Graduate Dramatic Society (GRADS)
Address
PO Box 3023 Broadway
Nedlands 6009
Venue
Dolphin Theatre and New Fortune Theatres, UWA, Nedlands
Company information
The Graduate Dramatic Society (GRADS) originated in 1953 at the University of Western Australia. The Sunken Garden at UWA, a theatre created from a sandpit, was in 1948 the venue for a season of Oedipus Rex which earned the plaudits of Laurence Olivier and Vivienne Leigh among others. Jeana Bradley of UWA was the director. The subsequent blossoming of dramatic activity suggested to some of the undergraduates that they should continue after they graduated. For the ensuing fifty(+) years the Graduate Dramatic Society has been a leading source of fine, mostly classic, theatre in Western Australia.
Combined productions with the University Dramatic Society were early features of the Festival of Perth. In 1964 the New Fortune Theatre came into use. The first production was Hamlet, directed by Jeana Bradley and Philip Parsons, and involving GRADS members. Besides these two theatres the society also used the old Dolphin, a weatherboard building. That was demolished after the new Dolphin came into use in 1976. The present Dolphin has a large stage and is well equipped with lighting and sound rigs and a fly tower.
At present GRADS mounts three productions a year, chiefly in the Dolphin Theatre. Early in the year a joint Shakespearian production with the University Dramatic Society takes place in the New Fortune Theatre. This is a uniquely suitable venue for the purpose, mimicking almost exactly the Fortune Theatre of Shakespeare's time.
Membership of GRADS, originally for graduates of UWA, has been extended to graduates of any tertiary institution, and non-graduate members are welcome as associate members.
Further information
Enquiries
0401 216 962
2013 | |
| THE MERRY GO ROUND IN THE SEA (PRODUCTION) | 19/07/2013 - 03/08/2013 |
| SPEAKING IN TONGUES (PRODUCTION) | 01/11/2013 - 16/11/2013 |
2013 | |
| The Man from Mukinupin | 09/02/2013 - 21/02/2013 |
2012 | |
| M. BUTTERFLY by David Henry Hwang | 02/11/2012 - 17/11/2012 |
| Habeas Corpus | 20/07/2012 - 04/08/2012 |
| Love's Labour's Lost | 09/03/2012 - 24/03/2012 |
2011 | |
| All My Sons | 04/11/2011 - 12/11/2011 |
| Three Sisters | 01/07/2011 - 16/07/2011 |
| TWELFTH NIGHT (GRADS SUMMER SHAKESPEARE) | 15/03/2011 - 26/03/2011 |
2010 | |
| Cat On A Hot Tin Roof | 30/10/2010 - 13/11/2010 |
| With Friends Like These... | 25/06/2010 - 10/07/2010 |
| Macbeth | 09/03/2010 - 20/03/2010 |
2009 | |
| She Stoops To Conquer | 31/10/2009 - 14/11/2009 |
| A Double Bill: The Proposal and Black Comedy | 26/06/2009 - 11/07/2009 |
| The Merchant of Venice | 05/03/2009 - 20/03/2009 |
2008 | |
| A Laughing Matter | 08/09/2008 - 07/11/2008 |
| Much Ado About Nothing | 03/03/2008 - 14/03/2008 |
2007 | |
| THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (Harold Pinter) | 26/10/2007 - 09/11/2007 |
| The Importance of Being Earnest (GRADS) | 27/07/2007 - 11/08/2007 |
| Henry V | 08/03/2007 - 23/03/2007 |
2006 | |
| Cosi | 27/10/2006 - 11/11/2006 |
| Hedda Gabler | 26/07/2006 - 05/08/2006 |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | 15/03/2006 - 25/03/2006 |
2005 | |
| What the Butler Saw | 23/09/2005 - 08/10/2005 |
| And a Nightingale Sang... | 29/06/2005 - 09/07/2005 |
2004 | |
| The Tempest | 17/02/2004 - 28/02/2004 |
2003 | |
| Noises Off | 10/09/2003 - 20/09/2003 |
| Noises Off | 10/09/2003 - 20/09/2003 |
| The Taming of the Shrew | 07/03/2003 - 22/03/2003 |
2002 | |
| I Hate Hamlet | 05/09/2002 - 14/09/2002 |
| Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | 21/06/2002 - 06/07/2002 |
| GRADS Green Room | 19/06/2002 - 19/06/2002 |
| GRADS Green Room | 17/04/2002 - 17/04/2002 |
| Hamlet | 13/03/2002 - 23/03/2002 |
2001 | |
| Don`s Party | 31/08/2001 - 15/09/2001 |
| After Aida | 22/06/2001 - 07/07/2001 |
2000 | |
| The Green Room | 20/09/2000 - 20/09/2000 |
| Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | 11/08/2000 - 26/08/2000 |
| A Doll's House | 16/06/2000 - 01/07/2000 |
1999 | |
| The Homecoming | 12/11/1999 - 27/11/1999 |
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