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of this. Members will also have the opportunity THE SECRET IS OUT to become V.I.P. cardholders, a move to be More benefits and bigger discounts for Trust announced in the next few weeks. members. New services The new services to be Despite a few press leaks, full details of the introduced during December include: radical upgrading of Trust services to its • Discounts on a wider range of shows and members has been a well guarded secret until concerts, including rock concerts; today when Trust Chief Executive, Adam Salzer • Discounts of up to 20% on hotel accommo­ announced "a wide ranging list of benefits had dation, car rental, theatrical suppliers and been negotiated and would be available to selected retail outlets; members as h.olders of a new 'Arts Australia • Access to nationwide discount ticketing Card'''. 'Trust members," he said, "had been services, a first in Australia; . extremely loyal through some difficult years and we believe the Card is a deserving recognition • Access to the Arts Australia Card facility in your capital city as these are brought on-line. The facilities will include meeting rooms s.o that members can get together before shows or hold social functions and book tickets; • Access to an increasing number of trips and social activities.

Overseas benefits too? Preparati.on for the A.A.c. has been going on for many months and has earned the strong supp.ort of the arts, travel and tourism industries who have been closely involved in negotiations. The Trust is als.o pursuing the concept of temporary membership for overseas visitors to enj.oy the more, instead of being offered solely beaches and barbecues. "Our long term plan," added Salzer, "is f.or Arts Australia Card holders to benefit from preferential bookings and discounts in other countries, but, that's a job f.or next year." The new Arts Australia Card which replaces No prizes for g uessing that Kevan Johnston & Shane Colquh()un are the ugly sisters in the w.A. Ballet's the existing Trust Membership Card will be Cinderella. His Majesty's 2·17 Dec. See Book Now, page 6. posted to Trust members in November. THE BICENTENNIAL PLAY AWARD , And the winner is • • • • John Upton's play, The Hordes From the South has taken out the $6000 prize as winner of the AETT's Bicentennial Play Award. The announcement was made during Sofya Gollan performs in Five Steps National Arts Week by The Trust's Chief , Beyond, a Theatre of The Deaf pro­ Executive, Adam Salzer who, with duction for high schooLs. See advertisement beLow. Katharine & Rodney Fisher, chose the play from the 250 scripts which were submitted. The judges were unanimous in their choice of The Hordes From The South and Mr Salzer said "it was a strong play addressing highly controversial issues in a realistic and sophisticated manner. Set against a stark background of military corruption and exploitation it examines the behaviour of Australian men seeking sexual gratification by forming relationships with young Philippino women". Previous work by Upton includes Machiavelli, Machiavelli, a one woman play performed by , and Warhorse. He has also written extensively for film and television. The runners up were Gordon Graham for Damages and Jennifer Paynter for Shackleton. The Trust wouLd like to thank the generosity of the following donors without whose support it would not have been possible to hold this important Bicentennial event.

BICENTENNIAL PLAY AWARD Find out from DONORS The Theatre Mr. Christopher Wetherall $1,000.00 Estee Lauder afthe Mr. Bob Branson $500.00 Deaf Holden's Motor Company 'Five steps Beyond', a Mr. John Kerrigan $100.00 show devised for high Mr. T.C. Yates $25.00 school students and adults and performed by Mr. Ken Cowley $1,000.00 The Theatre of the Deaf News limited explores the world be­ The Ian Potter Foundation Ltd. $2,000.00 yond language through music, mime, sign & Mr. Morris West $200.00 movement. Ms. Jill Hickson $250.00 For a performance at your Mr. $100.00 school or club anywhere Ms. Suzanne Falklner $500.00 in the metro area Valadon Publishing call 357 1200. 52.50 per ticket. Mrs. Judy White $100.00 Minimum fee 5300. Ella & Mitchell Brazier Fund $2000.00 Performance available Dr. Toby Manford $500.00 until the end of 1988 and from March '89. Lady Primrose Potter $200.00

2 IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE A TRUST MEMBER, LET US KNOW TROST NEWS is a publication of The Australian , Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is produced exclusively for its 10,000 members througlJQut Australia. THE AUSTRALlA'N ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST (Incorporated in the A.e.T.) Patron INSIDE Her Majesty The Queen President Sir Ian Potter Chairman Andrew Briger, A.M. THE ARTS AUSTRALIA CARD Deputy Chairman The secret is out ...... Cover Frank H. Hooke Chief Executive Adam Salzer, OAM. BICENTENNIAL PLAY AWARD Directors And the winner is ...... 2 Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman S. Atkinson, His Honour JODIE GILLIES Mr. Justice e.J. Legoe, Dr.. T. Manford, D.A. Mortimer, Mr. Call me a 'Chest Voice' ...... 4 B.R. Larking, Lady Potter, A.O. Dr. R. Seaborn, O.B.E., LG. Teale, LD.S. Waddy, BOOK NOW T.e. Yates w.A...... 5 N.S.W...... 10 Finance Director & Corporate Qld ...... 6 Vic ...... 13 Secretary, S.A ...... 8 National ...... 16 William F. Cottam

The Board also acknowledges the generous support of the Australian HEALTHY CYNICISM FROM THE Government through the RED CENTRE Performing Arts and Literary Arts Boards of the Australian Council, Barbara Tiernan tells it like it is ...... 17 the Federal Government's Arts Funding and Advisory Body, The REVISITING AN ERA Australian Bicentennial Authority, The Department of Aboriginal Graeme Blundell strikes back ...... 18 Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs. State Governments: THE 'NEWS' (through the Be involved ...... 18 Ministry for the Arts and the N.S.W. Bicentennial Council) Queensland (through the Minister of the Arts) LADY POTTERLY'S CHATTER (through the Creative happenings around town ...... 19 W.A. Department for the Arts) and the following Corporations and Foundations MEMBERS' DIARY B.P. Australia Make notes in yours now ...... 20 Cabaret Chocolates Commonwealth Bank of Australia Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation TRUST MANAGEMENT Holden's Motor Company

Ian Potter Foundation Finance Director ...... 00 .. • ...... William F. Cottam Qantas Airways Ltd Chief Executive ...... Adam Salzer, D.A.M. Royal Antediluvian Order Australian Content Director ...... of Buffaloes Public Relations Manager ...... Margaret Mackenzie-Forbes The Seaborn, Broughton (, Walford Foundation National Membership and Trust News Manager ...... Christine Wright Sidney Myer Foundation Orchestra Administrator ...... Bruce Applebaum Showtravel Tours Music Management ...... Warwick D. Ross Thomas Nationwide Theatre of the Deaf - Artistic Director ...... Patrick Mitchell Transport Ltd Theatre of the Deaf - Administrator ...... Liz Marshall Unilever Australia Ltd Halftix Manager ...... Richard Ricci Members enquiries should be Props & Electrics Manager ...... Wayne Kellett directed to the Membership Costume Hire ~'anager ...... Michael James Secretary on 357 1200, Special Projects Manager ...... ' ...... Lisbeth Blyth 153 Dowling Street, Potts Point. Postal Address Accountant ...... Ramshah Shariff P.0. Box 137, Kings Cross 2011. Membership Secretary ...... Carol Martin Also offices in Manager ...... Charmaine Hart Melbourne 690 8384 Brisbane Manager ...... Narelle Arcidiacono Brisbane 221 9528 Perth Manager ...... Pat Gibson 362 9576 (, Perth 321 4953. Adelaide Manager ...... Veronica Bohm

RAISE TRUST MEMBERSHIP - ENROL A FRIEND, OR TWO 3 JODIE GILLIES: CALL ME A BRIEFLY CHEST VOICE 1989 Australian Arts Diary The Peter Summerton Founda­ Featuring exquisitely coloured tion is bringing Royal Shakes­ After winning the modern section and black and white photographs peare Company Artistic Director of the Australian Singing Compe­ of artists such as Arthur Boyd, Bill Alexander to Sydney to tition and with the $15,000 prize Brett Whitely and John Water­ conduct workshops for talented money in the bank, Jodie Gillies house from galleries all over actors with observing directors. set foot for London & New York Australia. Beautifully presented Workshops begin mid-December to see what the talent was like, "to in hard-back these diaries are with a public presentation at the see what I was up against." becoming collectors' items. Opera House, Playhouse at the What I learnt was that Normal cost $19.95 but only end of January. Alexander was Australian singers were great $14.95 to AETT members. the director of the acclaimed back home. There's no room for Available now through your local production of Richard III with all this local talent so eventually Trust office. Anthony Sher which by-passed I'll have to go abroad." Sydney last year. Gillies is confident of her future S.A. companies join hands Information about the workshop success and her record to date News from Adelaide that the or the Foundation can be had lends support. Tossing aside Troupe Theatre and the Red Shed from the President, Jone convention she has no wish to be Company will amalgamate from Winchester, by calling (02) branded as a soprano or 3322120. contralto. "Call me a chest voice; 1 January 1989. It is intended that the combined energy, re­ she says comparing her style to sources and experience of the two the Bernadette Peters and Lisa companies will herald a long Minellis of the world. "No, I've term development of innovative LETTERS TO THE EDITOR never been trained - I just spend theatre in S.A. We welcome your comments, all my time watching others, views & ideas but please keep always listening & learning. The Media and Aboriginal to under 100 words. Write to That's alii do, there's no time for The Editor, Trust News, P.O. anything else". Culture Monday 28th Nov 7.30pm $6 Box 137, Kings Cross, NSW Overheard singing by her 2011 teacher at Nepean College she The third and final of The Perfor­ found a place in the 1983 mance Space's 1988 Media Night production of Pirates of series will look at the relationship Penzance and then Camelot. between the (almost exclusively RUN OUT SALE non-Aboriginal) media and Abo­ Given the role of Martha in The Props & Machinery 's riginal culture; a relationship which has acquired a new reso­ Still a few excellent buys left performance of 'Company' she over. Tables, chaise longue, was noticed, got enthusiastic re­ nance and meaning in this 'Bicentennial' year of 1988. spears, baskets, trunks and views which won her a place on lots of lovely little knick tour in rock n' roll cabaret with - knacks. Glen Shorrock. Then followed Fairs & Carnivals ALso 'Les Miserables' as Epanine, a Make a note of the Melbourne role she quits in November to Colossal Spring Carnival at The Manufacturing machinery for play Aldonta in Man of La Royal Exhibition Buildings on sale/auction. Mancha which opens at the Sunday 13 November from 10-5. Interested? Victorian Arts Centre on New Meet the stars and raise funds for Call Wayne Kellett at The Year's Eve. the national company to tour Trust on (02) 357 1200_ overseas. Bumper prizes include a Toyota Corolla Hatchback, a holiday for two at the Sheraton Ayers Rock and a double subscription for the 1989 season. In Sydney you can trot along to the Christmas Fair at Old Government House, on Sunday 27 November. Starts at 10 and closes at 5. Big crowds are expected to see a special concert by The Australian Ballet, folk dance groups and arts & crafts. Nick Greiner will declare it open. Call (02) 357 1133 or (03) 649 8600 if you would like to help or buy tickets.

