SEPTEMBER, 1987 Vol 11 No 8 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust

Max Gillies stars in Trust Williamson production THE DEPARTMENT by Directed by Rodney Fisher Designed by Shaun Gurton Lighting by Nick Schlieper Cast: Max Gillies, Tracy Mann, Helmut Bakaitis, Ben Gabriel, Ron Graham, Jeff Morrell, Matthew O'Sullivan, Kris Ralph, John Sheerin, Paul Williams

"Williamson's best play is an assured, rounded, acidly understanding dissec­ tion of bureaucracy. " Garrie Hutchinson, The Australian

"The funnier it gets - and it is very funny - the more urgently Williamson asks: how can anything be made to work, from a relationship between two people right through to an educational institution when human beings are the headstrong, contrary, passionate and self-seeking creatures that they are?" Ron Blair, Morning Herald

It Often hailed as Williamson's best A. play, perhaps because it mirrors his ~l early life as a teacher and, there­ fore, a lot of its content comes from his own experience, THE DEPARTMENT is an ascerbic dissection of the world of the committee meeting. Robby, the Max Gillies head of the department, desperately tries to conduct a staff meeting - he Max Gillies in the lead role of Robby Trust Members are invited to attend contrives, he cajoles, he manipulates, heads a strong cast, which also includes a preview performance on Monday sometimes he flounders, but always Tracy Mann, who has just completed a evening, October 26, when they may manages to remain ahead (just) of the season at the in WHEN purchase as many tickets as they wish rest! There are marvellous cameos in I WAS A GIRL. Max Gillies needs little at $8.00 per ticket discount. A $3.00 the rest of the staff: Gordon, the plain­ introduction. He became a national per ticket discount applies at all other talking technician, tolerated because of treasure with his remarkable imperson­ performances. See Member Activities his practical abilities; Bobby, the per­ ations in TV's THE MAX GILLIES (page 8) for pre-theatre dinner. petual procrastinator, never able to fin­ SHOW, and is currently playing in BOOKING INFORMA nON ish his work because he had to have a Alan Ayckbourn's A CHORUS OF York Theatre, yarn with someone he ran into in the DISAPPROV AL for the Tue Oct 27 to Sat Nov 14 corridor; AI, perpetually in a turmoil Theatre Company. He's playing the Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. because he hasn't had time to get any­ role of Dafydd, the director of an ama­ Sat at 2 p.m. thing done; and Peter Ph.D., whose teur operatic society, a character well­ Wed matinee time unconfirmed attitude to student radicals harks back suited to Gillies' personality since he AETT $23.90 (Mon to Thu and mats), to the 1960s - confrontation. No won­ loves to play every part in the opera, $24.90 (Fri/Sat), $19.90 (Oct 26) der it was such a success in bureaucratic and is totally unable to delegate. In G.P. $26.90 (Mon to Thu and mats), $27.90 (Fri/Sat) ; no wonder it continues to be THE DEPARTMENT he once again Pens/Stud $19.90 (Mon to Thu and so apt today, exposing the bumbledom takes on a "power" part. Whether it's mats) of public service in Australia. As ever, Hawke, Dafydd or Robby, as Gillies Two AETT tickets per Member except David Williamson is the chronicler of says, "/ just don't get offered many parts Oct 26 his own generation. as wimps." It Et An Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust presentation ______2

Multilingual Drama Theme Variation THE JOURNEY by Tes Lyssiotis THE ODD COUPLE by Neil Simon Directed by Tes Lyssiotis Directed by John Krummel Designed by Kenneth Evans Designed by Graham MacLean Music by Michael Kyriakakis and Lighting by Tony Youlden Stefios Tsofias Cast: Kerry McGuire, Amanda Cast: Lu Beranek, Fiona Corke, Muggleton, Robina Beard, John Evdokia Katahanas, Roberto Micafi, Hanna, Liz Harris, Denise Kirby, Mary Portesi, Nikos Zakardis Lynne Porteous, Tony Sheldon I' The Australian Content Depart­ Northside Theatre Company Do ment of the Australian Elizabethan ~L Theatre Trust (which earlier this ho can forget the marvellous orig­ year presented the acclaimed pro­ W inal ODD COUPLE of Walter duction of MAGPIE'S NEST and CHO Matthau and Jack Lemmon. Now CHO SAN) will tour the Melbourne­ Northside Theatre Company are pre­ Jennifer Claire based Filiki Players to Wollongong, senting a female version of one of Neil friend of 30 years lies dying of cancer. Newcastle, Brisbane and Sydney in Simon's funniest plays. Kerry McGuire He is the detective author, Dashiel their production of THE JOURNEY. and Amanda Muggleton star as the odd Hammett, and in her reminiscing, THE JOURNEY portrays the lives, couple. Divorced from her husband, LILLIAN captures the humour, the experiences and outlook of migrants Olive lives in the cheerful chaos of her anger, the affection and the heroism of who came to Australia in the early '30s bachelor flat. Enter Florence, newly their relationship. Lillian Hellman and '50s. The interaction between the separated and suicidal (or so she says). shares her life story, from her child­ various old and new Australian cul­ She moves in and is soon cooking, pol­ hood in New Orleans to her tures is depicted with bitter-sweet ishing, tidying-up - all the things that appearances before the McCarthy humour as we see the conflicts of these annoyed and lost her her husband in Committee on Un-American Activi­ families and their children within an the first place. Olive is reduced to a ner­ ties. She demonstrates her fierce inde­ often hostile environment. vous wreck and wait and see what hap­ pendence and her determination not to pens when the Spanish brothers from conform, and as the play ends and she upstairs arrive for dinner. is told of her lover's death, shows the poignancy of her life. BOOKING INFORMATION Marian-Street Theatre BOOKING INFORMATION Sun Sep 20 to Sun Oct 4 Drama Theatre, S.O.H. Tues to Sat at 8.15 p.m. Tue Sep 29 to Sat Oct 17 Sat and Sun 5.00 p.m. Mon to Thu. and Sat at 8 p.m. Wed mat at 11.00 a.m. Fri at 5.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. AETT $16.90 (Mon to Fri and mats Sat mats at 2 p.m. except Sep 23) AETT $22.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) G.P. $19.90 G_P. $25.00 Pens/Stud $10.90 (except Fri and Sat Pens/Stud $19.00 (Mon to Thu and Sat evg) mats) Two AETT tickets per Member

