Sydney Theatre Company
Converted timber wool shed on a working wharf, home to a leading theatre company since the nineteen eighties.
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This guide to Sydney Theatre Company follows a derelict wool shed on Sydney's working harbour, rescued from decay in the early 1980s by theatre administrator Elizabeth Butcher and reopened as a theatre in late 1984. It traces the drama school graduate who stepped onto this stage in 1992 opposite Geoffrey Rush in a play called Oleanna. Stand among the old ironbark beams, still overhead from the building's wharf days.
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