Jodie Gillies .

4 TRUST MEMBERSHIP - A WELCOME CHRISTMAS GIFT BOOK NOW Discounted theatre bookings can be made at your state AE.T. T. office wherever a discounted price is shown in the booking information printed in this section. Alternatively, by showing your AE.T. T. membership card discounted tickets can normally be bought at the theatre. If no AE.T. T. ticket discount is available the normal public ticket price must be paid. Unless otherwise stated there is a limit of 2 discounted tickets per show to each Trust member. All Trust Offices accept Visa, Mastercard and Bankcard. The information printed in The Trust News is accurate according to our best knowledge. The Trust accepts no liability for any inconvenience or loss which may be caused should this not be the case. We recommend that a final check is made with the theatre or concert hall to ensure that there have been no changes after the publication of The Trust News.

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SHIRLEY VALENTINE PLAYHOUSE THEATRE A LIE OF THE MIND by Willy Russell 8 Nov-3 Dec by Sam Sheppard Director: Raymond Omodei Mon-Sat 8pm (mats to be Director: Chris Edmund With announced) Cast: Graduate students of the WA From the author of Educating AETT: $13 Academy of Perf. Arts Rita, the current West-End smash hit Public: $18 WA Premiere of a little legend comes to Perth and stars Amanda Concession: $10 about love. Winner of the New York Muggleton, one of Australia's finest Drama Critics Award. performers, as Shirley_ Bookings for this glorious comedy treat are likely ACADEMY THEATRE, to be heavy so be sure to reserve ACADEMY OF PERFORMING your seats now. ARTS 9-12 Nov 8pm 12 Nov 2pm [, 8pm HOLE IN THE WALL AETT: $7 (Bookings to be THEATRE made at the Academy Opens 5 Nov 272 0546) Mon-Sat 8pm, mat 12 Nov Public: $10 2pm & PauL Eddington in Concession: $5 AETT: 7 Nov $12 (inc drinks) Harlequinade. See them at His 8,9, [, 10 Nov $12 Rest of Majesty's from 9 Nov. season $16 THE MARGINAL FARM Public: $18 THE BROWNING VERSION & by Alexander Buzo Concession: $12 HARLEQ{JINADE Director: Aarne Neeme by Terrence Rattigan Cast: Graduate students, WA Director: Paul Eddington Academy of Performing Arts Cast includes: Paul Eddington, Modern drama about a young Julia Blake, Michael Craig, Lewis woman's search for identity. Set THE MAN FROM against the sugar industry in Fiji, M{JCKIN{JPIN Flander [, Patricia Kennedy A superb double bill combining a this powerful [, compelling work by Dorothy Hewitt delicious comedy souflee [, a drama paints a portrait of corporate Director: Kingston Anderson of great poignancy. Paul Eddington, colonization. Music by Jim Cotter supported by a fine Australian cast, With affection yet laced with brings you an unsurpassed evening's ACTING STUDIO, ACADEMY irony, Dorothy Hewett has combined entertainment. OF PERFORMING ARTS music, humour, romance and parody in this rich and colourful 10-15 Nov 10, 12, 14 [, 15 Nov 8pm mosaic of life in a sheltered Western HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE 13 Nov 6pm Australian town between 1914-1920. 9 Nov-3 Dec Mon-Sat 8pm AETT: $7 (Bookings to be A galaxy of colourful and made at the Academy eccentric characters combine to Wed [, Sat 2pm AETT: $27.90 272 0546) create the exuberant soul of Public: $10 Muchinupin. A theatrical classic not Public: $32.90 Concession: $5 to be missed. Concession: $27.90

THE TRUST - SIGN UP A MEMBER TODAY 5 A PROGRAMME OF DANCE CINDERELLA "CREATIONS & CLASSIC" Choreographer: Barry Moreland A programme of classical & Guest Artist: Dale Barker contemporary dance, performed by Featuring Natasha Middleton and the graduate students & the WA Ballet Company choreographed by the staff of the Artistic director Barry Moreland's Academy of Performing Arts. version of this age old story is. not your average fairy tale. It combmes the romance of a dream come true ACADEMY THEATRE, with riotous humour and the ACADEMY OF PERFORMING underlying surreal drama of the rags ARTS to riches story. 18-22 Nov 8pm AETT: $7 (Bookings to be made at the Academy HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE 272 0546) 2-17 Dec Public: $10 Amanda Muggleton appears in Shirley Contact Trust Office for more Concession: $5 Valentine at The Hole in the Wall from details 5 Nov.

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TOSCA CRYSTAL CLEAR ARTS THEATRE Devised by Phil Young Ends 19 Nov The Lyric Opera of Queensla~d Director: Ian Leigh-Cooper Wed-Sat 8pm The superb Puccini opera WIth CRYSTAL CLEAR is a AETT: $8 Marilyn Richardson as T<:,sca, compassionate story about t~o Public: $10 Michael Fiacco as Cavaradossl and people who, against all odds, fall m Bookings direct to Theatre John Shaw as Scarpia with the love. It delves into the needs of 3692344 Queensland Theatre Orchestra people in a relationship and conducted by John Matheson. questions the perceptions of people who are sighted. Through the unsighted characters we learn to BULLSHOf CRUMMOND LYRIC THEATRE understand something of what it 9, 12, 15, 26 Nov 7.30pm means to be blind. Director: Rod Wissler 19 Nov 1.30pm, 22 Nov 6pm Cast includes Jennifer Flower, AETT: $48 Bruce Parr, Jacqui Brennan, Peter Public: $50 Lamb & Shaun Gibbons LA BOlTE THEATRE Concession: $40 This side splitting British farce is Ends 12 Nov touring Gympie, Nam.bo~r , Tues-Thurs & Sat 8pm Townsville, Ingham, InmsfaJl, Fridays 6.30pm Kuranda, Ca irns, Charters Towers, AETT: $10 Bowen, Mackay, Gladstone, KRIS MAKES A MACHINE Public: $14 Rockhampton, Bundaberg and by Sean Mee Concession: $ 7 Caloundra. Director: Sue Rider First performance de~icati0!1 . Cast includes Michael Forde, Lil On 25 Oct all ticket prices WIll THROUGHOUT Kelman &- Elaine Cusick. be $7 and a proportion of the A delightful play for pre-schoolers box office will be donated to the QUEENSLAND Phone (07) 221 9528 for and their parents written by local Guide Dogs for the Blind actorlwriter Sean Mee. Presented by Association of Queensland for further details Ends 23 Nov the Queensland Performing Arts their support and assistance. Trust and the Preschool Division of Bookings 369 1622 the Queensland Education Department.

QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA CREMORNE THEATRE SCHOOL FOR WIVES Conductor: Jiri Starek by Moliere Nov 10, 11, 14, 17, 18,21, With the Brisbane Chorale 24, 25 &- 28, Dec 1 &- 2 at Director: Eugene Hickey BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 8 Moliere's French comedy about lOam &- 11.30am BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 Nov 15, 16, 22, 23, 29 &- 30 the "education" of a sweet & naive ''The Chorale" fifteen year old. What is learnt at lOam, 11.30am &- Ipm shapes the comic action of the play Nov 12, 19,26 & Dec 3 at which is both helped and hindered CONCERT HALL 1pm 5 Nov 8pm Public: $2.50 by 2 wily old serva~ts , a ferv~nt young suitor and various surprise AETT: $19 No ticket limit visitors. Public: $22.50 Bookings 223 0000