Nikos Zakardis and Fiona Corke in Tour De Force THE JOURNEY Aussie Holiday! THE JOURNEY is an important LILLIAN by William Luce (based on ARA VAN by Donald Macdonald breakthrough in Australian drama as it the autobiographical works of Lillian Ctakes a light-hearted look at the is performed by a multilingual com­ Hellman) holiday you should never have! Five pany. Three languages - English, Directed by Egil Kipste· best friends, nudging forty (and unhap­ Greek and Italian - are cleverly com­ Designer: Michael Scott-Mitchell pily at that) take their first holiday bined to create a dynamic dialogue Lighting: Mark ShelLon together in a caravan. One brings along accessible to everyone. Cast: Jennifer Claire his all-to-young girlfriend and in the confined space tensions rise and laugh­ BOOKING INFORMATION ILLIAN is a veritable tour de force ter begins. A salutory look at age, Wharf Studio L for the actress playing the title role. friendship and holidays. This is the Tue Sep 29 to Sat Oct 3 fourth production of the Forest Theatre Tue to Fri at 8.15 p.m. Jennifer Claire has long been acknowl­ Sat 2.15 p.m. and 8.15 p.m. edged as one of Australia's most tal­ Company, which has quickly suc­ AETT $13.00 ented actresses. Here she plays Lillian ceeded in establishing itself as a highly G.P. $16.00 Hellman, the American author. The successful force on the North Shore. Pens/Stud $8.00 date is 1961, the place the ante-room of CARA VAN had its Australian a hospital ward where her lover and premiere in 1983 at the Opera House

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and was then taken on tour by the Trust time. Blanche, the melancholy ageing An Olympic Spoof throughout Australia. It will be Southern belle, arrives to visit her sis­ directed by Peter Williams and there ter. Gradually, she reveals that far from OLYMPUS ON MY MIND will be special Trust Members' per­ being a respectable schoolteacher, she by Barry Harman formances on Saturday, October 17 has a reputation for seducing teenage Music by Grant Sturiale (matinee) and Monday, October 19 boys and has been the scandal of her Directed by Jim Fishburn (evening). Members may purchase as home town. Her brief marriage to a Cast: Bartholomew John, Billie Wilde, many tickets as they wish at a $6.00 per homosexual, who later committed Michael-John Hurney, Judy Glen, Doug ticket discount. See Member Activities suicide, has further upset the balance of Scroope, Honor Murphy and Craig for October 19 pre-theatre dinner her mind. The last act of cruelty that Horwood ($32.00, including dinner and theatre she encounters in her sister's home he gods of a.ncient Helen Morse in a Melbourne them and turned it into a musical bed­ Glen Street Theatre Theatre Company production. room farce. Wed Oct 14 to Sat Nov 14 Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION Wed mat 1.00 p.m., Sat mat 2.00 p.m. Her Majesty's Theatre AETT $19.90, $16.90 (Oct 17 and 19) Sat Oct 24 to Sat Nov 21 G.P. $22.90 Man to Sat at 8 p.m. Pens/Stud $ 14.90 Wed and Sat mats Two AETT tickets per Member (except AETT $23.90 (all performances) Oct 17 and I 9) G.P. $26.90 Pens/Stud $19.90 (excl Fri/Sat evg) Two AETT tickets per Member A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE by Tennessee Williams Griffin Premiere Directed by R oger Hodgman Designed by Tony Tripp THE SECRET HOUSE Cast: Helen Morse, Sandy Harbull, by Noel Hodda Barbara Stephens, Peter Curtin, Va lerie Directed by Michael Gow Jupiter (Bartholomew John) takes a Lehman, John Murphy, Jan Friedl, Designed by Judith Hoddinoll fancy to Alcmene, the wife of Greek Lorna Holloway, Douglas Hedge, Paul Cast: David Franklin, Bob Hornery, general Amphitryon. While English, Kurt Geyer Susan Leith, Pat Thomson Amphitryon is away at a battie, Jupiter Her Majesty's Theatre Stables Theatre impersonates him in order to spend a night with his wife. He takes along his "They told me to take a Streetcar HE GRIFFIN THEATRE COM­ son, Mercury (Michael-John Hurney) named Desire" are the famous T PANY ends its 1987 season with a who dons the guise of Amphitryon's first lines spoken by Blanche Du Bois in world premiere of a play by Noel off-sider, Sosia. Jupiter behaves like a the play of that name - the yo ung Hodda, THE SECRET HOUSE, lovesick teenager after discovering the playwright, Tennessee Williams, took directed by the playwright Michael joys of mortal love but Mercury doesn't this image of ajourney towards the ulti­ Gow (A WA Y, EUROPE, ON TOP OF have such fun - Sosia's wife turns out mate in human passion and created one THE WORLD). to be a vinegary shrew! of the mos~ poignant dramas of our Glen returns home for his birthday a The show is based on Heinrich van year after the death of his twin brother, Kleist's "Amphitryon", written in hoping that his family has come to 1807, but don't let that put you off - terms with the loss. Instead, he finds it's all in fun. Even the chorus is a them still grieving. THE SECRET send-up with three smirking male HOUSE deals with the emotions of a hoofers (Tom, Dick and Horace) and family and their efforts to resolve their an out-of-step chorus girl, Delores. tragedy. BOOKING INFORMATION BOOKING INFORMATION Footbridge Theatre Tue Sep 8 to Sun Oct 18 Sat Oct 17 to Sat Nov 7 Tue to Sat at 8.15 p.m. Man to Sat at 8 p.m. Sat and Sun at 5.00 p.m. Wed and Sat at 2 p.m. AETT $12.00 AETT $24.50 (except Fri/Sat evg) G.P. $14.00 G.P. $28.50 Stud/Pens $9.00 Pens/Stud $18.50 (except Fri/Sat evg) Two AETT tickets per Member Two AETT tickets per Member Helen Morse in STREETCAR 4

