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Campbell Howard Collection
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Collection SummaryA unique collection of Australian plays in manuscript over the period 1920 - 1955.DescriptionThe Campbell Howard Collection of Australian Plays represents a unique body of research material concerning Australian drama of the period 1920 - 1955. The collection contains some three hundred plays in manuscript or typescript, together with published plays, theatre programmes, correspondence and research files.Date range1920-1955Library searchCampbell Howard Collection of Australian PlaysReturn toSpecial Collections HomeTypeDocuments
Playbills & Programmes
Ticket: Australian National Miniature Theatre presents "The Fight", 1915
Australian National Theatre Co. presents "The Fight", 1916
Australian Theatre Company presents "The Return", 1919
Theatre program - Henry Tate's "The Australian" and Vance Palmer's One-Act-Play "The Prisoner"
The Battler: A Comedy in Three Acts, 1922
Criterion Theatre presents Emelie Polini with Frank Harvey in "The FLAW" a Drama in 4 acts
The Pioneer Players present Five Short Plays at the Playhouse, 1923
The Pioneer Players present Four Short Plays at the Playhouse, 1923
The Presbyterian Ladies' College Old Collegians' Association present "Shakespeare", and "Drought" at the Play House Melbourne, 1924
National Players present "At Miss Herversham's" and "The Reason"
The Sungod's Secret by Llewelyn Lucas at the Bohemia Theatre, Brisbane, QLD.
The Widowhood of Suzanne, A Comedy in Three Acts, 1929
Grand Opera House Magazine, 1930
The Community Playhouse Darlinghurst present "Four Australian Plays", 1930
Programme - Five plays by Australian Writers, 1931
The Sydney Players' Club presents "Dutch Courage" by Mac Luker, 1932
The Sydney Players Club presents "Bread", 1933
An Australian Play Night, St. James Hall, Sydney, 1934
The Sydney Players' Club, "Episode in a Fog", "False Faces" & Gruach"
The Sydney Players' Club, Program of Eighth Studio Evening, 1934
Drama Week, souvenir programme, 1935
The Sydney Players' Club presents "Intruders", 1935
The Sydney Players' Club presents "Peace & Quiet" & "The Safe"
The Sydney Players' Club presents "Red Sky at Night", and "In Port"
Workers Theatre Programme, Princess Hall, Perth, 1935
Article - The Hordernian Monthly: Dramatic Society
Certificate presented to Mr Russell J. Oakes
Hordernian Dramatic Society present "Publicity Unlimited"
The Melbourne Little Theatre presents "Enduring as the Camphor Tree"
The Independent Theatre presents "Shadows in the High Place", 1938
The Sydney Drama Society presents "An Evening of Australia", 1938
Sydney University Dramatic Society programme, 1950
The Valley of the Shadows, Somerville Auditorium, 1950
The W.E.A. Drama Class presents "Dream Corner" by E.G. Biaggini, 1950
"Believe It or Not" by Alex Symons, Adelaide, SA, 1955
Minnie Love in "Pink Elephants" by Hugh Hastings - Playbill
The Company of Players presents "Papinian" by John Bray
Ticket: "Papinian" by John Bray
National Theatre Players present "Mine A Sad One" by Marjorie McLeod
Phoenix Productions present "At Dusk", "The Valiant", and "The end of a Fairy Tale", 1956
"And So to Bed" by J.B. Fagan, A National Theatre Presentation, 1958
The Melbourne Little Theatre Programme
The National Theatre presents "Breath of Spring" by Peter Coke, 1961Theatre Scripts
Drowned valley
The humour of it
Intrigue, by Harry Tighe
Diggers' Rest (The Battler)
Shipwreck: A Drama in Four Acts by Louis Esson
Un-named playscript (Esson, Louis: believed)
Vagabond Game: A Comedy in One Act
A disturber of pools
A disturber of pools (annotated)
Absalom: a monologue with interruptions
Rebel Smith: a play in three acts
Open spaces: or bush fire
Son of a - (a.k.a. Insult)
The canary waistcoat: a farcical comedy in one act
Wool gathering
Wool gathering (annotated)
Publicity unlimited
The Tree That Chose Itself
The voice of Jerome Keddle
The voice of Jerome Keddle (annotated)
Australia Felix: A Dialogue by Louis Esson
The fool: a play in one Act
Drama and the school: Enduring as the Camphor Tree, by Russel J. Oakes
Mrs. West Park and the Sales
Judgement: drama of the war in Papua, 1942
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Campbell Howard Collection. UNE Collections Gateway, accessed 24/03/2026, https://collections.une.edu.au/nodes/view/105