6 IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE A TRUST MEMBER, LET US KNOW THE GONDOLIERS THE SECRET DIARY OF MESSIAH by Gilbert & Sullivan ADRIAN MOLE 13112 by Handel Director: David Macfarlane Susan Townsend Conductor: Peter Bandy With the Lyric Opera of Director: Sue Rider Soprano: Beverly Bergen Queensland & the Queensland After several traumatic years Counter Tenor: Andrew Dalton Theatre Orchestra conducted by bringing up her adolescent son, Tenor: Gregory Massingham James Christiansen. Susan Townsend thought it fitting to Baritone: Michael Leighton A. delightful romp directed by write his diary. From an immensely Jones and The Chamber David Macfarlane and starring popular book, The Diary of Adrian Singers of Brisbane. Jonathon Welch as the Duke of Mole has become a successful T.Y. One of the best known and Plaza·Toro, Beverley Shean, the mini series and will now be much beloved musical works of Duchess of Plaza-Toro and John presented as a musical theatre piece all time, Handel's magnificent Wood as Don Athambra del Bolero. at La Boite. oratorio 'Messiah' is an annual event in most of the western LYRIC THEATRE world. Nov 16, 18, 19, 23, 24, 25 LA BOlTE THEATRE This profoundly moving music 7.30pm Opens 23 Nov-17 Dec has met with rapturous receptions Nov 17 6pm, Nov 26 1.30pm Wed, Thurs & Sat - 8pm Fri from audiences since it was AETT: $33 6.30pm written almost 250 years ago. Public: $35 AETT: $10.00 Public: $14.00 Concession: $7.00 CONCERT HALL Q.p.A.c. 17 Dec 8pm QUEENSLAND SYMPHONY AETT: $19.50 Public: $22.50 ORCHESTRA "MUSIC AND DANCE" Conductor: Vladimir Kamirski U20ISTUDIUNEMP: $11.50 Soloist: Neil Crellin (Horn) Director: Harold Collins PENSIONERS: $18.50 The magnificent programme Music Director and Conductor: includes Khachaturian - eil Flottman Masquerade Suite, Sculthorpe - with the Queensland Ballet and Small Town, Mozart Horn Concerto Queensland Theatre Orchestra MAN OF LA MANCHA No.3, K447, Borodin - Symphony A magnificient orchestra and a Co. Directors: No.2, Liszt - Les Preludes. AETT vibrant and dynamic classical ballet and George Fairfax members are able to take advantage company: put them together on Designer: Jerome Sirlin of the Queensland Symphony stage in the Concert Hall and you Costume Designer: Ross Wallace Orchestra's Subscription offer and have an evening to thrill, excite and Choreographer: Graeme Murphy will receive priority seating as well uplift your spirits. Supper will be Two sensational musical talents as generous discounts. served following the performance at will head the magnificent cast of the additional cost of $10.00 Man of La Mancha when it opens in the Lyric Theatre of the Performing GOLD COAST CENTRE Arts Complex on Saturday 25th Fri 18 Nov 8pm CONCERT HALL February, 1989. Don Quixote will be AETT: $19 7 Dec 8pm played by baritone Geoffrey Chard Public: $22.50 AETT: $20.00 and 24 year-old singer, Jodie Gillies Concession: $11 under 20S/ Public: $22.50 will take on the lead female role of students/unemployed Concession: $15.00 Aldonza and Daryl Summers as Bookings (075) 91 3600 Sancho.

CABARET CREMORNE LYRIC THEATRE THE BARRETTS OF Opens Sat 25 Feb WIMPOLE STREET with: Margaret Roadnight by Rudolf Besier Experience this superb Australian Call Trust Office for times. Director: John Krummel Jazz artist at the Cremorne Theatre Trust discount details not With the Royal Queensland in the relaxed and informal available at time of going to Theatre Company. atmosphere of cabaret. Enjoy drinks press. John Krummel returns to and a light meal at tables downstairs Queensland to direct this inspiring next to the stars - or choose fixed story of love and hope. Supported by seating in the balconies. Also enjoy talented performers such as Tony special lunchtime concerts in Phelan, Simon Burvill-Holmes, cabaret organised for the first time this year. A STREET CAR NAMED Berys Marsh and Veronica Neave, DESIRE this promises to be a very special theatrical event. The world it Wed 7 Dec for two weeks. appears can never have enough of CREMORNE THEATRE 15-17 Dec 8.30pm See NSW listing page 11 for the romantic love affair of Elizabeth details and call Trust office for (Fay Kelton) and Robert (David 16 Dec 12.30pm AETT: Fixed seating (upstairs): prices & timings. Downer). $15.00 Tables for four (downstairs) SUNCORP THEATRE including meal: $24.00 (per 22 Nov-l0 Dec person) Tue 6pm, Wed-Sat 8pm, Bar Facilities open throughout Wed mat 10.30am, Sat 2pm Balcony seating will not be AETT: $15 available at lunchtime concerts. Public: $22 No ticket limit. Concession: $17