tomorrow. Mild concussion after step­ received critical acclaim for her star­ Argue on Thin Ice ping on a garden rake catapults her ring role in CHO CHO SAN at the mind into a fantasy blueprint of the Belvoir Street Theatre earlier this year. inselas have done it again! This highlife she wishes she had - a grand Sonia Fraser, who directed the original Ktime, they have David Argue house, passionate husband, loving fam­ production, will be coming from Eng­ skating on an ice rink specially ily. But as her two worlds collide, fan­ land to direct. designed by his father. DAVID tasy fails her and there is neither escape ARGUE ON EVEN THINNER ICE is nor consolation. BOOKING INFORMATION a family affair; the choreography is by Yet despite its non trivial subject the Belvoir Theatre Upstairs his mother, the routines feature his sis­ play, in typical Ayckbourn style, is very Wed Oct 7 to Sat Oct 31 ter, Michelle, and brother Greg. High­ funny. stars in the lead Tue to Sat at 8 p.m. lights of this unusual evening include a role of Susan. Trust Member perform­ Wed mat 2.00 p.m. sketch on "Last Stupdenda", a send-up ances when Members may purchase as Sat and Sun at 5.00 p.m. of the figure-skating duo "Heinrick and many tickets as they wish are Thurs­ AETT $16.00 Magda" and a strip-tease by Roberta day, October 1 and Saturday matinee G.P. $20.00 Quack, the disco duck queen. There October 3. Stud/Pens $12.00 will be two special preview nights on Two AETT tickets per Member Tuesday, September 29 and BOOKING INFORMA nON Wednesday, September 30, when the Drama Theatre, S.O.H. price of dinner and show will be $25 Tue Sep 29 to Sat Oct 24 What a Dilemma! (no limit on tickets). Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Wed at I p.m. , Sat at 2 p.m. DOUBLE ACT by Barry Creyton BOOKING INFORMATION AETT $24.00 (Mon to Thu and Sat Directed by Sandra Bates Kinselas mat), $22.00(Oct I and Oct 3)(2 p.m.)) Designed by Tom Bannerman Thu Oct I to Sat Nov 7 G.P. $27.00 Starring Barry Creyton and Noeline Mon to Sat at 7 p.m. (dinner) and Pens/Stud $22.00 (Mon to Thu and Sat Brown 8.30 p.m. (show) mat) Two AETT tickets per Member (except AETT $20.00 show only (Mon to Thu) OUBLE ACT is a witty expose of $25.00 dinner and show (Sep 29/30) Oct I, Oct 3 mat) $33.00 dinner and show (Mon to Thu) D the private lives of two urbane $36.00 dinner and show (Fri and Sat) people. It poses the delightful dilemma G.P. $22.00 show only (Mon to Thu) Stein and Toklas of what happens when two people fall $35.00 dinner and show (Mon to Thu) in love, find they can't live apart so get $25.00 show only (Fri and Sat) n her play, GERTRUDE STEIN married, find they can't live together, $38.00 dinner and show (Fri and Sat) I AND A COMPANION, Win Wells so get divorced. Later they meet again Two AETT tickets per Member (except brings out the essence of the relation­ and again find that while they can't live Sep 29 and Sep 30) ship between Alice B. Toklas and her apart, they also can't live together. loving companion of over forty years, What a problem! Gertrude Stein. This play was one of Barry Creyton, who has written this Ayckbourn Comedy light-hearted farce, will co-star in the production with Noeline Brown. There WOMAN IN MIND are two special Trust nights on Tues­ by Alan Ayckbourn day, September 29 and Wednesday, Directed by Richard Wherrett September 30, when Members may Settings and costumes by Roger Kirk purchase as many tickets as they like at Lighting design by Nigel Levings a $4.00 discount per ticket. Cast includes Robyn Nevin

hen WOMAN IN MIND opened BOOKING INFORMATION W in London last September it was Sat Sep 19 to Sun Oct 18 generally well received by the critics. In Tue to Sat at 8 p.m. particular the Guardian newspaper Thu at I I a.m., Sat and Sun at 5 p.m. commented that "Any lingering sus­ AETT $13.00 (Sep 29 and 30) picion that Alan Ayckbourn is a boul­ $15.00 (Tue to Thu), $17.00 (Fri), evard lightweight should be ruthlessly $12.00 (Sat and Sun mat), $ 10.00 (Thu dispelled by WOMAN IN MIND. It is mat), about female frustration, despair and G.P. $17.00 (Tue to Thu), $19.00 (Fri madness and shows its heroine torn Miriam Margoyles in GERTRUDE STEIN and Sat), $15.00 (Sat and Sun mat), between reality and fantasy, God and the highlights of the 1986 Sydney Festi­ $13.00 (Thu mat) Pens/Stud $12.00 (Tue to Fri) the Devil." val and Miriam Margoyles, the English $11 .00 (Sat and Sun mat), $10.00 (Thu The play is about Susan, wife of a actress, will once again be playing mat) boring, self-absorbed vicar and Gertrude Stein. The part of her com­ Two AETT tickets per Member except unutterably depressed by the certainty panion, Alice, will be played by the Sep 29/30 that everything here today will be here Melbourne actress, , who 5

