ISSN 0314-0598 JUNE 1978 VOLUME 2 NUMBER 4

TRUST OBTAINS RIGHTS TO THE GEORGIAN BEDROOM FARCE STATE DANCE Alan Ayckbourn's most successful play to date BEDROOM FARCE which has been COMPANY playing to capacity houses at 's RETURNS National Theatre since March last year wi' be produced in by the Trust for a national tour with a top Australian ca c, f­ It opens at the Theatre Royal, I · October.

The mounting of BEDROOM FARCE is a major step for the Trust which in recent years has restricted itself to the entre­ preneuring of established productions. It marks the return of the Trust to the posi­ tion of a major non-commercial producer of quality theatre in Australia. Full details of the production will come to you in August Trust News. For the fourth time since 1963 this The Georgian State Dance Company comes remarkable dance company will tour to Sydney's from Thursday E August 31 to Tuesday Septem ber 5 only. ::> Australia. Based on the traditional folk c c dances of Georgia the programme is a Members receive a $2.00 concession on .. tickets and have a preferential booking .,~ visual spectacular from the fiery exuber­ c. ance of the male dancers to the grace and period which closes on Saturday July 1. o ANNUAL GENERAL .... poise of the female dancers and the Your booking coupon is enclosed . '" MEETING Ol magnificent costumes.

Members will by now have received their ;; !!. Annual Report and have learned that the "0 BIG BAD MOUSE RETURNS o Annual General Meeting will be held on a limited season from Wednesday August Monday June 26 at 5.30 p.m. This is just ~c. and Jimmy Edwards put their .. comic genius to full use in the hilarious 2nd. Members may reserve their seats for to remind you that we do hope you will ..on show BIG BAD MOUSE which has just the first two weeks of the season on the be able to be present - if not for the 01 C started its second Austral ian tour in Perth. enclosed booking form. meeting at least for the supper which t; o It plays at the Theatre Royal, Sydney for follows at 6.30 p.m. We would also be Q delighted to welcome any guests you wish ~ to bring to the supper and look forward "0 " Our membership year closes on June 30th to the opportunity of meeting with you. ~ and those of you whose membership falls So that we can cater adequately would 01 due on that date and have not already you please let our Membership Secretary ~ RENEWAL Olga Nalepka know that you will be able :>; renewed should do so as soon as possible. :i., The next edition of Trust News will only to attend (357 1200) . II) be sent to current Members. ~ REMINDER x -;;; §"0 If you would like any further information about the facilities available to Trust members please ring the membership :0 office on 357 1200 The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, P.O. Box 137, Kings Cross, N.S.W. 2011 ::> Q. to be Guest of Honour. It should be quite an occasion! Your booking coupon is MOVIE NEWS enclosed. Tickets are $12.00 each. Members are obviously very interested in films! We were inundated with applications BULL N'BUSH EVENING for JULIA, TURNING POINTand ANNIE THURSDAY JULY 6 HALL after our offer in May Trust News. Following the success of our evening at So film vouchers will become a regular the Bull N'Bush last year we have taken feature of Trust News. (arranged by the Ladies Committee) over the entire theatre restaurant once again to see this year's show. Compered HOYTS THEATRES by Noel Brophy it is called THE MAGIC The much awaited CHANT OF JIMMIE HUNTER VALLEY DAY VISIT OF YESTE RYEAR. Tickets are $12.00 BLACKSMITH is scheduled to open in the SATURDAY 15TH JULY each and we can guarantee a most enjoy­ city and Parramatta on June 22nd. able evening. Your booking coupon is Featuring Jack Thompson, Peter Sumner, After the huge success of the Hunter enclosed. Valley weekend in April we have arranged Angela Punch and Ruth Cracknell it stars a special one day visit for Members and Where it all goes ... Tony Lewis and Freddie Reynolds - two their friends to the Lower Hunter. You Aborigines new to the screen. It is Members will be interested to know that depart Sydney early morning calling at the Adapted from the Thomas Keneally novel. with the money raised from their various historic. villa'g~ of Wollombie for morning functions the Ladies Committee has spent tea and a visit to the Wollombie Museum GREATER UNION THEATRES $1000 on new leather armour for the which is being opened specially for our We are del ighted to be able to extend Costume Hire Department. Armour is ·visit. Wollombie was one of the first concessions to the Greater Union chain continually being requested for produc· settlements on the great north road to of cinemas. The system for purchasing tions and the old armour was looking very Maitland and has had a fascinating history. vouchers is slightly different from Hoyts. tatty. Roman soldiers now look quite From Wo(lombie you move on to Pokolbin Members must still purchase vouchers splendid as they march out of Dowling where lunch will be served in Rothbury's from the Trust but the voucher entitles Street! Great Cask Hall. This will be followed by you to see any Greater Union film at any tastings at Rothbury's Tyrrell's and Another purchase for the orchestra has cinema throughout