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FANCY DANCING BREAK A LEG This season by Melbourne-based by Ira Levin contemporary dance company This colourful stylish comedy is dance works features three works - set long ago in Vienna. It opens in Nanette Hassall's AS THE CROW the office of theatrical producer FLIES, GONDWANA-DANCE by Dietrich Merkenschrift. Good luck is Sue Healey and THE SEASONS by something Merkenschrift can do David Gordon. with a lot of in his ceaseless sparring with pedantic theatre critic Johann Schiml. SPACE THEATRE 9 Nov·12 Nov Wed to Sat ARTS THEATRE AETT: $13.50 12·19 Nov Public: $15.00 Tues to Sat 8pm Concession: $9.00 Sat Mat 19 Nov 2.15pm AETT: $8.00 Public: $9.00 Concession: Pen $6.50 CHO CHO SAN StudiChild $3.50 Daniel Keene John Gaden, Artistic Director of The Director: Geoff Hooke Company which is Cho Cho San takes a fresh look at performing The Glass Menagerie at the familiar story of Madam THE NORMAN CONQUESTS the Playhouse till 19 Nov. Butterfly, a young Japanese girl who by , Dennis Olsen weds an American sailor, Lt. B.F. Cast .Includes: Richard Healy, Pinkerton only to be abandoned by Joanna Cooper and Isobel Kirk. him. ''TABLE MANNERS", "LIVING THE GLASS MENAGERIE A new Australian musical about TOGETHER" and " ROUND AND love and betrayal; a brilliant fusion ROUND THE GARDEN" - 3 plays Director: of Opera, Jazz, puppetry and which follow the irrepressible Like all William's plays, it is set in theatre. Norman through a disastrous the deep South; the story of a weekend as he tries to seduce first determined mother who tries to his sister·in-Iaw, then his brother in­ form her shy reclusive daughter into HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE law's wife, and finally his own wife! her own outgoing image. As Laura's Thu 10 Nov·Sat 19 Nov 8pm Norman, whether romantic, older brother, Tom, John Malkovich AETT: $17.90 philosophical or drunk, never fails to plays a man torn between his Public: $19.90 bring uproarious chaos to the family concern for his sister and the need Concession: $15.90 gathering! to find a life of his own - a choice which makes him feel a deserter. THEATRE 62 MASTER SERIES Table Manners Tue 15 Nov. PLAYHOUSE The Adelaide Symphony Wed 16.23 & 30 Nov Ends 19 Nov Orchestra Living Together Tue 22 Nov. Tue·Sat 8pm Conductor and Pianist: Stephen Thu 17. 24 Nov & Dec 1 AETT: $17.90 Bishop - Kovacevich Round and Round the Garden Public: $21.90 The celebrated pianist Stephan Tue 8 Sat 12 Nov, Tue 29 Nov Concession: $15.90 Bishop - Kovacevich is widely Fri 18.25 Nov & Dec 2 recognised for his interpretation of AETT: 3 Plays $35.40 Single the classics. Born in Los Angeles, he Plays $13.80 had already appeared twice with the Public: 3 Plays $44.40 Single MYSTERY OF THE HANSOM San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Plays $17.80 CAB by the age of 13. He has recently Concession: 3 Plays $32.40 Single Plays $12.80 Director: Phyl Skinner started to combine his career as a Book through the Trust Office A marvellous melodrama - set pianist with that of conductor and in only in Adelaide at the turn of the Adelaide he will conduct an all century with murder mayhem and Beethoven programme. musk. It is a family show not to be missed. FESTIVAL THEATRE 11 & 12 Nov HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS Fri and Sat 8pm They're here again after 5 years. ROYALTY THEATRE AETT: A Res $19.50 B Res Enjoy great family fun and see the 3 Nov·12 Nov $16.00 legendary Globetrotters return to Mat Sat 12 Nov 2pm Public: A Res $23.00 B Res entertain you with their inique and AETT: $6.00 $18.50 thrilling style. See the match of Public: $9.00 Concession: A Res $18.50 B matches as the Globetrotters and Concession: $4.00 Res $15.00 the Washington Generals meet head to head. 8 TRUST MEMBERSHIP - A WELCOME CHRISTMAS GID APOLLO ENTERTAINMENT SPACE THEATRE PAGANINI CENTRE Sat 25 Nov 8.15pm by Franz Lehar Wed 16 Nov 8pm AETT: $9.00 Director: Dennis Losen AETT: $16.90 Public: $11.00 Cast Includes: Greg Tomlinson, Public: $21.90 Concession: $8.00 Helen Adams and David Brennan Child 14 &- Under: $9.90 Bookings at Trust Office before End the year with a gorgeous Book through Trust Office only 15 Nov. treat - the delightful operetta written for the great Australian tenor Richard Tauber. Paganini tells of the famous violinists flaming desire for SEVEN L1TILE AUSTRALIANS A DREAM PLAY Napoleon's beautiful sister. Some of Lehar's famous tunes include 'Girls Book by Ethel Turner by August String berg Director: John O'May Director: Goran Jarvefelt were made to love and kiss'. Cast Includes: John O'May, Alyce Designer: Carl Friedrich Obetle Platt, Melissa Bickerton As a grand finale to the 1988 Based on the successful novel, season, the State Theatre Company, HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE this new Australian musical features in association with the Australian Dec 1·3. 6-10. 13-17 John O'May as the seven children's Bicentennial Authority will present AETT: A Res $34.90 B Res tyrannical Father and Alyce Platt as this expressionist masterpiece, to be $27.90 his young wife. The conflict between st~ged by the successful director­ Public: A Res $37.90 B Res husband and wife and the frustration designer team above. The two men $28.90 of not being able to spend more have directed opera and theatre over Pensioners: A Res $18.90 B Res time with his family forms the basis Europe and America. Although this $26.90 of this highly entertaining new play was written at the beginning of Stud/PentA Res $18.90 B Res production. this century. This will be the first $14.45 professional production in FESTIVAL THEATRE Australial. 19 Nov·lO Dec Preview 18 Nov PLAYHOUSE Mon-Sat 8pm. Wed l1am Sat Sat 26 Nov-Sat 17 Dec SANTA GOES NUDE 2pm Tues-Sat 8pm With the cast of The Castanet AETT: $25.50 Preview $14.75 AETT: $17.90 Club Public: $29.50 Public: $21.90 Have you booked your Christmas Concession: $24.50 Concession: $15.90 event yet? Consider a light meal at Good seats are being held for the Space Cabaret Club and enjoy a first week including preview. Castanet Christmas. The Castanet Ring the Trust Office Club, winners of the 1984 Adelaide immediately. FILM Fringe Award, are back with a brand Film vouchers may be new show, SANTA GOES NUDE. purchased from Trust offices The songs are new and the jokes are for $ 7 and exchanged at new. There will be lots of surprises PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES participating cinemas chains - nativity scences and at least one An evening of sentimental for tickets. Christmas Carol. enjoyment with a journey through Vouchers are open dated but some of the favourite tunes from some Saturday and public World War I and II. holiday restrictions may apply SPACE CABARET CLUB to their use. Wed 7 Dec - Sat 24 Dec For eating and the frolics - JOHN EDMUND THEATRE No handling fee is charged nor 23 Nov-12 Dec 6.30pm Frolics only 8.30pm is their any limit to the AETT: $19.90 Wed to Sat 8.15pm number that members may Mat Sat 3 Dec 2pm Public: $21.90 buy. Please say which cinema Concession: $18.90 AETT: Evening $8.90 Mat chain you require. $5.50 Publice: Evening $10.50 Mat $7.50 No concession Sat Evening TUCKER THE MAN AND HIS Book through the Trust Office DREAM CATS or John Edmund Theatre Screenplay by Arnold Schulman by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and David Seidler For over 3 years this amazing Director: Francis Ford Coppola musical has been delighting Cast Includes: Jeff Bridges and Australian audiences. The Trllst THE CASE IN QUESTION Joan Allen Office has some good seats hela for by Ronald Miller He was a family man. He was an members on certain nights. We are Hayette Erickson annually puts innoviative automobile designer. He also negotiating to have a behind together a charity play in the Space was the man who opened the door the scenes look at the show Theatre to raise money for the to the future in the 1940's by including makeup procedure. Children's Hospital. Her plays are building a revolutionary car that was inevitably star-studded with media called The Car of Tomorrow - personalities and suprises. so why Today'. TUCKER' - is also about FESTIVAL THEATRE not enjoy yourself while giving to a the difficulties of an individual 18 Feb·29 Apr worthwhile cause. Masor dies entrepreneur trying to get new ideas Mon - Sat 8pm leaving nother to his daughter. incorporated into the system. AETT: $37.00 Wed 21 Apr only Jenny. Suspecting injustice Jenny Public: $39.00 contests the will. 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DOUBLE SHUFFLE BAY STREET THEATRE THE DEATH OF PHILLIP Choreographers: Kai Tai Chan and Ends 12 Nov ROBERTSON Don Asker Tues-Sat 8pm by John Tomlinson Music by Blair Greenberg Sat-Sun 5pm Director: Marie Armstrong Two of Australia's leading dance AETT $13 Designer: Tom Bannerman theatre companies have combined Public $15 Cast includes: Michael their wit, wisdom and creative Concession $10 Sommerville, Philip DeCarIe, energy to produce a show that is Greg Leisner, Trish Egan, Anne stimulating, provocative and fun - Ryan. don't miss it! Double Shuffle looks It's 1979 in the security ward of at the images of success and how we SHE'S GOT KNEES Darwin Hospital. Phillip Robertson, are ruled by fashions and Written and directed by: an Aboriginal prisoner, is taken to conventions. See our champions Scott Rankin hospital for psychiatric treatment. and heroes make and break the Music by Steve Hunt He makes a sudden dash for rules in their quest for fame and Cast includes: Georgina Mills freedom, is immediately fortune. Consumerism and media One of the most impressive works apprehended and put into a security manipulation run rampant. to emerge from the Adelaide cell by four guards. Within minutes Festival Fringe. "Stunning Phillip Robertson is dead. EVERST THEATRE, controlled .. . shattering", The News SEYMOUR CENTRE described as eclectic, minimalistic, NEW THEATRE NEWTOWN Ends 5 Nov operatic, avant-garde. Theatre Ends Sat 3 Dec Wed, Thu & Fri 8pm Sat 5pm sculpture, percussion, piano, poetry AETT: $11.00 AETT $16.50 and minimalistic puppetry collide in Public: $12.00 Public $20.00 an evocative portrayal of one girl's Concession: $8.00 Concession $10.00 life. No ticket limit BAY STREET THEATRE Ends 19 Nov A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS STRICTLY BALLROOM Thu, Fri, Sat 1O.30pm by Alan Ayckbourn Director: Baz Luhrmann AETT $9.00 Director: John Krummel Choreography: Glenn Keenan Public $10.00 Cast includes: Peter Adams, Set in the sub-culture world of Concession $8 Maggie Dence, John Hannan, ballroom dancing it tells the story of Bookings 692 9466 or Elaine Lee, Kerry McGuire, Edgar Scott Hastings and his struggle with 2649466 Metcalfe, Barbara Stephens, Peter the sensuality of the ballroom dance Whitford and Ron Haddrick and the regulations of the · all Jack McCracken has all the powerful Federation. This produc­ qualifications required to turn tion earned the Director & MOVE OVER MRS MARKHAM around almost any ailing business. Choreographer the highest honours by Ray Cooney & John Chapman The opportunity of a lifetime it at the International Theatre Festival Director: Peter Williams seems is offered to him by his own of Drama in Czechoslovakia in 1986 With Belinda Giblin & Faye father-in-law. But the unbusiness­ where the press described it as Donaldson like ways - and worse - are harder 'breathtaking'. This English laughter hit of the to eliminate than good year has delighted audiences world­ management practice would THE WHARF STUDIO wide. A zany, wild, free-for-all farce require. Extended 12 Nov that is naughty nonsense at its very Mon-Sat 8pm best. How the amazing Mrs MARIAN STREET THEATRE Sat Mat 5pm Markham gets her man (her Ends 22 Dec Fri late show lOpm husband!) in an elegant London flat. Tue-Fri 8.15pm AETT $16 A total riot that you would be mad Sat & Sun 5pm Public $17 Concession $10 to miss. Wed llam Bookings 250 1777 AETT: $1 discount GLEN ST THEATRE Public: Fri & Sat Eve $24.50 Ends Sun 20 Nov Concession: $13.00 Tue-Fri 8pm Other times: $21.50 Sat 5pm & 8.30pm Bookings 4983166 EAST Sun 5pm by Steven Berkoff Wed mat 1pm Director: Malcolm Keith AETT: $1 discount Tue-Thu & Cast includes: Annie Finsterer, mats THE ARCHBISHOP'S CEILING Wayne Pygram, John F. Howard, Public: $23.90 Tue-Thu & by Arthur Miller Samantha Bladon, Malcolm Keith mats Director: Sandra Bates East exposes the frustrations and $26.90 Fri & Sat 8pm With Prue Bassett, Serge Lazareff passions of people living in a Concession: Pens. $15.90 & Brian Young subculture they fight to protect and Wed mat $17.90 Tue-Thu A room in a baroque palace. yet revolt against. A brilliant piece 8pm & Sat & Sun 5pm Tapestries, statues, exquisite rugs written with passion and outrageous Bookings 232 4900 stared at by sightless plaster angels humour. in the ornate ceiling above. A young