THE RIVER. Their second pro Robeson Tribute duction, the Australian premiere of A At the Space ollowing a sell-out season in Bris­ MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS, will be pre easons by two Sydney-based com­ Fbane and prior to a national tour, sented at the Wharf Studio theatre in Spanies who specialise in an DEEP BELLS RING, a study of the life September, hot on the heels of its innovative approach to theatrical per­ and songs of Paul Robeson, will play at extended season at the Royal Court formance will be presented at the the Seymour Centre. Theatre in London, where it was voted Cleveland Street Performance Space in Who can forget Paul Robeson's ren­ the critics' choice in Time Out maga­ September. The Margaret Barr Dance dering of "The Volga Boat Song", "Old zine. Written by Caryl Churchill, Drama Group will present PUEBLO Man River", and his performance in author of TOP GIRLS, CLOUD NINE DE MAIZ, COMING OF THE RAINS "Sanders of the River". He identified and David Lan, author of FLIGHT, the and WILD COLONIAL BOY. For the with the poor and downtrodden and play probes the hidden corners of seven first work, Margaret Barr has had a life-long crusade for world peace characters who leave their normal researched the culture and traditions of and . ustice. existence for obsessions beyond their the people of Guatemala and the dra­ control. Their stories deal with pos­ matic presentation is complemented by session, ecstasy and abandonment - a the music of Ricardo Andino, from El modern version of THE BACCHAE Salvador. COMING OF THE RAINS perhaps? Time Out described it as a is an abstract work set to music by play of "compassion, humour, beauty Laurie Hagerty and WILD COL­ and intelligence". ONIAL BOY, a black satire with music sung by Cecil Grivas. BOOKING INFORMA nON Wharf Studio Theatre Fri Sep 4 to Sat Sep 26 Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Sat mats 2 p.m. AETT $16.00 G.P. $20.00 Pens/Stud $ 15.00 Two AETT tickets per Member The cast for DEEP BELL RING includes the folk and blues singer Mar­ garet RoadKnight, Jeannie Lewis and Mark Penman. Two actors link the SDC Return songs with snippets from the singer's fter over fourteen weeks of exten­ life. A sive touring in Australia and over­ seas, the Sydney Dance Company is BOOKING INFORMATION back for its annual season at the Opera Everest Theatre, Seymour Theatre Theatre. The company will present a Centre two programme season and Graeme Sidetrack Theatre Company in KIN Wed Sep 23 to Sat Oct 3 Murphy has chosen his two most Following successful seasons in Tue to Thu 8 p.m. powerful full-length works that have Canberra and Brisbane, the Sidetrack Fri 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. proved so popular with audiences. Theatre Company will present a season Sat 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. AFTER VENICE, Murphy's re-telling AETT $13.00 of their new play KIN for a four-week of Thomas Mann's "Death in Venice", season. KIN is the result of a collabor­ G.P. $16.00 opens the season. Garth Welch will Stud/Pens $10.00 ation between Pat Cranney, writer, Two AETT tickets per Member dance the role of Aschenbach. Gail Kelly, director, and Jim Cotter, SHINING, which is a pure dance work composer. It melds music, comedy and to music by Karol Szymanowski, drama into a compelling story of three follows. women, their families and their search Walkers and Talkers for identity in Australia. BOOKING INFORMA nON A MOUTHFUL OF BIRDS Opera Theatre, S.O.H. BOOKING INFORMA nON by Caryl Churchill and David Lan AFTER VENICE: Performance Space Directed by Hilary Beaton Wed Nov 4 to Sat Nov 14 Margaret Barr Dance Drama Group: Designed by Peter Bartlett SHINING: Thu Sep 3 to Sun Sep 13 Cast: Mary Regan, Laney Tupu, May Tue Nov 17 to Sat Nov 28 Thu, Fri, Sat at 8 p.m. Sun at 2.00 p.m. (except Sep 6) Lloyd, Gary Stalker Mon to Sat at 7.30 p.m. Sat at 4 p.m. (except Nov 21) Sidetrack Theatre Company: AETT $23.50 Wed Sep 6 to Sat Oct 10 arlier this year, the newest theatre G.P. $27.50 Tue to Sat at 8 p.m. Ecompany in Sydney, Walkers and Stud/Pens $22.50 AETT discount $1.00 Talkers, attracted critical acclaim with Two AETT tickets per Member Bookings on 699 5091 their presentation of SHOUT ACROSS 6

_~--=--rtl_____ --t Where have all the old picture theatres gone?

by Patricia Roberts

"One seemed to have stepped from week and by 1916 this had risen to in cinema design as faddish and vulgar. under the dull skies ofeveryday l!fe 427,000. There were 18 cinemas in the They expected correctness in revivalist and passed into an enchanted region city and 96 in the suburbs. By compari­ design, not a mixture of architectural where the depth of the blue heavens had son the population was only about one­ style and effect that is so often found. something magical about it and some­ third of what it is today. In 1985 the Audiences, however, flocked to the new thing heavily exotic. Clouds passed three largest cinema companies in Syd­ cinemas and American architects such lightly over then the stars began to ney operated only 16 suburban as John Eberson, delighted them by cre­ twinkle. Then all was blue and clear. " auditoria and a total of 21 city theatres ating Mediterranean walled gardens, So said The Sydney Morning Herald's where the move had been to centralise open to the sky. reviewer following the first perform­ the auditoria into complexes. The really lavish cinemas com­ ance in Sydney's Capitol Theatre in More than the loss of numbers is the menced with the Prince Edward in Syd­ 1927. loss of historically significant architec­ ney, the Wintergarden in Brisbane and The rise of the 1920's picture palaces ture and style. Very few examples the Capitol in Melbourne. They all had been preceded by a decade of remain in Sydney of the art deco influ­ opened within a few months of each building characterised by barn-like ence on theatre design. Suburban other towards the end of 1924. structures that gave no indication of theatres suffered the most. They were The Prince Edward was one of Syd­ the splendour to come. With the rapid originally built to cater for much larger ney's best loved theatres. This remark­ growth in the Australian market for audiences than are now economical. In able theatre ran between Elizabeth and films the large American studios com­ the Sydney city region there are only Castlereagh Streets with the entrance in peted to provide the best entertainment two remaining examples besides the Castlereagh Street. Subtitled "Theatre possible, including the buildings in Capitol - the in Market Beautiful", it lived up to its name. Dec­ which to show them. Street and the Regent in George orated with fine Italian marble and glit­ This led to exotic "picture palaces" Street. tering chandeliers, it featured a being designed. Cinema architects The picture palaces of the 'twenties Wurlitzer Pipe Organ and a hydrauli­ attempted to make these theatres as were inspired by U.S. creations and cally raised orchestra platform which much an attraction as the moving pic­ sometimes directly copied them, but enabled live shows to be incorporated tures themselves. Many of the theatres the link with the U.S. was more than into its cinema programme. lavishly affected the decoration of just cinema design. Australia was the Described by architect and writer European opera houses. The effect of largest importer of American films out­ this, for the working class patron, was side of North America, and imported Robin Boyd as "possibly the finest pic­ the removal of social distinction. It was twice as much as Great Britain. ture theatre ever built anywhere" the the poor man's dream. While the lavish effects of the picture Melbourne Capitol was erected in In 1914 approximately 350,000 palaces appealed to the audiences, con­ 1925-27 opposite the Town Hall in people attended Sydney cinemas every servative architects rejected the latest Swanston Street. It was designed by Canberra's planner, Walter Burley Griffin. Its elaborately modelled plas­ ter ceiling conceals coloured lights which change through many hues and intensities. The 2000-seat capacity was reduced in 1965 to 785 seats with the building of a shopping arcade through the theatre's lowest level. Australian cinema exhibitors and distributors, Natalie Miller and Michael Walsh, have taken over the cinema. It is now being used as a prestige showcase for the finest in international cinema. The site of Sydney's Capitol Theatre was originally known as the Haymarket Reserve and was used from the late 1980s as an open market on a Saturday night, complete with stalls and enter­ tainment for passers-by. After the fruit markets had expanded and could no longer be used there, the circus owners, Wirth Brothers, obtained a lease for Regent Thea/re. Sydney. Photo courtesy The Ma cmillan Company part of the site and operated a circus. It 7

