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June Update - BNT History Project


01 June 2025

Since the last update, Liana met with the Centre for Goldrush Collections to discuss our collection, how we can work together to manage it and complete the process of cataloguing and digitising it.

BNT volunteers also helped put together the BNT portion of the Ballarat Theatre History exhibition at BPAC, which was on as part of the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The exhibition was an opportunity to showcase some of the history information we’ve been collating so far. It had a display of the digitised film reel footage, old programs to look through. Peter Nethercote brought in a range of models of his sets over the years, which were included in the display.  Thank you to Laura Hudson, Liana Emmerson and Peter Nethercote for their work on the display, and to the BPAC volunteers who helped with assembly.

This month Liana has also scanned some private items from the collections of Marilyn Chestnut and Athalie Bazzani, which included several programs and articles we previously didn’t have. Thank you to Athalie and Marilyn for your contributions which have enabled us to document information we previously did not have for productions such as The Secretary Bird, Toad of Toad Hall, Tango and more.

A photo of the BNT part of the Ballarat Theatre History Exhibition at BPAC.

Photos of our exhibition

Below are some images of our part of the exhibition of Ballarat Theatre History that was held at BPAC as part of Ballarat Heritage Festival as well Dr Rob (BNT member) at their talk on the history of theatre in Ballarat.

New digitised items

Here is a sample of items that have been digitised as part of this month's update for the BNT history project. See the full list below.

List of digitsed items

Program

Toad of Toad Hall

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Newspaper clipping

Toad of Toad Hall

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Program

The Odd Couple

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Program

Astonish Me

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Newspaper clipping

Awards 1985

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Program

Chase Me Comrade

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Program

Dangerous Corner

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Newspaper clipping

The Importance of Being Earnest

from Marilyn Chestnut
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2 x Newspaper clipping

Relatively Speaking

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Newspaper clipping

RSSS Competitions

from Marilyn Chestnut
Program

Tango

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Newspaper Clipping

RE: loss of The Little Theatre

from Marilyn Chestnut
2 x Newspaper Clipping

A Bird in the Hand

from Marilyn Chestnut
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Program

A Taste of Honey

from Athalie Bazzani
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Program

The Secretary Bird

from Athalie Bazzani
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2 x Script

A Taste of Honey

from Athalie Bazzani
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Script

The Secretary Bird

from Athalie Bazzani
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