DEC/ JAN, 1985/ 6 Vol 9 No 11 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of Elizabethan Theatre Trust

The Pirates Of Penzance - Return Season

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by ollowing an -wide tour the to the irreverent send-up as originally en­ FVictoria State Opera/ Australian Eliza­ visaged by Gilbert and Sullivan who were Reproduced by Craig Schaefer after the bethan Theatre Trust co-production of the Monty Python of their day. In addi­ New York Shakespeare Festival produc­ THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE returns tion, the music, while faithful to the tion to Sydney in January and will play in the original tunes, is presented in a modern Cast: , , June Lyric Theatre, Entertainment Centre. This style, complete with synthesisers. " Bronhill, Dennis Olsen, Rosemary Boyle venue will give the scope to present the Jon English, Simon Gallaher and June and Tim Tyler production on a much larger scale than Bronhill will return with the production. Lyric Theatre, Entertainment Centre was possible within the limited staging They will be joined by Dennis Olsen as the facilities of the . Major General, Tim Tyler as the Police "It was such a joyous romp it won cheers Sergeant and Rosemary Boyle as Mabel. The Australian production of THE Prime seats have been held for and a thunderous standing ovation . . . PIRATES OF PENZANCE is based on bursts with outrageous fun, often pure Members for the matinee and evening per­ the New York Shakespeare Festival's pro­ formances on Saturday, January 4 and the slapstick but done with such speed and duction which was first performed in Cen­ vigor that audience laughter is almost non­ Monday and Tuesday evening perfor­ tral Park four years ago with Kevin Kline mances on January 6 and 7. The best stop. " and Linda Ronstadt in leading roles. The Frank Harris, The Daily Telegraph available seats will be allocated at other irreverent handling of the l00-year-old performances. met with such popular acclaim that it was transferred to Broadway. "The most remarkable thing about this BOOKING INFORMAnON tumultuously energetic and continually Since its premiere on New Year's Eve in Fri Jan 3 to Sat Jan 18 lively production is its faithfUlness - con­ 1879 THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Mats: Wed and Sat at 2 p.m. trary to all expectations - to the values, has gradually "become a production like the ones that Gilbert and Sullivan were AETf $23.50 enshrined by more than a century of tribal G.P. $28.50 memory and practice, of the G. and S. spoofing" according to John Ferraro who Stud/ pens $16.00 (Mon to Thu and mats) tradition. " directed the original Australian produc­ Two AETf tickets per member John Moses, The Australian tion. "But the New York version reverts 2

Indian Dance HOW MUCH YOU CARE, his theatre and dance interpretation of the fall of the More Tales ustralian poet Rodney Hall and House of Atreus. It will be followed each BROKEN TALES No. 4 devised and ARamli Ibrahim, the leading dancer of evening by a performance piece called directed by Richard Lawton his generation in Malaysia, have col­ OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATION by Cast: Glenda Lum, Helen Jones, Lynne laborated to produce an exciting new a group of artists who used mixed media, Pierse, Chris Ryan, Lawrence Wood­ work to be presented at the Seymour in film, video, painting and sound. ward, Richard Weinstein late January. ADORATIONS is a From January 22 to February 2 Funny The Performance Space dialogue in words and dance between a Stories will present GOLD, a work about guru and his disciple who is being imbued narcissism, greed, intrigue and the unex­ with the spirit of dance. Through this pected among a group of rogues. This l:::7ourth of a music and theatre series unique one-to-one relationship, an age­ too will be followed by a late night show r which originated in 1980 and was old tradition is revealed. Ramli develops - HOWARD SLOWLY presented by performed in marquees at British theatre the ravishing dances of Orissa, site of the director Geoff Hooks. festivals, BROKEN TABLES No.4 con­ legendary erotic temple sculptures of sists of five interlocking modern myths Konarak. BOOKING INFORMATION told by people trying to escape their guil­ AETT discount $1.00 ty pasts. It is set in a pub on a tropical BOOKING INFORMATION Bookings on 699 5091 island where an American selling a "Be York Theatre, Yourself" course becomes a catalyst. Jan 22 to 26, 29 to Feb 1 Richard Lawton came to Australia with Mat on Jan 25 and Feb 1 AETT $15.90 the Dutch theatre group, KISS; the third G.P. $16.90 More Shorts of his BROKEN TALES was staged at Pens/Stud $13.90 the Belvoir Street Theatre in March this Two AETT tickets per member MIXED DOUBLES year, under the title of HAHAHA PER­ Directors: Robyn Nevin, Rex Cram FORMING HUMANS. phorn, Wayne Harrison, Michael Jenkins and Rhys McConnochie BOOKING INFORMATION Tue Dec 10 to Sun Dec 22 Designer: Michael Scott-Mitchell Tue to Sat at 8 p.m., Sun at 5 p.m. Cast: Robert Grubb, Gillian Jones, Alan AETT discount $1.00 David Lee, Victoria Longley, Rhys Bookings on 699 5091 McConnochie, Robyn Nevin, Julie Nih ill, Deidre Rubenstein and Bruce Spence

