Hole In The Wall

I thought that the performance room in the kebab shop was underground, not upstairs. The basement had a history, in the popular memory at least, of housing intimate and experimental shows. I was part of a number of discussions in 2001 (?) about using this basement to mount a spoken word/dance/just intonation show about squid myths. In the event, none of the collaborators seemed to understand what any of the others were talking about, the idea bit the dust and shortly afterward the basement was sealed for OHS reasons.

If this is not the same venue - or kebab shop - that hosted The Hole's last days, then this just proves how rich and how secretive the performance history of Northbridge actually is. 

My last memories of the place were of the production meetings for Lily's Secret and Jack Love Me, which Homestead and Inspiral took over to Brisbane in 2004. 

When I was running The Disk, I was told of a book-length history of The Hole that was currently in preparation. I cannot remember the name of the author, nor the name of my source (though it may have been one of the university presses). Did this book ever come to fruition? 

There is a great oral history project to be found in the theatre history of William St, and of Northbridge as a whole. Does anyone know if such a thing is actually happening? Curtin and LISWA were both interested in this sort of thing at the turn of the century. Are they still? Is The Blue Room? Is anyone?

Noel Christian