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University of Wollongong Research Online Theatre Australia 7-1978 Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(12) July 1978 Robert Page Editor Lucy Wagner Editor Follow this and additional works at: http://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia Recommended Citation Page, Robert and Wagner, Lucy, (1978), Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(12) July 1978, Theatre Publications Ltd., New Lambton Heights, 54p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia/20 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(12) July 1978 Description Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 8 Letters 9 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 5 Canberra Theatre Centre — Marguerite Wells 6 The askM and the Everyman Experience — Sol run Hoaas 7 Katharine Brisbane reviews this year’s Playwrights Conference Features 11 Melbourne's Lost Theatres, Part 2 — Ross Thorne 14 The Australian Film & Television School 16 Rex & Jim International 18 Hungary has never known avant-garde Theatre — Bogdan Gieraczynski Playscript 33 Marx — Act 1, Ron Blair Dance 40 Poppy as their creation — William Shoubridge WA Ballet Company's Winter Season — Terry Owen Hans Brenaa’s Master Classes in Ballet — Terry Owen Figaro a happy medium — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Oh; Let me in — Suzanne Spunner Departmental — Raymond Stanley Troylus and Cressida — Vi Richards 23 NSW Da — Robert Page A Day in the Death of Joe Egg — Adrian Wintle Isn't it Pathetic at his Age — Greg Curran What Every Woman Knows; Spokesong — Lucy Wagner 26 SA Marx — Michael Morley The inW ter's Tale — Bruce McKendry 28 WA A Streetcar Named Desire — Collin O’Brien Waiting for Godat — Cliff iG llam 29 QLD King Lear — Don Batchelor City Sugar — Veronica Kelly Rocky Horror Show; Young Mo — 31 ACT Act Now — Marguerite Wells 32 TAS Tasmanian Survey — Karl Hubert Richard Fotheringham Film 46 Records 48 Books 49 Elizabeth Riddell Roger Coveil John McCallum Publisher Theatre Publications Ltd., New Lambton Heights, 54p This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia/20 7 ^ 1 - 0 9 9± ]~H£ I m • How_ much do directors need to know f about what makes ' actor s tick? ...or producers about the law?.. ...or production managers about film equipment? Not much? And for people who’d just Just enough to do the job? love to get behind a camera, Well, we at the Open (External) Program of the Australian Film and We give hands-on experience in film and video, and opportunities Television School happen to think these things are pretty important. to learn other basic production skills in our workshops, short courses After all — what about the producer who's got the money, is ready and seminars. Our fees are reasonable and we design our training to shoot, and suddenly lands a writ for a defamatory script? to suit people with other work commitments. And isn't it the production manager who needs to know in a hurry Thousands of people around Australia have already participated what is the best equipment to produce a special effect, and where to in Open Program activities. get it? And how many directors have never really understood how actors w ork and were afraid to ask? Interested? Write to: Open (External) Program Australian Film and Television School Think we’ve got a point ? PO Box 126, North Ryde 2113 Or telephone: (02)887 1666 The Open Program provides training and retraining opportunities in these and all sorts of other industry-related skills — like marketing, small film company management, production management, camera assisting, and continuity. We can also design workshops and course <s> to suit your particular needs. Australian Film and Television School Theatre A ustralia Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 8 Letters 9 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance July 1978 Spotlight 5 Canberra Theatre Centre — Marguerite Wells Volume 2 No. 12 6 The Mask and the Everyman Experience — Sol run Hoaas 7 Katharine Brisbane reviews this year’s Playwrights Conference Features 11 Melbourne's Lost Theatres, Part 2 — Ross Thorne 14 The Australian Film & Television School 16 Rex & Jim International 18 Hungary has never known avant-garde Theatre — Bogdan Gieraczynski Playscript 33 Marx — Act 1, Ron Blair Dance 40 Poppy as their creation — William Shoubridge 42 WA Ballet Company's Winter Season — Terry Owen 43 Hans Brenaa’s Master Classes in Ballet — Terry Owen Opera 44 Figaro a happy medium — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Oh; Let me in — Suzanne Spunner Departmental — Raymond Stanley Troylus and Cressida — Vi Richards 23 NSW Da — Robert Page A Day in the Death of Joe Egg — Adrian Wintle Isn't it Pathetic at his Age — Greg Curran What