ISSN 0314-0598 OCTOBER, 1984, VOL. 8, NO.6

PUBLIC SEASON OF FIDDLER Trust Member performances (when a AYCKBOURN PREMIERE AT $5.00 discount applies) are Wednesday ENSEMBLE "The Australian Opera's new FIDDLER ON matinee November 14, Friday November 9 THE ROOF is, against all expectations, a and Monday November 12. At other perfor­ The Australian premiere of Alan Ayck­ whirling, twirling, fast-moving load of fun, mances, Monday to Thursday, a $2.00 dis­ bourn's play TAKING STEPS takes place bursting at the seams with old-style joie de count applies. Members are also invited to at the in November. A vivre. " attend the New Year's Eve performance of master of comedy, Alan Ayckbourn has Maria Prerauer, The Australian FIDDLER in the Opera House at a $4.00 created a classical farce from his studies discount. The performance will commence of the disastrous misreadings of women by "Hayes Gordon's celebrated impersonation at a later time to allow patrons to leave the men and men by women. It has been of Tevye . .. hardly needs - although it theatre for the comm&ncement of the New described by Michael Billington in the Ii certainly deserves - further praise and Year festivities on the harbour. Guardian as "Pure farce ... superbly description. " funny". The production will be directed by Roger Covell, S.M.H. Brian Young with designs by Fiona Reilly. Trust Member nights when a $2.00 con­ Following its premiere during the cession applies are Wednesday November Australian Opera's winter season, FID­ 7, Thursday November 8 and Monday DLER ON THE ROOF will be presented at November 12. Your booking coupon is His Majesty's Theatre from November 5 to enclosed. 24. FIDDLER has been a popular musical for the past twenty years. The result of collab­ oration between Joseph Stein, Jenny Brock and Sheldon Harwick, Jerome Rob­ bins directed and choreographed the orig­ inal Broadway production. The story is set DIARY UPDATE in Tsarist Russia and centres around the last days of a small impecunious Ukrainian SEPTEMBER Orthodox Jewish ghetto and the gentle 19, 21 - DIARY OF ANNE FRANK, soap-operative sagas of their loves, fears Phillip Street and tribulations. Hayes Gordon who 30 - SEASON'S GREETINGS, starred in the 1967 Australian production Marian Street plays again the role of the poor milkman OCTOBER Tevye trying desperately to cope with a 2 - SEASON'S GREETINGS, changing world. Anne-Patricia Hemingway Marian Street is Golda, his wife, and Jennifer Ber­ 22, 23, 24 - GOLDEN OLDIES, Nimrod mingham is Yente, the matchmaker. 31 - THE BLIND MAN IS DANCING, The production which is a reproduction of STC Jerome Robbin's original production is NOVEMBER directed by Stephen Lloyd Helper who 5, 6 - BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST, recently assisted Jerome Robbins in the Footbridge mounting of a new FIDDLER at New 7, 8, 12 - TAKING STEPS, Ensemble York's Lincoln Center. David Kram con­ 9, 12 - LlTILE SHOP OF HORRORS, ducts the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra Theatre Royal and the sets which open out like cut out 9, 12, 14 - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, scenes in a child's picture book and have Her Majesty's been highly praised are by Desmond 12,13, 14 - IL MAGNIFICO, Nimrod Digby. 20, 22 - THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING, STC

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Trust News is the newsletter of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is mailed free of charge to its 5000 Sydney members, eight times per year. The price concessions and advance booking facilities offered in this newsletter are available only to members of the A.E.T.T. Those wishing to join the Trust should complete the New Member Application form on the enclosed Trust Member Booking Coupons and return it to the Trust for processing. Anyone who would like further information about the facilities available to Trust Members should ring the membership office on 357 1200. The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, P.O. Box 137, Kings Cross, N.S.w. 2011 . NEW MOON TRAVELS SOUTH member activities The New Moon Theatre Company's pro­ RACE DAY AT RANDWICK duction of BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST Wednesday September 26 at 11.30 a.m. will be presented at the Footbridge Tickets are still available for Members and Theatre in November following a their friends to join the Sydney Committee Queensland tour and seasons in Adelaide ' for luncheon in the Members' stand and and Canberra. the afternoon's racing which includes the The New Moon Theatre Company is Elizabethan Trust Handicap. Tickets are undoubtedly one of 's most vital $18 each which includes entry to the non metropolitan companies. Based in Member's stand. Please ring the member­ Queensland it serves four home theatres ship office on 3571200. - in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay and DINNER AND OPERA Rockhampton. The company lived in Wednesday October 10 Townsville in 1981/82, Cairns in 1983/84 and will spend the next two years in Rock­ Tickets are still available to see the Austra­ hampton. lian Opera's production of A MIDSUMME.R New Moon aims to present the best of con­ NIGHT'S DREAM and to attend the dinner temporary entertainment and as a result of at the Opera House beforehand. Tickets the particular interests of its first two artis­ are $40 each which includes both the tic directors (Terry O'Connell for the first opera and dinner. two years and now Helmut Bakaitis) it has CUP ORIANA CRlIISE developed a reputation for music (and par· November 3 to 9 ticularly rock) theatre. BEACH BLANKET Due to cancellations we have a limited TEMPEST is its most successful pro­ number of berths available for this six day duction in this genre to date. Written by cruise to Melbourne for the Cup. The John Paramour two company members, Dennis Watkins Oriana visits Hobart en route and during L-______~ (actor) and Chris Harriott (musical director) this full day stop we'll be travelling by bus it is a rock opera broadly based on through Tasmania to Launceston. visiting SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY SEASON Shakespeare's play and historic places en route. The tour Includes on the fabulous rock period of the 60s. reserved tickets for the Cup with cham­ The work was commissioned by the pagne lunch and the price is approxi­ The Sydney Dance Company returns to company and its tour has been assisted by mately $1100 per person depending on the Sydney Opera House for its final the Australia Council Touring and Access the cabin position. Please contact Shirley season for 1984 on November 8. Artistic Fund. Hay on 357 1200. Director Graeme Murphy will present two Trust Member nights when a $6.00 con­ BALLET AND DINNER programs which include three premieres. cession applies are Monday November 5 Friday November 16 at 6 p.m. The season commences in the Opera and Tuesday November 6. At other perfor­ We are very pleased to be able to invite Theatre (November 8 to 24) with a pro­ mances a $2.00 concession applies. Your Members to attend the Sydney premiere of gram of four short contemporary dance booking coupon is enclosed. the Australian Ballet's new production of works and then transfers to the Drama THE SLEEPING BEAUTY at the Entertain­ Theatre for the premiere of Murphy's new­ ment Centre. We will have dinner in the est full-length work AFTER VENICE from Cosmopolitan restaurant at the Centre December 1 to 22. AUSTRALIAN OPERA SUMMERISEASON beforehand arn:t the price (for both dinner The quadruple bill in the Opera Theatre As usual we have made arrangements for and A Reserve seats) is $46 - only $6.00 will include the new short work by Murphy Members to see some of the summer more than the normal price of ballet to be called OLD FRIENDS, NEW season operas on certain nights at a sub­ tickets. FRIENDS and the Au~tralian premiere of stantial discount. A $4.00 discount applies CAMELOT DINNER - AD LIB Louis Falco's BLACK AND BLUE. This to FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (December RESTAURANT work has been widely acclaimed through­ 31), TOSCA (January 30), JENUFA Wednesday December 5 at 6 p.m. out Europe and America and is to be (January 25 and 28) and DON PASQUALE Those Members who have already pur­ filmed next year with Rudolf Nureyev and (February 11) whilst a $7.00 discount chased tickets to see Richard Harris in Louis Falco in the leading roles. JANICU­ applies to tickets for the production of CAMELOT on Wednesday December 5 LUM by Australian choreographer Garth NORMA (with Joan Sutherland in the Con­ may like to join us for dinner beforehand. Welch and Graeme Murphy's HOME­ cert Hall) on January 29. All seats are A We have arranged dinner (two courses LANDS with guest artists Marilyn Jones Reserve and can be obtained only on the with coffee and wine) for $17.00 per per­ and Kelvin Coe complete the quartet. enclosed booking coupon. son. The Restaurant is across the road AFTER VENICE is the fifth full-length work from the Entertainment Centre so is ideally choreographed and produced by Graeme situated. Murphy since the premiere of POppy in NEXT AT NIMROD 1978. Inspired by his recent collaboration Opening on October 20 in the Everest ...----.:....------:=----' at the Toronto Festival with Lofti Mansouri Theatre is Dorothy Hewett's play THE for the staging of Benjamin Britten's opera GOLDEN OLDIES. Using her unique per­ DEATH IN VENICE, Murphy found the sonal blend of humour, music and dream story and the characters for DEATH IN the play explores the lives and relation­ VENICE compelling. His new work, as the ships of two elderly ladies. The play will be title suggests, will start where the opera directed by Peter Kingston with designs by finishes, with the death of Aschenbach on Anny .Evason. Trust Member nights when the beach at the Lido. Murphy will work in a $3.00 discount applies are Monday Octo­ collaboration with designer Kristian Fre­ ber 22, Tuesday October 23 and drikson, an old friend who has worked with Wednesday October 24. him on four previous major ballets. Garth Opening in the York Theatre on November Welch will star in the role of Aschenbach. 