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Trust News Is the Newsletter of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Which Is Mailed Free of Charge to Its 5000 Sydney Members, Eight Times Per Year SSN 0314-0598 MAY 1984 VOL. 8 NO.3 GRAHAME BOND IN FANTASY LAND! BECKETT PLAYS FOR SYDNEY Four weeks after his fortieth birthday Gra­ Following its appearance at the Adelaide hame Bond has moved on from Aunty Jack, Festival of Arts the acclaimed San Quentin Kev Kavanagh and advertising agencies to Drama Workshop will present the three grea­ return to the stage in a rock fantasy he wrote test plays by Samuel Beckett - WAITING with Jim Burnett eighteen months ago and FOR GO DOT, KRAPP 'S LAST TAPE and has been longing to perform ever since. It's ENDGAME - at the Seymour Centre com­ called CAPTAIN BLOODY and combines mencing end June. All three plays have been comedians, singers and rock 'n'roll. directed by Samuel Beckett himself. CAPTAIN BLOODY is the story of a mild The San Quentin Drama Workshop was mannered doctor. Dr Eric Bloode who lives in formed in the notori ous penitentiary by Rick a fantasy world. He dreams of being Errol Cluckey, the company's Artistic Director, Fl ynn. So he joins a closet heroes club run5y after he saw a performance of WAITING FOR a plumber who thinks he is Winston Churchill, GODOT. He struck up a correspondence an accountant who thinks he is John Wayne with Beckett and after release formed a and a council worker who is not quite sure if company to perform Beckett's works under he is Joan Crawford or Bette Davis. the author's direction. The San Quentin Add to that the villain (Eric's stepbrother), a as well as act the roles and, Bond is excited Drama Workshop has for many years been heroine (Eric's childhood sweetheart) and about the talents he has found. the only company with which Beckett works. Eric's good fairy (played by Bond himself) WAITING FOR GODOT is one of the classic who transforms Eric into Captain Bloody - CAPTAIN BLOODY is presented by The plays of the 20th century and is a timeless the scourge of the seven seas and you have Australian El izabethan Theatre Trust and tragi-comedy of two tramps waiting for every­ romance, absurdity and raunchy rock all in Dunsinane Enterprises and is currently play­ thing and nothing. In KRAPP 'S LAST TAPE one outrageous production. ing at the Footbridge Theatre .. Trust an embittered but spirited old man looks Members who missed the Trust Members "1 have always been fascinated by Flynn ", back over his life with the aid of tape record­ night on May 3 (announced in April T.N.) can ings past and present. ENDGAME is a clas­ a: explains Bond. "His bravura gave a lot of obtain a $1 .00 concession on each of two small people hope. His characters were all sic example of Theatre of the Absurd - two tickets at any performance. Please complete of the four characters reside in garbage cans fantasies and we could all live through them the enclosed booking coupon or phonebook just a bit bigger than reality." and of the other two, one can't sit down and by Bankcard at the Footbridge Theatre on one can 't stand up. As with BOYS OWN MACBETH, Bond's ear­ 6929955 (no additional charge is made for Trust Member performances are Monday lier hit, the young cas~ play all the instruments this service). June 25 (GODOT), Tuesday June 26 (ENDGAME) and ThursdayJune 28 at 6.30 DIARY UPDATE pm for KRAPP 'S which is only 50 mins long. MAY 18 - ART EXHIBITION OPENING 14, 15 ~ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN , Seymour 19 - NABUCCO, Australian Opera Centre 25 , 27 , 28 - EXTREMITIES, STC 17, 21 , 22 - CARAVAN, Ensemble 25 , 26 , 28 - BECKETT PLAYS, Seymour 22"':"" HITLER HAD A MUMMY TOO, Sailor's Centre. Home JULY JUNE 2, 3, 4- BEYOND HERE ARE MONSTERS, 4 - LESSER GOD, Theatre Royal Ensemble 4 - Pre-theatre dinner, Wentworth Hotel 4 - Pre-theatre dinner, Ensemble 6, 8 - CAKEMAN, Phillip SI. 19 - DINNER & OPERA (Triple Bill) 9-11 - MUDGEE WEEKEND 19, 23 - NIGHT MOTHER, Footbridge <- 10, 12, 14 - TRAVELLING NORTH, Marian Samuel Beckett directs Rick Cluchey in WAITING FOR Street GODOr TELEPHONE BOOKINGS We remind Members that they have automatic membership of Mitchells-Bass Hotline service. Ring 266 4826 and state your ticket requirements anc:. your AETT Membership No. Tickets can be charged to either your Grace Bros account, Bankcard, or Diners Club and are either mailed to you (if time permits) or left at the theatre for collection. Tickets can be purchased at Trust Member prices but please note a $1 .50 surcharge per ticket applies to the service. For advance bookings Members should still use their Trust member booking coupons. Trust News is the newsletter of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is mailed free of charge to its 