ollowing the success of their season of F SHORTS which opened at the Wharf Theatre earlier this year, the will present a series of six "winning" one-act plays under the general title of MIXED DOUBLES. Two plays will be presented each perfor­ mance and they include Henry Fielding's TOM THUMB, SEDUCED by American playwright Sam Shepard, Ten­ nessee Williams' SUDDENLY LAST Ramli Ibrahim in ADORA TlONS SUMMER, Feydeau's POTTY PLOY Robin Copp and Chris Ryan in BROKEN TALES and two Australian plays - F AMIL Y No.3 FA VOURITES by Linden Wilkinson and At The Space THE DON'S LAST INNINGS by Christmas at Timothy Daly, which as the title suggests here's such a busy programme of has something to say about another Belvoir St. Tevents for December and January at popular Australian sport. The Performance Space that we can't here's a lot of activity at Belvoir possibly list them all. There's perfor­ BOOKING INFORMATION T Street Theatre in December with three mance art, music and dance, sometimes Thu Jan 2 to Sat Feb 1 shows running concurrently. The Gap's combined. For full details please ring The Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. improvised comedy OPERA OPERA! Space. Sat mat at 4 p.m. AETT $17.00 (Mon to Thu and mats) runs its crazy way until December 21 in However, to whet your appetite we can G.P. $19.00 the Downstairs Theatre. It's a heart­ mention a few of the events. From Pens/Stud $13.00 rendering Sydney soapie about a hero January 13 to 19 Nigel Kellaway will pre­ Two AETT tickets per member (Geoff Aldridge) whose nickname "The sent GIVE ME A ROSE TO SHOW ME Brewer's Little Mate" and his blood 3

alcohol level don't quite match his Social Award-Winning Play It's about fabulous ladies of history, Security number «()()()()()()()(l); his wife from Saloma of Biblical times to Madon­ (Mandy Salomon) who vacillates between at Killara na of the eighties with the entire company being a Christian, or Orangeperson taking part and costumes designed by (whatever colour they are now in view of BENEFACTORS by Jennifer Irwin. recent news reports) and a member of an Directed by Richard Cottrell This will be Graeme Murphy's third anarcho-feminist commune; a heroine­ Cast includes Jennifer Hagan and Jane cabaret at Kinselas, following Flashbacks addict cum -ex -prostitute-cum -failed­ Harders in 1983 and Deadly Sins in 1984. actress cum-single-mother; a lady piano Marian St. Theatre teacher and a European refugee who BOOKING INFORMATION thinks he can make money out of opera "Mr. Frayn is a master farceur, but Thu Jan 2 to Sat Mar 1 in Australia. though his NOISES OFF is wonderfully Mon to Sat at 7 p.m. dinner and show; Upstairs there'll be two shows playing enjoyable, this ironic comedy show only at 8.30 p.m. back to back. At 9 p.m. the Castanet (BENEFACTORS) so unsparing of its AETT discount $2.00 Bookings on 331-3100 Club will be presenting their style of characters' foibles and yet so humane, is choreographed chaos in a new show, an infinitely superior achievement. " THE GIDDY PEOPLE. It includes such Francis King, Sunday Telegraph old favourites as Bowling Man, the Sondheim Musical human television and Shirley Purvis from ichael Frayn's play BENEFAC­ their Sydney Trade Union Club season. M TORS which opens at Marian St. COMPANY by Stephen Sondheim At 6 p.m. its CAROLS-BY­ Theatre in February has won all three Directed by Richard Wherrett LAZERLIGHT with the Magpie Theatre major London theatre awards. Its North­ Musical direction by Michael Tyack from the South Australian side Theatre Company production will be Drama Theatre, S.O.H. Company. There's a medley of carols, directed by Richard Cottrell who was Cast includes Robyn Arthur, Terence popular songs and seasonal dialogue recently appointed artistic director of Donovan, Rod Dunbar, John O'May, complete with choir and surprise guests Nimrod Theatre. Nataly Mosco, Barry Quin and Geraldine under the direction of . BENEFACTORS is set in London in Turner It's an adult show that kids will love. 1968 where David Kitzinger and his wife Jane are a busy and successfully married BOOKING INFORMATION couple. Near are Colin and Downstairs Theatre Sheila who are in less fortunate cir­ OPERA OPERA! until December 21 cumstances. It seems only natural that Upstairs Theatre David and Jane should help Colin and THE GIDDY PEOPLE (9 p.m.) Sheila; they are lame ducks in a muddled CAROLS-BY-LAZERLIGHT (6 p.m.) matrimonial pool . . . But who is really Until December 21 taking and who is really giving? AETT discount $1.00 Bookings on 699 3273 As many performances are now heavi­ ly booked by subscribers, Members are advised if possible to order tickets for Sunday, February 9 or Tuesday, February 11 to obtain good seats. Dtting the mood of the holiday season BOOKING INFORMATION .r the Sydney Theatre Company opens 1930's Revival Sun Feb 9 to Sun Feb 23 on January 15 with the Stephen Son­ Tue to Sat at 8.15 p .m. dheim musical COMPANY. The subject ME AND MY GIRL, the late 1937 hit Sat and Sun at 5 p.m . Wed at 11 a.m. of COMPANY is marriage or rather musical that taught the British public to AETT $15.00 (Mon to Fri and mats staying single as well meaning married dance away their cares to the strains of except Feb 12/ 13) friends try to "sell" marriage to their the Lambeth Walk will"' open in G.P. $17.00 (Tue-Thu), $18.00 (Fri-Sun) bachelor friend. It's all good light­ Melbourne in the New Year following a Pens/ Stud $12.00 (except Fri and Sat evg) hearted stuff and gives ample scope for London revival. A Sydney season at His Two AETT tickets per member Broadway's "resident genius" of musical Majesty's Theatre follows on March 1. theatre to deliver a score that is both Full details in February T.N. delightful and entertaining.