10 IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE A TRUST MEMBER, LET US KNOW man en ers silently runnmg his hand on the underside of tables, peering OPERA THEATRE into the piano and into flowers. If there is a listening device it is not 4-26 Nov there but in the Archbishop's Mon-Sat 8.30 Ceiling. Sat Mat 5pm 'A'Reserve AETT: $32 THE ENSEMBLE THEATRE Public: $36 Ends 24 Dec Concession: $31 Tue-Sat 8pm Sat & Sun 5pm Thu llam AETT: $18 Tue Thu & Sat & Sun mats, $20 Fri $13 Thu THE PORNOGRAPHY OF mat PERFORMANCE Public: $20 Tue-Thu & Sat & Music: Sarah de Jong & Andree Sun mats, $22 Fri & Sat Greenwell 8pm, $15 Thu mat With Andrea Aloise, John Baylis, Concession: $15 except Fri & Clare Grant, Nigel Kellaway, Sat 8pm Sue-ellen Kohler & Christopher Special Trust Night: $15 Tue Ryan. 1 NovlWed 2 Nov 8pm $15 The hit of the Adelaide Festival Fringe in 1988. It's powerful, Martin Shaw plays Stanley Kowalski in astonishing, revolting & sensuous. A Streetcar Named Desire. Her LES MISERABLES Majesty's Theatre 2 Nov - 3 Dec. by Victor Hugo, Trevor Nunn, THE PERFORMANCE John Napier SPACE Cast includes: Normie Rowe, A STREETCAR NAMED 9-27 Nov Debbie Byrnes, Philip Quast, DESIRE Wed & Sun 8pm Jodie Gillies by Tennessee Williams AETT: $10 The best musical to come to Director: Robin LeFevre Public: $12 Sydney in years! The magic of Les with Martin Shaw, Angela Punch Concession: $8 Miserables is irresistable. 20 Nov lOpm A discussion McGregor, Max Cullen & Katrina forum about the work with the Foster THEATRE ROYAL One of the great dramatic company. Free. Mon-Sat 7.30pm masterpieces of the 20th century: Wed mat 1pm Sat mat 2pm The leading English actor Martin AETT: $41 Mon-Thu & mats Shaw will recreate the role of Public: $44 Stanley Kowalski which he played to ANGELS Concession: $22 Wed mat only outstanding acclaim in the West by Tobsha Learner End. With Angela Punch McGregor Directors: Katerina Ivak & as Blanche and Max Cullen as Mitch. Catherine Martin LOOT With The Ensemble Group of by Joe Orton HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE Players Director: Richard Wherrett 2 Nov-3 Dec A contemporary satire which With Mark Neal, David Mon-Sat 8pm explodes the concept of paradise Franklin, Linda Cropper, Ralph Wed & Sat mats 2pm and its inaccessability. A hilarious Cotterill, Garry McDonald & 2-5 Nov evenings portrait of the Australian middle Wayne Moran AETT: $20.90 class plus the devil, God, crystal An extraordinary work of high Public: $24.90 worship and powermongering. An comedy, low life and criminal Concession: $15.90 energetic performance. activity. Twenty years after his 5 Nov mat-all $15.90 death Joe Orton is more in the 7 Nov onwards - evenings news than ever. A theatre classic AETT: $23.90 A Res Mon-Thu THE WHARF STUDIO that everyone should see at least Public: $29.90 A Res, $12.90 12 Nov-lO Dec once - now is the time. B Res Tue-Sat apm Fri late show Concession: $22.90 A Res 10pm Sat mat 5pm THE WHARF THEATRE Mon-Thu only AETT: $16 1 Nov 16 Dec 7 Nov onwards - matinees Public: $17 AETT: $22 Mon-Thu 8pm and AETT: $16.90 A Res Concession: $10 Sat 2pm Public: $22.90 A Res, $12.90 Public: $24 B Res Concession: $19 Mon-Thu 8pm Concession: $15.90 A Res and Sat 2pm AWAY by Michael Gow Choreography: Graeme Murphy Originally directed by: Richard Music Director: Wherrett Set Design: George Freedman Re-director: Michael Gow Cast includes: Robert Alexander, KRAANERG is the thirteenth in a , Neil Fitzpatrick, Jane line of highly theatrical full-length Harders, Rosemary Harris, Graham dance works by Graeme Murphy. Rouse, Steven Vidler, Anna Volska. Set to the music of the same name "AWAY ... a play of Shakespear­ by with live ean aspiration and suggestion ... orchestra. a 'comedy concerned with the

THE TRUST - SIGN UP A MEMBER TODAY 11 resolution of death, and set against FOOTRIDGE THEATRE DOUBLE ACT a particular time in Australian Opens 16 Nov by Barry Creyton history, when the nation was feeling Mon-Sat 8pm Director: Sandra Bates the tugs of both past and present. Wed & Sat mat 2pm Designer: Tom Bannerman Gow has achieved a sense of peace AETT: $27 Mon-Thu & mats Cast includes: Noelene Brown, and restitution, and has introduced Public: $32 Mon-Thu & mats Barry Creyton us to characters that are credible, $35 Fri & Sat 8pm involved and involving the whole Concession: $22 all shows play and its cast suggest a time and except Sat 8pm place with heartfelt eloquence." TIME AND TIME AGAIN Clive Barnes New York Post 25 July by Alan Ayckbourn 1988 RELATIVELY SPEAKING Director: Sandra Bates by Alan Ayckbourn Designer: Paul Edwards Director: Peter Williams Cast includes: Gillian Axtell, Paul With , Roger Bertram, Tom Oliver, Marion DRAMA THEATRE, Climpson, Grant Dodwell and Sandberg, Steven Tandy OPERA HOUSE Sian Pugh. By popular demand two smash hit Previews 11-14 November After a sellout season at the Glen comedies return to summer - Opens 15 Nov to 16 Dec Street Theatre earlier this year the Barry Creyton's Double Act Mon-Sat 8pm, play opens at the Seymour to a exploded onto the Sydney scene in Sats 2pm Wed 1pm chorus of critical praise . . . 'a 1987 capturing the enthusiasm of AETT: $25 except Fri/Sat Eve. stunning piece of comic audiences and critics alike. Time Public: $28 craftsmanship: The casting of June and Time Again played in '88 to Concession: $23 except Fri/Sat Salter and Roger Climpson is a packed audiences treating them to Eve. magic mix. The ultimate comedy of an hilarious nights entertainment. mistaken identity.

EVEREST THEATRE ENSEMBLE THEATRE SEYMOUR CENTRE 23 Nov-17 Dec Double Act BEYOND REASONABLE Tue-Fri 8pm 1 Dec-31 Dec DOUBT Wed/Thu mats Ipm Time & Time Again by Jeffrey Archer Sat 5pm & 8.30pm 5 Jan-4 Feb Director: David Gilmore AETT: $26.90 Tue-Thu 8pm Tues-Sat 8pm With Frank Finlay, Nyree Dawn $22.90 mats $20.90 Special Sat & Sun 5pm Porter, Brian Blain, Kaye Trust night 29 Nov. AETT: $2.00 discount Stevenson. No ticket limit. Public: $15.00 Selected Thu The biggest advance bookings for Public: $27.90 Tue-Thu 8pm 11am any play in the history of West End $23_90 mats $29.90 $20.00 Tue-Thu 8pm Sat & Sun theatre. Frank Finlay recreates his Fri/Sat Eves. 5pm role with New Zealand born Nyree Concession: $23.90 Tue-Thu $22.00 Fri & Sat 8pm Dawn Porter co-starring. Nyree was Eves $19.90 mats_ Concession: $15.00 No Sat eve last seen in Australia in the $11.00 Selected Thu 11am Chichester Festival production of Trust Dinner Theatre for both The Apple Cart and in her THE AUSTRALIAN plays at Ensembles's superb outstanding performance as Irene in OPERA COMPANY waterside restaurant & show The Forsyth Saga. A gripping Summer Season to follow. courtroom drama that keeps you guessing to the very end. Rigoletto Jan 6, 10, 13, 19, 24, 28*, 31 Feb 4 & 10 Tales of Hoffman BIG RIVER Jan 12, 16, 21, 25,28 Music & Lyrics by Roger Miller Feb 2, 8, 11*, 14, 18 & 25* Director: Michael Grief TOSCA With John Bell, Cameron Daddo, Jan 17, 20 & 23 and Drew Forsythe FIGARO The show that scooped every Jan 27 major category at the 1985 Tony Feb 1, 7, 11, 15, 18*, 21, 24 & 27 Awards. 'One of the finest musicals Mar 4 in recent years, Chicago Tribune. THE GONDOLIERS Written & composed by Roger 'King Feb 6, 9, 13, 16, 17,20,22,23, of the Road' Miller, the story of Huck 25 & 28 Finn on Mark Twain's Mississippi is Mar 1, 2, 3, 4*, 6, 7, 8 & 9 bluegrass, Tin Pan Alley, Nashville Mon-Thu & mats A reserve & Broadway brass all rolled into one. AETT: $54 Don't dare miss it. Public: $60 Sat eve A Reserve AETT: $62 HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE Public: $68 Opens 7 Jan Gondoliers only Mon-Sat 8pm AETT: $44 Wed/Sat mat 2pm Public: $52 AETT: $34.50 Mon-Fri & mats. Bookings for the Winter season Public: $39.50 New ZE:aland born Nyree Dawn Porter 8 Jun-28 Oct open in mid Concession: $26.50 Under 15's co-stars in Beyond Reasonable Doubt December. at mats $19.50 at the Footbridge. Opens 16 Nov. 12 THE TRUST - SIGN UP A MEMBER TODAY MAN OF LA MANCHA SALOME'S LAST DANCE music ... a great piece of cinema". A Sydney season is expected to A Ken Russell film of an Oscar Daily Telegraph London. The story follow the Brisbane run in Wilde Story. of Dimitri Shostakovitch, Russia's December. We'll keep you in touch. Starring: Glenda Jackson, great patriot and musician. Stratford Johns, Imogen Millais FILM Scott. ACADEMY TWIN An outstanding film by Ken Now screening Film vouchers may be purchased Russell. Strict attention is paid to from Trust offices for $ 7 and Wilde's. play of the biblical tale ot exchanged at participating Salome and her demand of King cinemas chains for tick~ts. Herod, whilst simultaneously DOMINICK & EUGENE Vouchers are open dated but capturing its spirit and trashing it Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta, some Saturday & public holiday with outlandish visuals. The play is Jamie Lee Curtis restrictions may apply to their staged by brothel keeper (Stratford "A moving, potently dramatic use. Johns) and it climaxes with an odd family drama . . . Hulce is No handling fee is charged nor is twist involving Salome's fate. electrifying!" Newhouse Newspaper their any limit to the number that A spellbinding movie with three members may buy. Please say dimensional reality, which has the which cinema chain you require. ACADEMY TWIN unshakeable sensation of passing Now Screening Discounts of $2.50 are also through the barrier of screen and offered at the Dendy, Martin entering the world before not Place, the Cremorne Orpheum physically, but morally. Such a movie is Dominick and Eugene. and the Academy Twin, TESTIMONY Paddington at all performances Starring: Ben Kingsley except after midday Saturdays. Roseville Cinema $2 discount " Spellbinding . . . dark, witty, Greater Union max 2 tickets. poetic and immensely disrespectful Now Screening Discounts are restricted to one . . . revives the vanishing art of big per member upon presentation screen movies . . . Kingsley of their membership card at the manages to hit just the right mixture box office. of eloquence and irony . .. made with intelligence and love for the

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ORPHANS UNIVERSAL THEATRE SEPARATION by Lyle Kessler by Tom Kempinski 6 Nov Director: John Ewing Director: Paul Thompson Tue-Sat 8pm Cast: Warren Mitchell, Daniel AETT: $20.90 Cast: Bruce Myles, Mitchell, Colin Friels A Melbourne Theatre Company Public: $25.90 "A thriller, taut with suspense, Production laced with unexpectedly uproarious When a New York actress phones comedy." - Sydney Morning Herald overweight agrophobic playwright Orphaned brothers Treat and Philip Joe Green seeking permission to kidnap a drunken businessman, perform his old play, a transatlantic Warren Mitchell, once a dead-end love·affair is triggered off. By turns, kid himself who befriends them. funny, witty, passionate. Their first meeting is a disaster, but they pick their way towards each other between humour, pathos and panic ATHENAEUM - can hardly fail to move. 15 Oct-13 Nov Tue-Fri 8pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm, RUSSELL ST. THEATRE Sun 5pm Ends 5 Nov AETT: $25.90, $26.90 Sat Mon 6.30pm, Tue·Fri 8pm, Wed 8.30pm Mat 1pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm Public: $27.90, $28.90 Sat AETI: $21.80 8.30pm Public: $25.80 Pensioners $14.20

PIAF - ONE FOR THE MONEY The Songs and the Story Starring: Glen Shorrock Director: Lois Ellis Glen Shorrock is back in a limited Starring: Jeannie Lewis return season. " One out of the " The night is Lewis ... her box ... a celebration of an era, great performance is exciting and Darren Mitchell & Warren Mitchell in music, loads of fun, and a superb Involving: it throbs with life and Orphans at the Athenaeum from 13 full-on performance." - The Age passion. Go see it!" - The Age. Nov. Don't miss it this time around.

IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO bE A TRUST MEMBER, LET US KNOW 13 ATHENAEUM THEATRE Bob and Coralee's PICK-A-HIT 17 Nov-3 Dec Director: Glenn Butcher Mon-Sat 8pm With: Bob Downe, Coralee Hollow, AETT: $25_90 except Fri [, Sat Peter Rowsthorn Public: $27.90 "Quality Food. . . Great Presentation" - Radio 3DB. The music trivia show to end them all, with Mark Trerorrow, Gina Riley, and Peter Rowsthorn - they will sing the CAUGHT - musical hits from the past, and even by Peter Mathers . the future. All in all a musical Australian Premiere! A cast of t:omedy that's fast-moving and three tackles this new work which h1I-(~rious. P.S. Don't forget XMAS ON has had two successful playreadings A STICK upstairs at LE JOKE. at the Playwrights Conference and Spoleto. It is a dark comedy set on the edge of a huge re-development LAST LAUGH, Collingwood in a small coastal town of Australia, 10 Nov-24 Nov, Tue-Thu and deals in relationships. AETT:Dinner [, Show Tue $27, Help support new Australian Wed $31, Thur $31.50 Playwrighting and book now! Public: Dinner [, Show Tue $30, Wed $34, Thur $34.50 COURTHOUSE Nov 28 to Dec 23 Mon-Sat 19 Oct-12 Nov SOLD OUT AETT: $11.00 Bob Downe from Pick-a-Hit at The Public: $12_00 Last Laugh. 10·24 Nov. MARK TWAIN DOWN UNDER by Stephen Measday HEDDA GABLER HOT BAGELS: Director: Malcolm Robertson by Henrik Ibsen Frederick Parslow stars in the Director: A PUCKER LIPS NOW Australian Premiere of the playbox Cast: , John Bell, A fabulous new comedy. Call The production of MARK TWAIN DOWN Peter Carroll and Celia de Burgh. Trust Office for details. UNDER. One of Australia's greatest A Melbourne Theatre Company actors, he brings to life the living Production I 9-30 Nov literary legend, Mark Twain, on tour In one of the great modern around Australia in 1895. His classics Helen Morse is Hedda, laconic views of our history, exciting, wilfully perverse, playful manners, language and wildlife will and vicious. In this penetrating launch audiences into lengthy GLORY - laughter. study of a restless and rebellious by Steve J. Spears spirit at odds with a society that is Director: Jane Woollard solidly respectable and A new - production of GLORY complacently dull, Ibsen has created will be staged at La Mama starring STUDIO, V.A.C. a portrait that leaps vividly to life in Lois Ellis 11 Nov-3 Dec any era. Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 5 [, 8.15pm AETT: $15.90 Public: $18.90 PLAYHOUSE, V.A.C. - LA MAMA Oct 20 to Nov 19 2 Nov-20 Nov Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Fri 8pm, Wed Wed-Sun 8.30pm Mat 1 pm, Sat 5 [, 8.30pm AETT: $6.00 THICKER THAN WATER - Public: $8 AETT: $21.80 Bert's mum, Winifred wants to Public: $25.80 celebrate her parent's 75th Wedding Pensioners: $14.20 Anniversary - in Bert's backyard! Bert isn't pleased with the entire Double Bill family descending on his pride and GAITE PARISIENNE joy, but its hard to say no to MIXED BATHING and THE and a ballet to be announced - Winifred. It's a humorous play about SWALLOWS - by The Australian Ballet the nature of celebration. by Peter Dickinson Maurice Bejart's fantastic GAITE Director: Neil Greenaway PARISIENNE and a work still to be Early this century Australia announced will be performed in a ST. MARTINS THEATRE ONE developed a craze from which we short season. Book now for LA 15 Nov-4 Dec have never recovered - the beach! SYLPHIDE and TRANSFIGURED Wed-Fri 8pm, Sun 5pm It conjures memories of childhood NIGHT season from 24 Feb to 7 Mar. AETT: $9.00 summers, family congregations, Public: $11.00 holidays and adolescent yearns. This Concession: $8.00 play captures our desire to retrace a familiar track to the beach. STATE THEATRE, V.A.C. 9 Nov-26 Nov Mon-Sat 7.30pm, Thu 24Nov ANTHILL THEATRE 6.30pm, Sat Mat 1.30pm 26 Oct-20 Nov AETT: $38.00 A Res., $33.00 B Tue-Sat 8pm, Sat [, Sun 5pm Res AETT: $13.00 Public: $42.00 A Res., $36.50 B Public: $15.00 Res

14 RAISE TRUST MEMBERSHIP - ENROL A FRIEND, OR TWO GOD'S BEST COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE, V.A.C. MAN OF LA MANCHA by Gordon Francis 24 Nov·17 Dec Co·Directors: Graeme Murphy and Director: Janis Balodis Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Fri 8pm, Wed George Fairfax Cast: Athol Compton, Alan Mat 1pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm Cast Includes: Geoffrey Chard as Fletcher, Philip Holder and AETT: $21.80 Don Quixote, Jodie Gillies as Marilynne Paspaley. Public: $25.80 Aldonza and Daryl Summers as A Melbourne Theatre Company Pensioners: $14.20 Sancho. Production One of the most popular theatre In an astonishing saga of love, musicals - MAN OF LA MANCHA hate ... and legend, GOD's BEST makes a return Melbourne COUNTRY is a compelling and hard· appearance at the V.A.C. for its hitting work about rights and THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING special holiday musical. An all - wrongs in the Territory, written by a EARNEST new production of this many faceted Territorian. It is the struggle of the by Oscar Wilde jewel is sure to excite audiences with Lancasters, the last members of a Director: Simon Phillips the unique blend of creative and white tribe, to prevent their land A Melbourne Theatre Company choreographic expertise of Graeme being bought back by the Production Murphy and George Fairfax. Aboriginal Development Council. In a masterpiece of theatrical fun Ruth Cracknell stars as Lady Bracknell, in a play that is a game STATE THEATRE, V.A.C. RUSSELL ST. THEATRE of pairs with a wonderful symmetry Opens Dec 31 16 Nov-17 Dec of character and incident coursing Call Trust Office for times. Mon 6.30pm, Tue·Fri 8pm, Wed through it. Wilde's genius shines in Trust discount details not Mat 1 pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm this, his greatest play. MTC explits available at time of going to AETT: $21.80 the inimitable sense of style which press. Public: $25.80 ensures the play's status as one of Pensioners: $14.20 the most loved of all time. HATE by Stephen Sewell PLAYHOUSE, V.A.c. Director: ON SHIFTING SANDS HOES - 22 Dec·21 Jan Brought to the stage by a team of by Paul Davies Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Fri 8pm, Wed the most talented Australian artists, Director: Mark Shirrefs Mat 1pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm Playbox Theatre's production of Cast: Caz Howard, Jean Kittson, AETT: $21.80 HATE stars Gillian Jones and John Rosie Tonkin, Ross Williams, David Public: $25.80 Wood. It is a passionate drama about Swann, Brian Nankervis Pensioners: $14.20 money, betrayal, power and politics Picture yourself at your favorite in one of Australia's leading Christmas camping spot, when a families. group of campers set up nearby comple with generator and colour TV dragging a dead turtle with COMEDY DOUBLE BILL them. They leave soon after but the THE PROPOSAL by Anton STUDIO, V.A.C. turtle is a bad omen, the rain starts, Chekhov 3 Jan to 28 Jan the river rises and they are A RESPECTABLE WEDDING by Mon-Fri 8pm, Sat 5 & 8.l5pm strandard. A very funny play ensues Bertolt Brecht AETT: $15.90 on survival, without Eskies or corner Director: Roger Hodgman Public: $18.90 shops. Cast Includes: Peter Cummins, Beverley Dunn, Alan Fletcher and Philip Holder A Melbourne Theatre Company THE MESSIAH THEATREWORKS, St. Kilda Production Presented by Royal Melbourne Opens 16 Nov A sure-fire tonic for anyone who Philharmonic Society Mon-Sat 8.l5pm has tried marriage or is The ROYAL MELBOURNE AETT: $13.90 contemplating it ... these two one· PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY will Public: $14.90 act plays make a night of riotous again be presenting THE MESSIAH. Concession: $10.90 laughter. Chekhov will reduce you to Dates and venue not confirmed at Tickets may be purchased at tears of laughter, whilst Brecht is at time of going to press. Please ring the door. his lightest and funniest. the VIC. office for further details and discount.

