Round Earth Theatre Company - Travel and Return

Travel and Return

In 1975, the Round Earth Theatre Company left Australia and travelled to North and Central America, Britain, Europe, Egypt, and India for four years. They linked up with various communities and performance companies along the way, participating, for example, in rain and harvest dance rituals in Hopi villages in Arizona, with Canadian companies creating stories in remote communities, and with travelling troupes in India that performed legendary epics.

In 1980, the Company returned to Australia and decided to base the Company in Tasmania. The Salamanca Theatre Company provided a base of operations. The Company had the idea of creating a repertoire of stories in and about Tasmania in the hope of shedding some light about the overall Australian story, then take this story on the road. By 1988, a repertoire of performances, including Broken Dreams in Adelaide and Melbourne in 1984, and Hallelujah Lady Jane, Pieces of Iron and Guarding the Perimeter from 1986 to 1988, was forming and had begun to find its way interstate.