BOOKING INFORMATION Fabulous Ladies BOOKING INFORMATION Mon Mar 3 to Sat Mar 29 Wed Jan 15 to Sat Feb 15 Performances nightly raeme Murphy has devised a new Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Wed and Sat mats Gcabaret, SIRENS, for the Sydney Mats Wed at 1 p.m., Sat at 2 p.m. AETT $25 .50 Dance Company's January/ February AETT $19.00 (Mon to Thu and mats) G.P. $29.50 season at Kinselas. It is tailormade to the G.P. $22.00 Pens/Stud price unconfirmed Pens/ Stud $16.00 (Mon to Thu) Two AETT tickets per member needs of the SDC's talents and the venue Two AETT tickets per member and audience of Kinselas. 4

working with Spike Milligan, Monty Ensemble last year. LAST DANCE takes Humour - Rowan Python and on Not Only The Nine the audience on the merry-go-round of Atkinson Style O'Clock News. With a strong supporting marriage breakdown and separation and cast the play will be a must for lovers of the outrageously funny ups and downs THE NERD by Larry Shue Rowan Atkinson-style humour. while starting again. Later productions Directed by Edgar Metcalfe will be Alan Ayckbourn's RELATIVE­ Cast: Chris Langham, Penny Cook, BOOKING INFORMATION L Y SPEAKING and NEIL Simon's John Derum, Kevin Miles and Jennifer Wed Feb 19 to Sat Mar 15 BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. West Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Members who would like to subscribe Footbridge Theatre Wed and Sat at 2 p.m. to the season should contact the Ensem­ AETT $16.90 (Mon to Thu and mats) ble on 929 8877. Alternatively, Members G.P. $20.90 can reserve tickets for LAST DANCE on he. first th~ng to be ~xplained about Pens/Stud price unconfirmed T thIS Amencan play IS the meaning Two AETT tickets per member the enclosed booking form. of the title. The author describes A Nerd as being a mixture of a twit, wimp, wally BOOKING INFORMATION and creep. In Australia we might have The Australian Opera Tue Jan .7 to Sat Feb 1 more colourful terms but the message is Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. there and therein is the basis for the plot. - Summer Season Mats Thu at 11 a.m. and Sat at 5 p.m. The Nerd in question is a dismally unfor­ AETT $14.00 (Tue to Fri), $16.00 (Sat tunate chalk inspector from the hose members who have chosen not evg), $11 .00 (mats) American Mid-West who arrives in the T to subscribe to the Australian Opera's G.P. $15.00 (Tue to Fri), $17.00 (Sat 1986 season may wish to purchase tickets evg), $12.00 (mats) house of an architect to take up a stan­ Stud/ pens $11.00 (Tue to Fri), $9.00 ding offer of hospitality. In Vietnam he for individual operas during the summer season. Members may purchase tickets to (mats) saved the architect's life and so he is Two AETT tickets per member greeted with enthusiasm; but this wanes certain performances of Verdi's MASK­ as the Nerd exposes his full-frontal Ner­ ED BALL, Puccini's LA BOHEME, dity and then announces that he has come Verdi's , Donizetti's on an open-ended visit. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (with Joan Rowan Atkinson played the role of the Sutherland as Lucia) and Mozart's Lauren Bacall Nerd to perfection in the London pro­ MARRIAGE OF FIGARO at a $6.00 duction. According to the London Daily concession per ticket. he Trust is still holding prime tickets T Telegraph's John Barber the role allowed for the Lauren Bacall season of Ten "Mr. Atkinson to go through his agile BOOKING INFORMATION nessee Williams' SWEET BIRD OF repertoire of pop-eyed stares, flailing MASKED BALL Jan 7 and 14 YOUTH on Monday, February 3, Tues LA BOHEME Jan 15 and 22 day, February 4 and Wednesday hand-ballets and what in this newspaper I IL TROVATORE Jan 21 may call nasty habits. His appalling man­ February 5. Although tickets can be stil LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Feb 19 purchased for other performances these ners are topped with a strangulated voice, (Concert Hall) something between a crashed gear and Feb 20 and 24 are the dates on which, at the time of chalk squeaking on slate". AETT $36.00 going to press, we could still guarantee Rowan Atkinson is a hard act to follow G.P. $42.00 good tickets. but Chris Langham who will play the Two AETT tickets per Member The play, which will be based on the Nerd in the Australian production comes successful Harold Pinter London produc­ to Australia with a formidable reputation tion, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre on in the field of comedy - the result of Festival of Laughter January 25 for three weeks only. SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH is the LAST DANCE by Terry Stapleton story of a Hollywood drifter who brings a Directed by Sandra Bates fading Hollywood movie queen (played Cast: Tyrone Dearing, Don Swonnell, by Bacall) back to his hometown only to Anna Lee and Lynne Emmanuel be curelly and bloodily revenged by the father of a girl he had seduced. Colin Friels plays opposite Miss Bacall in the role of Chance Wayne. The Ensemble Theatre has just an- nounced details of their first half-year programme for 1986. The three plays, BOOKING INFORMATION one Australian, one English and one Tue Jan 28 to Sat Feb 8 American have all been chosen for their Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. capacity to tickle your funny bones, Wed and Sat mats at 2 p.m. AETT $34.00 (Mon to Thu evg), $31 .00 warm your hearts and strike a familiar (mats) chord. First play to open is the world G.P. $38.00, $35 .00 (mats) premiere of LAST DANCE by Terry Pens/ Stud $19.00 (mats) Stapleton whose play SOME NIGHT AT Two AETT tickets per member JULIA CREEK was presented at the INTERNATIONAL