RUSSELL ST. THEATRE THE RIVERS OF CHINA 27 Dec-28 Jan by Alma de Groen Mon 6.30pm, Tue-Fri 8pm, Wed Stars: Helen Morse and Frank Mat 1pm, Sat 5 & 8.30pm Gallacher AETT: $21.80 A Melbourne Theatre Company Public: $25.80 Production Pensioners: $14.20 A daring adventure in time and space as well as an oblique glimpse at one of this century's finest writers. In a remarkable new play THE HOT BAGELS: RIVERS OF CHINA is haunting, A PUCKER LIPS NOW mysterious and spiritual. Helen A fabulous new comedy. Call The Morse stars as Katherine Mansfield Trust Office for details. and Frank Gallacher as the charismatical and mystical Gurd·ieff. 19-30 Nov

TRUST MEMBERSHIP - A WELCOME CHRISTMAS GIIT 15 INTI-ILLIMANI, JOHN STARS AND BARS vanishing art of big scree!1 WILLIAMS & PACO PENA A satirical look at English and movies ... Kingsley manages to hit Together in concert for the fir~t American moves based on William just the right mixtur~ o~ eloquence time in Australia two of the world s Boyd's book. Stars Daniel Day Lewis and irony ... made With mtelllgence greatest guitarists, JOHN (MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE ~ and love for the music ... a great WILLIAMS and PACO PENA will ROOM WITH A VIEW) as an piece of cinema" Daily Telegraph join the exciting South American Englishman living in New York who London. The story of Dimitri group INTI-ILLIMAN. wants to become Americanised and Shostakovitch, Russia's great patriot Inti·lllimani's unique blend of Harry Dean Stanton (paris, Texas) as and musician. Chilean, or more specifically, an eccentric millionaire. A very Andean music with the music of funny film. BRIGHTON BAY classical guitarist John Williams and Now Screening Paco Pena's flamenco guitar will be LONGFORD CINEMA Present AETT Membership heard when they perform together in Now screening card at the box office for an Australia-wide tour. discount.

CONCERT HALL, SALOME'S LAST DANCE TRACK 29 A Ken Russell film of an Oscar MELBOURNE Stars: Gary Oldman, Christopher Sun 6 Nov 8pm Wilde Story. Lloyd and Theresa Russell . Starring: Glenda Jackson, AETT: A Res $31.20 A passionate and psychological . B Res $25.20 Stratford Johns, Imogen Millais thriller. Gary Oldman plays ~he role Scott. Public: A Res $35.20 of an enigmatic young Englishman B Res $29.20 An outstanding film by Ken who enters the lives of a childless Russell. Strict attention is paid to Concession: A Res $30.20 Texan couple, claiming to be the B Res $24.20 Wilde's play of the biblical tale of wife's long-lost son. Salome and her demand of King Herod. LONGFORD CINEMA Opens early Nov BRIGHTON BAY FILM Now Screening The film vouchers may be Present AETT Membership purchased from Trust offices Card at the box office for for $7 and exchanged at discount. participating cinemas chains for tickets. Vouchers are open dated but NATIONAL TOUR some Saturday & public TORVILL & DEAN holiday restrictions may apply Jayne Torvill & Christo~her Dean to their use. in a dazzling brand-new Ice-dance No handling fee is charged nor show joined by 20 of Russia'.s fin~st is their any limit to the skaters on a national tour. High-fisk number that members may speed skating at its artistic best. buy. Please say which cinema chain you require. ADELAIDE· 26 Oct-4 Nov Wed-Sat 8pm Sat & Sun mats 1pm Sun 4.30 ALBURY· 23·27 Nov Wed-Fri 8pm On tour: Paco Pen a (Sealed left), John Sat 4.30pm & 8pm Williams (standing 2 from right) & Inti· Sun 1pm & 4.30pm Illimani from Chile. See this page. BRISBANE· 30 Nov-9 Dec Wed-Sat 8pm DOMINICK & EUGENE Sat & Sun mats 1pm Stars: Tom Hulce, Ray Liotta and CANBERRA SPORTS Jamie Lee Curtis CENTRE 13-18 Dec "A moving. potently dramat!c Tue-Sat 8pm family drama ... Hulce IS Sat & Sun mats 1pm Sun electrifying!" Newhouse Newspaper. 4.30 A spellbinding movie with three SYDNEY ENTERTAINMENT dimensional reality, which has the CENTRE 11-22 Jan unsahakeable sensation of passing Wed, Fri & Sat 8pm through the barrier of screen and Sat & Sun mats 1pm entering the world before. not MELBOURNE NATIONAL physically. but morally. Such a TENNIS CENTRE 8-17 Feb movie is DOMINICK AND EUGENE. Wed, Fri & Sat 8pm Sat & Sun mats Ipm AETT: $24.90 Tue-Thu GREATER UNION $26.90 Fri-Sun Now Screening Public: $29.90 All perfs. To 16 years $15.90 All perfs TESTIMONY Melbourne discount on 15 Starring: Ben Kingsley . Feb only No concessions "Spellbinding . . . ~ark, Witty, Jayne Toruill & Christopher Dean in *Venues to be announced Astaire and Rogers now on a national poetic and Immensely tour. Photo: Snowdon. disrespectful. . . revives the

16 THE TRUST - SIGN UP A MEMBER TODAY HEALTHY CYNICISM FROM THE RED CENTRE Barbara Tiernan tells it like it is After a decade of artistic troubLe shooting from fieLds afar as MeLbourne, Townsville & Perth administrator Barbara Tiernan chose the geographicaL middLe ground to become Director of the AraLuen Centre for Arts & Entertainment in Alice Springs. Her unexpurgated taLe is Laid bare for aLL to read because there 5 a whoLe heap of truth in and between the lines. Ed.

It being extraordinarily difficult to The siren song of the tropics write about oneself without and a cri de coeur from the sounding either boastful or aforementioned Lithuanian next sickeningly humble, I'll attempt spirited me to Townsville where Barbara Tiernan this on the assumption that few I offered copious advice to the people will be interested anyway North Queensland arts intelli­ able track record of financial so be damned if it falls between gentsia (no, that's not a containment with a surplus this two stools. contradiction in terms), and year being ploughed into After a chequered and mostly which, to their eternal discredit, upgrading equipment and other lacklustre career path as a failed they chose largely to ignore. essential fineries. uni student, house builder and The entrepreneural program­ English teacher I naively catapult· On To 'The Alice' This sorry me has its philosophical basis in ed into the resurrection of St. realisation led me to Alice four criteria; It must be good, Martins Youth Arts Centre in Springs where I felt I could make relevant, extend our audience's Melbourne as the first performing a more permanent, positive perceptions by a degree, and arts centre of its kind in Australia, contribution. affordable. Pompous? Maybe, but initially as an administrative Araluen Arts Centre was so much mediocre theatre, which consultant and ultimately as designed by (the Adelaide speaks to no one and takes them everything. Festival Centre's architects) nowhere, is foisted upon an Across the Nullabor The Hassell & Partners and opened in unsuspecting populace that I brilliance and Lithuanian pervers­ 1984 to the fanfare of trumpets figure this venue's selective ity of its artistic director, Helmut and politicians who have since buying is the lesser arrogance. Bakaitis, my bog-Irish determin­ been relieved to see it operating Year Round Although ation, and the skills of many on a fixed annual subsidy. Araluen operates 52 weeks of the other worthies established that Araluen's original brief demon­ year and mounts an average of theatre as one of the most strated the naivete common to 25-30 live performance seasons exciting and active in Melbourne most builders of great edifices in with a similar number of art at the time. Alas, who can remain the bush - make it all things to exhibitions in its two galleries, the that dedicated to a cause forever. all people and, above all, make it limited audience base only allows The team moved on, first Helmut PAY. for 3-4 night seasons with to the New Moon Theatre Within the constraints of a predictably erratic attendance Company in North Queensland, miniscule population base, a figures. Cinema, which fills the later me to the Nullabor with an commitment to support and potentially dark periods, provides icon of Daisy Bates fixed firmly develop local amateur arts accessible entertainment for great to the dashboard of the '72 activities and an almost evangel­ numbers and generally provides Corolla which passed for my istic entrepreneurial programme, the financial wherewithal to allow chariot. Araleun has achieved a respect- entrepreneurial risks. This happy state of affairs is finite as, no doubt, some enterprising syndicate is probably plotting the erection of a multi-level cinema complex as I write. A somewhat bizarre ambition to re-design Araluen so as to better accommodate local arts groups and help establish a permanent, professional theatre company here, has curbed my terminal peripateticism at least for the time being - I just hope the cinema syndicate holds off for Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs. a while longer. IF YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO BE A TRUST MEMBER, LET US KNOW 17 Melbourne venue (Athenaeum Theatre) and Williamson was interested. The deal was done. Blundell agrees with Jack REVISITING Hibberd who said that "an eerie calm" has now descended on Australian theatre. ''There's a sense of disillusion and disaffection", he says. "Michael AN ERA Gow who was the new light has been slapped back down, In the late 60's and early 70's, at hitting people's lives in a personal extraordinarily harshly and the forefront of new wave theatre way. All these lines were set and unfairly I would suggest. There's in Melbourne Graeme Blundell an awful cliquishness developed. a dearth of new writing talent. It's helped establish the La Mama There were feminist allegiances, hard to get things on, subsidy is Company, later renamed the gay allegiances .. . your politics being eroded and everything is Australian Performing Group were the most important thing." much more expensive so there is (APG), and in so doing changed In 1976 Garrie Hutchinson, a sense of becalm compared to the face of Australian drama. also fed -up with the cliquey the energy, excitement, ingenuity In 1971 he directed David strangle-hold of Melbourne and shit-house rat cunning which Williamson's Don's Party for the theatre, suggested to Blundell characterised the 60's and 70's APG which captured the frustra· over a bottle of port that they set when bustling little companies tion felt by many young "radicals" up another company to fill the were putting on production after who desperately hoped for void between the APG and the production on the smell of an oily change but saw those hopes MTC, and Hoopla! (now the rag:' dashed once again when Labor Playbox Theatre Company) was Maybe it's just the calm before lost the 1969 election. born. "Simple as that", says the storm. Blundell may not look 17 years down the tract, with a Blundell. too convinced but he'd be Labor Government in power, delighted if that were the case. In Blundell has redirected Don's the meantime he continues to Party. Produced by Kinselas encourage new writers through Productions (of which Blundell is the world of cabaret where he artistic director), Gary Penny and continues to push back Hocking & Woods, it opened at boundaries and take theatrical the Playhouse Theatre of the risks. Sydney Opera House (on 18 October) prior to a national tour. The play marks a return to the theatre for Blundell who has been immersed in cabaret for the last few years at Kinselas. "It's been exciting", he says. "Trying to do THE 'NEWS' for cabaret what the APG did for theatre." This is the third edition of 'Trust To a degree they succeeded but News' in its new format and we the venue, an old city morgue, hope you are as excited about the proved to be "too big and too concept as we are. There's lots small" as Blundell puts it. "People more things we would like to wanted glamorous Las Vegas print which we will add as funds productions or inventive for more pages become available. alternative cabaret but we only We are also making changes seated 240 people so the budget month by month as we receive was always limited." suggestions and include new Famous for his portrayal of Graeme Blundell ideas of our own. We truly wel- Alvin Purple in the two Alvin come any constructive comments films, Blundell has been involved so please call or write to your with Australian theatre as both an While at both Playbox and the local Trust office and let us know: actor and director ever since MTC Blundell had a hankering to if there's space and it is of interest leaving university. redirect Don's Party "but David to the majority we will put it in. In the heady and often kept coming up with new plays." If you have friends who are inter­ turbulent days of the 60's and Recent headlines about the Labor ested in the arts we will be happy 70's Blundell took his fair share party - "the hobnobbing with to send them a copy which will of risks. In 1969 he directed Alex the rich, a press line that seems include a membership form. Buzo's Norm and Ahmed and to bedevil Hawke and to some The next issue in December found himself arrested by the vice extent, Keating" - brought the and February will be national. squad for doing so. idea to the fore again. Gary Penny There will be no issue in January. BIundelllooks back to the 70's was interested and provided the We are hoping that we will soon as "difficult days. The social and Sydney venue, Hocking & Woods be able to publish 12 months of political movement started were interested in providing the each year. 18 RAISE TRUST MEMBERSHIP - ENROL A FRIEND, OR TWO Lady Potterly's Chatter

