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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. It is an and all Mati nees, and a $1 .00 concession Charles Chauvel: one of Australia's great examination of the nature and definition Frida and Saturday until March 9th . pioneering film directors. The current of freedom. Your cou n is enclosed. issue looks at the last thirty years of the Members receive a $4.00 concession on Australian Elizabethan Trust, Opera in the Friday January 11th and Tuesday Park, The Indian Ocean Arts Festival and January 15th and a $2.00 concession at interviews Robert Caswell, writer of other performances. Your booking "Scales of Justice". Each issue will havea coupon is enclosed. special feature covering one area of the arts in depth. The feature in the current issue is "The Art of Jewellery DeSign in Australia". The magazine can be seen as a vehicle for the dissemination of facts on the arts DAVID BOWIE SPECTACULAR FOR throughout the country. Published bi­ MTA monthly, it is available on subscription at The Marionette Theatre of Australia's $27.00 for six issues. A special contribution to the Festival of Sydney is a subscription offer of $25.50 is available for new production devised and directed by members of the Australian Elizabethan Terry O'Connell for teenagers and those Theatre Trust. Your booking coupon is young at heart. Called LIFE ON MARS it is enclosed. an explosive spectacle set to the words and music of David Bowie. LIFE ON MARS opens on January 4 and plays Wednesday to Sunday. AETT concession is $1 .00 and bookings on 273274. Ray Cooney CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS Opening on January 11 is the first Late 'n The Australian Arts Diary 1985 is a fine­ Live show at the Sydney Sailors Home. STOP PRESS!! quality practical diary illustrated with 16 Hosted by the legendary rock comic Felix We have set aside excellent seats for colour plates of paintings of the B. Tonto, and featuring jazz and blues Trust Members to see the Moscow Australian landscape and over 30 black songstress, Lyn Shakespeare, Steve J. Circus on Ice on Friday February 15 and white photographs from a wide Spears (who wrote THE ELOCUTION OF and Wednesday February 20 at 8 p.m. variety of works by Australian artists. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) will perform a Concession on adult tickets is $4.00 Dimensions are 25 cm x 19 cm. We are bunch of his songs! Tickets are $6.00 (No and on children's tickets $1 .00. pleased to offer Trust Members this concessions) and can be reserved on The Moscow Circus on Ice is unique diary for $12.00 (including 273274. presented by the Michael Edgley postage and packing). Organisation at the Entertainment A year's membership of the A.E.T.T. is From December 16 to January 27 the Centre and will be a spectacular of also an ideal gift for that friend or relative Blaxland Galleries at Grace Bros Mid City acrobats, jugglers, balancers, clowns who'd like to see more theatre. See store will present The Puppet Collection and full circus orchestra all on ice! enclosed application form. of the Marionette Theatre of Australia. Entry is free. NIMROD'S NEW DREAM ~ FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY The production of Shakespeare's A The Festival of Sydney 1985 MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM which Nimrod at the Seymour will present in THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE February will be both designed and THE PEOPLE SHOW RETURNS 50 talented high school students from all directed by Kim Carpenter whose visual The People Show from London which over NSW will take part in the Australian theatricality is well known to Australian was a popular success at the 1982 Theatre for Young People's Sydney audiences. From his many set designs he Sydney Festival and has been hailed as Festival attraction . Specially moved into direction with SLICE (for one of the most dynamic and innovative commissioned from leading Australian Nimrod) and Dorothy Hewett's theatre groups in Great Britain today, playwright David Allen, the production is RAPUNZEL IN SUBURBIA at the Sydney returns to Sydney for a season at the York set in May 1942and isentitiedTHE NIGHT Sailor's Home earlier this year. His Theatre, Seymour Centre. This crazy WE BLITZED THE BRIDGE. It is suitable approach to the presentation of THE bunch of multi-talented guys exercise for