Every Woman Knows; Spokesong — Lucy Wagner 26 SA Marx — Michael Morley The Winter's Tale — Bruce McKendry 28 WA A Streetcar Named Desire — Collin O’Brien Waiting for Godat — Cliff Gillam 29 QLD King Lear — Don Batchelor City Sugar — Veronica Kelly Rocky Horror Show; Young Mo — Richard Fotheringham 31 ACT Act Now — Marguerite Wells 32 TAS Tasmanian Survey — Karl Hubert Film 46 Elizabeth Riddell Records 48 Roger Coveil Books 49 John McCallum rational WOLLDNGON8 ! Theatre Opera Dance - V 1- , '■ Guidep50 Theatre Australia Editor: Robert Page Executive Editor: Lucy Wagner Manager: Jaki Gothard Advisory Board: John Bell, Graeme Blundell, Ellen Braye, Katharine Brisbane, Vivian Chalwyn, Gordon The flow of theatrical traffic between Aust Girl, Godspell and Pippin, and also started the Chater, John Clark, Michael Crosby, W.A. ralia and the two major countries of English trend of putting Australian artists into these big Enright, Jack Hibberd, Ken Horler, Garrie speaking theatre, Britain and the US, seems to shows, like Johnny Lockwood and Johnny Hutchinson, Robert Jordan, Philip Mqson, Stan be very much on the up. And at last it looks as if Farnham. Marks, Jake Newby, Phil Noyce, Raymond the one-way system that made the journey from Omodei, Philip Parsons, Diana Sharpe, Ken The latest in the long line of these shows is, of Southgate, Raymond Stanley, Elizabeth Sweeting, this end so frustrating and usually impossible, is course, A Chorus Line, still running in Marlis Thiersch, John Timlin, Tony Trench, slowly becoming two-way (and could perhaps Melbourne, but there is also plenty more on the Guthrie Worby, Richard Wherrett. become a full free-way system with a bit more way. With Michael Edgley, Brodziak and J C road work en route). Williamson’s Productions have just completed an Advertising: Jaki Gothard/Debbie Cockle Following Benjamin Franklin and the impact exciting looking line-up of drama, dance and Artist: Henry Cho it has made in the West End (Richard Wherrett’s opera from overseas that will be touring here in photo has recently been used in Plays and the next eighteen months or so. The drama front Players to advertise the E15 acting school — kicks off with Dracula this August, a new and Correspondents: with Chater’s on the cover), though sadly not subtly sensuous version of the blood-sucking N.S.W.: Editors (049) 67-4470 enough to keep it running for much longer, gentleman’s adventures. Annie, the tear-jerking Vic.: Raymond Stanley (03) 419-1204 Williamsons The Club — renamed The Players Qld.: Don Batchelor (07) 269-3018 Broadway musical follows, and later another W.A.: Joan Ambrose (09) 299-6639 — will be following in its tracks to London and thriller called Deathtrap. It will be interesting to S.A.: Michael Morley (08) 275-2204 the States, though there to Washington as see how the much less obviously commercial duo opposed to Broadway. It is only sad that the of Chekhov’s The Bear and Cocteau’s The Theatre Australia gratefully acknowledges the London producers have not seen fit, as they did Human Voice that Liv Ullman is coming over to financial assistance of the Australia Council, the with Benjamin Franklin, to take the package of Literature Board of the Australia Council, the play, will do for the entrepreneurs. Interesting, New South Wales Cultural Grants Board, the the excellent and commercially successful too, that an actress from the outre cinema of the Arts Grants Advisory Committee of South Nimrod production. As it is Michael Blakemore sixties (though a fine talent) has become a figure Australia, the Queensland Cultural Activities will be putting together a predominantly English that the public will pay to see, whatever the Department, the Victorian Ministry of the Arts, The Western Australian Arts Council and the cast; let’s hope it doesn’t have the same effect as dramas she is in. Assistance of the University of Newcastle. the English production of Don s Party, that of For ballet lovers the “greatest hits” approach merely confirming all the worst British has been taken, with assorted stars as the order Manuscripts: prejudices about Australians. of the day, from “Stars of World Ballet” to the Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should Last July director Alan Schneider came over Dance Theatre of Harlem, to the Full Bolshoi be forwarded to the editorial office, 80 Elizabeth from America for the Peter Summerton Ballet, to “Rudi and Friends”. And the D’Oyly Street, Mayfield, NSW 2304. Telephone (049) 67-4470. Foundation, and was here while Don't Piddle Carte Opera Company of ninety plus their full Whilst every care is taken of manuscripts and Against The Wind, Mate, was having its first symphony orchestra will be here next May to visual material supplied for this magazine, the full production at Jane Street, Sydney.