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Manuscript Name | Papers of Peter Corrigan |
Manuscript Number | MSS 245 |
Last Updated | August 2021 |
Extent | 2.56 m (27 boxes + 39 oversize + 3 folios) |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | This collection comprises manuscript papers and related material produced or accumulated by Peter Corrigan. |
This collection includes materials in a wide variety of formats, and details Corrigan's work with the Australian Performing Group and many other theatre companies. Materials include correspondence, theatre programmes, newsletters, broadsheets, notes, newspaper clippings, scripts, photographs, slides, architectural plans, theatre designs, set designs, costume designs and theatre posters.
1952-1993
Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Corrigan
Peter Corrigan was born in Australia and educated at Melbourne University and Yale University, New Haven, USA. He is currently a director of the architectural practice of Edmond & Corrigan which has won numerous State and National Architectural Awards. Corrigan was a Guest Professor at Harvard University, USA in 1983-84 and at the Politecnio di Torino in Turin, Italy in 1991 and has lectured in the Architectural Department of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology since 1986.
Corrigan undertook post graduate architecture at Yale University, graduating in 1969 with a Master of Environmental Design and later worked for various architectural firms in America, returning to Australia in 1974. Whilst in the US he became interested in theatre, stage and costume design and worked in several theatres off-Broadway and in New York during this time.
He has designed sets and costumes for productions in most Australian capital cities for Hoopla Productions, Opera Australia, the Australian Performing Group, Melbourne Theatre Company, Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant, Playbox Theatre, Anthill, Going Through Stages, Nightshift, VSO, SATC, Queensland Lyric, Gligil Theatre Company (Theatre of Principle), Belvoir Street Theatre, STC and The Bell Shakespeare Company. He has worked with director Barrie Kosky, as designer, on many productions including Belshazzar, The exile trilogy, Oedipus Rex, Nabucco, and King Lear.
Corrigan received the Green Room Award for Es Brent in 1992 and for Levad in 1993. Amongst his many architectural awards Corrigan was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1989, and the Royal Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 2003. He was best known for his architectural work on the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology's Building 8 in Swanston Street, Melbourne.
Copying of material authored by Peter Corrigan for private study and research is approved.
Papers of Peter Corrigan, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, MSS 245, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
The poster of The Banana Bender by Barry Dickens, La Mama Theatre, has been removed from the collection and framed for hanging within the Library.
Folder 10
Correspondence and feasibility reports between Edmond & Corrigan Architect Planners and Union Theatre re remodelling, 1977-1978
Folder 11
Correspondence with Edmond & Corrigan Architect Planners re Pram Factory redevelopment, June 1975-October 1978
Folder 14
Photocopied typescript of 'Memorandum and Articles of Association' of the Designers Association and of the Pram Factory Limited; photocopied typescript papers and memoranda for the Australian Performing Group
Folder 27
Manuscript draft of explanatory notes on designs for various plays; pencil and colour sketches associated with the production of Faust
Folder 31
Manuscript notes on set and costume design, set designs and fabric samples for Richard III; costume sketches for A touch of silk
Folder 33
Costume designs for Uncle Vanya, set designs for "The three sisters", manuscript notes, costume and set designs for Modest expectations by David Allen (1989)
Folder 43
Typescript drafts of theatre schedules, typescript and manuscript drafts of lectures for drama course at Deakin University
Folder 44
Typescript and manuscript drafts of theatre rehearsal schedules, costume and property lists
Folder 45
Typescript copy of a contract, copies of guidelines for a set/costume designer, rehearsal schedules and manuscript research notes
Folder 51
Annotated typescript draft of untitled play by Valentina Levkowicz and Denis Moore for a workshop and a photocopied typescript copy of play Miss Julie by August Strindberg
Folder 52
Annotated roneoed typescript copy of play Paper and flowers and things : the three lives of Penelope Paper; annotated photocopy of published copy of play Sexual perversity in Chicago by David Mamet and annotated photocopy of published copy of play Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are dead by Tom Stoppard (1967)
Folder 53
Roneoed typescript copy of play The photographer : play in one act by Otto Dijk - incomplete; annotated photocopy of published copy of play The mother by Bertold Brecht; two annotated photocopies of published copy of play Cowboy mouth by Sam Shepherd; photocopied typescript copy of play Carny, fall! by Albert Maurits; synopsis for a film of Dimboola by Jack Hibberd
Folder 54
Photocopied annotated typescript copy of play Prolegomenon to the projected - Tristram Shandy in the theatre; annotated photocopy of published copy of play A cheery soul; a photocopied typescript copy and a photocopied annotated published copy of play Hancock's last half hour - a play for one actor by Heathcote Williams (1977); annotated photocopied typescript copy of play The Coolidge by Roger Pulvers (1980)
Folder 58
Two photocopied annotated typescript copies of play Modest expectations by David Allen (1989)
Folder 59
Annotated photocopied typescript copy of play The perfectionist by David Williamson (1982)
Folder 60
Annotated photocopied typescript copy of play The dance of death by August Strindberg, translated from Swedish by Roger Pulvers; manuscript research notes, photocopied annotated typescript copy of play Victoria 300 and photocopied published research material
Folder 61
Photocopied annotated typescript copy of play A mug's game by Barry Dickens; annotated photocopied typescript copy of play Thanks for the memory; annotated photocopied typescript copy of play Occupation : comedian : the life and death of George Coppin by Garrie Hutchinson (1990); photocopied published pages of short story 'A schoolboy prank'; photocopied typescript copy of play 'Turk Kershaw' - incomplete
Folder 62
Two copies of annotated published pages of play Curse of the starving class and manuscript production notes
Folder 63
Annotated photocopied typescript copy of play Bedfellows by Barry Oakley; annotated photocopied typescript copy of play Savage love; annotated photocopied typescript draft of play 'The everlasting secret family' by Frank Moorhouse; photocopied typescript draft of play 'Look what they have done to him!'