was known as the Hippodrome. The painted for 50 years, plaster decoration Hippodrome became the Capitol in was chipped and peeling, upholstery 1927 when Union Theatre took over was worn and needed replacing. When the lease and remodelled the interior. it re-opened, the theatre captured some So the present auditorium is the result of the original glamour of the period. of two remodellings which changed a With the opening of the musical fruit market into a circus amphitheatre RASPUTIN last month the theatre is and an amphitheatre into an "atmos­ now being used for live theatre for the pheric" cinema auditorium. first time in its history. Architect Henry White and Union The State, of all the theatres, is per­ manager Stuart Doyle had been travel­ haps the greatest example of the mixing ling the U.S. when they found the effect. All the styles employed are Euro­ design they wanted to use for the pean in nature but sometimes quite dif­ Capitol. They had inspected Eberson's ferent in time and origin. The entrance "Riviera" theatre in Omaha and were hall is based on 14th century Gothic impressed by its atmospheric design. architecture. The auditorium imitates "Atmospheric" design was Eberson's scenes and styles of the French Kings specialty and involved creating the Louis XIV and Loius XVI, while the illusion of an Italian walled garden, two stairways in the Grand Assembly The Rotunda o/the Slate Theatre. Sydney open to the sky, in the auditorium. The Photo courtesy The Macmillan Company were prefabricated in Italy. Many dec­ walls were painted to resemble a garden As a result, the building invokes a orations in the State have been copied and the roof was made to look like the sense of state and grandeur. The size of to create an effect but much is real or sky, complete with stars and clouds. its entrance foyer, the grand staircase expensively reproduced. Much of the These effects were achieved by special and the barrel-vaulted dress circle, furniture and fittings were chosen by cinema projectors that made scudding reproduce features of the Renaissance Doyle during visits to Europe. The clouds disappear across the sky and period. Only reproduction period fur­ effect of the theatre is one of opulence. lights that threw cypress pines onto the niture was used to decorate the sur­ Apart from the surroundings, the walls. rounds, and this added to the effect. theatre provided an army of usherettes. The Italian theme used in the Like the Capitol, the Regent has been This was common among many of the Capitol's auditorium was carried in the news in recent years. Following larger theatres and in particular the through to the foyer. In the centre stood an inquiry by the Heritage Council in Prince Edward. a gilded and elaborate ticket box, and 1979, a permanent protection order The State was one of the last theatres on either side marble stairs led up to the was placed on certain features of the to be built before the depression of the auditorium. The ornate decoration theatre, the grand staircase, the exterior 1930s. With the advent of sound films imitates the medieval Italian architec­ facade and the foyer. The future of the during this period, cinema was kept ture of the aristocracy and looks incon­ as a whole has recently alive, but the expansive designs of the gruous in a cinema. However, the been the subject of a public enquiry by '20s period were curtailed. As such, the theatre drew the crowds and being situ­ the Offices of the Commissioners of State represents the height of lavish ated in the downtown area, the attrac­ Inquiry. As a result of the public design and decoration of this period. tion and curiosity of the new cinema enquiry a report has been presented to Today, much more money is poured had to be great. the Minister for Heritage and is under into film production than into cinemas. At the moment the theatre is vacant, consideration by him at the present The 1920s was a unique period of cin­ awaiting redevelopment. In April 1985 time. ema design and building that is not the Capitol had a interim conservation The State Theatre in Market Street likely to be repeated and so the few order placed on it. A permanent conser­ closed in 1980 for complete resto­ remaining examples of this type of vation order was placed on the theatre ration. The auditorium had not been architecture are especially significant. on May 29, 1987. With the Darling Harbour Scheme and Many of the theatres of the 1920s We need your help! the redevelopment of the Anthony Hordern's building, the face of the period were designed as a mixture of The Sydney City Council is currently styles. The Capitol is an example with downtown Sydney area will rapidly reviewing the possibility of renovating change. Such changes, from lavish neo­ its new style auditorium and imitation the Capitol Theatre for use as a 2000- medieval Italian foyer. Some of the seat Lyric Theatre. Sydney Needs European architecture through to the more extreme examples included non­ Another Theatre. So we won't miss out functionality of modern entertainment European features such as Chinese, on such attractions as the Royal venues, can be best appreciated when Shakespeare Company and others which the 1920s picture palaces are con­ Indian and Hindu features with other currently pass us by or are economically traditional elements. The Regents, a sidered in the wider context of the impossible, we urge Trust Members to on-going patterns of development in series of theatres built by Hoyts in capi­ write to: Sir Eric Neal, Chief Com­ tal cities, tried to avoid this. The Syd­ missioner, Sydney City Council, G .P.O. Sydney architecture. ney Regent Theatre was built in 1929 Box 1591. Sydney 200 I. By expressing your support for the Capitol Theatre Patricia Roberts is a free-lance journal­ and its design stems from early ist with a particular interest in history Renaissance architecture, with some renovation, you can help save the Capitol. and the environment. features from Gothic. 8 M~~_·______~

