the QUARTERLY VOICE Use Your Imagination EDITION TWO 2017 Editors' Note Dear Members, We trust you have had a wonderful Term Two and restful holiday break. On Saturday 27th May, the 71st Barbara Sis- ley Awards was held at Parliament House in Brisbane. It IN THIS ISSUE was a wonderful evening of celebration with Australian Music Examinations Board and Trinity College London students from around Queensland, as well as their teach- The Patron's Pen ers, family and friends. Actor Thomas Larkin spoke as the with Bruce Dawe AO Guest of Honour - his speech appears in this issue for your reading pleasure. The “Deepen Performance” Workshop President's Report also came to an end with a final showcase on Wednesday 31st May. We have included a report, testimonies and 71st BARBARA SISLEY photos of the workshop in this issue. We encourage all AWARDS members to submit articles and resources, as well as feed- back, for future issues and we look forward to receiving Address by Guest of Honour, them. Thomas Larkin 20 Years of Harry Potter Talisa Pariss Katrina Roberts 'Deepen Performance' Workshop Reflections 2016-2017 Recommended Fees Lesson charges are reviewed periodically by the CSPT Inc. Management Committee. Theatre Review: Noises Off! The latest review was undertaken in September 2016. 3 Ways to Use Storytelling Dice It should be noted that individual teachers must set their own fees and the information below is provided as a guide only. It is not intended as a scale of fees nor a minimum or THE ROLE OF SPEECH AND maximum charge for lessons. Individual circumstances must be taken into consideration. DRAMA IN SUPPORTING CHILDREN’S SOCIAL- The Management Committee offers the following information having taken legal advice. EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT The Association believes that (based upon comparable criteria and subject to individual experience, expertise and the costs of running a practice/office) reasonable lesson fees would be approximately: Imagnation Treasure Map QUALIFIED TEACHERS: 2017 EISTEDDFODAU $65.00 per hour for an individual lesson and $80.00 per hour for a group lesson. 2017 EXAMINING BODIES STUDENT TEACHERS WITH PROFESSIONAL SUPERVISION: $45.00 per hour for an individual lesson and $50.00 per hour for a group lesson. Removable Resource EISTEDDFOD ADJUDICATOR’S FEES: $210.00 for a three-hour session. 2 2017 Management Committee and Appointments For general enquiries, please email [email protected] PATRON Dr Bruce Dawe AO Immediate Past Annette Stoddart President 0412 731 152 President David Cockburn annette.m.stoddart 07 3890 8308 @gmail.com [email protected] Membership Rowena Luck-Geary Vice Presidents June Finney Officer (as above) 07 3397 1794 [email protected] Publications and Katrina Roberts Website Officer (as above) Helen Steele 0423 775 673 Referrals Officer Sarah Mitchell [email protected] (as above) Secretary Margaret Gallagher Archivist David Cockburn (Correspondence) 0404 019 212 (as above) [email protected] Quarterly Voice Talisa Pariss Secretary Maria Chamberlain Editors 0410 844 999 (Minutes) 07 3841 1675 [email protected] mandachamberlain @ozemail.com.au Katrina Roberts (as above) Treasurer Rowena Luck-Geary 07 3390 2332 Catering Officer Kathy Wilson [email protected] (as above) General Sarah Mitchell Committee 0418 759 274 Members [email protected] HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS Katrina Roberts The year in which Honorary Life 0434 631 685 [email protected] Membership of the CSPT Inc. was conferrred is indicated here. Kathy Wilson 07 3282 6672 Fay Muir (1998) [email protected] Beverley Langford (1998) Megan Shapcott June Finney (2004) 0414 724 301 Dr Jillian Clare (2006) [email protected] Beres Turner OAM (2006) Patsy McCarthy (2007) Pam Greatorix 07 3871 0488 Rowena Luck-Geary (2015) [email protected] Stephen Robinson (2016) 3 Silence Has Words for Liz "Silence Has Words" is Dr Bruce Dawe's contribution for the second edition of The Quarterly Voice in 2017. Silence has words which never have been spoken for all the skills of language and of art, words which, for all our willing, have not woken, but echo in the chambers of the heart. Absence of our loved ones brings it nearer, its syllables of love expressed within, the beauties we behold are whispered dearer, that personal primer where all loves begin. Lovers seek, through eyes and senses yearning, translations of that language of the soul which smoulders deep within, its embers burning, as though, indeed, to conflagrate the whole. And, just as in young children, we see trembling that welcome on the lips in soundless ways, so, in our latter days, our words resembling so much we cannot speak, is our best praise. ~ Bruce Dawe The Patron's Pen The Patron's 4 Dear Members, President’s Report President’s I trust that Semester One reached