The Plays: As Time Goes By. Act III. June, 1980. Set against the first Mardi Gras protests. Pages 31-40.

Letter from David, June, 1980.

A letter from David, June, 1980.
And thereby hangs a tail.
We lived together for a brief and intense little period during the 1970s at World's End in London.

Letter from Johnny Allen, Cabaret Conspiracy, Circa 1980.

JOHNNY ALLEN
http://www.nimbinweb.com.au/nimbin/history/history2.htm

Aquarius
In 1972, scouts from the Australian Union of Students came to the village and persuaded the Nimbin Progress Association to allow a festival to be held here. Johnny Allen, Graeme Dunstan and Paul Joseph organised a celebration of the dawning of the `Consciousness' and `Protest' movements in the heady days of the Vietnam war, free love and marijuana - a festival of discovery .... It lasted 10 days and marked a watershed in Australian popular culture. Many decided to stay and bought up the cheap land available, settling in to a new lifestyle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_Festival

Aquarius Festival

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Aquarius Festival
Dates	12 to 23 May 1973
Location(s)	Canberra, Nimbin
Years active	1971, 1973
Founded by	Johnny Allen and Graeme Dunstan

The Aquarius Festival was a counter-cultural arts and music festival organised by the Australian Union of Students. It was the fourth in a biannual series of festivals, first organised by the National Union of Australian University Students (NUAUS). The First Australian Universities Arts Festival was held in Sydney in 1967, and the Second Australian Universities Arts Festival was held in Melbourne in 1969. The third added "Aquarius" to its name and was held in Canberra in 1971.^[1] The fourth and last was held in Nimbin, New South Wales in 1973.^[2]

The Aquarius Festival aimed to celebrate alternative thinking and sustainable lifestyles.^[3] The ten-day event was held from 12 to 23 May 1973 and co-directed by Johnny Allen and Graeme Dunstan. Vernon Treweeke also played a part in organising the event. It is often described as Australia's equivalent to the Woodstock Festival and the birthplace for Australia's hippie movement.^[4] Estimated turn-up at Nimbin was from 5,000 to 10,000 people.

Note from Verity Laughton, Editor at that time of ASH re One Moment The Street, Circa May, 1980.

https://australianplays.org/playwright/ASC-354

Verity Laughton

Verity Laughton is a South Australian-based playwright. Her 30+ plays have been produced nationally and internationally. Her works include main-stage adult dramas, plays for radio, a promenade community event, a musical, adaptations, plays for child and family audiences, and for dance, puppets and theatre of image. She also writes poetry and occasional work for the screen.

Her awards include: AWGIE Community Theatre, 2004; Griffin Prize, 2001; AWGIE Radio Drama, 2004; Adelaide Critics’ Circle Best New Australian Play, 1999; Inscription Award, 2009; and nominations for the NSW Premier’s Award, the New Dramatists’ Award, the Griffin Prize, Rodney Seaborn Prize, and the London Warehouse International Festival.

She is represented by Anthony Blair of Camerons Management.

She is currently undertaking a PhD in political theatre at Flinders University. Another play of hers, a verbatim theatre piece about the 1966 Battle of Long Tan, Long Tan, will be produced in April 2017, by Brink Productions. She is also working, with the playwrights’ group, 7-ON, on a recent Literature Board-funded project, The Seven Social Sins.

The Association of Community Theatres, Response, From Here to Oblivion, 9 January, 1980.

Queensland Theatre Company Playwrights Competition, Failure to Win, 30 November, 1979.

The Death of ASH, Verity Laughton and Rosie Jones, 1979.

Photo Circa 1979

Australian Film Commission rejects funding application for Polly's Movie script, 28 September, 1979.

Rejection letter, University of Queensland Press, 13 September, 1979.

Acceptance of Twins, rejection of From Musty City Rooms and Archaic Emotions, Campaign, 7 September, 1979.

One of a number of rejection letters from the Literature Board of the Australia Council, 29 August, 1979.

Rejection letter, Mandrax Mountain and Fragment me Quick Blue Queen, Outback Press, 3 August, 1979.

ASH rises from the ashes, 1979. Verity Laughton, Rosie Jones.

These days Verity Laughton is a prominent Australian playwright. https://australianplays.org/playwright/ASC-354 While Rosie Jones is a filmmaker. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-family-review-chris-johnston-and-rosie-jones-investigate-the-sinister-cult-20170223-gujz07.html

Rejection for manuscript A Journey, Outback Press, 5 July, 1979.

Rehearsals for my play The Police Commissioner's Grandmother, 1976.

Friend Bill Rough, Director of my play The Police Commissioner's Grandmother, Circa 1976.

Rejection for Glamour and the Grot, Angus & Robertson, 25 May, 1979.

Another rejection letter and advice on One Moment The Street from Peter Knox, Editor of Boogle, 17 May, 1979.

MacMillian, Fragment Me Quick, Blue Queen, Not For Us, 23 April, 1979.

Response from Campaign Magazine to my thesis Glamour and the Grot, 29 March, 1979.

Approach from ASH, Verity Laughton and Rosie Jones, 20 February, 1979.

Police Commissioner's Grandmother, More Rehearsals Pics, 1979. Characters Roger Thompson, Richard Trevaskis and Raggs Raghianti

Police Commissioner's Grandmother, Rehearsals, Adelaide 1979.

With Bill Rough as Director, Raggs Ragghianti, Daphne Veasey as grandmother and Michael Chisnell.

The Plays: The Police Commissioner's Grandmother, Original Script, Pages 1-10. 1979.