ENSEMBLE FASHION PARADE WEEKEND IN TAMWORTH come! Theatre tickets should be Wednesday, September 2 at 12 noon October 3 to 5 ordered separately. There'sjust time to ring in and book for Trust Governor Shirley Hay's tour of our Members' Committee luncheon the Tamworth district is shaping up to CARA VAN DINNER and fashion parade at the Ensemble be a weekend to remember. The tour Monday, October 19 at 6 p.m. Theatre in Kirribilli. Both the luncheon will include a visit to Harry and Wendy A delightful meal of bagels, crepes or and fashion parade will be held in the Miller's property at Manilla as well as pasta with pastries to follow is served at Theatre Restaurant with its splendid the famous Goonoo Goonoo property. the Glen Street Coffee Shop prior to outlook over Sydney Harbour. A visit to Arrowfield Wineries will be performances. The Trust night for Fashions are from the Mimi Finley included on the outward journey. The CARA V AN at the Glen Street Theatre, boutique of Mosman. Tickets are $30 trip departs early Saturday, October 3, Frenchs Forest, seems an ideal time to each and friends are very welcome. and returns Monday evening. All­ try out their fare and at $32 for two­ inclusive price, which includes bus course dinner with wine and coffee and SWAN PREMIUM TENNIS transport, accommodation, meal and theatre tickets, it's a bargain. Wednesday, October 14 at 5.45 p.m. entries, is $265. Sydney Entertainment Centre RACE DAY AT RAND WICK We feel sure there are many Members THE DEPARTMENT DINNER Wednesday, September 30 at who'd appreciate a chance to watch the Monday, October 26 11.45 a.m. Australian Indoor Championships in Seymour Centre The Spring Meeting is a rare oppor­ convivial company. A buffet meal will The Seymour Centre restaurant is the tunity for non-AJC Members to be able be served from 5.45 p.m. with tennis to venue for a pre-theatre dinner prior to to enjoy the facilities of the Members follow. We expect to have the oppor­ the special Trust Member preview of Stand. Our special day at Randwick tunity of meeting at least some of the David Williamson's play THE includes lunch in the Doncaster Room players prior to the start of play. DEPARTMENT. Tickets are $22.00, and guest of honour will be famous Tickets, including the meal, are $42 which includes two-course meal with Gunsynd jockey Kevin Langby. each. wine and coffee. Friends are very wel- Tickets are $35.00 each.

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s I'm writing this column at the out to be one of the most difficult allocated to an agency we have a much Abeginning of August we're all months on record for our ticketing ser­ wider choice of tickets provided that we reeling from one of the busiest months vice. The opening of RASPUTIN was receive your booking early. If the seats on record. It's great to have so much delayed twice, we had problems with available are not what we consider to be activity but it's brought membership BOLSHOI BALLET tickets and the good seats we ring you to ask if you staff to their knees and our devoted vol­ Australia Day performance of LES want to accept the seats, change to unteers are about to walk out en masse! MISERABLES was cancelled. It all another night or have a refund. So So what's happening? Mailings to Art added up to hundreds of phone calls to although we can't guarantee you good Gallery subscribers and Sydney Members, which just added to the seats when you place an order you can Theatre Company subscribers to pressures. Still, we've all lived to see be assured that if good seats aren't encourage them to join the Trust another day, but the unusually large available you won't just be sent poor brought an amazing response. Our amount of personal contact with Mem­ seats, but will be offered alternatives. average intake of new Members per bers this month brought home to me It's a personal service that is highly month rose from about 150 to nearly that many Members don't full y valued by the many Members who use 500! A big welcome to these new Mem­ appreciate how our booking service our booking service regularly. You can bers. We hope you will make the most works, so a word of explanation won't help us to help you by booking as soon of all the services we offer and that we'll go amiss. We are not a ticketing agency as possible after receiving Trust have the chance to meet you in the next in the accepted sense of the word. We News. couple of months at one of our new don't have stocks of tickets on hand, I Members receptions (an invitation will but when we receive your ticket order be mailed to you shortly). we arrange to obtain tickets from the i

appropriate theatre on your behalf. I hose law is it that says if things This means that instead of having a W can clash they will? July turned choice of a limited number of tickets ~~ I I 9

THE LIGHTHORSEMEN THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK MANON DES SOURCES, written and directed by directed by George Miller directed by Pagnol. Five hours long in Produced by Ian Jones and Simon Screenplay by Michael Cristofer its original version, it was hailed by an Wincer from the novel oj the same name by influential French critic as the "univer­ Screenplay by Ian Jones John Updike sal epic" of Provence, but condensed Starring , John Walton, Produced by Jon Peters and Peter Guber for commercial release it proved a flop. Tim McKenzie, Jon Blake, , Starring Jack Nicholson, Cher, Susan In the late 'seventies, Claude Berri Anthony Andrews, Sigrid Thornton Sarandon and Michelle Pfeiffer entered the scene after reading the book Opening September 10 at Hoyts At Village Cinema City and suburbs and seeing it as a "grand fresco" of vil­ lage life in the south. It was six years he glamour of the Light Horse with eal-life witches, religious groups before Pagnol's widow, actress T the emu plumes fluttering on their R and critics all sniped at John Jacqueline Bouvier, finally gave per­ slouch hats is a proud memory for older Updike's THE WITCHES OF mission, and this was followed by prob­ Australians. Now their historic feats in EASTWICK when it was released in lems of financing a film that cost nearly World War I are celebrated again in a the early 'eighties. What they failed to $17 million and nine months' new film THE LIGHT­ understand was that it was a parable, shooting. HORSEMEN. about one's dreams coming true. It is a dark and devious tale of The logistics of the film make formi­ In a quaint New Englal1d village live Provencal country life. A young man dable reading. A complete Middle East three unmarried women, one widowed returns from military service to his desert was built in outback South Aus­ and two divorced. Alex is earthy and only relative, a childless uncle, doyen of tralia, complete with 20 metre palm sculpts curious little dolls; Jane is a a powerful and wealthy family (Yves trees, minarets, substantial buildings, quiet music teacher; Sukie is the fertile Montand). The young man has plans to tunnels and dugouts, tanks, 300 riders mother of six little daughters and writes increase the family wealth by growing and horses, as well as the contructions for the local paper. All are fr'Jstrated flowers for the market, and his uncle necessary for film crews. All the uni­ with the monotony of their manless supports him with a plan to acquire a forms had to be specially manufactured lives, and fantasise about a man who neighbouring farm. There is almost no and emu plumes obtained from West­ could fulfil their deepest desires. Then limit to the dirty lengths to which the ern Australia. A rare storm hit after a new, eccentric and fascinating man pair will go to achieve their ends, giving weeks of building and demolished most arrives in town. Daryl Van Horne (Jack the film a sinister and almost medieval of the set. Worse still, the desert turned Nicholson) is also the Devil and no one feeling. Gerard Depardieu plays the green - nice for the local graziers but is safe from his charms, even the prim title role of Jean de Florette while his not for the crew. and proper woman publisher of the wife, Elisabeth Depardieu, plays his local paper. Pop star Cher follows up film wife, a former opera singer. her success and Academy Award nomi­ nation for "Silkwood" by playing Alex, the most adventurous and outspoken of the three women.