a happy conclusion for you and your students. Hopefully, the semester vaction pro- vided time for a well-deserved break and that you had plennty of time to sit back, rest and enjoy the holiday. On the 27th of May, the 71st Barbara Sisley Awards were held in the Premier's Hall at Parliament House. Our guest of honour and guest speaker was Brisbane actor Thomas Larkin. I have had the pleasure of engaging Thomas to work with my students on several occasions and he always approaches his work with professionalism, immense energy and warmth; he really encourages the lads and provides expert guidance and is very supportive but also quite challenging in his feedback. His Barbara Sisley speech was very well-prepared and he has kindly allowed us to include a copy of the speech in this edition. Overall, it was a tremendous evening of fine entertainment that was thoroughly enjoyed by everyone who was fortunate enough to be able to attend. Special congratulations to our members whose students presented at the awards. I would also like to especially acknowledge and thank the co-ordinators June Finney and Helen Steele. They did a tremendous job! In particular, I especially thank Helen for the mammoth task she under- took in regards to contacting all of the awardees’ teachers and organising the event’s mountain of correspondence and paperwork. It is certainly a very time consuming task that requires an eye for detail (and immense patience and good humour at times as well). Thank-you also to my fellow Committee Members for their contribution to the smooth running of the evening. The Premiers’ Hall at Parliament House has proven to be a very suitable venue and the Asso- ciation hopes to continue to use the venue in the coming years. We first used it as a venue in 2010 for the 64th Awards which were co-ordinated by June Finney and Stephen Robinson. Our guest speaker that year was journalist Kathleen Noonan. The programme for this year’s Barbara Sisley Awards appears in this edition of your QV as well as a copy of Thomas’s address. Before closing my comments on this year’s awards, I would like to include a passage written by Christine Comans who wrote a book that details the history of La Boite. Her book La Boite: The Story of an Australian Theatre Company is described by Playlab as being a: “meticulously researched and enlightening work that both inter- rogates and celebrates the history of Queensland’s oldest theatre company. Highlighting the roles key people played in its evolution - particularly four remarkable women – she explores La Boite’s colourful past, its cultural significance to Brisbane, and its vibrant and enduring role in the nation’s theatrical history”. She wrote: “Sisley’s unexpected, tragic death on November 17, 1945 at the age of sixty-seven stunned the entire Brisbane arts community. Knocked down by a taxi in the centre of Brisbane on a Saturday night, she died the following day in the Brisbane General Hospital. At the time her loss was intensely felt by all those associated with Brisbane Repertory. Some years later, George Landen Dann in a tribute to his mentor, colleague and friend, positioned Barbara Sisley as one of the great women of Australian the- atre, responsible alongside many other women for significantly influencing the development of theatre in this country: She, for many years, was the very soul of Repertory. Everything pertaining to it hinged on her – as is the case with many other theatre groups not only in Australia but in many other countries. There always seems to be a woman at the bottom of each of them. Even the Old Vic, The Abbey Theatre, The Birmingham Repertory and, coming nearer home, The Independent Theatre of Sydney, the Twelfth Night Theatre, the Brisbane Arts Theatre – nearly all of them has or has had the enthusiasm of a woman to foster them through their growing pangs and guide them along the paths they should go. Barbara Sisley was so much a part of the repertory that it was excusable if many people thought that the letter ‘S’ in the Theatre’s initials – BRTS – stood not for ‘Society’ but for ‘Sisley’ and whenever she was seen – and it was quite frequently – receiving with immense dignity the applause due to a producer at the end of a play, there was always the feeling that tribute was not only being paid to her for that particular effort, but for the good fortune that had guided her to Brisbane and made her so enthusiastically and inseparably a part of the Repertory. Our awards also celebrate the contributions made by so many other remarkable members of our society who gave generously of their time and talents - Sister Mary Leonard, Gilbert Auriol Luck, Maggie Lovejoy, Blanche Lather, Maibry Wragge, Daphne Roemermann – these are names that should never be allowed to fade away but continue to be re- membered and celebrated.