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Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation Newsletter Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation Newsletter Suite 10, 20 Young Street Neutral Bay NSW 2089 Phone - 9955 5444 Email –[email protected] For bookings please call Carol Martin -on 9955 5444 Monday to Thursday – 10.00am – 4.00pm Volume Number Issue Number Date 25 1 23rd January 2017 Chairman’s Letter announced nearly $300,000 in grants. Last year’s Dear Friends recipients included the Griffin Theatre Company, Sport For Jove, the Seymour Centre, the Hayes On behalf of the Board, Staff and volunteers at the Theatre, Monkey Baa, Outhouse Theatre, Red Line at Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation may I extend the Old Fitzroy, Critical Stages, Powerhouse Youth our very best wishes to you for the New Year. May 2017 Theatre, National Theatre of Parramatta, Sydney bring good health, much happiness and many fine Critics Awards, Currency House and the State Opera performances. of South Australia to assist in completing their four- Last year ended on a high note for the Foundation and year project to produce Australian composer George our loyal Friends. Following the relocation to our new Palmer’s opera Cloudstreet, a critically-acclaimed premises in Neutral Bay, we are now optimistic about world premiere based on Tim Winton’s novel. the exciting opportunities that are emerging as we work Warm congratulations also go to Francesca Savige to support the Australian performing arts in 2017. and Shaun Rennie who won this year’s Sandra Bates Director’s Awards, a prize offering mentoring and Since the last Newsletter, we have achieved a number of directing experience for emerging theatre directors milestones: the celebration of three decades of at the Ensemble Theatre in Kirribilli. philanthropy, a new Foundation website, the awarding Congratulations also to Melissa Reeves who was the of another round of 2016 performing arts grants, sponsorship of the Ensemble Theatre’s Sandra Bates recipient of the annual Rodney Seaborn Playwrights’ Award for the development of a play or other Directors’ Awards and the announcement of the winner approved performing arts project. Her play is of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award as the climax entitled ‘Milk’. of our Christmas Party. The Foundation’s 30th Anniversary Dinner on the 10th Vale: We were sorry to hear of the passing of two of our dear Friends, Miriam Davis and Ian Berry. Both October at the Union, University & Schools Club was a were generous supporters of the Independent well-attended and very happy occasion. The evening was Theatre restoration project. a fitting celebration of Dr Seaborn’s generosity, Micki, an enthusiastic jazz singer and long-term Co- achievements and contribution to the performing arts. It ordinator of the Glugs theatrical lunch club, was also an opportunity for us to pledge our ongoing organised a successful, star-studded fundraiser to support and honour the legacy he has left for the future. benefit the Independent Theatre, and Ian, an old A slideshow capturing important moments during the Kings boy and retired grazier, gave his time to work last 30 years was shown and will be added to our new behind the scenes with the Friends of the website. Actress Penny Cook, Hon Lloyd Waddy AM, actor singer Independent on such occasions, quipping that he was ‘the volunteer of last resort!’ and director Peter Cousens and artist Paul Delprat joined We also bid a fond farewell to John Howitt who ran me in paying tributes to Dr Seaborn and recalling the the Killara 680 Club in the 1960’s. Audiences were wisdom, gentle humour and kindness that characterised entertained with clever, high-energy lip-syncing his philanthropy. cabaret which John later transferred to the Peter Cousens also entertained us with an outstanding Independent Theatre in the late 1970’s after the performance of one of Dr Seaborn’s favourite items from retirement of Doris Fitton. John later contributed to Victoriana. Among our guests were many Friends, Heritage Month fundraising events at which he generous supporters, theatre partners and grant recipients. regaled us with tales of the Independent Theatre Ghost. We extend our warm congratulations to all the Thank you, once again for your valuable, much- successful applicants who were awarded 2016 Seaborn, appreciated and ongoing support. Broughton & Walford Foundation Grants. Dr Seaborn had a wide philanthropic vision that extended across the Peter Lowry OAM broad spectrum of the performing arts and this year we Chairman LION MOVIE LUNCHEON Hayden Orpheum LUNCH WITH THE ARTISTS 380 Military Road Cremorne NSW The Wharf Theatre 4 Hickson Rd LION Walsh Bay Cast – Rooney Mara, Dev Patel , David Wenham and Nicole Kidman Pier Group events are a rare opportunity to A five- year-old boy gets lost on the streets of lunch with artists, support STC and hear an Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. exclusive talk with cast and creatives about the He survives many challenges before being issues in featured plays. adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years Hosted by Per Group co-founder and patron later, he sets out to find his lost family. Anne Schofield AM and held at the Wharf, “This is the kind of movie that could easily funds raised support the immediate and jump up and down on your tear ducts, and evolving needs of STC. near the end, it does do a bit of jumping. LION tells its story with discreet effectiveness, Monday – 6 March 2017 - 12 noon till 2pm capturing the distinctive looks of India and Tickets - $75.00 Tasmania, evoking the scary loneliness of for a two-course meal and a glass of wine. being a little kid alone in a big city”. Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Join us on Wednesday – 8 February 2017 – 11am Movie 118 mins UNDER MILK WOOD Followed by tea or coffee and a light lunch Tickets - $16.00 (includes raffle ticket) by Bookings- Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Dylan Thomas Genesian Theatre A STRATEGIC PLAN 420 Kent Street Sydney SBW Stables Theatre Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ masterpiece 10 Nimrod Street Kings Cross Under Milk Wood is an emotive and hilarious Feel like you’re drowning in paper work? account of a spring day in a functional Welsh Beaten by the impenetrable weight of office seaside village. We learn of the inhabitants’ bureaucracy? Adrift in a sea of jargon? dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. Andrew was parachuted in to save his The play, closely associated with Richard company from oblivion. Mission accomplished, Burton was ‘crowned with a storm of cheers’ he’s turning his sights on implementing the after its opening performance. strategic plan. And then there’s ‘The New Program’, re-branding and a ‘special project’ Sunday- 12 March 2017 – 4.30pm to consider – on skeleton staff, with excess Tickets-$28.50 levels of time-in lieu and Colin off on stress leave. But the Board has unanimously Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 scrapped the strategic plan and neglected to tell Andrew. Not to mention what happened on planning day. Please note all bookings can now be paid by- A Strategic Plan is for anyone who’s ever Cash, Cheque, American Express, worked in an office. Visa, MasterCard or direct bank transfer to Saturday 25 February 2017 – 2pm Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation Tickets – $40.00 Westpac – 032 102 – 82 0188 Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 CALAMITY JANE Sydney Opera House Ladies’ Committee Lyrics Paul Francis Wester Invites you to a jolly Irish Music Sammy Fain BLARNEY BRUNCH Presented by One Eyed Man Productions in In celebration of association with Neglected Musicals and ST PATRICK’S DAY Hayes Theatre Company. Featuring Celtic fiddler Bob McInnes Hayes Theatre 19 Greenknowe Ave With Rhonda Langford at the piano. Elizabeth Bay Thursday – 16 March 2017 -11am Cast includes – Virginia Gay, Laura Bunting, at the Sheridan Harbridge, Rob Johnson & Tony Taylor. The Union, University & Schools Club Legendary Frontierswoman; notorious dare 25 Bent Street, Sydney NSW 2000 devil; profane storyteller; Calamity Jane is one Please note numbered entrance. of the most immediately recognizable figures (around the corner from Sofitel Wentworth of Old American West. Hotel, 61-101 Phillip St) From the famous 1950’s Doris Day musicals to Cost -: $65.00 RSVP: 8 March 2017 HBO series Deadwood, the courageous Dress code: Consider wearing the Green. individuality of Calamity Jane has delighted Prizes for creative ideas! audiences for decades. Bookings – Carol Martin -9955 5444 ‘There’s no better time to re-visit and re- examine this remarkable woman. Saturday – 1 April 2017 – 2pm Tickets - $60.00 Bookings – Carol Martin- 9955 5444 CARMEN ON SYDNEY THE CHAPEL PERILOUS HARBOUR by Dorothy Hewett New Theatre 542 King Street Newtown Fleet Steps, Mrs Macquries Point Carmen stamps her feet, tosses back her hair This iconic masterpiece of Australian theatre and draws you into her world. Men fall charts the painful and sometimes farcical life instantly under her spell, and once you’ve of a defiant young poet, Sally Banner, as she heard her sultry Habanera, you’ll fall for searches for artistic freedom and self opera’s favourite femme fatale, too. realisation. Take a harbourside setting with an unrivalled Set against a background of Australia’s view of the famous Sydney skyline. Build a changing social landscape, we follow Sally’s pop-up opera house, complete with bars, coming-of-age and subsequent brutal restaurants and tiered seating. Add a disillusionment as a communist, feminist, monumental set, colourful eye-catching bohemian, wife, mother and writer. costumes, spectacular dance and an explosion of fireworks, and powerful
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