Folder 64
Photocopied published pages of article 'Peter Hall on directing Pinter', of plays by Harold Pinter entitled A kind of Alaska, Victoria Station and One for the road; annotated photocopied typescript copies of short stories by Laurie Clancy entitled The astronaut returns to earth and A question of principle; annotated typescript carbon of play The stranger in the house by Richard Demarcy translated by Helen Garner
Folder 65
A roneoed typescript copy and an annotated photocopy of annotated roneoed copy of The dudders
Folder 67
Roneoed typescript and photocopied annotated roneoed typescript copies of play Chidley : a play in two acts by Alma de Groen
Folder 68
Photocopy annotated typescript first draft of play 'A moment's hesitation as she changes the expression of her face : a play for two performers' by Jeffrey Fereday (1987)
Folder 70
Annotated photocopy of published article and play Belshazzar by George Frideric Handel (1744); photocopied published copy of play The sad lament of Pecos Bill on the eve of killing his wife; roneoed typescript copy of play An amour by David Halliwell; photocopied typescript copy of play Juliet by Gun Spencer (1987)
Folder 71
Two annotated roneoed typescript drafts and a photocopied roneoed typescript draft and random roneoed typescript pages of play 'Dreamers of the absolute' and several pages of manuscript draft production notes
Folder 72
Published copy and annotated roneoed typescript copy of play City sugar by Stephen Poliakoff (1975)
Folder 74
Photocopied typescript play Oh by Ted Neilsen (1977); roneoed typescript play Peggy Sue by Jack Hibberd (1984) and photocopied typescript drafts of production notes
Folder 75
Two annotated photocopied published copies and a photocopied annotated published copy of play A mad world my masters by Barry Keeffe (1977)
Folder 79
Annotated typescript copy of play Rock-ola by Tim Gooding (1993); photocopied typescript copy of play The celebrity by Frank Wedekind translated by Eugene Schlusser, 1983 and manuscript draft of production notes
Folder 80
Roneoed typescript copy of play News unlimited! by Roger Pulvers; annotated published copy of play Fanshen by David Hare (1975) - incomplete; published copy of play Fefu and her friends by Maria Irene Fornes (1978); annotated photocopied typescript copy of Let me in by Ted Neilsen (1976)
Folder 82
One annotated roneoed typescript copy and one roneoed typescript copy of play Fuenteovejuna and manuscript draft of production notes
Folder 86
Set designs for plays Chidley by Alma de Groen (photocopy), The Fitzroy Yank, Tentative Rose, The yellow girl (pencil drawing), Dreamers of the absolute (pencil, paint and ink); posters for AC/DC by Heathcote Williams and Grigori III by Peter Mathers; and photocopies of architectural plans of theatres
Box-folder 87
One black and white photograph of poster designed by Peter Corrigan for the Intervarsity Drama Festival, 1966;
One b/w photograph of Blundell, Hibberd and Kendall;
One b/w photograph of Blundell and Knappett;
Ten colour photographs of stage production of A singular man by John Donleavy, at Melbourne University Student Theatre, 1966;
Eight colour, two pages of proofs and three b/w photographs of stage production of The birthday party by Harold Pinter, at Newcastle University NSW, 1965;
Three b/w photographs of stage production of Hamlet in a tent at Melbourne University Student Theatre, 1966;
One colour and nine b/w photographs of model of stage set of Don Giovanni, 1974;
Two colour photographs of stage production of Crackers at the Savoy, 1977;
Two colour photographs of stage production of City sugar by Stephen Poliakoff (1975), 1976;
Two colour photographs of stage production of 'Pecking orders', 1976;
Three colour photographs of stage production of The mother by Bertold Brecht, 1975;
Two colour photographs of stage production of Canned peaches and tin sailors;
Eight colour photographs of stage production of Floating world by John Romeril (1974);
Sixteen colour photographs of stage production of Rock-ola, 1978;
Two b/w photographs of stage production of Buried child by Sam Shepherd, 1980;
Six b/w photographs of stage production of The bodgie wolf, 1979;
One b/w photograph of stage production of Gentlemen only, 1979;
Six b/w proofs of 'The Busby Berkleys';
Two colour photographs of stage production of A singular man, 1966;
Eight colour photographs of Bergamo Theatre Workshop, 1977;
Three colour photographs of Peter Corrigan and David Kendall, 1976;
Colour proofs of rehearsals of The mind's antipodes, 1990;
Sixteen colour photographs of people connected to the production of Belshazzar by George Frideric Handel (1744), 1990;
Eleven colour photographs of rehearsals of Modest expectations by David Allen (1989), 1990;
Negatives of the set for The birthday party by Harold Pinter, at Newcastle University NSW, 1965;
Negatives of a person connected with the production of Hancock's last half hour - a play for one actor by Heathcote Williams (1977);