the country for a McPhersons. You depart for Sydney been a vibraphone which is due to be period of two months from date of issue. following afternoon tea. The all inclusive delivered any day now and is keenly Each voucher provides for the admittance price for this delightful day is only $20! awaited. of two people and costs $6 - a saving of Book. now on the enclosed form. The N.S.W. Theatre of the Deaf which is $2.00 on the normal price for a double administered by the Trust organised a ticket. The voucher is valid for screenings FASHION PARADE AND national seminar on deaf theatre in early from Monday to Friday only. You can LUNCHEON, GRAND BALLROOM June and a $100 was given towards see a full listing of Greater Union films in WENTWORTH HOTEL, THURS­ expenses. The Theatre will also receive your newspaper. They include LOOKING DAY AUGUST 3 AT 12.30 P.M. the entire proceeds from the Fashion FOR MR. GOODBAR in which Academy Parade so there is another very good Award winner Diane Keaton turns to One of the highlights of the year's activities reason to come along! strong drama and Franco Zeffirelli's latest is the annual fashion parade and luncheon movie JESUS OF NAZARETH which which is always extremely popular with features a galaxy of stars. DO B"RING YOUR FRIENDS! Members and their friends. Fashions will be presented by Norma McDonald of the In case we haven't made it clear you PLEASE NOTE that vouchers are Custom Shop, Double Bay and as a are very welcome to bring as many not available for purchase at the special feature this year there will be a friends as you wish to Member functions. They are not exclusively cinema. Members must purchase parade of costumes from early operas for Members although organised vouchers in advance by mail or by drawn from the Trust's own Costume Hire primarily for them. ringing the Membership Secretary Department. Lady McMahon has agreed on 357 1200 to arrange to collect them from the Trust's Kings Cross office. THE PARIS COMPANY Paramor, Sally Campbell, John Gaden, Geraldine Turner, Neil Redforn. Back Row: Martin Sharp, Roy Ritchie, Julie MacGregor, Elizabeth Knight, Brian Thomson, Bill Walker, Jono Enmark, Ralph Tyrrell, Arthur Dignam, . DRACULA IS Fund raising has been very successful COMING! (their art auction alone raised $7000) and the Paris Company is now all set to open You may have read in the press that with Dorothy Hewett's play PANDORA'S DRACULA, the play that's taken Broad­ CROSS on July 29th - two weeks later way by storm, is to be mounted in than we previously advertised as a result Austral ia with an all Austral ian cast. It of alterations to the Paris Theatre (in will be directed by Sir Robert Helpmann Liverpool St., Darlinghurst). Bookings and play at Her Majesty's Theatre from Front Row: Rex Cramphorn, Gil Appleton, can be made on 619193 and Members mid August. There will be concessions Dorothy Hewett, Luciana Arrighi , Anna Seni or , receive a $1.00 concession on the A available to Members. More details in Kate Fitzpat rick , Jennifer Claire, Robyn Nevin , August Trust News. Middle Row: Bill Harding, Fran Moore, John Reserve price. AN EVENING WITH NEW SEASONS AT THE TOTE QUENTIN CRISP AND MARIAN STREET

The Tote's second season of five plays individual shows. And REMEMBER commences on August 2nd at the Opera Marian Street has a fully licensed restaurant House with one of Noel Coward's funniest where you can have a three course dinner plays HAY FEVER. It is closely followed for $6.50 from 6.15 p.m. It's a great way at the Parade by Ann Jellicoe's THE to start the evening. Don't forget to book! KNACK with its carefree, exuberant and energetic view of teenage life in-between adolescence and maturity. The season concludes with three classics - Tennessee Williams NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, a POppy RETURNS moving story of love and redemption set in Mexico, a Feydeau farce THE LADY If you missed seeing Poppy, Graeme FROM MAXIM'S and George Bernard Murphy's tribute to Jean Cocteau, when Shaw's WIDOWERS' HOUSES - his first it played at the Theatre Royal recently play and one that raised a storm with its you will have a second chance when attack on the slum landlords. Members it is presented in the Drama Theatre, wishing to subscribe should ring The Tote from June 30 to on 662 6122 so they can be sent a July 8 as Programme II of the Company's brochure. Subscribers save $7.50 per next season. subscription. For those of you who do not wish to see all the productions your Programme I from June 21 to June 28 Trust Membership entitles you to a $1.00 includes three works - Graeme Murphy's discount on one ticket Monday - Thurs­ FIRE EARTH AIR WATER which was day evenings and Saturday matinees. premiered last October and two new works. Don Asker, Choreographer in Marian Street's second season of three residence at Nederlands Dance Theatre plays opens on July 28 with a comedy and creator of MONKEYS IN A CAGE thriller CATCH US IF YOU CAN by Jack Those of you who saw that wonderful which was presented by the Australian Weinstock and Willie Gilbert and this is TV film THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT Ballet last year, has created EVERYMAN'S followed by Anouilh's WALTZ OF THE presented by Stuart Wagstaff last year TROTH. In the final work WHITE TOREADORS, the French farce which need no introduction to Quentin Crisp WOMAN dancer/choreographer Graeme for that was his biography. He has been won the New York critics award. Season Watson sets out to capture a mood inspired described as one of the stately homos of Two concludes with ALADDIN 78, a by the photographic imagery of fashion . His flamboyant exhibitionism, revue specially written for Marian Street photographer Helmut Newton using music by well-known writers. Subscribers to the henna-dyed hair and unconventional be­ by Luciano Berio. haviour shocked London of the 30's and season can see each show for two thirds he found a world of brutality, ostracism the normal price. Ring Marian Street on even violence but also comedy. Now in 4983166 to obtain a subscribers brochure. Your booking coupon for this season with the winter of his life (his own description) Alternatively Members receive a 50c con­ details of prices and concessions is en­ this raconteur, homourist, philosopher and cession on the purchase of two tickets for closed. eccentric has brought together a delightful evening's entertainment which has already been a great success in London. It comes to the Theatre Royal on Wednesday July Members who bought Taffy Davies' first 5th and your booking coupon is enclosed. book AUSTRALIAN NICKNAMES (and Canberra Members have the opportunity so THIS JOKER IN those of you who kept meaning to but to see Quentin Crisp on July 26th at the didn't get around to it) will be interested Canberra Theatre. They receive a $1.00 to know that Taffy Davies has come up THE PUB SAID... with another book crammed full of vital concession. information such as: "An Evening with Quentin Crisp is both a tonic and a delight. He is a fascinating a sex maniac's world tour brochure combination of Wildean dandy and Sart­ where DOES that lost day go when rean existential ist. There is no denying you cross the Date Line? his ceaseless fund of wit, his verbal prison playwrights and their moving precision, or his sudden shafts of wisdom. effects on audiences You go in expecting a show and you come how to write a cliche-ridden sports out having met a remarkable, and very story and prove too good for your likeable, man." ... Arts Guardian opposition on the day. "If Quentin Crisp had never existed it is And many more. It's on sale at a recom­ unlikely that anyone would have had the mended price of $7.95 but for Trust nerve to invent him. The Crisp gospel is Members it's available at $6.95. And it simple and austere. Style is what counts comes with an added bonus. Taffy Davies in his life." ...... London Times will himself, personally autograph every copy sold. r-______~ Ii.

CHANGES AT THE ACTORS a traditional production of ROMEO AND for Violin, Cello and Piano. Members may COMPANY JU LI ET in the Theatre Downstairs on purchase as many tickets as they wish on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday evenings the enclosed form. And remember there During the forthcoming season of GLASS until July 1st. The State Government are no tickets available for sale at the door MENAGERIE The Actors Company will Cultural Grants Advisory Council has on the night. be introducing a special late night show given a grant for the production and every on Friday and Saturday nights following effort is being made to keep all aspects of JANE STREET SEASON OPENS the evening performance. Details of the the production as authentic as possible. show have not been announced so ring A rem inder that the annual season pre­ Trust Members receive a $1.00 concession sented by the National Institute of the theatre for details. If the show is a and may reserve seats by telephoning the success more late night shows will follow. Dramatic Art at the Jane Street Theatre, on 692 0555. Randwick, commences on June 21. This I: The season of THE GLASS MENAGERIE year's company includes Stuart Campbell, I' also heralds the introduction of Sunday BERYL POTTER AT CHALWIN Angela Punch, Ron Rodger, Robert afternoon performances. They start at CASTLE . Alexander, Kerry Walker, Jenee Welsh, 4 p.m. And if you're unemployed why Robert Menzies, Bill Charlton, John not take advantage of the Company's Australian pianist Beryl Potter joins Ladislav Jasek on violin and Hans Gyors Clayton, Vivienne Garrett and Andrew special offer. You can purchase tickets Sharpe. See Showguide for details. for certain performances for $1.00. Check on cello for the next Sunday night concert dE1tails with the theatre. at Chalwin Castle on July 9. Miss Potter is highly regarded as an accompanist and CANBERRA OPERA SEASON ROMEO & JULIET AT THE chamber music performer and this year is Canberra Opera's next season of Benjamin Britten's ALBERT HERRING takes place SEYMOUR touring for the ABC as associate artist with clarinetist Jacques Bremer. The Chalwin at the Canberra Theatre between July 19 Sydney's Players Theatre Company under programme comprises Bach's Suite III in C and 29. Trust Members receive a $1.00 the direction of Olive Bodill, Anthony Major for Cello, Kodaly's Duo Op. 7 for concession and may reserve their seats at Wheeler and Graham Correy are presenting Violin and Cello and Dvorak's Trio Op. 90 the Theatre on 49-7600.