JEAN DE FLORETTE directed and produced by Claude Berri Screenplay by Claude Berri and Gerard Brachfrom the novel L 'Eau des Collines by Marcel Pagnol Starring Yves M ontand, Gerard Depardieu, Daniel Auteuit and Elisabeth Depardieu Opening mid-September at Mosman Sigrid Thornton in THE L1GHTHORSEMEN Cinema Complex The screenplay covers the lead-up to n various forms, the plot of JEAN DE and the 191 7 charge at Beersheba in I FLORETTE has been around since Palestine, which followed the forma­ 1952. It was first seen as the film tion of the Light Horse in 1914, its ser­ vice in Egypt and at Gallipoli for which BOOKING INFORMATION the regiment volunteered to leave their Concessional vouchers can be purchased from members may purchase as many as they wish. horses behind and fight as infantry. the AETT for $6.00 (Village, Hoyts), $5.00 Please specify which cinema chain you require. The story centres on a tight-knit fbur­ (G.U.) and exchanged at cinemas for tickets. Discounts are also offered at the Dendy Cinema, man section. When Frank (Gary Sweet) The vouchers are open dated but sO'me Martin Place ($2.50), and the Academy Twin, Saturday/Public Holiday restrictions apply to rides into a Bedouin ambush he is Paddington ($2.50), at all performances except their use. See vouchers for details. after midday Saturday. Members should present replaced by a raw young recruit, Dave their membership card at the box office. Di scount (Peter Phelps) who gets hard treatment No handling fee applies to film vouchers and available on one ticket per member. from the others to prove his worth. 10

There will be two Trust performances when first produced in Melbourne in - Thursday October 8 and Saturday 1974. The show is a camped-up spoof he ever-popular David Williamson October 10 (matinee) at $18.00 per of the' 50s genre of horror movies and T play THE CLUB has transferred, ticket. Members may purchase as many rock 'n' roll. Daniel Abineri and Stuart following its sell-out performances at tickets as they wish. Wagstaff recreate their original roles as Phillip Street Theatre. The new venue Frank-N-Furter and the Narrator. Fun is the recently opened Glen Street BOOKING INFORMATION for young and old! Two special Trust Theatre at Frenchs Forest. Set in a foot­ Wharf Theatre Nights on September 21 and 22 at ball club, THE CLUB is about the Wed Sep 9 to Sat Oct 10 $16.00 per ticket. behind-the-scenes politics and the Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Sat mats at 2 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION overriding will to win at any price. AETT $20.00 (except Fri and Sat), Sat Sep 19 to Sat Oct 24 There is a special Trust Member night $18.00 (Oct 8 and 10 (mat)) Mon to Thu at 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, September 10, when G.P. $22.00 Fri 9.00 p.m. and midnight Members may purchase as many Pens/Stud $17.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) tickets as they wish at a $6.00 Two AETT tickets per Member (except Sat 6.00 p.m. and 9.00 p.m. AETT $25.00 ($16.00 Sep 21 and 22) discount. Thu Oct 8 and Sat Oct 10) G.P. $28.50 BOOKING INFORMATION Pens/Stud $18.50 Glen Street Theatre Two AETT tickets per Member (except Wed Sep 9 to Sat Sep 19 Shakers Sep 21 and 22) AETT $19.90, $16.90 (Sep 10) G.P. $22.90 ritten by two north of England Pens/Stud $14.90 W writers, Jane Thornton and John Les Liaisons Two AETT tickets per Member (except Godber, SHAKERS is a showcase for Sep 10) its actors with very strong comic and dapted from Laclos' original, by movement skills. The cast plays AChristopher Hampton, this is set in innumerable characters from cocktail 1 780s in decadent France. It deals with Don Quixote waitresses, drunken lads on a night out the crime of sexual corruption, decei and a host of inanimate objects includ­ and betrayal as devised by the If Ernie Grey's version of DON ing clocks, 'phones and cocktails - Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte A QUIXOTE has been specially mind boggling! de Valmont, who plan to seduce a vir­ ~L adapted for The Theatre of the tuous wife and a friend's young daugh­ Deaf and is the company's most visual BOOKING INFORMATION ter. It stars Angela Punch McGregor production yet. It has vigorous Belvoir Street Theatre and . clowning, miming and verbal slapstick, Thu Sep 3 to Sun Oct 4 bringing the adventures of the hero Tue to Sat 8.00 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION magically alive. The play deals with Sat and Sun 5.00 p.m. Seymour Centre Downstairs dreams and ambitions, hope and AETT $13.00, G.P. $16.00 Sat Sep 12 to Sat Oct 3 despair and a vision of a better world. Pens/Stud $8.00 Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Sat mat at 2 p.m. This is not a play just for kids, it is in Bookings on 6993257 AETT $23.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) fact a family production, and not to be G.P. $26.00 missed by anyone seriously interested Pens/Stud $20.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) in the theatre. Rocky Horror Show Two AETT tickets per Member BOOKING INFORMATION ack with a vengeance yet again is Belvoir Street Theatre Upstairs Bilie ROCKY HORROR SHOW Mon Sep 7 to Sat Oct 3 which made such a tremendous impact Rowan Atkinson Mon to Fri at 10.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. nown as "the funniest man in Brit­ Sat mats at 2 p.m. (Sep 26 and Oct 3) K ain" is an accolade well-deserved AETT $5.00 by ROWAN ATKINSON (of " Not the G.P.lStud/Pens $6.00 Four AETT tickets per Member Nine O'Clock News" fame). His show is a series of unrelated sketches - a ~-.~ vicar telling an appalling Australian Rivers of China joke at a wedding; a swimmer miming .. ~ changing into his trunks in public; an - ..:< ritten by Alma de Groen, author s:: actor, conductor, singer, even a Wof the play VOCA nONS, per­ k:" dancer. formed earlier this year, RIVERS OF BOOKING INFORMATION CHINA is an STC world premiere and Her Majesty's Theatre stars Helen Morse as the poet, Mon Sep 21 to Sat Sep 26 at 8 p.m. Katherine Mansfield. The play poses AETT discount $2.00 (except Fri/Sat) some startling questions about how we Bookings on 212 3411 order our lives and fashion our futures. If Et An Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust presentation ______11

