Anne Remans and fellow-actress Dinah Rudelhoff were brought out to Tasmania from England in 1834 under a sponsorship scheme,[1] and first appeared with J. P. Deane's company, which at the time was playing at the Argyle Rooms in Hobart.
[1] This was just one year after the introduction of professional theatre in Tasmania by the travelling company of Samson and Cordelia Cameron from England, and only two years after the first professional performance in Australia, at Barnett Levey's Royal Hotel in Sydney in December 1832.
By importing professional actors, she is said to have established acting as a respectable profession for both sexes in Australia.
She was highly commended for her work, credited by the press with introducing 'a better class of performer and a superior style of management'[5] and for giving theatre, which was then regarded as somewhat dubious, a good name.
In July 1842, she applied to Parliament for an official government license for her theatre, thereby separating it from other places of entertainment and making it a respected institution: in September that year, the "Act for regulating Places of Public Entertainment and for punishing Persons Keeping disorderly Houses.