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Audio cassette recordings of interviews and songs from Australia's first Gay Musical by Alex Harding. Number 10 in The Guardians Top 15 Australian Musicals 2022. Featuring Jacqy Phillips: David Campbell: Garry Scale: Anthony Cogin and Jason Langley: From the original cast recording: At The Stables Theatre, scenes from the musical : Steve Kidd: Paul Hunt: James Bean: John Turnbull: and Jacqy Phillips. When Alex passed away I discovered these cassettes in his belongings. They are a part of Gay History and his history and I had to do something with them. I imagine him sitting over the radio and ...

David was a member of Gay Sweatshop and became the company’s first full time administrator, he administered the Young People’s Theatre Scheme at the Royal Court, London and established his own production company DET Enterprises which produced Steven Berkoff’s ‘Greek’, he spent time in New York managing the well known, drag troupe ‘Bloolips’ before becoming the first full time director of the Australian Centre of the International Theatre Institute. Volume One covers his life from 1977-1980 and chart’s David’s journey through the evolution of gay theatre around the world at a ...