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Australia

In i960 there were the usual productions of plays set for the school examinations in the various States, including Twelfth Night (produced in Sydney by the Independent Theatre and the Sydney University Players, in Brisbane by the Repertory Theatre, and also in Adelaide), Richard II (the Independent Theatre, Sydney), Hamlet (Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Kalgoorlie Repertory Club, in the Festival of Perth), The Merchant of Venice (Brisbane Arts Theatre, in both city and country) and Julius Caesar and Richard HI (both in Adelaide). The National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney bravely essayed Love's Labour's Lost but the play had no great success either with the public or with academic critics.