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SN 0314-0598 DECEMBER, 1984, VOL. 8, NO. 8 ALVIN AILEY Although the company performs works by that time. An added bonus for Members is AMERICAN DANCE other choreographers it is Ailey's own that they will be sent a voucher which can THEATER works which give the company its unique be exchanged for a complimentary soul and style. Ailey's work alone provides programme at the theatre on the the repertoire with a great diversity for his performance day. The programme will be choreography has gone through almost a splendid souvenir edition valued at as many phases or periods as Picasso's $4.00. As one programme will be provided paintings. per Member, those booking for Member This diversity has always required a friends should also quote their name and special breed of dancer, one who can AETT number on the booking coupon. master a spectrum of styles and the split The company will present two second switch from one to another. For programmes but at this stage repertoire the dar,cer there is the rare opportunity to has not been confirmed. Those who wish duvelop an unparalleled versatility. For to see two programmes should reserve the audience there is the unexpected tickets on the same day each week exposure to the panorama of modern (Tuesday to Saturday). Your booking dance. It all adds up to success which the coupon is enclosed. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater has Members who are subscribers to the in abundance. Since 1962 and the first Australian Ballet will be notified State Department sponsored tours the separately by The Australian Ballet and audience attendance figures and should book through the Ballet in order to response have been overwhelming. In retain their 'subscription seating. Please Sydney in 1962 performances were sold write your AETT membership number on out by the second day and tickets became the application form to receive your a hot black-market item. The AETT is complimentary programme voucher. One of the foremost contemporary dance proud to be responsible for bringing this companies in the world, the Alvin Ailey outstanding company to Australia. American Dance Theater wil tour We have announced the tour by the Alvin Australia next year under the auspices of Ailey American Dance Theater atthistime the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to give AETT Members equal access with DIARY UPDATE and Michael Edgley International. It will Australian Ballet subscribers to the prime DECEMBER be presented at the Lyric Theatre, Sydney seats. We can guarantee that all Members 16,18, - THE QUIET ACHIEVERS, Entertainment Centre in August. The who book before January 31 will receive Marian Street company, founded by Alvin Ailey as an the best seats in the house. An 19, 20 - BERT & MAISY, Stables interracial repertory dance company, opportunity will be given later in 1985 to Theatre today has thirty dancers with Alvin Ailey those who do not wish to book atthis stage 20 - AETT Christmas Party as the Artistic Director and principal to obtain tickets but we cannot guarantee . 31 - FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, choreographer. the quality of seats that will be available at Australian Opera A NEW LOOK FOR THE NEW YEAR JANUARY This is the last edition of Trust News in its one stamped addressed envelope will 4 - Los Trios Ringbarkus, Footbridge present form. The first edition to be need to accompany your booking Theatre published in 1985 (and mailed at the end coupon no matter how many shows you 5 - Circus Oz, Seymour Centre of January) will be in a new 12 page wish to book for. Grounds magazine format. It will still concentrate It all adds up to a much improved service 7, 8 - AN EVENING WITH QUEEN on providing information about for our Members and is a direct result of VICTORIA, Phillip St. forthcoming Sydney shows but there will your response to the survey of members 7, 8, 9 - ZASTROZZI, Nimrod be more space to give better coverage as held earlier this year. We do thank 8, 9 - WET DREAMS, Cellblock well as regular columns on the theatre everyone who took the time to respond 9, 10 - FAINT-HEARTED FEMINIST, scene in New York and London and a and to tell us so clearly what you wanted Off Broadway single feature article each edition. And from the AETT's membership 10, 14 - The People Show, Seymour instead of being published six weekly programme. Please continue to send in Centre Trust News will be published eleven your comments; we'll be publishing them 11 , 15 - IN THE BELLY OF THE times a year (each month except from time to time in the new Trust News. BEAST, Seymour Centre January). Changes will also be made to In the meantime our best wishes to all our 12 - THE NIGHT THEY BLITZED THE the booking coupons whith will be Members for the festive season and the BRIDGE, Parade Theatre simplified so that only one cheque and New Year ahead. 