primary and secondary school DREAM will undoubtedly result in a their usual virtuosity in the areas of student. fascinating production. music, acrobatics and comedy to turn to The show is ideal for hoi iday audiences as The play is set in a big city such as their most difficult theme yet - the it is full of excitement and suspense as well Sydney in the height of summer when the meteoric rise of George Khan from being as music and dancing. A group of young air is oppressive and when everyone a member of that unknown vaudeville people have organised a dance aboard a wants to escape from their daily routines. troupe, The Jossers, to becoming a star! ferry to raise money for the war effort but The characters in the play escape into the Trust Member nights are Thursday while they are jitterbugging and enjoying dream where they lose their inhibitions January 10 and Monday January 14. A the festivities, three Japanesesubmarines and find freedom. The transition from the $2 .00 concession applies other have slipped into Sydney Harbour. city to the dream will be shown by the use performances. Suddenly the night erupts into an inferno of projections put together with a grant of shellfire and depth charges and from the Australia Council's design undercover of the darkness one of the board. And the transition will be further FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT su bmarine's crew sneaks onto the ferry . . . emphasised by casting . Hugo Weaving THE NIGHT WE BLITZED THE BRIDGE will play Theseus, the man of the city as Children from five up and any adults with well as Oberon his dream alter ego. a sense of humour should make tracks to is being assisted by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust and will play at Similarly Angela Punch-McGregor will the Footbridge Theatre to see two of play Hippoplyta and Titania. Original Australia's leading comics, Los Trios the Parade Theatre. It will be directed by Simon Hopkinson, a freelance director music is by David Chesworth. Trust Ringbarkus (yes, we did sayitwasaduo). Member nights are Monday February 11 , Los Trios won the coveted Perrier Award who has been associated with the Melbourne Theatre Company and the Tuesday February 12 and Wednesday for best comedy revue from 120 February 13. attractions at the 1983 Edinburgh Fringe Darwin Theatre Group in recenttimesand Festival and were perhaps most lucidly has always had a particular interest in described by Robert Hewison in the children's theatre. Trust Members are London Sunday Times "It might be invited to bring their children or Laurel and Hardy. It could also be grandchildren to a family performance on Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot. Saturday evening January 12 when a A precise cocktail of the basic ingredients $4.00 discount applies on adult tickets. A of live comedy, pathos, horror and $1.00 concession on adult tickets applies at other daytime and evening ~ aggression ... They are the flavour of the 1: moment, a total subversion of comedy performances. u c: revue. What is funny about a show that :J explicitly offers no jokes at all? Precisely The Sydney Sailors Home will play host Q that, this is the genius of Los Trios." Trust for the first Sydney season of Melbourne's .!)1 Arena Theatre Company. They will Q) Member night is Friday January 4 when a 0> $3.00 concession applies. At other present their much acclaimed production c: performances concession is $1 .00. for children, WOLF BOY, written and « directed by Peter Charlton. It isthestoryof Playing downstairs at the Seymour a strange creature - a child not wholly Centre from January 4 is a modern human and yet not wholly animal, which Jacobean tragedy in which Colin Friels comes out of the jungle. At firstafreak, it is will play the title role of ZASTROZZI. The put on public display but the 'wolf boy' play is written by George F. Walker, a soon becomes the property of scientists, Canadian playwright who received doctors and teachers. Together they international recognition as a result of attempt to 'civilise' the wolf boy and in the this play and became a playwright in process learn a lot more than they teach. residence at Joseph Papp's theatre in The performance which lasts 50 minutes New York. His more recent play of is suitable for both children and adults. BEYOND MOZAMBIQUE has already The season is from January 15 to 27 with been presented by Nimrod. George performances Tuesday to Saturday at 12 Walker will be coming to Australia to noon and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. As direct this Sydney premiere which will be all tickets are $5.50 no concessions are designed by David Spode. Trust Member available. Bookings on 273274. nights are Monday January 7, Tuesday January 8 and Wednesday January 9.