Seventeen colour photographs of a warehouse in Meaden Street, South Melbourne;
Five colour photographs of a gas barbecue;
Twenty colour photographs of the exterior and interior of the Melbourne Theatre Company;
Seven b/w photographs of The Pram Factory and Drummond Street, Melbourne, 1981
Box-folder 88
Twenty-one black and white photographs of celebrations of, social events with, and productions of plays by Bertold Brecht;
Seven b/w photographs of New York [c1970s];
Twelve b/w photographs of stage set of War and peace in the Opera House;
Fourteen colour photograph reproductions of promotional material for the film Guys and dolls, 1955;
Fifty-six colour photographs of Adelaide Central Railway Station prior to and during destruction for conversion to the Adelaide Casino
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Twenty-four items, including set designs, theatre designs and posters relating to the play Floating world, dated July 1974 and February 1982
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Sixteen items, including set designs and theatre designs relating to the play Dance of death, dated May 1981
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Six items, including set designs, costume designs, theatre designs and posters relating to the play The touch of silk, dated February and August 1985
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Thirty items including set designs and theatre designs relating to the plays The mother, Covenant of the rainbow, Mary Shelley and the monsters, Freaks, Sexual perversity in Chicago, Toast to Melba, includes three posters, Ephraim, Pajama game, Birthday party, Thanks for the memory, True romance, Socrates, Leyland folies, Three sisters, The Hutchinson show, Golden oldies, Grigori III, Canned peaches and tin sailors and Mother courage
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Twelve items includes set designs and theatre designs for the plays Carmen Miranda, Chidley, Crackers, Vic 3000, 'Space' and Fire
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Sixteen items includes set designs for the plays Savage love, Pecking orders, Back to Bourke Street and John, Paul, Ringo, George and Bert
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Sixteen items includes set designs and costume designs for the plays Gentlemen only, Uncle Vanya, Shirazz cabaret mark II in Christmas warfare and The stranger in the house
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Eighty-four items including set designs for the play Richard III dated October, November and December 1984
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Seventeen items, including set designs for the play Reservoir by night dated February and March 1985
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Thirty-five items. Architectural plans for the Victorian University of Technology, RMIT Campus, dated February-May 1991
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Nineteen items. Architectural plans for the Playhouse, State Theatre Company of South Australia dated 1980 and 1984
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Nine items. Architectural plans for the Playbox Theatre, 55 Exhibition Street, Melbourne
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Twenty-five items. Architectural plans for a Swanston Street (Melbourne) elevation; a development for twin theatres, dated March 1978, an electrical layout plan, dated August 1978, and alterations for a radio station at 13-43 Victoria Street, Fitzroy (Melbourne), dated November 1980; the Theatre Royal, Sydney, dated July 1976; alterations and extension of residence at 1032 Drummond Street, Carlton (Melbourne); architectural plans written up in Japanese; the CUB Malthouse - The Beckett, dated 1990; the Canberra Theatre Centre, dated February 1980
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Twenty-five items. Architectural plans for La Mama Theatre, dated April/May 1983; for the Drama School of the Victorian College of the Arts, dated September and November 1975; unidentified architectural plans and sketches of Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House; set designs for the Nancy (France) Municipal Theatre, dated August 1952
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Thirty-three items. Architectural plans for the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Melbourne
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Twenty-seven items. Seven architectural plans of the Anthill Theatre, South Melbourne, dated April 1984; eleven architectural plans of St Martin's Theatre Centre, Melbourne, dated July 1978; one architectural plan of the Victorian Arts Centre, The Playhouse, dated December 1979; one architectural plan of the seating plan for Theatreworks; seven architectural plans of the Russell Street Theatre, Melbourne
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Twenty-seven posters:
