Show convicts staged plays though the first regular themer th ecter in sydney N S W was levey s theater 11 11 val opened by barnet barnel cavey aey ii 11 hotel keeper buck back of ills his public house on october 5 1833 performances were given in a build ing rig erected on church hill erected nt at a cut cost of 00 as early as atos these earlier curlier performances i ere staged by con coin lets acts who were warned that any 1 in propriety impropriety in the altow would cause aliu m to be banished to tile lie mouthing lne settlements that warning 11 g appa apparently bently was BBS B BS heeded but it was discovered that flint the homes of people who went to the theater were pers persist cutly robbed probably by other british penal exiles in league with the players so the theater was clos closed ed and the building razed shortly thereafter sydney Bu lIntin j |