7 is anew work by Robyn Archer to be Trust Members are invited to subscribe to directed by Aubrey Mellor. IL MAGNIFICO the series for $32.00 which represents a is a bold and bawdy pageant which takes $7.00 saving on the single ticket price and a look at patronage and the arts against a a $2.00 concsssion on the general public backgrcund of fifty years of Italian history. subscription ticket price. Your booking Trust Member nights when a $3.00 dis­ coupon is enclosed. Booking facilities for count applies are Monday November 12, single performances will follow in the next Tuesday November 13 and Wednesday Louis Fa/co edition of Trust News. November 14. ADELAIDE FRINGE HIGHLIGHTS FOR 'HORROR' MUSICAL FOR SYDNEY STEPHEN SEWELL PL-AY FOR STC SYDNEY UTILE SHOP OF HORRORS which is The next two productions at the Sydne~ currently enjoying successfuR seasons in 'It's a towering piece of theatre, vast i Sailors Home represent remarkable both New York and London will be pre­ scope and proportions. It's dazzling in it achievements for two groups of artists who sented at Sydney's Theatre Royal in uncompromising honesty. It's truly gre have worked at developing their individual November. Based on the Roger Corman's theatre.' > - and very different - styles of perfor­ 1960 'horror' film, LITTLE SHOP OF HOR­ Brian Hoad, The Bulletin mance and in doing so have achieved RORS was the winner of the Best Musical excellence. (1983), New York Drama Critics Circle Stephen Sewell's ,play THE BLIND GIAN ZEN AND NOW was created by four Syd­ Award and Best Musical of the Year (1983) IS DANCING which was specially com ney artists, Beth Child, Robyn Arthur, Tony London Standard Drama Awards. missioned by Lighthouse, the state theatr Preece and David Spiller - all veterans of UTILE SHOP OF HORROR is about a ~ompany ot South Australia, and prem Australian musicals and music-comedies man eating plant - a kind of Venus Fly­ lered there In October 1983, is the Sydne - and premiered at the Adelaide Fringe trap that has outgrown flies and regards Theatre Company's next production. It fol Festival this year. The group received the people as walking plant food! Audiences lows seasons of TRAITORS and WEL Critics Award for excellence in the revue yvitness the plant evolve from a petite palm COME THE BRIGHT WORLD at Nimro category. ZEN AND NOW is a marvellous In~O a 8 feet tall horticultural horror which which firmly established Stephen Sewel musical entertainment for all those who bellows when it speaks and boasts a as one of Australia's outstanding youn grew up in the 60s - the youth culture jungle-green complexion. It is however playwrights. revolution , " Hair", drugs, Vietnam, space always a most endearing monster so the THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING is a con travel, sexual liberation and alternative spectre of a plant gobbling up half the temporary political play. which is set i lifestyles. It gives a heartfelt and side split- population brings chuckles rather than Australia. It charts not only the develop . ting look over the past twenty years using chills to the audience. ment of political awareness but also th music of the time. The musical is set in the early 60s with a sad and tragic consequences such devel score whic~ includes 50s doo-wap, gentle opment can contain for some Australians rock, Caribbean and country music. their friends and relatives. ~~erican di~ector Constance Grappo The title role is played by Steve Bisley wh vIsited Australia late last month to audition since his graduation from NIDA in 197 and cast details will follow in the next has principally worked in film . His fil edition of Trust News. credits include , Mad Max Trust Member nights when a $5.00 dis­ Chain Reaction and Fast Talking. He also count applies are Friday November 9· appeared in the television mini series A (6 p.m. and 9 p.m.) and Monday Town Like Alice. Co-starring with Steve November 12. At other performances Mon­ Bisley are Angela Punch-McGregorJ day to Thursday and 6 p.m. performances Michelle Fawdon, Lewis Fitzgerald DOl Friday and Saturday a $2.50 discount Crosby and Melissa Jaffer. ' applies. '(unt~ Saturday December1). Trust Member nights, when a $3.00 con , Robyn Arthur, Tony Preece cession applies are Wednesday Octo be and Beth Child in Zen and Now. 31, Tuesday November 20 and Thursda In complete contrast "Funny Stories are November 22. At all other performance developing as one of Australia 's foremost (Monday-Thursday) and Saturday matine exponents of a rare and exciting brand of a $1 .00 concession applies. Bookings fo~ humour; subversive, shocking, wicked and the Trust nights can be made on tha wildly amusing". The five performers came enclosed booking coupon whilst booking~ together in the early 1980s inspired by the for other performances should be made on work of the Dutch theatre company Die 3584399. Horde and began working in the emerging cabaret field in Sydney. From this starting point they have moved away from brash cabaret comedy to a performance style which relies on stronger visual images. Their production of TABLEPIECE to be presented at the Sailors Home Theatre SEYMOUR GROUP PRESENTS MUSIC was seen at the Adelaide Fringe Festival THEATRE where it was described in the Adelaide Sydney's contemporary music ensemble Advertiser. the Seymour Group will present a musi " Parts of it are hysterically funny. But for theatre triple bill in the Everest Theatre, me, TABLEPIECE is not so much a comedy on October 6. The works as a brilliant and innovative piece of drama. will be jointly conducted by Myer Fredman, There are things in TABLEPIECE I have the Group's artistic director and Edward never seen on the stage before. On one Leila Blake Cowie with Donna Balson soprano, Meg level, it is five flour-stained gentlemen STUDIO SYDNEY has found a new home! Chilcott mezzo-soprano and John Milson twitching their way around a table and Having left the Rex Hotel because of