The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant Zoo, John Pinder and Roger Evans
The young Peer Gynt, St Mark's Hall, Fitzroy, November 16, 1976
Drawings of Earth, The Australian Contemporary Dance Company
Essington Lewis : I am work, The Church Theatre and Essington Productions, 26 April-3 June 1989
L O Sloan's three black and three white jubilee minstrels, The Last Laugh Theatre Restaurant, Collingwood
Fitzroy crossing, La Mama
One woman shoe, La Mama, 2-19 July
Kate Kelly's roadshow, Sydney Festival and the Australian Performing Group, The Living Flame Theatre, Hyde Park, 2-25 January
Ned Kelly's sister's travelling circus, a 1980 Australian Performing Group Ensemble production, Pram Factory, from 11 November
The real life of Sebastian Melmoth, Pram Factory, 18 February
The circus, The Last Laugh Restaurant Zoo, Collingwood
Immaculate housekeeping, Daddy wolf, The hour before my brother dies and Held in camera, La Mama, 31 July-17 August
The two headed calf, Pram Factory from 11 March, Adelaide from 13 April
Cloud nine, Australian Performing Group Ensemble, Pram Factory Front Theatre, 28 August
Artaud at Rodez, Pram Factory , 3 June 1981
Routings in Videoville, Australian Performing Group
Soapbox circus with Matchbox, Australian Performing Group
Creature from the black lagoon, Nightshift
The Fools'-shoe Hotel, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory Theatre, from 15 August
A singular man, Melbourne University, 26 July
The over coat, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory
The woman, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory Front Theatre, 19 July-26 August
Harold Pinter's birthday party, Union Theatre, 15-19 July
Australian Universities Drama Festival, Union Theatre, 24 August-5 September
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Thirty-one posters:
Bedbug celebration, the last Pram Factory show, 4 September
The fabulous Hills family show, Pram Factory, 26 June
The River Jordan, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 1 October
Barbarians, Adelaide Independent Theatre Ensemble, 16 October-2 November
Angel of the graveyard, Pram Factory Theatre, 6-23 December
The young Peer Gynt and Plath, Stasis workshop, Australian Performing Group, [1976-77]
Chris Langham, Adelaide Festival Trust and the Australian Performing Group, 27 June-8 July
Smackin' the dacks, Soapbox Circus with music by Matchbox, Pram Factory Theatre, 17 November
'Zastrozzi, the master of discipline', Pram Factory, 1-18 November
The architect & the Emperor of Assyria, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 29 January-24 February
Blinky Bill comes to town, Australian Peoples Festival, 22 February
The young and the jobless, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 5 December
A stretch of the imagination, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 24 August
The case of Katherine Mansfield, Back Theatre, Pram Factory, from 23 July
Yesterday's news, Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 29 April-5 June
Bill Garner's spot, La Mama
La Musica L'Amante Anglaise, Pram Factory, 12 July-5 August
Troupe, Adelaide's Alternative Theatre Group
Carboni, Pram Factory Front Theatre, 12 February
The Joss Adams show and He can swagger sitting down , Australian Performing Group, Pram Factory, 28 September-29 October
Venice preserved, Guild Theatre, Melbourne University, 6-16 August
The bitter tears of Petra von Kant, Pram Factory, 8 August-3 September
Africa, Back Theatre, Pram Factory, 11 January-2 February
An evening of song and poems concerning poor B B, Back Theatre, Pram Factory, 20 April-5 May
Garden of delights, Back Theatre, Pram Factory, 8 February-4 March
'Real women in 16mm - a season of new films by women', Basement, Pram Factory, 30 October-12 November
Othello, Marlowe Society, Union Theatre, 18-28 April
'Revue 66', Melbourne University, 16-25 June [1966]
Phar Lap, Pram Factory, 11 March-24 April
The ship's whistle, Australian Performing Group, Front Theatre, Pram Factory from 10 November and Buckinghamshire, Australian Performing Group, Back Theatre, Pram Factory from 2 November
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Ten posters:
Radioactive horror show, Pram Factory, 7 July, one coloured, two black/white
Voices, Pram Factory, 21 September-15 October
'Spondoolies - the money show', Australian Performing Group, Community Theatre
Tiger at the gates, Union Theatre, 12-15 July
Hamlet, Melbourne University, 15-27 April
Falling in love again, Pram Factory, 21 November-23 December
Drawings of a figure, a grenade and a hand holding a pistol, all coloured black
Bold tales, Pram Factory, from 22 July
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Four architectural plans and one stage design. Architectural plans for Comedy Theatre, Melbourne, stage and cellar area, dated 22 May, 1969; Theatre Royal, MLC Centre; Sydney Opera House, longitudinal section; Sydney Opera House, stage level and auditorium; and stage design for Richard III