Performing Arts Collection
Performing Arts Collection of South Australia, Adelaide Festival Centre
The Performing Arts Collection is home to many prestigious and unique collections that embody over 200 hundred years of South Australian performing arts history. It represents the contributions South Australians have made, both on stage and behind-the-scenes, to the performing arts industry across the board. From its humble beginnings under the auspices of the State Theatre Company in 1979, the Performing Arts Collection celebrates its 30th birthday in 2009 as a rich and vast performing arts resource, like no other, at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
It holds of some of the finest costumes worn by Australia’s most memorable actors and opera singers, costume designs and set models drawn and made by Australia’s significant designers and artists, personal archives once belonging to some of theatre’s greats, production photographs, ventriloquist dolls, puppets, musical instruments, theatre interiors plus an astonishing program collection dating back to 1881.
Watch for changing displays at the Festival Theatre foyer showcases.
Visit the collection by appointment only:
Jo Peoples
Exhibitions Coordinator
08 8216 8769
jo.peoples@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Tuesday and Thursday
Helen Trepa
Collection Coordinator
08 8216 8995
helen.trepa@adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au
Monday, Thursday and Friday
See our latest Exhibition
Hitchcock to Spock: Life and Times of our Dame Judith Anderson 1898 - 1992
Festival Theatre foyer, 10 February – 4 June
Free
In her journey from Adelaide to Hollywood and Broadway, Dame Judith Anderson became one of the greatest dramatic actors of her generation in roles as diverse as the evil Mrs Danvers in Alfred Hitchcock’s film Rebecca, to the Vulcan High-Priestess in Doctor Spock.
On display see original costumes designed by haute couture designer Valentina ,and Jean Louis Berthault -head of costume design forColumbia Pictures, along with photographs, scrap books and other memorabilia donated by the actress.