14 - 23 MASTER CLASS, STC Trust News is the newsletter of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust which is mailed free of charge to its 5000 Sydney members, eight times, per year. The price concessions and advance booking facilities offered in th is 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. 201 1. BRITISH THEATRE OF COMEDY ADELAIDE FESTIVAL SUCCESS FOR IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST COMPANY STC Highlight of this year's theatre On Sunday May 9, 1983, thirty of Britain's The Rodney Fisher production of David programme is the Centre Theatre Group leading actors, actresses and writers, all Pownall's MASTERCLASS which was from the Mark Taper Forum in Los well known for their contributions to such a success at this year's Adelaide Angeles which will play at the Everest comedy, assembled on the stage of Festival will be presented by the Sydney Theatre, Seymour Centre. They will London's Shaftesbury Theatre to Theatre Company in January. Peter present IN THE BELLY OF THE BEAST, announce to the press the formation of Carroll, Simon Chilvers, Dennis Olsen based on the book length collection of the Theatre of Comedy Company. The and Huw Williams star in this provocative letters by Jack Henry Abbott, adapted for creation of such a company had long and grimly witty account of an imaginary the stage by Adrian Hall and further been a cherished aim of Ray Cooney, meeting between Stalin and Zhdanov adapted and directed by Adrian now the company's artistic di rector, as he with Prokofiev and Shostakovich in 1948. Woodruff. knew that in Britain were some of the It highlights the conflict between The play is the story of a man who for all finest talents in the world in the area of ideology and the arts as an attempt is his adult life has only spent nine months comedy writing , directing and made to impose political restrictions on out of prison - a man with no formal performance. In 1982 he approached the art of composition. MASTERCLASS education, who learned it all in prison. some of the leading comedy talents in the was chosen to re-open London's Old Vic Jack Abbott learned dialectics, science, country and by the end of the year the in January 1984. The production is philosophy and mathematical logic. But nucleus of the new company was formed. designed by Shaun Gurton .Trust he also learned how to live by violence. He Founder Members include Richard Member nights when a $3.00 concession is the victim of a penal system that taught Briers, George Cole, Wendy Craig, Judi applies are Monday January 14, how to live like an animal but taught Dench , Sheila Hancock , Nigel Wednesday January 23 and Thursday nothing about living free. Hawthorne, Tom Conti, Derek Nimmo, February 7. Your booking coupon is Abbott began writing to journalist/author Leslie Phillips, Eric Sykes and Donald enclosed. Norman Mailer after seeing a newspaper Sinden . article about Mailer'S book on convicted The Australian Elizabethan Theatre murderer Gary Gilmore. Through Mailer's Trust, together with the MLC Theatre offices, several of these letters on the Royal Company is delighted to announce violence and anguish of prison life were that it has completed negotiations to published. Abbott would have remained present the complete London cast of ARTS NATIONAL just another faceless prison inmate if Theatre of Comedy's highly successful Arts National, Australia's first glossy Norman Mailer hadn't taken up the production, RUN FOR YOUR WIFE. comprehensive arts magazine has convicts cause and found a publisher for Written and directed by Ray Cooney, this recently been released in newsagents and the collection of letters about prison life. hilarious farce stars Bernard Cribbins cultural organisations throughout the In essence, the play sends viewers on a and James Bolam (well known to viewers country. jarring and unforgettable trip into the of "When the Boat Comes In "). It will play This first class publication incorporates nightmarish world of the prison. It is a at the Theatre Royal from February 20 for all areas of the arts, with the first issue disturing look at the prison system and a limited season . Trust Members receive including articles from The Araleun Arts the brutalisation of its in-mates both a $3.00 concession Monday to Thursday Festival in the Northern Territory to within and without the prison walls.