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(jIf'rtt~y Andrew Bdger, A.M., Chairman

t's unusual for me to author a column The Australia Council is under funded. I in Trust News, but I've had some It has an enormous job to do in this thoughts recently about greatness. And country, and it must allocate its money about children. I'd like to share them wisely. But the answer is not to destroy with you. I believe that one of the roles of the fine institutions that we have so the Trust is to have positions on arts painstakingly built up. When the Opera issues we consider to be important, and has succeeded in expanding its program­ to share our thoughts with you. mes, expanding its audiences, and expan­ As our members of long standing ding its base of private contributions, it know, one of the first things the Trust did does not seem unreasonable to expect when it was founded more than three that these efforts will be rewarded with decades ago was to found in turn the the continuation of subsidy at an Australian Opera and the Australian appropriate level. Ballet. For many years these companies I think it is time for us to make our were an integral part of the Trust's opera­ opinions on the subject heard. I think it is tion. When it became apparent that they time for Australian audience members were of an age to stand on their own, we who value excellence, and who believe pushed them out of the nest. However, that Australia is entitled to nothing less we have always maintained a very real than greatness to make our feelings felt. link through the Elizabethan Orchestras, John Pringle as Marcello, Donald Shanks as We've been voting with our feet by atten­ and through our pride in the Colline and Jeffrey Black as Schaunard in The ding the performances, but clearly an ex­ accomplishments of our two most emmi­ Australian Opera's production of LA BOHEME tra push is needed. I would like to ask nent children. The Trust's intention in by Giacomo Puccini you to join me in writing to the Minister founding these two companies was to for the Arts, Barry Cohen. I would like to give Australian audiences a chance to see suggest that you tell the Minister that you and be part of artistic excellence believe that the Australian Opera and the generated within our own country. Australian Ballet must be properly sup­ I believe we succeed in realising our ported. I believe that the Minister would ambition. The Australian Opera and the welcome your comments, and that they Australian Ballet are companies of world would have an effect. standard. They are companies which Thirty years is not a long time, but in have developed fine Australian artists, that time we have come a long way. and have been able to attract, by virtue of However, all the work that we have done their reputations for excellence, great in­ can be undone in a much shorter time if ternational performers to Australia. we are not careful. It is our country, they Now, however, I believe that these two are our companies, and I think it's im­ companies are under serious threat, that portant we make our voices heard. all of their work, and the Trust's, may I have already written to Minister untimately have been in vain. They are Cohen. I cannot urge you strongly under threat from forces that do not enough to write NOW and express your understand that Australians want, even opinion. demand, greatness. That having tasted Honourable Barry Cohen, M .P. excellence we will not now settle for less. Minister for the Arts, They are under threat from individuals Heritage and Environment who believe in that old Australian curse Minister Assisting the Prime Minister "near enough is good enough". for the Bi-Centennial, Both the Australian Opera and the Steven Heathcote and Paul de Masson in The Australian Ballet's production oj EQUUS House of Representatives, Australian Ballet are having their Federal Parliament House, funding cut by the Australia Council. Australians than ever before. In 1985 it Canberra, A.C.T. 2600 This in spite of the fact that the Federal will give live performances in four of Best wishes for the holiday season. Government, through the Minister for Australia's capital cities and electronic the Arts, has made it very plain that it performances in every regional centre, wishes these two great companies to be country town and corner of the bush encouraged and preserved. As a result of across the continent. this the Australian Opera may be forced That Australians appreciate this effort to become a part-time company. What a is evident by the degree to which we have loss this will be for all Australians. supported it. The Opera has larger­ In the last few years through its radio paying audiences, more individual broadcasts, national telecasts, free per­ donors, and more corporate contributors formances in the park and other pro­ than at any time in its history. It has grammes the Australian Opera has dared for greatness for all Australians, brought its performances to more and it has succeeded. 6 - ~tgtt---=------tI The 1986 Festival of Sydney