5000 Sydney members, eight times per year. The price concessions and advance booking facilitkls offered in this newsletter are available only to members of the A.E.T.T. Those wishing to join the Trust should complete the New Member Application form on the enclosed Trust Member Booking Coupons and return it to the Trust for processing. Anyone who would like further information about the facilities available to Trust Members should ring the membership office on 3571200. The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, P.O. Box 137, Kings Cross, N.S.w. 2011. member activities SHOWBIZ BALL - WENTWORTH HOTEL WILLIAMSON REVIVAL AT MARIAN ENSEMBLE WORLD PREMIERE Friday May 25 at 7.30 p.m. STREET The world premiere of BEYOND HERE ARE A reminder to make sure you come to this David Williamson's TRAVELLING NORTH, MONSTERS by English playwright James gala event in our annual calendar, You are which was premiered in 1979 is to be Nicholson opens at the Ensemble's Kirribilli invited to come in fancy dress, if you wish, remounted at Marian Street Theatre in June, theatre on June 30th, It is an enthralling, and the Trust's costume hire department It will star Ron Haddrick, Joan Bruce and funny and scary play set in the Amazon jun­ offers Members a 25% discount (contact Willie Fennell. TRAVELLING NORTH is a gle which is guaranteed to have you sitting Michael James on 357 1200 and come and play about two generations and the family on the edge of your seats, see the enormous range of costumes we conflicts which arise when Frank, who is in The play is about two anthropologists trying have for hirel) Members can make up a table his 70's and Frances who is 55 fall in love and to make contact with a tribe of savage South with friends or join other Members at mixed move to the northern coast of N,S'w, leaving American Indians - a tribe who eat what tables, Either way it will be a great night. behind their respective families in Mel­ they kill and whom no-one has ever seen and Tickets are $30 each which includes dinner bourne, Like all Williamson's plays it paints lived to tell the tale, The plot is further embel­ with drinks, with a wit as sharp as it is humane, an unnerv­ lished by the anthropologist's servant who is CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD DINNER ingly realistic picture of Australians as they the last surviving member of another South - WENTWORTH HOTEL really are, American tribe and a beautiful and adventu­ Monday June 4 at 6 p.m. Trust Member nights when a $5,00 discount rous English rose who parachutes in to find Join us for dinner prior to the Trust Member applies are Sunday June 10, Tuesday June out why her brother died , ' , The production night of CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD at 12 and Thursday June 14, Your booking will be directed by Brian Young, Trust the Theatre Royal. We're eating in the Banks coupon is enclosed, Member nights are Monday July 2, Tuesday Restaurant at the Wentworth Hotel which is a July 3 and Wednesday July 4, See Member short walk from the Theatre Royal. Tickets Activities for pre-theatre dinner at new are $16,00 including wine, Theatre tickets Ensemble restaurant on July 4, should be ordered separately, AT THE SAILOR'S HOME WEEKEND IN MUDGEE Valerie Bader, Gillian Hyde and Gina Riley Saturday June 9 to Monday June 11 three talented comic actresses who first Members Committee President Shirley Hay worked together as members of the New THE AUSTRALIAN OPERA WINTER is taking advantage of the June long wee­ Moon Theatre Company in Townsville have SEASON kend to take a tour to the Mudgee area, The joined forces to present a night of black We have made arrangements for Trust tour departs 7,30 a,m, Saturday morning and comedy and new music at the Sailors Home Members to receive a $3 ,00 concession on A you will travel via Katoomba and Sofala to Hill Theatre, Called HITLER HAD A MUMMY Reserve tickets for certain performances of End for lunch, In the afternoon you 'll arrive at TOO, it will be directed by Terry O'Connell The Australian Opera's winter season, The Mudgee, v.isit a homestead and have dinner who recently joined the Marionette Theatre operas offered are NABUCCO (June 19), at a local winery, Sunday will be spent at as artistic director, with Rita Hunter and Robert Allman; An Even­ Gulgong (which will be celebrating Henry ing with Gilbert, Offenbach & Sullivan (July Lawson weekend with special guest Liz Har­ The evening comprises two one act plays by 19) which includes a new production of Gil­ ris , wife of Trust director, Leonard Teale) with Suzanne Hawley, a Sydney actress making bert & Sullivan's TRIAL BY JURY, the Grand a visit to famous Gooree Stud in the after­ her debut as a playwright.
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