If Billed as the "greatest laser, light II and pyrotechnics show ever seen in "L the Southern Hemisphere", LAS VEGAS ON ICE also includes $1 mil­ lion worth of sets and costumes, more than 1200 sq uare feet of ice and an imported cast of over 30 international skaters and ice dancers. It is an AETT presentation and is at Her Majesty's Theatre until September 19. AETT discount $3.00 (all performances) Bookings on 212 3411 on English stars as the evil Russian Jmonk, RASPUTIN, in the Aus­ tralian production of the same name at the State Theatre. With 24 original songs, it traces Rasputin's life from his humble beginnings to his violent death. AETT discount $9.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) Bookings on 2664800 eptember 12 is the last night for ne of the classics of the Restoration ustralian playwright and A WGIE SNorthside Theatre Company's pro­ Ocomedies, THE COUNTRY A winner, Ron Elisha, mixes a hotch­ duction of THE WINSLOW BOY at WIFE, takes a satirical look at the potch of odd characters in THE . Noel Ferrier mores of the time when manners meant LEVINE COMEDY. They include a plays the barrister Sir Robert Morton, more than morals and fashionable pessimistic playwright, an optimistic in the legal case about a Royal Navy clothes were more important than TV performer, a crochety anti-semite cadet expelled for theft. Terrence truth. Kerry Walker is "the country father-in-law, a troublesome brother­ Rattigan based the play on a similar wife" whose eyes are opened when she in-law and a father full of nasty stories real"life case in England. discovers life in the city. THE COUN­ of the African jungle. It's playing at the AETT discount $1.00 TR Y WIFE is a Sydney Theatre Com­ Ensemble until September 5. (except Sat evg) pany production and is at the S.O.H. AETT discount $2.00 (except Sat Bookings on 498 3166 Drama Theatre until September 12. AETT discount $3.00 (except Fri/Sat evg) t Kinselas this month until the · evg) Bookings on 929 8877 26th, Glen Shorrock combines two A Bookings on 250 1777 ix actors play horses in EQUUS, a of his earlier shows under the title of ONE FOR THE MONEY. The first is Sstrange and exciting story of a boy OHENGRIN, MEDEE, COUNT­ obsessed by horses. It is by Peter about the life of a rock 'n' roll star, and the second is a general look at pop L ESS MARITZA, DON GIOVANNI Shaffer, who wrote AMADEUS and is a and LA TRA VIA T A are the Australian Forest Theatre Company production at music. The production has been Opera's productions for September at the Glen Street Theatre, Belrose. devised by Graham Blundell and Bob the . For certain EQUUS has been running almost con­ Hudson and will tour after its Kinselas performances, a discount of $5.00 per sistently somewhere in the world for season. ticket is available to members, but many year~ , without losing its impact. AETT discount $2.00 please check for dates with the mem­ Closing date is September 5. (except show only Fri/Sat evg) bership office on 357 1200. AETT discount $3 . 00 (all Bookings on 331 3100 performances) ettina Welch plays the lead role of o ROOM FOR DREAMERS by Bookings on 452 5152 BAmanda, the mother of the N George Hutchinson is based on the lso closing on September 5 is Louis Wingfield family, in the Phillip Street Ii fe of sex reformer and eccentric scien­ A Nowra's parable of the pros and Theatre's production of THE GLASS tist William Chidley, who at the turn of cons of civilisation, THE GOLDEN MENAGERIE. By Tennessee the century was often to be seen dressed AGE, being presented by Nimrod at the Williams, it draws on memories of his in a Greek tunic and preaching his York Theatre, Seymour Centre. It tells childhood and his early days as a ranch theories on physical, mental and spiri­ of a group of people in Tasmania, iso­ hand. It is set in a decaying Southern tual health. It was named the Best lated for over 100 years, who are found mansion, peopled by dreams and mis­ Fringe Play of the Edinburgh Festival by a young man. He takes a young girl fits. Directed by Peter Williams, it will in 1980. The play will be presented at back to "civilisation" with him. close on September 19. the in Newtown until Sep­ AETT discount $3.00 (except Fri/Sat AETT discount $3.00 tember 20. evg) (all performances) AETT discount $1.00 Bookings on 692 0555 Bookings on 232 4900 Bookings on 519 3403 If Et An Australian\Elizabethan Theatre Trust presentation ______12

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POSTAGE is a publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is produc~d exclusively for PAID its 10,000 members throughout Australia. AUSTRALIA THE AUSTRALIAN ELIZABETHAN THEATRE TRUST (i ncorporated in the A.C.T.) II II Patron Her Majesty The Queen President Sir Ian Potter Chairman Andrew Briger, AM Chief Executive Kathleen Norris Directors Rt. Hon. The Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Alderman S. Atkinson Sir David Griffin e SE, F. M. Hooke, The Hon. Mr. Justice C. J. Legoe, K. E. Cowley, Dr. T. Manford, D. A. Mortimer L. G. Teale, L. D. S. Waddy, T. C. Yates Director of Finance: Mark Benvau , Entrepreneurial Administrators: Dennis Linehan John Woodland Australian Content Director: Wendy Blacklock Executive Producer for Musical Theatre: Noel Ferrier Marketing Manager: David Martin Administrator of Orchestras: Warwick Ross Theatre of the Deaf Artistic Director: Patrick Mitchell Theatre of the Deaf Administrator: Li z Marshall Ticket Services Manager: Jo Litson

Building, Props and Electric Supervisor: Roger Taylor .J Costum'e Hires Manager: Michael James ,i Membership Manager: Carole Long i Membership Secretary: Carol Martin Melbourne Representative: Christy Vena Brisbane Representative: Rosemary Cameron office: Veronica Bohm Perth office: Janet Durack The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust receives financial assistance for its activities from: The Music, Theatre, Literature and Aboriginal Arts boards of The Australia Council, a statutory body of the Commonwealth Government. The Department of Aboriginal Affairs. The New South Wales Government through the Office of the Minister for the Arts. The Queensland Government through the Minister for the Arts. The Victorian Ministry for the Arts. The Government of Western Australia through the W.A. Arts Council. B.P. Australia. I. The Ian Potter Foundation. The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust is a founder member of CAPPA. Membership enquiries should be directed to the Membership Secretary on 357 1200, 153 Dowling St. , Potts Point. Postal address: P.O. Registered by Australia Post - Publication No. NBH 1305 Box 137, Kings Cross 2011. May be opened for postal inspection

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