Elliot Lawry
speaker
4,557 appearances
48 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Elliot Lawry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's called Divine Playhouse.
It's right in the centre of the CBD near Town Hall.
It's in this old church which was built in 1868, but it hasn't actually been a church for a very long time.
Yes, kind of.
Well that is actually an important distinction so it was set up by a company called Heaps Gay and they do run a lot of queer events across the city and they did have queer events in its first couple of nights but
It wasn't meant to be an exclusively queer space.
It was actually designed to be a creative arts venue, so performances of all kinds, you know, music, immersive theatre, all that kind of thing was meant to be put on there.
Yes, so in 1932 I went through a process called deconsecration.
It was deconsecrated.
It's a really tough word to say, but I've been practising it.
It's basically the process of the church going in and saying this is no longer a holy building.
It is removing it as a place where people can go and worship.
And it's basically turning it over to be another space.
Yes.
And in the time since, it's been a bunch of different things.
So it was a school.
It was a homeless shelter.
And for 80 years of that time, it was actually a theater up until kind of semi-recently.
Yeah, so it was kind of sitting vacant in the middle of Sydney city.
There's a lot of buildings like that in the center of the CBD.
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