An extraordinarily diverse cross-section of theatre will take the stage, metaphorically speaking, for the 10th Festival of Sydney between New Year's Eve and January 31. The programme includes a troupe of "barnstormers", a play based on the long-term relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, a show featuring the off-beat songs of Tom Lehrer in the fifties and sixties, a monologue by New York actor Spalding Gray, a dramatic interpretation of St. Mark's Gospel and a cabaret show by a trio of Sloane Ranger-type vamps. And this is just the theatre component. There's a whole range of exciting musical events that we didn't have space for, as well as non-theatrical events. Full Maggie Watkiss, Dave Johnston and Margaret Biereye in Footsbarn Theatre Company's KING LEAR details are in the Festival programme which is available free of charge from tugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain, Germany, FOOLERY. Since its debut in 1980 the Mitchells Bass. Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and the show has played allover the world non­ USA. stop. "Our theatre can be taken intellectual­ Tom Lehrer was an inoffensive ly, but it is not high-brow and we aim to graduate student and part-time teacher of Footsbarn Theatre make our shows popular, full of energy mathematics at Harvard when he wrote and fast moving, " says one of the com­ his first songs in 1953. On his own, he n 1970 a small troupe of players began pany's principal members, Ted Turton. issued an L.P. which was so successful it I to perform in tents, pubs, village Performances will be in the big top in led to several years on the nightclub and halls, schools, markets, at fairs and on Phillip Park (opposite St. Mary's concert circuit and two more L.P.'s. beaches in Cornwall, anywhere that Cathedral), and will include CHINESE Now in academic retreat in California, people congregated. Using local legends PUZZLE AND KING LEAR. Lehrer was approached by Mackintosh and folklore, they revived the traditions with the idea of turning his songs into a of the strolling players of the past, the BOOKING INFORMATION revue. Lehrer not only agreed but, to Commedia dell' Arte, the Barnstormers, Phillip Park quote Mackintosh, "volunteered to Mummers and Minstrels. Their success CHINESE PUZZLE break his time-honoured code of only in rural Cornwall encouraged the troupe Sat Jan 4 to Sat Jan 11 at 8 p.m. working when absolutely necessary, by to write their own material and to KING LEAR polishing up the script and lyrics so that perfect their skills with giant puppets, Mon Jan 14 to Sun Jan 19 they gleam as squalidly today as when he masks, mime, music, movement and AETT $12.00 (Jan 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17) first wrote them ". G.P. $14.00 dance. The company that staged, wrote and From that humble beginning, Pens/Stud $IO.OO Two AETT tickets per member produced ZEN & NOW in Australia in Footsbarn (the name derives from the 1984 have gathered together again to pre­ term barnstormers) has grown into one sent TOMFOOLERY for the Sydney of Europe's most celebrated touring Festival. theatre companies, one that can boast of Members of the cast are Beth Child, being the first recipient of an E.E.C. Lehrer at the Seymour Tony Preece, Phillip Scott and Tina Bur­ theatrical grant. A marquee acquired in saIl. 1973, together with trucks, shaped the Centre troupe's future by making it a veritable BOOKING INFORMATION "travelling circus". Mobile homes and hose strange songs that Tom Lehrer Wed Jan I to Sat Jan II tents were soon added to the entourage Twrote in the fifties and sixties and Mon to Thu at 8 p.m. for the families of the performers. which sold 1 Yz million L.P.s were put Fri and Sat at 6 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Invitations beJan to pour in from together some years ago by British en­ AETT $16.00 (Mon to Thu) trepreneur, Cameron Mackintosh, as a G.P. $18.00 Europe and sinc{ the beginning of 1981, Two AETT tickets per member Footsbarn has played in France, Por- stage show, under the title TOM- 7

south-east Asia became the basis for a Stein and Toklas fascinating monologue, SWIMMING Satirical Songbirds n her play, GERTRUDE STEIN AND TO CAMBODIA, which will be presented at the Festival. As befits a hree glamorous young women in ball IA COMPANION, Win Wells brings Tgowns shatter their innocent image out the essence of the relationship teacher of oral composition at Columbia University (as he is now), Spalding Gray almost immediately when between Alice B. Toklas and her loving FASCINATING takes the stage. is a talented talker, and proves that to be companion for forty years, Gertrude They are accomplished singers who entertaining, you don't have to be crazy. Stein. Their differences were symbolic of shine in close harmony, but what made their lifestyle. Their home in Paris was His monologues are polished, forceful and symmetrical and will have you them an almost instant success and a sell­ filled by Stein with paintings by Cezanne, out at the 1985 Edinburgh Festival is their Renoir, Matisse and Picasso, a life-long laughing and crying. They are at the same time highly personal, idiosyncratic and talent for "sending up" the current tren­ friend. But Toklas considered Matisse's dy "in" scene. One could imagine that canvases "too large". universal in appeal, and full of anecdotes about strange people he has met. the Sloane Rangers could have been in­ vented purely for FASCINATING AIDA to vent their spleen on. BOOKING INFORMATION They are three distinct personalities. Belvoir Street Theatre Sat Jan II to Sat Jan 25 Dillie Keane is a languid blonde, Marilyn No performance Sun Jan 12 or Mon Cutts a small dynamo with a "sock it to Jan 20 them" voice, and Adele Anderson has a Sat Jan II at 10.30 p.m., Sun Jan 19 glorious deep voice, but they're all "sexy, at 5 p.m. stroppy and wonderfully irreverent". Other performances at 8.30 p.m. Nothing is taboo in their attacks on AETT $15 .00 (Jan 13, 14, 15, 16) sacred cows . Idols they knock down in­ G.P. $17.00 clude jogging, health foods and the body Pens/ Stud $12.00 beautiful brigade, Jane Fonda, Victoria Two AETT tickets per member Principal, and puritanism.