harnesses or ropes in sight. Circus Oz DELAYS FOR NORTH SHORE blends traditional circus with old­ Round the corner in the grounds beside fashioned clowning. They have virtually Our apologies to Members on the North the Seymour Centre Circus Oz will be turned circus upside down. From their Shore who did not receive their making a welcome return season. Circus fi rst season at the 1978 Adelaide and November edition of Trust news until Oz is a circus without animals. There are Moomba Festivals they went on to be November 12. Trust News was lodged at electrifying feats of acrobatics, balancing acclaimed in a Christmas season at the Artarmon Mail Centre on October 25 routines and aerial trapeze acts, England's famed Chichester Festival and Members in other areas of Sydney imposing athleticism , unicycling, Theatre. Trust Member night is Saturday received their copies within a few days of hilarious plate spinning and juggling. January 5 when a $3.00 concession that date. Australia Post is making And there is always that constant element applies. For all other performances AETT enquiries to determine the cause of the of danger with no nets, wires, safety concession is $1 .00. delay. 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 Carro" , 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 director, 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 20for 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. It isan and all Matinees, and a $1 .00 concession Charles Chauvel: one of Australia's great examination of the nature and definition Friday and Saturday until March 9th . pioneering film directors. The current of freedom. Your booki coupon is enclosed. issue looks at the last thirty years of the Members receive a $4.00 concession on Australian Elizabethan Trust, Opera inthe Friday January 11th and Tuesday Park, The Indian Ocean Arts Festival and January 15th and a $2.00 concession at interviews Robert Caswe" , writer of other performances. Your booking "Scales of Justice". Each issue will have a coupon is enclosed. special feature covering one area of the arts in depth. The feature in the current issue is "The Art of Jewellery Design in Australia". The magazine can be seen as a vehicle for the dissemination of facts on the arts DAVID BOWIE SPECTACULAR FOR throughout the country. Published bi­ MTA monthly, it is available on subscription at The Marionette Theatre of Australia's $27.00 for six issues. A special contribution to the Festival of Sydney is a subscription offer of $25 .50 is available for new production devised and directed by members of the Australian Elizabethan Terry O'Connell for teenagers and those Theatre Trust. Your booking coupon is young at heart. Called LIFE ON MARS it is enclosed. an explosive spectacle set to the words and music of David Bowie. LIFE ON MARS opens on January 4 and plays Wednesday to Sunday. AETT concession is $1 .00 and bookings on 273274. Ray Cooney CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS Opening on January 11 is the first Late 'n The Australian Arts Diary 1985 is a fine­ Live show at the Sydney Sailors Home. STOP PRESS!! quality practical diary illustrated with 16 Hosted by the legendary rock comic Felix We have set aside excellent seats for colour plates of paintings of the B. Tonto, and featuring jazz and blues Trust Members to see the Moscow Australian landscape and over 30 black songstress, Lyn Shakespeare, Steve J. Circus on Ice on Friday February 15 and white photographs from a wide Spears (who wrote THE ELOCUTION OF and Wednesday February 20 at 8 p.m. variety of works by Australian artists. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN) will perform a Concession on adult tickets is $4.00 Dimensions are 25 cm x 19 cm. We are bunch of his songs! Tickets are $6.00 (No and on children's tickets $1 .00. pleased to offer Trust Members this concessions) and can be reserved on The Moscow Circus on Ice is unique diary for $12.00 (including 273274. presented by the Michael Edgley postage and packing). Organisation at the Entertainment A year's membership of the A.E.T.T. is From December 16 to January 27 the Centre and will be a spectacular of also an ideal gift for that friend or relative Blaxland Galleries at Grace Bros Mid City acrobats, jugglers, balancers, clowns who'd like to see more theatre. See store will present The Puppet Collection and full circus orchestra all on ice! enclosed application form. of the Marionette Theatre of Australia. Entry is free. PRUNELLA SCALES AS QUEEN WOMEN'S COMEDY AT THE GAP FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY VICTORIA Women ' s comedy is a recent ~ The distinguished English actress, phenomenon on the Melbourne theatre The Festival of Sydney 1985 Prunella Scales, will present A PORTRAIT scene and now with the development of OF QUEEN VICTORIA drawn from her The Gap at the Trade Union Club in THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE own words - her diaries letters and other Foveaux Street, Surry Hill as a theatre THE PEOPLE SHOW RETURNS 50 talented high school students from all writings - and accompanied by music venue we will be seeing more in Sydney. The People Show from London which over NSW will take part in the Australian selected from pieces heard and enjoyed Following the success of CHARACTERS I was a popular success at the 1982 Theatre for Young People's Sydney by Victoria herself at Phillip Street earlier in the year CHARACTERS II will be Sydney Festival and has been hailed as Festival attraction. Specially Theatre. The programme glimpses presented during the Fesitval with one of the most dynamic and innovative commissioned from leading Australian Victoria through the varied experiences of assistance from the Theatreboard of the theatre groups in Great Britain today, playwright David Allen, the production is her immense reign, showing herasasmall Australia Council. In CHARACTERS II a returns to Sydney for a season at the York set in May 1942 and is entitled THE NIGHT child, the young Queen atherC,?ronation, group of comediennes will present a Theatre, Seymour Centre. This crazy WE BLITZED THE BRIDGE. It is suitable wife and mother, matron, Widow and series of quite separate acts each night. bunch of multi-talented guys exercise for primary and secondary school Empress and touches on her relationships Their theme is social satire and in particlar their usual virtuosity in the areas of student. with a succession of male figures, the role of women. AETT discount is $1 .00 music, acrobatics and comedy to turn to The show is ideal for holiday audiences as including King Leopold, Lord Melbour~e , and bookings on 2121188. their most difficult theme yet - the it is full of excitement and suspense as well Prince Albert, John Brown, her Indian meteoric rise of George Khan from being as music and dancing. A group of young servants .and Disraeli. Trust Member a member of that unknown vaudeville people have organised a dance aboard a nights when a $4.00 concession applies MUSIC AT THE FESTIVAL troupe, The Jossers, to becoming a star! ferry to raise money for the war effort but are Monday January 7th and Tuesday To celebrate International Youth Year, Trust Member nights are Thursday while they are jitterbugging and enjoying January 8th. At other performances a the gypsy music and dance spectac ular, January 10 and Monday January 14. A the festivities, three Japanesesubmarines $2.00 concession applies. Rajko, a group of talented young $2.00 concession applies other have slipped into Sydney Harbour. musicians and dancers from Hungary, performances. Suddenly the night erupts into an inferno will play at the Sydney Town Hall on of shellfire and depth charges and January 12, 15, 16 and 19 (AETT discount undercover of the darkness one of the January 15 only). At the same venue on FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT submarine's crew sneaks onto the ferry .. . January 17, 23,26and February 1, the Children from five up and any adults with THE NIGHT WE BLITZED THE BRIDGE Australia Ensemble will present Brahms, a sense of humour should make tracks to is being assisted by the Australian Poulenc, Saint-Saens, Schubert and the Footbridge Theatre to see two of Elizabethan Theatre Trust and will play at Beethoven and on January 18 John Australia's leading comics, Los Trios the Parade Theatre. It will be directed by Pringle, Richard Greager and Sharolyn Ringbarkus (yes, we did say itwasa duo). Simon Hopkinson, a freelance