producer. speaking mostly in an idiotic jabber. But on licensing problems they are opening again The three pieces to be presented are ONE another level it is a bizarre exposition of the at the All Nations Club in Bayswater Road PEARL by Alison Bauld which won the inner workings of the male brain. I think on September 21. Leila Blake will star in Radcliffe Award for composition; SYDNEY every male in Adelaide - dragged in Leonard Gershe's BUTTERFLIES ARE SORTS by Moya Henderson who has a screaming or not - should see TABLE­ FREE. The play is about a blind boy in long involvement in music theatre and has PIECE. " New York City who wants to be indepen­ worked in Germany with Europe's leading ZEN AND NOW plays from September 13 dent and live by himself but his mother is exponent of the genre, Mauricio Kagel; to October 7 (A.E.T.T. concession $1.00) reluctant to allow this. The play is both and KATE KELLY'S ROADSHOW by and TABLEPIECE from October 31 to very moving and very funny. It is directed Edward Cowie which tells to rollicking folk November 11 (A.E.T.T. concession $2.00). by Graham Corry whose previous collabo . songs accompanied by accordian, bar Bookings on 273274. Running concur­ ation with Leila Blake was on the success­ piano and jew's harp,the story of Ned Kel­ rently with ZEN AND NOW is a series of ful play PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE. ly's sister who toured with a travelling Indonesian films being presented in con­ Other cast members are professional show after Ned's execution. junction with the Crafts Council of Austra­ students of Leila Blake.. Performances are Trust Members receive a $1 .00 con­ lia during their Festival of Indonesian Art. Thursday to Saturday at 7.30 p.m. and cession and can reserve tickets on the For screening information please phone Sundays at 5 p.m. Bookings on 771 3333. enclosed booking coupon. 273274. NEW MOON TRAVELS SOUTH member activities The New Moon Theatre Company's pro­ RACE DAY AT RANDWICK duction of BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST Wednesday September 26 at 11.30 a.m. will be presented at the Footbridge Tickets are still available for Members and Theatre in November following a their friends to join the Sydney Committee Queensland tour and seasons in Adelaide for luncheon in the Members' stand and and Canberra. the afternoon's racing which includes the The New Moon Theatre Company is Elizabethan Trust Handicap. Tickets are undoubtedly one of Australia's most vital $18 each which includes entry to the non metropolitan companies. Based in Member's stand. Please ring the member­ Queensland it serves four home theatres ship office on 3571200. - in Cairns, Townsville, Mackay aod DINNER AND OPERA Rockhampton. The company lived in Wednesday October 10 Townsville in 1981/82, Cairns in 1983/84 Sydney Opera House and will spend the next two years in Rock­ Tickets are still available to see the Austra­ hampton. lian Opera's production of A MIDSUMMER New Moon aims to present the best of con­ NIGHT'S DREAM and to attend the dinner temporary entertainment and as a result of at the Opera House beforehand. Tickets the particular interests of its first two artis­ are $40 each which includes both the tic directors (Terry O'Connell for the first opera and dinner. two years and now Helmut Bakaitis) it has MELBOURNE CUP ORIANA CRUISE developed a reputation for music (and par­ November 3 to 9 ticularly rock) theatre. BEACH BLANKET Due to cancellations we have a limited TEMPEST is its most successful pro­ number of berths available for this six day duction in this genre to date. Written by cruise to ' Melbourne for the Cup. The John Paramour two company members, Dennis Watkins Oriana visits Hobart en route and during L-______., (actor) and Chris Harriott (musical director) this full day stop we'll be travelling by bus it is a rock opera broadly based on through Tasmania to Launceston visiting SYDNEY DANCE COMPANY SEASON Shakespeare's play THE TEMPEST and historic places en route. The tour includes on the fabulous rock period of the 60s. reserved tickets for the Cup with cham­ The work was commissioned by the pagne lunch and the price is approxi­ The Sydney Dance Company returns to company and its tour has been assisted by mately $1100 per person depending on the Sydney Opera House for its final the Australia Council Touring and Access the cabin position. Please contact Shirley season for 1984 on November 8. Artistic Fund. Hay on 357 1200. Director Graeme Murphy will present two Trust Member nights when a $6.00 con­ BALLET AND DINNER programs which include three premieres. cession applies are Monday November 5 Friday November 16 at 6 p.m. The season commences in the Opera and Tuesday November 6. At other perfor­ We are very pleased to be able to invite Theatre (November 8 to 24) with a pro­ mances a $2.00 concession applies. Your Members to attend the Sydney premiere of gram of four short contemporary dance booking coupon is enclosed. the Australian Ballet's new production of works and then transfers to the Drama THE SLEEPING BEAUTY at the Entertain­ Theatre for the premiere of Murphy's new­ ment Centre. We will have dinner in the est full-length work AFTER VENICE from Cosmopolitan restaurant at the Centre December 1 to 22. AUSTRALIAN OPERA SUMMERISEASON beforehand amt the price (for both dinner The quadruple bill in the Opera Theatre As usual we have made arrangements for and A Reserve seats) is .