memorable decade. It took George Coppin to make it famous, says Ralph Marsden in his chronological series on Melbourne’s playhouses. n a site at Richmond ...

... d was received with round upon round of applause’, The Age of 1 November recorded. Coppin’s by now ex-partner, the brilliant but flawed Brooke, who eventually eloped with Miss Jones, began a short sea ...

... Coppin, a noted philanthropist, included ‘an asylum for decayed actors’ at the Old Colonists’ Homes which he established at Rushall Crescent, North Fitzroy in 1871. For a number of years a Distressed Actors ...

... Comedian It’s one hundred years since the death of ‘the Father of the Australian Theatre’. T he centenary of the death of George Selth Coppin was marked on 2 December 2006 at the Old Colonists’ Homes ...

... rama was also well represented: late 1901 brought seasons by the Charles Arnold and Brough companies, as well as the last stage appearance of the great George Coppin, at a charity matinée on 5 September, ...

... 6 1862: Enter George Coppin The site’s theatrical origins began early 1862 when George Selth Coppin (1819– 1906) lost control of his lease on the Theatre Royal, which occupied a prominent site on the ...

... Although many of these plays were published, they are not known today. Reeve arrived in Australia in October 1878, under engagement to Coppin, Hennings and Greville, bringing with him a considerable reputation ...

... a: Sorrento Safe Anchorage The Anchorage estate at 3273 Point Nepean Road, Sorrento (above), once owned by theatrical entrepreneur and founder of Sorrento George Coppin, has sold for $8.05m. Built for Cop ...

... appearance there on 26 September 1855) competition from George Coppin’s Olympic theatre ensured that the Royal’s owner John Black, who was burdened with innumerable mortgages and debts, was declared bankrupt. ...

... date much further back than the days we are speaking of. Here all the dramatic talent of the colonies was from time to time to be found. George Coppin, Johnny Hydes, Charles Young, are names indissolubly ...

... Royal 8 September, Williamson had signed an indenture making him sole lessee of the Royal; this also marked his first venture into management. On 28 June 1882 Coppin officially retired, dissolving his ...

The Autumn 2009 newsletter of O AGE NS T Vol.10 No.2 Coppin’s Olympic Theatre (‘the Iron Pot’) was built here in 1855 but was converted into a dance hall three years later and finally became a Turkish ...