director Kimmorley will present JEWELS FROM Los Trios won the coveted Perrier Award who has been associated with the THE CROWN, an evening of English for best comedy revue from 120 Melbourne Theatre Company and the parlour songs. On January 24 at the attractions at the 1983 Edinburgh Fringe Darwin Theatre Group in recenttimesand Town Hall distinguished Australian Festival and were perhaps most lucidly has always had a particular interest in soprano Eilene Hannan will Sing in recital described by Robert Hewison in the children's theatre. Trust Members are accompanied by Welsh pianist Phi lip London Sunday Times "It might be invited to bring their children or Thomas. Laurel and Hardy. It could also be grandchildren to a family performance on Prunella Scales Vladimir and Estragon waiting for Godot. Saturday evening January 12 when a The Sofia Madrigal Choir will present two A precise cocktail of the basic ingredients $4.00 discount applies on adult tickets. A concerts - on January 20 at St. Mary's of live comedy, pathos, horror and $1 .00 concession on adult tickets applies WET DREAMS Cathedral and on January 21 at Sydney at other daytime and evening aggression ... They are the flavour of the Journalist and performer Kathy Lette Town Hall. The choir presents ancient moment, a total subversion of comedy performances. who established her reputaion as a writer music of the Balkan Peninsula, European revue. What is funny about a show that with PUBERTY BLUES in 1980, has Madrigals and Contemporary Choral The Sydney Sailors Home will play host explicitly offers no jokes at all? Precisely written a new play about young Music. On January 16 at the Great Hall, for the first Sydney season of Melbourne's that, this is the genius of Los Trios." Trust Australian women in the 80's, about their Sydney University, the Sydney Wind Member night is Friday January 4 when a Arena Theatre Company. They will yearnings, dreams, passions and Quintet will present a programme of present their much acclaimed production $3.00 concession applies. At other confusions. Called WET DREAMS it is works by Mozart, Vivaldi , Haydn, performances concession is $1 .00. for children, WOLF BOY, written and Tchaikovsky, Ibert and Damase. AETT di rected by Peter Charlton. It is the story of uncompromisingly modern in language and attitude and assaults the audience discount for all these events is $3.00 and a strange creature - a child not wholly bookings can be made through human and yet not wholly animal, which with a racy dialogue packed with entendre, pun and hilarity which Mitchells-Bass. comes out of the jungle. Atfirsta freak, it is simultaneously both delights and put on public display but the 'wolf boy' N.Z. PLAY FOR OFF BROADWAY soon becomes the property of scientists, shocks. But beneath this bright exterior is a serious exploration of the delusions New Zealand actress Heather Lindsay doctors and teachers. Together they has dramatised the dilemma of women in attempt to 'civilise' the wolf boy and in the and hypocrisies contained in the stereotypes of the liberated women as our society today as seen through Jill process learn a lot more than they teach. compared with the old sexist stereotypes. Tweedie's LETTERS FROM A FAINT­ The performance which lasts 50 minutes Kathy Lette is currently a reporter on the HEARTED FEMINIST. Martha is a full is suitable for both children and adults. Mike Willisee Show and has written a time, fulsome wife and mother. Her old The season is from January 15 to 27 with book called 'Hit and Ms - A Women's school chum, tvlary, is a banner-waving, performances Tuesday to Saturday at 12 Glib Survival Guide' presently being handbag hurling feminist. Heather noon and 2 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. As published by Penguin. The director, Lex Lindsay who feels for them both first all tickets are $5.50 no concessions are Marinos, is one of Australia's finest presented her one woman show at available. Bookings on 273274. theatrical talents having acted in , Wellington's Circa Theatre earlier this directed and written for the cinema, the year where it played to packed houses for theatre, radio and television . Highlights four weeks. The show's success she harnesses or ropes in sight. Circus Oz -.Jo'" _ of his career have been the AFI award believes lies in its razorsharp humour blends traditional circus with old­ winning film GOODBYE PARADISE, his which