$46 - only $6.00 will include the new short work by Murphy Members to see some of the summer more than the normal price of ballet to be called OLD FRIENDS, NEW season operas on certain nights at a sub­ tickets. FRIENDS and the Australian premiere of stantial discount. A $4.00 discount applies CAMELOT DINNER - AD LIB Louis Falco's BLACK AND BLUE. This to FIDDLER ON THE ROOF (December RESTAURANT work has been widely acclaimed through­ 31), TOSCA (January 30), JENUFA Wednesday December 5 at 6 p.m. out Europe and America and is to be (January 25 and 28), and DON PASQUALE Those Members who have already pur­ filmed next year with Rudolf Nureyev and (February 11) whIlst a $7.00 discount chased tickets to see Richard Harris in Louis Falco in the leading roles. JANICU­ applies to tickets for the production of CAMELOT on Wednesday December 5 LUM by Australian choreographer Garth NORMA (with Joan Sutherland in the Con­ may like to join us for dinner beforehand. Welch and Graeme Murphy's HOME­ cert Hall) on January 29. All seats are A We have arranged dinner (two courses LANDS with guest artists Marilyn Jones Reserve and can be obtained only on the with coffee and wine) for $17.00 per per­ and Kelvin Coe complete the quartet. enclosed booking coupon. son. The Restaurant is across the road AFTER VENICE is the fifth full-length work from the Entertainment Centre so is ideally choreographed and produced by Graeme situated. Murphy since the premiere of POppy in NEXT AT NIMROD 1978. Inspired by his recent collaboration Opening on October 20 in the Everest r------~ at the Toronto Festival with Lofti Mansouri Theatre is Dorothy Hewett's play THE for the staging of Benjamin Britten's opera GOLDEN OLDIES. Using her unique per­ DEATH IN VENICE, Murphy found the sonal blend of humour, music and dream story and the characters for DEATH IN the play explores the lives and relation­ VENICE compelling. His new work, as the ships of two elderly ladies. The play will be title suggests, will start where the opera directed by Peter Kingston with designs by finishes, with the death of Aschenbach on Anny .Evason. Trust Member nights when the beach at the Lido. Murphy will work in a $3.00 discount applies are Monday Octo­ collaboration with designer Kristian Fre­ ber 22, Tuesday October 23 and drikson, an old friend who has worked with Wednesday October 24. him on four previous major ballets. Garth Opening in the York Theatre on November Welch will star in the role of Aschenbach. 7 is anew work by Robyn Archer to be Trust Members are invited to subscribe to directed by Aubrey Mellor. IL MAGNIFICO the series for $32.00 which represents a is a bold and bawdy pageant which takes $7.00 saving on the single ticket price and a look at patronage and the arts against a a $2.00 conc9ssion on the general public backgrcund of fifty years of Italian history. subscription ticket price. Your booking Trust Member nights when a $3.00 dis­ coupon is enclosed. Booking facilities for count applies are Monday November 12, single performances will follow in the next Tuesday November 13 and Wednesday Louis Falco edition of Trust News. November 14. I 'HORROR' MUSICAL FOR SYDNEY STEPHEN SEWELL PLAY FOR STC what's on in Canberra LlTILE SHOP OF HORRORS which is (A.E. T.T. concession $1.00 all presen­ currently enjoying successfur\ seasonS in 'It's a towering piece of theatre, vast in tations) ,both New York and London will be pre­ scope and proportions. It's dazzling in its MASTER HAROLD •.. AND THE BOYS sented at Sydney's Theatre Royal in uncompromising honesty. It's truly great November. Based on the Roger Corman's The final evening production by Theatre theatre.' ACT for the year is Playbox Theatre 1960 'horror' film, LITTLE SHOP OF HOR­ Brian Hoad, The Bulletin RORS was the winner of the Best Musical Company's production of MASTER (1983), New York Drama Critics Circle Stephen Sewell's .play THE BLIND GIANT HAROLD . .. AND THE BOYS. The play, Award and Best Musical of the Year (1983) IS DANCING which was specially com­ written by South African playwright Athol London Standard Drama Awards. missioned by lighthouse, the Fugard, is about a young white South LITTLE SHOP OF HORROR is about a company of South Australia, and prem­ African boy, Hally, brought up by two black man eating plant - a kind of Venus Fly­ iered there in October 1983, is the Sydney servants who work as waiters in the fam­ trap that has outgrown flies and regards Theatre Company's next production. It fol­ ily's tea rooms in Port Elizabeth in 1950. people as walking plant food! Audiences lows seasons of TRAITORS and WEL­ The drama unfolds one day when under witness the plant evolve from a petite palm COME THE BRIGHT WORLD at Nimrod stress Hally denies and ridicules their in~o a 8 feet tall horticultural horror which which firmly established Stephen Sewell friendship. The season will be presented at bellows when it speaks and boasts a as one of Australia's outstanding young .--______~--=--.:...... :..:'--I the Canberra Playhouse from October 5 to jungle-green complexion. It is however playwrights. 27. Bookings on 49 7600. always a most endearing monster so the THE BLIND GIANT IS DANCING is a con­ HUMAN VEINS SEASON spectre of a plant gobbling up half the temporary political play. which is set in MOVIE NEWS Human Veins Dance theatre's forthcoming population brings chuckles rather than Australia. It charts not only the develop­ season at Block A, Gorman house will chills to the audience. ment of political awareness but also the and John Hargreaves who include three works by company director The musical is set in the early 60s with a sad and tragic consequences such devel­ starred in the 1983 AFI Best Picture Don Asker which have not been seen in score which includes 50s doo-wap, gentle opment can contain for some Australians, CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU, appear Canberra before under the title SPRING rock, Caribbean and country music. their friends and relatives. together again in which RELEASE and a new work by company American director Constance Grappo The title role is played by Steve Bisley who has just opened at Village Cinema City. It dancer Julie-Anne Long. Set to Celtic folk visited Australia late last month to audition since his graduation from NIDA in 1977 is directed by who directed the music it is called BY THE NORTH ROAD. and cast details will follow in the next has principally worked in film. His film 1982 AFI Best Film LONELY HEARTS and The season dates are September 26-29 edition of Trust News. credits include Newsfront, Mad Max, last year's acclaimed . and October 3-6. Bookings on 473103. Chain Reaction and Fast Talking. He also Trust Member nights when a $5.00 dis­ MY FIRST WIFE is about the difficulty THE FLYING DUTCHMAN count applies are Friday November 9. appeared in the television mini series A men have copinQ with a marriage break-up Town like Alice. Co-starring with Steve Canberra Opera's spring presentation is (6 p.m. and 9 p.m.) and Monday which has been Initiated by the wife. It is a Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. To be pre­ November 12. At other performances Mon­ Bisley are Angela Punch-McGregor, plea for more patience, understanding and Michelle Fawdon, Lewis Fitzgerald, Don sented at the Canberra School of Music day to Thursday and 6 p.m. performances more tolerance. "We must love one Auditorium on October 19 and 21 the per­ Friday and Saturday a ~2.50 discount Crosby and Melissa Jaffer. another or die" W. H. Auden said in 1939 Trust Member nights, when a $3.00 con­ formance will star Geoffrey Chard as The applies. '(unt~1 Saturday December1). and this sentiment is very much at the Flying Dutchman. Principal baritone with cession applies are Wednesday October heart of the story. 31, Tuesday November 20 and Thursday the English National Opera since 1969, November 22. At all other performances Geoffrey Chard began his career with the (Monday-Thursday) and Saturday matinee N.S.W. National Opera in the 1956/57 a $1.00 concession applies. Bookings for season and has portrayed most major roles the Trust nights can be made on the in the standard operatic repertoire. The enclosed booking coupon whilst bookings performance also features Nance Grant, for other performances should be made on John Sydney and Christopher Bogg. The 3584399. Canberra Symphony Orchestra will be con­ ducted by Torben Petersen. Bookings on 470249. ADT TOUR As part of a tour of country centres Ade­ laide based Australian Dance Theatre will appear at the Canberra Theatre Centre on SEYMOUR GROUP PRESENTS MUSIC October 30/31. The company will present THEATRE THE PARADE'S GONE BY by Lindsay Kemp, HOLIDAY SKETCHES by Chris­ Sydney's contemporary music ensemble, topher Bruce, STILL LIFE by Ruby Shang the Seymour Group will present a music John Hargreaves, Lucy Angwin and and GHOST DANCES by Christopher theatre triple bill in the Everest Theatre, Bruce. Bookings on 49 7600. Seymour Centre on October 6. The works Wendy Hughes in MY FIRST WIFE. will be jointly conducted by Myer Fredman, BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST the Group's artistic director and Edward Following at Village on October 4 is Serge The northern Queensland based theatre Leila Blake Cowie with Donna Balson soprano, Meg Leone's magnificent saga ONCE UPON A company, New Moon, will present a Can­ STUDIO SYDNEY has found a new home! Chilcott mezzo-soprano and John Milson TIME IN AMERICA starring Robert de Niro berra season from September 26 to 29 as Having left the Rex Hotel because of producer. and James Woods. The film follows the part of a southern tour. They will present licensing problems they are opening again The three pieces to be presented are ONE lives of a group of boyhood friends who one of their most successful productions, at the All Nations Club in Bayswater Road PEARL by Alison Bauld which won the become powerful gangland figures in Pro­ BEACH BLANKET TEMPEST, a new rock on September 21. Leila Blake will star in Radcliffe Award for composition; SYDNEY hibition America. opera broadly based on Shakespeare's Leonard Gershe's BUTTERFLIES ARE SORTS by Moya Henderson who has a Just opened at the Dendy is SUGAR play THE TEMPEST and on the fabulous FREE. The play is about a blind boy in long involvement in music theatre and has CANE ALLEY, the first feature film by Mar­ rock period of the 60s. Bookings at the New York City who wants to be indepen­ worked in Germany with Europe's leading tinique born film director Euzhan Palcy. Canberra Theatre Centre on 49 7600. dent and live by himself but his mother is exponent of the genre, Mauricio Kagel; The film won the award for best first film FLAMENCO SEASON reluctant to allow this. The play is both and KATE KELLY'S ROADSHOW by and best actress at the 1983 Venice Film The Sydney based flamenco dance very moving and very funny. It is directed Edward Cowie which tells to rollicking folk Festival. Set in Matinique in the thirties the company Laberinto will present a dance by Graham Corry whose previous collabo . songs accompanied by accordian, bar film is about a young boy who with deter­ theatre piece entitled AL ANDALUS at the ation with Leila Blake was on the success­ piano and jew's harp, the story of Ned Kel­ mination manages through education to Canberra Theatre on October 3 and 4. It is ful play PEOPLE ARE LIVING THERE. ly's sister who toured with a travelling escape the grinding round of eoverty in about the assimilation of the people of Other cast members are professional show after Ned's executi9n. the sugar cane plantations. It s a Third Spanish and Arabic origins in the south of students of Leila Blake.. Performances are Trust Members receive a $1.00 con­ World story true to its roots, a loving hom­ Spain and will be directed by Antonio Thursday to Saturday at 7.30 p.m. and cession and can reserve tickets on the age to the dignity and vitality of the Mar­ Vargas. The production includes both fla­ Sundays at 5 p.m. Bookings on 771 3333. enclosed booking coupon. tinique sugar cane workers. menco and Arabic music. N.I.D.A. (663 4028) Q THEATRE (04721 5735) SHOWGUIDE Parade Theatre, Anzac Parade, Cnr. Railway & Belmore Sts., Penrith •• Indicates concession which may be Kensington • Clay by Peter Whelan Films applied to each of two tickets any Street Scene by Elmer Rice October 10 to November 4 performance (unless otherwise Commences October 24 "$1.00 '·5Oc A Concession available ONLY by stated). NIMROD THEATRE (692 0555) purchase of concessional vouchers from SEYMOUR CENTRE (692 0555) the A.E.T.T. in person or on the BONDI PAVILION THEATRE (307211) Seymour Centre, Cnr. Cleveland SI. & Cnr. Cleveland Street & City Road City Road enclosed coupon and available ONLY for Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach The Seymour Group: MusIc Theatre screenings specified below. Members Ha-Ha-Ha: Broken Tails Upstairs: King Lear by William Triple Bill Shakespeare may purchase as many vouchers as September 26, 27, 28 and 29 October 6 "$1.00 they wish. Wisteria: Flashpoint Continuing October 10-13, 17-20 "$1.00 Downstairs: Performing Seals by Laberinto: AI Andalus N.B. Concession is NOT available by FOOTBRIDGE THEATRE (692 9955) Barbara Pepworth September 22 to October 2 "$1.00 presenting membership card at cinema University of Sydney, Parramatta Road Until October 20 box office. Agnes of God by John Pielmeier Everest Theatre: Golden Oldies by STUDIO SYDNEY (771 3333) GREATER UNION Until October 27"$2.00 Dorothy Hewett All Nations Club, 50 Bayswater Road, All Theatres and all prsentations Kings Cross (267 7774) Commences October 20 "$1.50 (Mon·Thurs & Sat mat) Butterflies are Free by Leonard Gershe 470 Kent Street, Sydney "$1.00 (except on Saturday and Sunday (Oct Golden Commences September 21 Saturday, Sunday, Monday by Eduardo $3.00 22, 23, 24 - performances and Public Holidays) Oldies) "$1.00 diFilippo VILLAGE THEATRES Continuing "$1.00 OFF BROADWAY THEATRE (6920964) SYDNEY SAILORS HOME (273274) All Sydney Theatres "$1.50 (except GRIFFIN THEATRE COMPANY 73-79 Bay Street, Broadway Saturday evenings & Public Hols.) (333817) Fig at Off Broadway: Loot by Joe Orton 106-108 George Street. Sydney Stables theatre, 10 Nimrod Street, Commences October 3 "$1.00 Zen and Now HOYTS ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE September 13 to October 7 All Theatres and all presentations Kings Cross THE PERFORMANCE SPACE When Are We Going to Manly? by "$1.00 $2.00 (except Saturday evenings & (6987235) Public Hols) Jennifer Paynter 199 Cleveland Street, Redfern Until October 14 "$1.00 Funny Stories: Tablepiece Jara! by Guy Morrison Commences October 31 B Concession available at theatre box (4983166) Until September 29 "$2.00 office on presentation of card. Marian Street, The Death of Cook with Jan Hubrechson HOYTS PLAZA BONDI (389 5877) Season's Greetings by Alan Ayckbourn October 2 to 21 "$1.50 (except Saturday evenings) Commences September 26 "$1.00 (3584399) "$1.00 (Mon.Thurs and Sun) Drama Theatre, S.O.H. DENDY CINEMA (2338166) $5.00 (Sept 30 & Oct 2) PHILLIP STREET THEATRE (232 8570) The Blind Giant is Dancing by Stephen Martin Place (5193403) 169 Phillip Street, Sydney Sewell "$1.00 (except Saturday evg) 542· King Street, Newtown The Diary of Anne Frank Commences October 17 CHAUVEL CINEMA (33 0695) Waiting on the Parade by John Murrell Continuing "$1.00 (Monday to Thurs & Sat mat) Cnr Oxford St & Oatley Rd., Paddington Commences October 6 "$1.00 "$1.00 $3.00 (Oct 31, Nov 20 & 22) "$1.00