St. Mark's Gospel

emorising the entire Gospel accor­ M ding to St. Mark is no mean feat and would send most people scurrying Natasha Morgan (s tanding) and Miriam Margo/yes in GERTRUDE STEIN AND A for cover. COMPANION But on top of that to have audiences Frequent visitors included Ernest sitting on the edge of their seats with an­ Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and ticipation, mesmerised by this first­ Sherwood Anderson, but Hemingway written account of the life of Jesus of was a bone of contention. Gertrude loved Nazareth, is an even more extraordinary him , Alice hated him. She claimed that he achievement. "underwhelmed" her. Differences aside, Melbourne actor, Malcolm Robertson, the play brings out the love and does just that with the help of only a understanding between the two women table, three chairs, a carafe of water, a A de/e A nderson, Marilyn Culls and Dillie Keane and Toklas' admiration and respect for glass and a copy of the Bible. in FASCINA TING AIDA her friend, whom she saw as a genius. ST. MARK'S GOSPEL is far from a Dillie Keane shows another side of her mere recitation. It becomes an intense ex­ BOOKING INFORMATION talents in her blues-style piano accom­ perience, a tale full of hints, clues and paniments. For laughs, one of the Belvoir St. Theatre portents about the disaster to follow and Thu Jan 2 to Sun Jan 12 highlights of the show is the "Herpes the poetic cadences of the words make it Tango". But we suggest you don't take Tues to Sat at 8.30 p.m., Sun at 5 p.m. a remarkable piece of stage drama. AETT $15.00 (Jan 3, 5 and 7) the children to see FASCINATING G.P. $17.00 AIDA. Stud/ Pens $12.00 BOOKING INFORMATION Two AETT tickets per member Wharf Studio Sat Jan 11 to Sat Jan 25 BOOKING INFORMATION Mon to Sat at 7.30 p.m. Everest Theatre, Seymour Centre An Eastern Experience Sat 5.30 p.m. Mon Jan I3 to Sat Jan 25 No mat Jan 11 Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. AETT $12.00 (Jan 13, 14, 15, 16) AETT $15.00 (Jan 14, 15, 16) "Then Spalding Gray made his film G.P. $14.00 G.P. $17.00 YY debut as Kincaid in THE KILLING Pens/ Stud $9.00 Pens/ Stud $12.00 FIELDS it set him on a new path in his Two AETT tickets per member Two AETT tickets per member work as an actor. His experience in efore getting to Broadway's season Further uptown, but still off­ Story ... forget it. The whole thing is a Bopener, here are a few items of Broadway, at the Promenade Theatre, mish-mash with a Bernadette Peters interest that slipped in during the sum­ we have Sam Shepard's, CURSE OF Brava! mer. THE STARVING CLASS. This dynamic A few words, if I may, about the First, I'M NOT RAPPAPORT by production, directed by Robin Lynn HOLY GRAIL, well at any rate Dustin Herb Gardner, which tried out last year Smith, has some of the best ensemble Hoffman's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, at the Seattle Rep, in Seattle, acting in town. It is anchored by a which used to be by Arthur Miller. The Washington. Wonderfully directed by bravura performance by Eddie Jones as televised version of the play was recently Mr. Sullivan, but now Judd Hirsch, the father, who personifies Mr. seen on U.S. TV by 25,000,000 people. popular TV and film actor as well as Shepard's horrific, confused and disen­ Staggering! I thought it was flatter, more theater actor, joins Cleavon Little in chanted vision of normal America. literal, everybody will surely, understand, what is really a two-hander. They play . .. And so to Broadway. The season's whether they feel anything or not is deliciously off, and to each other, and first new show (English, of course) another matter. As for Mr. Hoffman's provide the audience with a pair of the SONG AND DANCE by Andrew Lloyd tour de force ... it is very quirky and liveliest, most refreshingly human, not to Webber, with lyrics by Don Black, jerky, he plays Shrimpy, the way Orson speak of funniest, individuals seen on directed by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Wells used to wallow around and glory in stage in a long time. And that's saying choreographed by, (very ambitious) Peter his fat. He is truly a shrimp for all something when you consider that the Martins a mainstay of the New York City seashores. But I'm sure you'll get to see it characters, one black and one white, are Ballet. Bernadette Peters is the song . . . soon . . . in a theatre too, and just think, both in their 70s . Mr. Gardner has writ­ does the entire first act by herself and she you'll probably pay five bucks a pop for ten a play that is pertinent, timely and is terrific. She almost makes it worth the the privilege. above all, entertaining. His lines crackle evening, if not for the price of the ticket. Irvin S. Bauer is a Playwright­ with wit and the plight of his very con­ The songs are too slight and Producer based in New York where temporary old men is all too uninteresting. The Dance (entire second he heads THE DEVELOPMENT recognisable, insistently painful and for half) we've seen before . . . better .. . STAGE, a place where the Writer is that reason, eventually very touching. fresh when they were first conceived, and encouraged to fulfil the potential of The crowning satisfaction is that you will only by a stretch of the imagination have his work. laugh through it all. they something to do with the first half. M~_~_~______~

CAMDEN PARK SON ET LUMIERE be included will be the Overture to 1986 FESTIVAL Saturday, December 7 at 6.30 p.m. Figaro, the Overture to Merry Wives of Friday, March 7 to Monday, March 10 We do still have a few tickets left to visit Windsor, Mozart's 25th Symphony and It may seem like a long way off but once Camden Park for a tour of the property, that Mozart piano concerto which is best Christmas is over the Adelaide Festival three-course dinner on the lawns and a known as the theme music from the film will be upon us. So you should think now Son et Lumiere performance in celebra­ ELVIRA MADIGAN. Cost is $25 which about joining Sydney Committee Presi­ tion of Camden Park's anniversary. includes both the concert ticket and the dent, Shirley Hay for her weekend visit to Tickets which include transport, dinner picnic dinner. the Festival city. Besides plenty of theatre and the Son et Lumiere are $52 by coach there'll be two day trips out into the S.A. or $45 if you use your own transport. countryside and plenty of time to enjoy Ring the membership office on 357-1200. XMAS OFF BROADWAY the delights of Adelaide at Festival time. PICNIC IN THE PARK Vulcan Hotel, Cm. Wattle and Mary All inclusive cost for the weekend is $749 Thursday, January 2 at 6 p.m. Anne Streets, Ultimo. (for twin share) which includes airfares, What more delightful way to attend a Friday, December 20, 6.30 to 11 p.m. accommodation at the Oberoi Hotel in concert in the Mostly Mozart series at the It wouldn't be Christmas without an in­ North Adelaide, all dinners, tours and Opera House than to start off with a pic­ formal get together for members and two luncheons. All you will need to pay nic dinner in the Botanical Gardens? their friends and this year we've arranged for separately is your theatre tickets That's just what we'll be offering a private courtyard at the Vulcan Hotel, which we will arrange for you. Ring the members and their friends on January 2, Ultimo. We'll be providing a membership office on 357 1200 for fur­ the night of the first concert in this smorgasbord dinner and beer, wine and ther information and we'll send you the freewheeling series. Playing that night soft drinks will be available throughout Festival programme, tour itinerary and will be the Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra the evening. Do join us! Tickets are recommended theatre selections. conducted by William Reid and works to $15.00 each. 9

