The Melbourne Olympic Arts Festival was an arts festival held in conjunction with the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbourne, Australia.
[1][2] Melbourne was the first Games to have an arts festival as part of the official program.
[3] The Elizabethan Theatre Trust were going to show its presentation of the Douglas Stewart play Ned Kelly as part of the festival.
[4] Reception to this production in Sydney however was so poor it was decided to show Summer of the Seventeenth Doll instead.
[10] Events not officially part of the festival but held in association with it included: