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Nunsense - a Habit-Forming, Un-Convent-Ional Musical Comedy! NOVEMBER, 1986 Vol 10 No 10 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Nunsense - a habit-forming, un-convent-ional musical comedy! A scene from the New York production of NUNSENSE NUN SENSE by Dan Goggin ing four are languishing in the 'fridge! Hubert and the Reverend Mother belt out Directed by Barry Creyton The Department of Health is about to "Just a Coupl'a Sisters". All nun-stop Musical direction by Michael Tyack descend on the convent, so in order to fun. Choreography by Dolores Dunbar raise enough money for their burial, the NUNSENSE has won four prestigious Designed by Peter Tyers Sisters decide to organise a talent show. New York awards including Best Off Lighting design by Donn Byrnes They aim to bring in further funds by Broadway Musical of 1986, Best Music Cast: Joan Sydney, Maggie King, Robyn selling Sister Julia's book "Baking with and Best Book. Arthur, Geraldene Morrow, Georgie The Blessed Virgin Mary" which, Parker incidentally, contains the recipe for her BOOKING INFORMA nON Footbridge Theatre vichyssoise. Tue Jan 6 to Sun Feb 1 The variety show is, in fact, the play: Tue to Thu at 8 p.m. ity the poor Little Sisters of the set, incongrously, is the backdrop to Fri at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. P Hoboken, they have a problem! GREASE which the nun's eighth graders Sat at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Twenty-two of their members died of are producing (the Sisters promised not Sun at 5 p.m. botulism when Sister Julia Child of God to disturb the set!) AETT $22.50 (except Fri 9 p.m. and (the convent chef) cooked up a tureen of The five Sisters bounce through an Sat 8 p.m.) contaminated vichyssoise . ., "Miracu­ hilarious, toe-tapping show. Sister . G.P. $26.50 (Fri 9 p.m. and Sat 8 p.m.) lously" five of their members escaped the Robert Anne does her impersonations $25.50 (Tue to Thu and mats) same fate as they were out playing bingo. (from Katherine Hepburn to Attila the Pens/Stud $19.50 (except Fri 9 p.m. and Sat 8 p.m.) The problem is that after burying Nun), Sister Mary Amnesia (her memory Children $15.50 (except Fri 9 p.m. and eighteen of their number, the money ran has failed) astounds with her ventrilo­ Sat 8 p.m.) out when the Mother Superior decided to quist act, Sister Mary Leo performs the Two AETT tickets per member buy a video cassette recorder; the remain- ballet "The Dying Nun" and Sister Mary 2 farewell appearance by Nifty (you know Tasmanian TOD Tour Musical at Q who) as the ghost of Christmas past. You can see the show only, or make a night of it with dinner at Kinselas, the show and The Theatre of the Deaf are certainly If TARANTARA TARANTARA! by then dancing at the disco which follows. A an energetic group. The day after Ian Taylor Seems like a good way to spread a little ~L WAITING FOR GODOT finishes at Directed by Arthur Dicks Christmas cheer. the Seymour Centre, they leave for a Musical direction by Allan McFadden four-week tour of Tasmania. Designed by Leone Sharp The company will be performing its Cast: Barbara Morton, Julie Mullins, BOOKING INFORMATION new play for infant schools MOON Rosalie Fletcher, Ric Burchall, Dennis Mon Nov 10 to Sat Jan 3 BETWEEN TWO HOUSES by Suzanne Dinner 7 p.m., show 8.30 p.m. Scott, Jonathan Biggins, Jack Youens, AETT $18.00 show only (Mon to Thu) Lebeau, as well as SILENT VIDEO for and Waldemar Gorecki $30.00 dinner and show (Mon to Thu) schools and community groups all over Q Theatre, Penrith $33.00 dinner and show (Fri/Sat) Tasmania. The company will also con­ G.P. $20.00 show only (Mon to Thu) duct visual theatre workshops for the n traditional Q Theatre st~le, the fi.nal $32.00 dinner and show (Mon to Thu) deaf community and will be performing I produc.tion of the year IS a musIcal $23.00 show only (FriiS at) in the Salamanca Festival in Hobart. for the whole family. Set in the 1880s $35.00 dinner and show (Fri/Sat) TARANTARA TARANTARA! is a pot­ Two AETT tickets per member pourri of your favourite Gilbert and Sullivan songs woven around highlights in the careers of William Gilbert, Sir Arthur Sullivan and Richard D'Oyly Corporeal-Mime Carte. It is almost ten years now since the musical was last given a professional pro­ duction in Sydney. At the time Barry Lowe, writing in The National Times, said of the Marian Street Theatre produc­ tion (which later transferred to the Theatre Royal) "If you have forgotten what great entertainment is like, then you need look no further". BOOKING INFORMATION Q Theatre, Penrith Fri Nov 14 to Mon Dec 15 Wed to Sat at 8 p.m. Steve Ripley and Catherine Gillard in SILENT VIDEO Wed at 11 a.m. Sat at 4 p.m. Entr'acte Theatre in T1MESCAPE Sun at 4.30 p.m. Old and New AETT discount $1.00 ntr'acte Theatre will present two new Bookings on (047) 21 5735 E works in their Performance Space season which continues until November tudents of the Aboriginal Islander 16. ON ARCHEOLOGY is conceived Dance Theatre, together with former S and created by Nick Tsoutas and students and teachers, will present a Xmas is Coming! OSTRAKA is conceived and created by season of dance works this month at Pierre Thibaudeau. They are both based Belvoir Street. Traditional dances will on the themes of memory, departure, include those from Mao Island in Torres NOTTA LOTTA SERIOUS BITS! return and repetition. Entr'acte was Strait and, for the first time this year, Directed by Bob Hudson formed in 1979 by Pierre Thibaudeau from Bathurst Island. The students have Cast: Graeme Blundell, Vince Sorrenti, and Elisabeth Burke after their return recently spent two weeks on Bathurst Penny Cook, Mike Bishop, Dave Gray, from Canada where they had been per­ Island learning about the lifestyle. In Su Cruikshank, Lyn Shakespeare forming with Omnibus. Both Pierre and contrast to the traditional dances, Kinselas Elisabeth studied corporeal-mime in modern works by choreographers such as Paris with Etienne Decroux and in Mon­ Paul Saliba and Raymond Sawyer will inselas is staging a fun show to help treal with Jean Asselin. They have also be included in the programme. K celebrate the festive season. NOTTA received continuing acclaim for their LOTTA SERIOUS BITS! is a pot-pourri innovative style of theatre. BOOKING INFORMATION of skits, jokes, sketches, songs, parodies Thu Nov 13 to Sun Nov 23 and satire (whew!). Described as BOOKING INFORMATION Thu, Fri, Sat at 8 p.m. "inspired lunacy and buffoonery", the Until Sun Nov 16 Sun at 5 p.m. show includes Penny Cook as the Virgin Tue to Sun at 8 p.m. AETT discount $3.00 AETT discount $1.00 Bookings on 699 3273 Mary, Graeme Blundell managing to play the entire N.S.W. legal profession, and a Bookings on 699 5091 If Et An Austrlliian Elizabethan Theatre Trust presentationl _________________ _ ___________ 3 the role of Celia's mother, Josephine, Harrison and Colbert and - wait for it! - Rowena, Miles' Country Bound wife, who has not to date been seen but ollowing a season in Melbourne, Rex made her name off stage, as a too-briefly FHarrison and Claudette Colbert will KING OF COUNTRY by Tim Gooding clad femme fatale in the mother's race Directed by Wayne Harrison appear in Frederick Lonsdale's comedy sports day. As for the plot, we shouldn't AREN'T WE ALL? in Sydney in Designed by Michael SCOI/-Mitchell give too much away but we can mention Lighting by Nigel Levings February. Full details will be in the "cricket widows" who find that December T.N. but anyone wishing to Dramaturgy by Louis Nowra affairs are second in importance to the Choreography by Meryl Tankard make an early booking should ring the cricket match. membership office in early November by Cast: Terry Donovan, Jodie Gillies, which time we hope to have prices Valerie Bader, Mal/hew Fargher, Les available. BOOKING INFORMATION Foxcroft, George Washingmachine, the Thu Nov 27 to Sat Dec 27 Three Chord Wonders Tue to Sat at 8 p.m. Wharf Theatre More Intimate Thu at 11 a.m. Sat and Sun at 5 p.m. AETT $14.00 (Tue to Fri), $10.00 mats Exchanges! G.P. $16.00 (Tue to Thu), $18.00 (Fri and Sat evg), $14.00 (Sat/ Sun mat), $13.00 (Thu mat) A CRICKET MATCH Pens/ Stud $12.00 (Tue to Fri) by Alan Ayckbourn $11.00 (Sat/ Sun mat), $10.00 (Thu mat) Two AETT tickets per member Directed by Sandra Bates Designed by Tom Bannerman Cast: Gillian Axtell and Brian Young Ensemble Theatre Williamson Premiere ho needs a soap opera when Sydney EMERALD CITY by David Williamson W has the continuing saga of Alan Directed by Richard Wherrel/ Ayckbourn's INTIMATE EX­ Sel/ings by Laurence Eastwood CHANGES? Four of the eight interlock­ Starring John Bell, Ruth Cracknell, Max Terry Donovan ing plays are being presented by the Cullen, Robyn Nevin, Andrea Moor he STC premiere of Tim Gooding's Ensemble and A CRICKET MATCH is Drama Theatre, S.O.H. KING OF COUNTRY opens at the the third in the series. T Wharf Theatre on December 3. Set in Gillian Axtell and Brian Young, who Tamworth, the play is about a divorced are the front runners in this dramatic A New Year's treat will be the January 1 opening of EMERALD CITY, a new Australian father who, regretting the marathon, play four characters each in ~ play by David Williamson, Australia's move he made with his family to the city the play.
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