NEW SUBSCRIPTION SEASON AT IN BRIEF MARIAN STREET (For A.E.T.T. concession and phone numbers for booking see Showguide) The Marian Street Theatre's new season of five plays opens on September 26 with Just opened at the GRIFFIN THEATRE From October 10 to 20 Jan Hubrechson's the Alan Ayckbourn comedy SEASON'S COMPANY is a new play by Jennifer Payn­ THE DEATH OF COOK will be presented GREETINGS. Starring , Judi ter WHEN ARE WE GOING TO MANLY? It at THE PERFORMANCE SPACE. Jan Farr, Jennifer Hagan, Kerry McGuire and is a gentle piece about one woman's story Hubrechson who is probably best known Barry Creyton, the play is set at Christmas - from her childhood to the breakdown of for his work as a performance artist com­ time when half a dozen friends meet to her marriage - and is presented as a bines in this production performance art, celebrate Christmas. It is not long before series of flashbacks. The production is sound poetry and modern dance with the squabbles - and in typical Ayckbourn directed by Rhys McConnachie and stars more conventional theatre acting. The play style the laughter-begins. B. J. Cole as Helen and Noel Hodda as is set in the Pacific and alludes to Captain THE QUIET ACHIEVERS follows in which her husband. Although Jennifer Paynter's Cook's bizarre death. The company of six Leonard Teale presents through the first play was read at the National Play­ include Frank Haines and . poetry, prose works and private papers of some of the great figures of Australian wrights Conference two years ago this is LITTORAL ZONES which follows at THE her first profeSSional production. literature, a faSCinating and entertaining PERFORMANCE SPACE from October 23 kaleidoscope of our folk history. to November 4 is a jOint presentation by PACK OF LIES tells the story of a sub­ Returning to the BONDI PAVILION the Kinetic Energy Dance Company and urban household whose quiet respectable THEATRE from September 26 to 29 is Ha­ the Contemporary Rep Theatre. The pres­ life is disrupted by the arrival of a mysteri­ Ha-Ha, a company directed by Richard entation includes three pieces - a selec­ ous stranger. Currently playing on Lon­ Lawton (who has worked with the Dutch tion of Kinetic Energy's works with a don's West End it has been described by theatre company KISS). They will again be revival of their successful SKY, a play ORI­ the London Observer newspaper as "the presenting their successful production of SON by Arrabal and a set of Thomas most moving play in town" and by the Lon­ BROKEN TAILS, a rock dance theatre Shapcott's plays presented by both don Times as "extraordinary". piece devised by the company ' and companies. The fourth play in the series is a surprise portraying a series of images from life. A new theatre company Fig will open at produotion and the season concludes with the OFF BROADWAY THEATRE on Octo­ a revival of 's play WHAT Following: on October 10 is Wisteria, . an ber 3 with a revival of Joe Orton's play IF YOU DIED TOMORROW - a comedy independent women's theatre group who LOOT. Joe Orton only wrote three plays about the conflicts and confusions of the present an annual season at the Pavilion. before his untimely death in his thirties middle classes in Australia's permissive This year they are presenting two short and all of them have a very distinctive society. plays under the heading FLASH POINT style. Black comedies, they have the audi­ Members who wish to subscribe to the about women's power and powerlessness. ence hovering between laughter and season should contact the theatre on One is set in a maternity hospital and the paniC. LOOT will be directed by Paul Cais­ 498 3166. No Trust Member discounts are other is a projected fantasy about two ter and continue until November 3. available on subscription tickets. A $1 ;00 women under attack from nuclear war. NIDA'S final presentation at the Parade discount on individual plays however Theatre for 1984 is STREET SCENE by applies Monday to Thursday and Sundays The Sydney flamenco dance company Elmer Rice. Directed by John Clark, NIDA and special Trust Member nights will be LABERINTO will present a dance theatre director, the play is one of the great Ameri­ arranged whenever possible throughout piece at the Everest Theatre from Septem­ can classic plays of the 1930s. It is an th~ season. A limited number of seats are ber 22 to October 2. Called AL ANDALUS entertaining mixture of comedy and available at the time of going to print for it is about the assimilation of the people of drama. The wife of a theatrical sceneshif­ Trust Member nights for SEASON'S Spanish and Arabic origins in the. south of ter is having an affair with the milkman. GREETINGS on Sunday September 30 Spain. Antonio Vargas is guest director When her husband finds out he kills them (5 p.m.) and Tuesday October 2. Please and the production includes both flamenco both. STREET SCENE plays from October telephone the membership department on and Arabic music. 24 to November 4. 3571200. TRUST MEMBER BOOKING COUPONS - SUPPLEMENT TO I TRUST NEWS - OCTOBER 1984 VOL. 8 No. 6 I I NEW MEMBER APPLICATION Please tear off coupon and mail with individual cheques and stamped I would like to become a member addressed envelopes to Trust Members Bookings. The Australian I MR. MRS. MISS ...... Elizabethan Theatre Trust P.O. Box 137 Kings Cross. N.S.w. 2011. I Please print all information. For easier reading performance and price I ADDRESS ...... information is given alongside booking coupon. I POSTCQDE ...... TEL (day) ...... •. (night) ...... I I I enclose my cheque (made payable to A.E .T.T.) or please charge my PLEASE READ BOTH SIDES I Bankcard No. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 BEFORE CUTTING I I Expiry date .... I The Amount of $20 Key: T.M. = Trust Member PLEASE NOTE: If stamped I Usual signature ...... G.P. = General Public addressed envelope is not N.B. 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