With the Christmas break almost upon us Christmas pantomimes at PHILLIP The Footbridge Theatre will be the we present for your information a guide ST. THEATRE have proved such a huge venue for a large-scale traditional pan­ to holiday activities for young people. success that this year their performance tomime production of HUMPTY I Because of the low ticket prices involved of CINDERELLA is being extended until DUMPTY ... THE PANTOMIME in no AETT discount applies. January 25. There's everything that January. For two hours audiences will be young children could ask for with the assaulted with comedy slapstick, pan­ t , Killara, the statutory Prince Charming and the Ugly tomime routines, robbers, chases, lollies, ANorthside Theatre Company will be Sisters but there's also lots of fun and Witches, Handsome Princes and catering for the 3 to 9 year olds with a games for the children, innuendo to keep Beautiful Princesses, songs, lollies, rid­ new production called ONCE UPON A the adults happy and even a visit from dles and all the other paraphernalia of TIME. Written by Wendy Blaxland, the Santa Claus each performance. Perfor­ traditional pantomime not to mention production will include three fairy tales mances are 10 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. special guests Harry and Ralph from the - The Sleeping Beauty, Stan Bolinn and weekdays and 1.30 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. Harry and Ralph Show. Performances The Frog Prince. As with all their pro­ Saturdays. Bookings on 232 8570. will be held daily at 10 a.m., 12.30 p.m. ductions the traditional stories will be A new play by Peter Matheson is being and 3 p.m. from January 1 to 27. Book­ adapted to include lots of audience in­ written especially for the Hunter Valley ings on 692 9955. volvement for the young children. ONCE Theatre Company's annual season at UPON A TIME plays from January 6 for Fort Scratchley. As usual its a kids two performances a day through the adventure story designed for family The festive season starts early at the holidays and then on Saturdays until the entertainment and performances are Tom Mann Theatre (136 Chalmers end of March. Birthday parties are given Mon to Fri at 10 a.m. and Wed to Street, Sydney) when the Australian catered for at these Saturday perfor­ Fri at 6 p.m. from January 6 to 24. Academy of Dramatic Arts mounts their mances. Bookings on 498 3166. Tickets can be purchased at the Fort on Christmas pantomime TREASURE the day of performance. ISLAND from December 3 to 6. It is suitable for kids from 3 to 83 and is an The Australian Theatre for Young adaptation of the famous novel with People will present MULTIPLE plenty of interaction between the actors CHOICE at their new city studio, the and audience. The kids will enjoy Sydney Sailors' Theatre. The play tells meeting Long John Silver and Jim the story of the worldly and street-wise Hawkins and join in the singing (Yo-Ho­ Gillian Todd, 17, who struggles with an Ho and a Bottle of Rum). Performances alcohol problem she does not recognise as ~ are 10 a.m. and 12.30 p.m. and 7.30 p.m. a she tries to cope with the pressures of -.l Wednesday night. Bookings on 29 5611. adolescence. Written by novice >.. On Saturdays throughout December at playwright Alana Vallentine, MULTI­ Cl.. ~ the Sydney Sailors' Home, Joe Gladwin PLE CHOICE was well received when it Cl.. will present PUNCH AND JUDY for played at the Wharf Studio last year. The .!; family audiences. This most traditional play is primarily intended for young of puppet shows is presented at 2 p.m. people of high school age. Bookings on ~ and birthday parties are catered for 27-3274. ~ following the show. Booking on 27 3274. ~ There are two treats in store for young Those young people who would like to people at the Sydney Theatre Company's At the Bondi Pavilion Theatre, get more involved in the theatrical perfor­ Wharf Theatre complex this January. Silkwood Theatre Company will present mance are invited to spend a day at the STC dramaturg Wayne Harrison will two plays during January. For 6 to 12 Rocks with the Australian Theatre for direct NO WORRIES. It's the moving year olds there is ESMERALDA Young People. Between 10 a.m. and 4 story of a young country girl Matilda, TOONGLADDIE'S PLAY by Victoria p.m. they can participate ip a drama whose family is ruined by drought and Osborne. It is about bossy Esmeralda workshop, make props or masks, see a forced to leave the land it loves for the who writes a terrible play and forces her live performance of MULTIPLE uncertainty of the big smoke. It's suitable friends to play parts opposed to their CHOICE and join with a street theatre for children from 8 to 15 years and will be characters. For 3 to 12 year olds there's performance of IN SEARCH OF A presented at the Wharf Theatre from David Wood's THE SELFISH PLOT. It costs $15.00 for the day and January 8. Meanwhile in the Studio SHELLFISH. It tells that life for the bookings are on 251 3900. In addition the Theatre (from January 8 to February 1) Rockpool Dwellers is full of uncertainty. ATYP will be holding their usual week­ the under eight-year-olds will have the Every new tide brings fresh surprises or long theatre programmes for children chance to see a production specially new problems. But the inhabitants cope and teenagers at the Rocks Theatre, in devised for them by Melbourne's well with their insecure existence until Mosman, Parramatta and Sutherland. renowned Australian Nouveau Theatre. Seagull brings them warning of a possible Students are given the chance to learn Called PUppy LOVE it stars Bruce catastrophe - the great oilslick is com­ many of the skills that go to create Keller who shows the children the world ing. Both plays are presented Tuesday to theatre and to devise their own show at as seen through the eyes of a puppy. Saturday from December 31 to January the end of the programme. Bookings for both shows on 250 1777. 24. Bookings on 30 7211. 10 'PIfJ'Ii(I/J -tJo'------liI here are only a few days left in om Stoppard's suave and witty new contemporary ballet by Paul Taylor T which to see BOUNCERS in the T play, THE REAL THING, closes A to the music of Handel, AUREOLE, discotheque-style setting Downstairs at on December 21 at the Opera House and Danish dancer/ director Erik Bruhn's the Seymour Centre. It's scheduled to Drama Theatre. Set in the sophisticated LA SYLPHIDE make up the double bill close on December 7. Fresh from its se­ world of successful playwrights and ac­ ofThe Australian Ballet's final pro­ cond season at the Edinburgh Fringe tors, it has more than a touch of the style gramme for the year. It is at the Opera Festival, BOUNCERS take a look at the of Noel Coward in its repartee. It stars House until December 19. rituals surrounding a rough English disco Jackie Weaver and John Bell and is AETT discount $3 .00 and its sleazy nightlife. Its humour is not directed by Richard Wherrett. Bookings on 2 0588 for the easily shocked. AETT discount $3.00 (Mon to Thu and AETT discount $3.00 (Mon to Thu) mats) Bookings on 692 0555 Bookings on 250 1777 laying during December and January P at the is a new ontinuing at the All Nations Club, 50 Australian farce by David Allen, a co­ CBayswater Road, Kings Cross founder of the Troupe Theatre in until December 14 is THE CAN Melbourne, a director for La Mama and OPENER, an absurd comedy by French one of the writers of BALMAIN BOYS comedian, Victor Lanoux. The play is set DON'T CRY. Its laughs come from an somewhere in deep underground Paris expose of what the TV audience doesn't where two people have survived the see. As a live transvestite striptease is be­ nuclear holocaust. Not the setting for a ing filmed, the studio is burning down comedy you might say but faced with just off camera and a bald prima donna eternity, each other's company and a is joining forces with a crusading variety mountain of tinned peas, the laughter show host. comes thick and fast. AETT discount $1.00 AETT discount $3.00 Bookings on 5193403 Booking on 33 0954, 332 1922

