NORTHCOTE AMPHITHEATRE , FAIRFIELD PAVILION , FAIRFIELD PARK AMPHITHEATRE and RIVER PAVILION and SERVICE BUILDING , FAIRFIELD PARK AMPHITHEATRE PAVILION PRECINCT , FAIRFIELD AMPHITHEATRE and RIVER PAVILION and SERVICE BUILDING
Location
3 FAIRFIELD PARK DRIVE FAIRFIELD, YARRA CITY
Level
Registered
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Fairfield Amphitheatre
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Amphitheatre with Kiosk
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Fairfield Amphitheatre
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DIAGRAM 2412 zoomed out V2
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Gazebo Upper Level of Concrete
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Lower Level Pavilion
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Ticket Kiosk
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Amphitheatre Light and Film
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Change Rooms Pavilion
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1920s Swimming Pool at
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1925 Swimming Pool at
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1983 Temporary scaffolded
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1985 Fairfield Amphitheatre
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
Fairfield Park Amphitheatre Complex including the bluestone amphitheatre designed by Maggie Edmond (1985), precast concrete pavilion designed by Paul Couch (c.1987-88) of Carter Couch Architects, and bluestone ticket kiosk (unknown designer post-1985) constructed for the Greek/English bilingual theatre program of the Epidavros Summer Festival.
How is it significant?
Fairfield Park Amphitheatre Complex is of historical significance to the State of Victoria. It satisfies the following criterion for inclusion in the Victorian Heritage Register:
Criterion A
Importance to the course, or pattern, of Victoria's cultural history.
Why is it significant?
Fairfield Park Amphitheatre Complex is historically significant for its representation of the bicultural importance of Greek-Australians in Victoria’s social, cultural and political development. It represents a significant moment in the migration continuum between the inception of Australia’s postwar immigration program from Greece in 1947, the Federal government’s policy of multiculturalism from the late 1970s, and decline of Greek migration at the end of the 1980s, by which time around 96 per cent of Victoria’s Greek community lived in Melbourne. Modelled on the ancient amphitheatre at Epidaurus (late 4th century BC), the cultural importance of the Fairfield complex in Melbourne’s migrant cityscape transcended its immediate suburban scale, and became an important expression of identity for Greek-Australians across Victoria.
