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A New Perspective on the Presley Legend JULY, 1986 Vol 10 No 6 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust A New Perspective on the Presley Legend ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? by Alan Bleasdale Directed by Robin Lefevre Designed by Voytek Lighting designed by John Swaine Musical direction by Frank Esler-Smith Cast: Martin Shaw, David Franklin, Peta Toppano, Marcia Hines, John Derum, Lynda Stoner, Mervyn Drake, Ron Hackett and Jennifer West Her Majesty's Theatre heap of foil-wrapped Cadillac bon­ A nets (or is it crushed Cadillacs) form a stage upon a stage to set the mood for ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?, Alan Bleasdale's play with songs about the life and death of Elvis Presley. On the lower stage, Gracelands, the garish pink Presley mansion with its outrageous chandeliers, is portrayed. Here, on the last day of his life, is "The King", now ageing, bloated, pill-popping and wear­ ing a purple jumpsuit and sunglasses. He watches his old movies and fumes because one of his trusted "aides" is ex­ posing his secrets to a newspaperman. In a series of flashbacks, Elvis relives his earlier experiences, the death of the twin brother whom he believes was his alter ego and stronger half, the death of his mother while he was a GI in Ger­ many, and the adulation poured on him as the lean, sexy king of rock. HiS manager, Colonel Tom Parker, is por­ trayed as his manipulator, holding a Presley dummy and gloating over the Martin Shaw as the ageing Presley in ARE profits. LONESOME TONIGHT? and (inset) as himself Author Bleasdale wrote the play to achieve a personal vindication of Presley, London critics were not always kind of $9.00 per ticket). At other perfor­ for whom he had great admiration, about it, but the audiences have been mances Monday to Thursday and Satur­ following the publication of Albert packing out the theatre for the past day matinee, a $5.00 discount applies. Goldman's unfavourable biography. twelve months. Its director, Robin Details of pre-theatre dinner on August Like Marilyn Monroe, Presley was the Lefevre, will also direct the Australian 26 in August Trust News. subject of endless speculation and myth, production. much of it unfounded, and Bleasdale set Martin Shaw, who played the older BOOKING INFORMATION out to counter it, to find " ... some kind Presley in London, will play the part in Aug 23 to Sep 20 of balanced understanding of the man Australia. David Franklin, who is to play Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. behind the myth", to quote the Sunday the younger Presley, has a long list of Sat mat at 2 p.m. Express' Hirschhorn. Highlights of the credits to his name in the theatre, tele­ AETT $18.90 (Aug 26), $22.90 (Mon to show are the sixteen hip-swinging, pelvis­ vision and films. Thu), $19.90 (Sat mat) G.P. $27.90 gyrating Elvis songs which brought ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? will open at Her Majesty's Theatre on Pens/Stud $18.90 (Mon to Thu), $16.90 overseas audiences to their feet. (Sat mat) ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? August 23. Members are invited to pur­ Two AETT tickets per member won the West End Theatre Managers' chase as many tickets as they wish at (except Aug 26) Award for the Best Musical of 1985. The $18.90 on Tuesday, August 26 (a saving 2 Samuel Beckett Award. The play is a previous credits include PALACE OF Dance Theatre Piece modern day Romeo and Juliet story DREAMS for ABC TV, has written about Irish lasses from Belfast and two DAGS on just this theme. It has already he April season of The One Extra British Army Regulars who get caught up been presented in Adelaide, Canberra T Company's dance theatre work, THE in the Irish Conflict. The play was and Melbourne and now a new produc­ SHREW, was all too short, so it's good mounted by the Melbourne Theatre tion is to be mounted by Sydney's Toe news to hear that this fascinating piece is Company last year and The Australian Truck Theatre. One of Sydney's leading to be presented in Sydney throughout described the playas intensely human theatre-in-education teams, they July at the Wharf Studio. Devised by and intensely moving. presented the popular DANCING IN artistic director, Kai Tai Chan, THE The final four plays in the series are a THE STREETS last year. Designed SHREW fuses Shakespeare's sixteenth­ selection from the eight plays which make specifically for young people, DAGS has century THE TAMING OF THE up Alan Ayckbourn's INTIMATE the distinction of finding enthusiastic SHREW with traditional nineteenth­ EXCHANGES. If you