or a different sort of comedy, ragedy and comedy combine in John FKinselas has a pre-Christmas dinner T , Miles Buchanan and in Collins' play ON THE BLIND SIDE. show featuring three Los Angeles stand­ BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS Set in a changing room, it's about a team up comics, Bill Kirchenbauer, Steve of Golden Oldies rugby players, their Bluestein and Franklyn Ajaye, all dif­ past achievements now dissipated by too ferent but all funny in their own styles. much drink and smoke. But they can still During the interval and after the show, ou'll have to be quick to catch Neil talk and there's a macho cameraderie you can dance to the music of the YSimon's BRIGHTON BEACH among the eleven men in their battle Vitabeats. MEMOIRS at the York Theatre, against age, a universal problem that isn't AETT discount $2.00 Seymour Centre. It finishes on December limited to rugby players. Although it's at Bookings on 331 3100 14. Both funny and sad, it's an the Ensemble, it is not an Ensemble pro­ autobiographical look by Simon at a duction but is directed and designed by middle-class Jewish family in Brooklyn Sandra Lee Paterson. during the depression seen through the AETT discount $2.00 (Mon to Thu) eowwwwwwww .. . we CATS eyes of a teenage son. Bookings on 929 8877 M know you'll love our feline antics AETT discount $4.00 at the Theatre Royal to Andrew Lloyd Bookings on 692 0555 Webber's purrrfectly slinky music. There's also the breathtaking staging - it To be funny about a bathroom is quite will give you "paws". Incidentally we all a feat, but Donald came out of T. S. Eliot's "Old Possum's Macdonald has done just that in his new Book of Practical Cats". A Iso closing this month is the behind­ comedy, BATHROOM, at the Marian ~he-scenes Royal Family drama, Street Theatre. Harry and Tess throw a CROWN MATRIMONIAL, still as suc­ bathroom-warming party which gets cessful as it was when first directed and rather out of hand. Starring Neil Fitz­ BOOKING INFORMATION Mon Feb 10, Tue Feb 18, Wed Feb 26 presented by Peter Williams in 1978. patrick, Kerry McGuire, Peter Sumner, at 8 p.m. June Salter plays Queen Mary in the story Suzanne Roylance, Jennifer Hagan, Sat mat Apr 5 at 2 p.m. of Edward VIII's abdication. At the Gwen Plumb and Bob Hornery. It con­ AETT $37.00 Playhouse, . tinues throughout December and G.P . $39.00 AETT discount $1.00, $6.00 (Dec 3 & 4) January. No pens/ stud discount Two AETT tickets per member Bookings on 232 8570 AETT discount $1.00 (Mon to Thu) Discount unavailable at Theatre Royal Discount unavailable at O.H. Bookings on 4983166 Great Performances.

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