Show Convict Staged Plays Though the time first regular theater theoter In Sydney N N. N S S. S W W. was tylo Levey's Theater Hi opened by Barnet Harnet Levey Lt a n hotel keeper buck of ot his public house on October 5 b 1833 1831 some performances were given In a II buildIng build build- Ing log erected on Church hill erected at a cost of ot as ItS early a as 1703 1709 These earlier parlier performances were staged by convicts who ho were warned Unit any Impropriety In the how v would cause them theta to be bl banished to the outlying That warn ing apparently was os he heeded IdId but It was discovered that the homes homell of ot people who went to the theater were rl pt-rl persist persistently robbed probably by bf other Brith Brit Brit- lab Ish h penal exiles In league le with the players so the theater was Vas closed and the building razed ruel shortly thereafter g Sydney ncr Bulletin |