gently lampoons the women's Round the corner in the grounds beside fashioned clowning. They have virtually direction of the Ensemble's NO ROOM movement without mortally crushing the Seymour Centre Circus Oz will be turned circus upside down. From their FOR DREAMERS and his co-writing and either feminists, their leSS-liberated making a welcome return season. Circus first season at the 1978 Adelaide and directing of the highly successful TV sisters or, more miraculously, men. Oz is a circus without animals. There are Moomba Festivals they went on to be series BODYLINE. CONVERSATIONS WITH A FAINT­ electrifying feats of acrobatics, balanCing acclaimed in a Christmas season at WET DREAMS will be presented in the HEARTED FEMINIST plays at Off routines and aerial trapeze acts , England's famed Chichester Festival Cellblock Theatre and Trust Member Broadway from January 11 . A $4.00 imposing athleticism , unicycling , Theatre. Trust Member night is Saturday nights are Tuesday 8th January and discount applies at preview perform­ hilarious plate spinning and juggling. January 5 when a $3.00 concession Wednesday 9th January. $2 .00 ance on January 9 and 10. At other And there is always that constant element applies. For all other performances AETT concession at other performances. performances a $1 .00 discount applies. of danger with no nets, wires, safety concession is $1 .00. KINSELAS (3313100) THE PERFORMANCE SPACE (6987235) SHOWGUIDE Oxford Square 199 Cleveland Street, Redfern Films ** Indicates concession which may be 2001 : A Postcode Entr'acte: Refractions applied to each of two tickets any Until December 22 January 1 to 6 performance (unless otherwise stated). **$2.00 Sydney Improvised Music Association: A Concession available ONLY by Northside Theatre (4983166) January 9 to 12 purchase of cOl1cessional vouchers BONDI PAVILION THEATRE (307211) MARIAN STREET THEATRE Marian Him from the A.E.T.T. in person or on the Queen Elizabeth Drive, Bondi Beach Street, Killara January 15 to 20 enclosed coupon and available ONLY Two Women of Aries and Fairhavens by The Quiet Achievers by Leonard Teale **$100 for screenings specified below. Adrian Guthrie Until February 9 Members may purchase as many I December 14, 15 and 16. " $1 .00 (Mon-Thurs & Sun) PHILLIP STREET THREATRE (2328570) vouchers as they wish. Pavilion Theatre Workshop: The Walking $5.00 (December 16 and 18) 169 Phillip Street, Sydney Play Decem ber 22 and 23 MARIONETTE THEATRE OF Jack and the Beanstalk N.B, Concession is NOT available by II Backshed Productions: Jackie and the AUSTRALIA (273274) Until December 22 presenting membership card at cinema II Beanstalk Sydney Sailors Home *'$1 .00 box office. Earl y January 106-108 George Street An Evening with Queen Victoria Silkwood Theatre Company Walleroo Life on Mars by Terry O'Connell January 4 to 19 **$2.00 goes Walkabout Commences January 4 "$1.00 **$4.00 (January 7 and 8) GREATER UNION Throughout January All theatres and all presentations **$1 .00 NEW THEATRE (5193403) Q THEATRE (047 21 5735) **$1 .00 (except Saturday and Sunday 542 King Street, Newtown Cnr. Railway & Belmore Streets, Penrith CELLBLOCK THEATRE (2664800) performances and Public Holidays) East Sydney Technical College At l ast! the 1984 Show by Sanders, Better Known as Bee by Tony Reese Wet Dreams by Kathy Lette Bridges and Kemp Until December 16 January 3 to 26 Commences December 8 "50c. **$2.00 " $1 .00 ** $4.00 (January 8 and 9) NIMROD AT THE SEYMOUR (6920555) SEYMOUR CENTRE (6920555) VILLAGE THEATRES Seymour Centre, Cnr. Cleveland Street & Cnr. Cleveland SI. & City Road All Sydney Theatres FOOTBRIDGE THEATRE (6929955) City Road York Theatre: The People Show **$1 .50 (except Saturday evenings University of Sydney, Parramatta Road York Theatre: II Magnifico by Robyn January 9 to 26 and Public Hols) New Moon Theatre Company: Beach Archer "$2.00 Blanket Tempest Until December 22 **$4.00 (January 10 and 14) Until December 8 Downstairs; Zastrozzi by George F. Everest Theatre Centre Theatre Group: ** $2.00 HOYTS ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Walker In the Belly of the Beast by Jack Henry All Theatres and all presentations Los Trios Ringbarkus Commences January 4 Abbott Commences January 3 **$1.50 (except Saturday evenings and "$1 .00 January 10 to 16 Public Hols) **$1 .00 " $3.00 (January 7, 8 and 9) **$2.00 ** $3.00 (January 4) **$4.00 (January 11 and 15) Seymour Grounds: Circus Oz THE GAP THEATRE (2121188) OFF BROADWAY THEATRE (6920964) 73-79 Bay Street, Glebe Commences January 2 B Concession available at theatre box Sydney Trade Union Club, Foveaux '*$1 .00 Street, Surry Hills Griffin Theatre Company Love and the office on presentation of card Single Teenager by Grant Fraser **$3.00 (January 5) Characters Two January 3 to 19 Until December 15 ** $1 .00 " $1 .00 STABLES THEATRE (333817) Letters from a Faint Hearted Feminist by 10 Nimrod Street, Kings Cross HOYTS PLAZA BONDI (3895877) GENESIAN THEATRE (2677774) Jill Tweedie and Heather Lindsey Middle Aged Spread by Roger Hall ** $1 .50 (except Saturday evenings) 470 Kent Street, Sydney January 11 to February 2 Until December 9 The Murder Room by Jack Sharkey '*$1 .00 Bert and Maisy Until December 15 **$4.00 (Jan 9 & 10) December 13 to January 6 All About Eve by Mary Orr *'$2.00 DENDY CINEMA (2338166) Commences December 29 **$4.00 (December 19 & 20) PARADE THEATRE (2664800) Martin Place "$1.00 '*$1 .00 (except Saturday evenings) Anzac Parade, Kensington SYDNEY THEATRE COMPANY GRIFFIN THEATRE (333817) Australian Theatre for Young People: (2501777) Stables Theatre, 10 Nimrod Street, Kings The Night we Blitzed the Bridge by Drama Theatre, Sydney Opera House Cross Simon Hopkinson Masterclass by David Pownall New programme commences January January 11 to 26 Commences January 9 CHAUVEL CINEMA (330695) 15 ** $1.00 '*$1 .00 (Mon-Thurs & Sat mat) Cnr Oxford St . & Oatley Rd ., Paddington " $1 .00 "$4.00 (January 12) '*$3.00 (January 14, 23 and Feb 7) ** $1 .00 ~======~~======~ ! IN BRIEF (For A.E.T,T. concession and phone number for bookings see Showguide) member activities THE THEATRE OF THE DEAF will Before taking part in the London GOULBURN AND BRAIDWOOD conduct visual communication theatre International Mime Festival ENTR'ACTE TOUR workshops from Jan uary 7 to 12. These THEATRE will present a return season of Saturday March 9 and Sunday March 10. wo r kshops are intended as an its acclaimed work REFRACTIONSatthe Sydney Members Committee President, introduction to visual theatre and Performance Space between January 1 Shirley Hay, will lead a tour of the historic participants require no previous and 6. January2will be a benefit nightfor towns of Goulburn and Braidwood in knowledge of sign language. They are the company with tickets for the March next year. The tour will include a open to both deaf and hearing. Enquiries performance and supper at $10. Between visit to Berrima en route, an inspection of on 3571200. January 3 and 5 Pierre Thibaudeau, one the historic homestead Riversdale at As part of its fund raising efforts, the of the co-founders of Entr'acte will also Goulburn, the Goulburn Museum, and Theatre of the Deaf is running a raffle to present a late night show called BLUES the Garroorigang Museum. Sunday will be drawn on January 16. First prize is a FOR HEAVEN. be spent exploring the town of return trip for two to the Gold Coast Braidwood including Ryrie Park, donated by Ansett Pioneer with Showing in the gallery of the Strathallan Stud, where your host will be accommodation by Club Surfers. Other PERFORMANCE SPACE until December former OlympiC Equestrian Neale Lavis, prizes include a weekend for two at the 16 is an exhibition of paintings by and Bedervale Colonial Homestead Regent Hotel , a garnet and diamond ring Olszanski, Morgan and Eggleton called which was designed by the well known donated by Goldmark Jewellers and Recursions: Strange Loops. It will be architect John Verge who also designed books to the value of $120 donated by followed by Carnival, an exhibitioIl of Camden Park and Elizabeth Bay House. William Collins. Your application for recent paintings by Gary Willis. Cost for the tour is $150 which includes tickets is enclosed . Following Entr'acte in the Space from bus transport, all meals, twin share January 9 to 12 is the Sydney Improvised accommodation (single supplement $15) Music Association. HIM, a performance and all entries. Shirley Hay's country THE DRAMA STUDIO (Sydney) which of two women and their struggle for love, weekends are always faSCinating and offers a three year training programme autonomy and each other, plays from 15 very popular so ring her on 3571200 now for actors is holding auditions for the to 20 January following a season at to make your booking or further 1985 entry. Enquiries on 2673721 . Melbourne'S Fringe Festival. information.