saw THE NOR­ acceptance among teenagers and elders century China (when women's feet were MAN CONQUESTS then you'll know alike. General public performances of bound) and Australia's "liberated" 1986. how fascinating it is to have a series of DAGS can be seen at the Seymour Centre At its 1986 Adelaide Festival Fringe plays exploring different aspects of a this month. premiere, THE SHREW won the Adver­ common theme . In INTIMATE tiser Critics' Fringe Award for EXCHANGES Alan Ayckbourn starts BOOKING INFORMATION Wed Jul 23 to Sat Aug 16 Excellence. The company has just com­ from the same point but five seconds pleted a tour of The Netherlands, Wed to Sat at 8 p.m. later one character makes a choice which AETT discount $1.00 Belgium and West Germany presenting divides the plot into two different plays. THE SHREW, MY FATHER'S HOUSE Similar decisions later in the plot cause and AH Q GOES WEST. A two-week further subdivisions so that finally there John Romeril Play season in Auckland follows the Sydney are sixteen different endings from the season. same source. But, you will say, there are THE FLOATING WORLD by John BOOKING INFORMATION only eight plays. Ha, Ha, I say, but two Romeril AETT discount $2.00 endings to each play are performed at Directed by Richard Wherrett and Bookings on 250 1777 each session. Even the author describes Wayne Harrison the whole series as "a piece of theatrical Set design by Geoffrey Gifford lunacy" but it sounds like fascinating Costume design by Terry Ryan lunacy at that. Cast includes Ron Haddrick, GalY Members who wish to subscribe to the McDonald and Melissa laffer season should do so on the enclosed Drama Theatre, S. D.H. brochure. Alternatively single perfor­ mance purchases for the first play are ohn Romeril belongs to the group of now available. And don't forget the Pier Jdistinguished Australian writers who Restaurant at the Ensemble; it serves pre­ worked out of the tiny La Mama Theatre theatre buffet dinners in a delightful in Carlton in the '60s and '70s. And of his harbourside setting. contemporaries he stands out as the one most concerned to present the Australian BOOKING INFORMATION not just in his immediate environment NEVER IN MY LIFETIME but as a social and political animal in a Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. world context. THE FLOATING Mats Thu at 11 a .m. and Sat at 5 p.m. WORLD is a study of Australia's cultural AETT $14.00 (Tue to Fri), $16.00 (Sat isolation, aggressive racism and its Ne\v Ensemble Season evg), $11.00 (mats) "populate or perish" mentality. G.P. $15 .00 (Tue to Fri), $17.00 (Sat NEVER IN MY LIFETIME by Shirley evg), $12.00 (mats) . Pens/Stud $11.00 (Tue to Fri), $9.00 Gee (mats) Directed by Sandra Bates Two AETT tickets per member Designed by Derrick Cox Cast includes: Leigh Morgan, David Mackennall, Kate Raison, Felicity Soper, Gavin Stagg and Carol Willesee Ensemble Theatre Teenage Heartache he Ensemble Theatre's new subscrip­ T tion season starts off with NEVER t isn't easy being a teenager and feeling IN MY LIFETIME, a play set among the I you're ugly or being the kid that turmoil and anguish of Northern Ireland. everyone does nasty things to. But Written by Shirley Gee originally for perhaps it helps to know it happens to .radio, its stage adaptation won the other people too. Debra Oswald, whose 3 Superficially, THE FLOATING A first-generation Australian, Anne­ WORLD might be a parody of any Marie Mykyta knows the heartache of organised cruise (in this case a Women's not belonging, of a childhood moving Weekly Cherry Blossom Cruise) but from one country school to another, of underneath the comedy is a portrait of continually being rejected. And in this, disintegration as the world of Les Har­ her first play, she writes in semi­ ding breaks up. An ex-prisoner of war of autobiographical style of the migrants' the Japanese, he still maintains his belief anguish. Members and their· friends are that the British betrayed the Australian invited to attend a Trust Members' night troops and still smarts under the on Wednesday, July 16 when a $3.00 dis­ superiority of British social manners. The count applies. play was first presented in 1974 by the BOOKING INFORMATION Australian Performing Group in Sun Jul13 to Sun Aug 17 Melbourne with Bruce Spence in the lead Wed to Sat at 8.15 p.m. role of Les Harding. It is ten years since Sat & Sun at 5 p.m. the play was seen in Sydney and the AETT $1 J.(X), $9.00 (Jul 16) Sydney Theatre Company consider it G.P. $12.00 timely that such an important work Pens/ Stud $8.00 Two AETT tickets/ member except Jul 16 should be remounted.
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