Well what a week it was! The Shirley Hay and Judy White, who corridors of power decreed that were the evening's organisers, October 9th-16th was to be Andrew McKinnon, Adam Salzer National Arts Week, and a very and Alexandra Hynes, John Lane, busy time followed for The Trust Alana Lee, Sue King from the in N.S.W. Costume Department who had Tuesday 10th saw the winner of sufficiently recovered dancing The Trust's Bicentennial Play and prancing to turn up at The Award announced with a Trust next morning for The prominent crowd of literary and Auction. Among those bidding theatrical identities dropping in for such essentials as a to Dowling Street to drink the mermaid's tail, guillotine and stunning champagne donated by papier·mache chandelier, just to Moet et Chandon and to hear name a few of the items were the Adam Salzer announce that, from Q Theatre's Arthur Dicks, lighting a staggering 250 entries, the designer (Sugar Babies, etc), Guest of Honour, well·known winning play was Hordes from entertainer Maria Vanuti, with Henry Roger Barrett, and actors John the South written by John Upton. Gillespie, Melbourne Board Member, Lockwood and Dean Carey. Among those there I saw were and Lady Margaret Mason, Chairman Everyone loves a good garage­ Gary and Joan Simpson, Wendy of N.S.w. Australian Ballet's special sale and this one was a beauty! Blacklock, Rodney Fisher, Mary events committee. Last, but certainly not least of Travers, Margot Woodward and the Week's events, the puppet­ Trust Directors Rodney Searborn opera Benneiong opened at the and Frank Hooke. Opera House following its runs in Brisbane and Newcastle. Lots of Trusties joined Musica Viva and The Australian Chamber Orchestra to witness this newest joint production. Verdict: "Great, don't miss it!"

In her first round up of things culturaL and sociaL, Lady Potter has gone to extremes to avoid a MeLbourne bias by devoting every word to the Sydney scene. Next month she will go nationaL - it's a promise.

Gary Simpson, Chairman, Arts Advisory Council, Ministry for the Arts, N.S.W., and friends Stephen Filberg of Dita Feathers and Alana Lee.

On Friday 14th there was the Show Biz Ball at the Sheraton , voted afterwards by one and all to be the best fun for years. With everyone dancing like mad to the Sydney Sound Big Band and wearing everything from Black Tie and Diamonds to an entire ostrich farm of feathers: it brought back wonderful memories of the Artists' Balls at The Trocadero. Enjoying themselves were Max Bourke, Sir John and Lady Mason, Peter and Bennelong: (Composer), Murray Copland (Libretto, Edwina Baillieu, NSW Governors Senario and Direction), Mirka Mora (Desi~ner and Maker of the Puppets). TRUST MEMBERSHIP - A WELCOME CHRISTMAS GIFT 19 If i

WESTERN AUSTRALIA November SUN 13 Paul Eddington - Meet the man. Chance to meet MEMBERS this versatile & talented actor at a Sunday brunch. Cost $15. Proceeds to fund the Best Actor MAKE A NOTE IN YOUR DIARY Awards and the Performers Book through your local Trust Office Workshop. At Swanbourne from 11am - 1 pm. NSW (02) 357 1200 VIC (03) 690 8384 WA (09) 321 4953 SA (08) 362 9576 SUN 27 End of year trust function! 'Shame; a special NEW SOUTH WALES standard cabaret. From 7.30 - screening. West Australian 11.30 pm. Cost: $53. Deborah-Lee Furness was voted November best actress at the Seattle Film January'89 Festival and by the Sydney Circle FRI 4 Luncheon at the Pitt I Club. This is to be re-scheduled THU 5 Picnic in the Park Drama Critics for her part in this as the venue is closing (Botanical Gardens) & Mozart.. w.A. film. At the Windsor Cinema Concert at the Opera House. at 6pm. Producer Paul Barron & Come and hear The Trust director Steve Jodrell will give a SAT 5 & SUN 6 Blue Moun­ orchestra! 6pm Cost: $39 short talk about our film industry. tains Music Festival. Laze at the includes 'A' Reserve tickets and Drinks and snacks in the foyer. luxurious Fairmont Resort at picnic with wine. Cost $10 to swell Trust funds. Leura, visit the Mt Tomah Gardens & 's gar­ den at Wentworth Falls. Glorious MON 9 'Big River' (BOOK NOW 12) Special Trust members HELP NEEDED! music too. The Trust would welcome calls [ncludes lunch at the night. Supper with the cast after the performance. Cost: $39. A from volunteers to man the & Albert at Mt Victoria, dinner at booking service and other Fairmont and Sunday lunch at pre-theatre dinner can also be arranged at Cyren's. administrative tasks at the the Wentworth Falls Hotel. Cost W.A. State Office in His $240. Single supplement $90. Majesty's Theatre. SUN 22 Lunch at the Call Pat Gibson on (09) 321 SAT 19 & SUN 20 The Scone R.M.Y.C., Newport for Trust 4953. Weekend which was to be held in Members & friends. At noon. October is now planned for 19 & Three courses with wine & juice 20 Nov. See the October issue of included for $32. Enjoy the Trust News for full details. wonderful setting overlooking SOUTH AUSTRALIA Pittwater. WED 23 Dinner Plus at the Adelaide Literary Luncheons Village Green, Memorial Ave, St Our literary Luncheons have [ves. Entertainment by the VICTORIA been a great success following fabulous Maggie Stewart. Dinner speakers such as Douglas & show. Cost: $32. November Adams, Anna Murdoch & Tim Bowden. Morris West is next on TUE 15 & WED 16 Trust 2 November at noon when TUE 29 'Relatively Speak­ Promotion Day. The Trust will be ing' (Book Now 12) Have dinner he will officially launch his new in the City Mall to promote its book, Masterclass. and enjoy the show at The activities and recruit members. Seymour Centre. Cost: $45 Come along & see us and bring Held at the Union Hotel, inclusive. a friend or two who may like to Adelaide's oldest circa 1848, join. they are sold out well in December advance. The private dining December room seats 130 but, because it THU 8 Double Act, dinner & is up narrow stairs and can be show. Join us at the Ensemble TUE 6 Ballet Centre Sneak inaccessible to the disabled a Theatre's beautiful waterside Preview. The Trust is moving into new venue is being sought. restaurant for a 4 course buffet the delightful new premises of before seeing Barry Creyton & The Ballet Centre next to the The 1989 line-up includes in the return Victorian Arts Centre. Join us for Sidney Sheldon and Stephanie engagement of the 1987 winner, a sneak preview when Lady Potter Alexander. Double Act. From 6pm. Cost: ' will talk about the future plans for Find out more by calling (08) $39. The Trust in Victoria. Enjoy pre­ 362 9576. Christmas snacks and savories WED 14 Christmas Showboat and meet other members of The Dinner Cruise. This is our Trust. Cost: $2 - at 6pm. Please Christmas Party. Cruise Sydney let us know that you will be I harbour at night aboard the coming by Thu 1 Dec by phoning Sydney Showboat plus a world (03) 690 8384.

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