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** indicates concession which may be MARIAN ST. THEATRE (4983166) THEATRE ROYAL (2316111) applied to two tickets any performance What Every Woman Knows (Barrie) Dusa, Fish Stas & Vi (Gems) (unless otherwise stated). Please present Until July 22 Until June 24 your membership card when purchasing Catch Me If You Can (Weinstock/Gilbert) **$1.40 tickets. Commences July 28 **50c An Evening with Quentin Crisp SYDNEY July 5 - July 18 THEATRE RESTAURANT **$1.00 THE ACTORS COMPANY (6602503) (909822) The Glass Menagerie (Williams) Crushed by Desire (Boddy) CANBERRA June 20 - July 15 Continuing The Death of a Salesman (Miller) **50c (Man - Thurs) CANBERRA OPERA (497600) Albert Herring (Britten) Commences July 21 (5193403) ** 90c July 19-29 The Radio-Active Harrow Shall\( (Romeril) **$1.00 THE DANCE COMPANY (20588) Until June 17 Drama Theatre, S.O.H. Friday the Thirteenth (Morgan) CANBERRA REPORTORY SOCIETY June 21 - July 8 Commences June 24 (474222) ** $1.00 (Wed-Sat) NIMROD UPSTAIRS (6995003) The Department (Williamson) ELIZABETHAN CHAMBER GROUP (Tues - Sun) Until July 1 Henry IV (Shakespeare) (3571200) Born Yesterday (Kanin) Commences June 24 Bach, Kodaly & Dvorak Commences July 13 I July 9 * *$1.00 (Tue, Wed, Thurs & F rj) **$1.00 ** For Trust Members and friends only. **$1.50 (Sat & Sun mats) CANBERRA THEATRE CENTRE (8273023) OLD TOTE THEATRE COMPANY (497600) ! (6636122) (Fri, Sat & Sun) The Theatre Parade Theatre Royal Hunt of the Sun (Shaffer) An Evening with Quentin Crisp Da (Leonard) Until June 22 Wed July 26th The Sunshine Boys (Simon) Until July 11 **$1.00 Commences July 1 *"$1.00 (one ticket only Mon-Thurs & ** $1.00 Sat mats.) HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE (2123411) THE PARIS COMPANY (619 193) Isn't it Pathetic at his Age Pandora's Cross (Hewett) (Barry Humphries) Commences June 29 Until July 15 **$1.00 **$1.00 (Man - Thurs & Sat Mat) Q THEATRE (047215735) JANE STREET THEATRE (6633815) Ghosts (Ibsen) Mother Courage (Brecht) June 14-18,21-25 (Penrith) June 21 - July 15 June 28 . July 1 (Bankstown) As You Like It (Shakespeare) July 5 - 9 (Parramatta) Commences July 26 What if you died tomorrow? (Williamson) **$1.00 July 26 - August 20 (Penrith) Reduce your theatre going costs, get the best seats, and support theatre in Australia. For just $10 per year Members receive a discount for most theatre attractions - both local and inter­ national. The concession rarely falls below $2.00 on a double ticket and for certain performances can be as high as $8.00. You receive a regular newsletter keeping you advised of forthcoming attractions. In the majority of cases you read about them in Trust News before they're advertised in the press. This means you can book before the general public and get the best seats. You meet visiting celebrities at special Trust Member parties and luncheons. You are offered new release books and records. And if you're travelling interstate you can take full advantage of the facilities available to Members in that State. By now, it must be obvious that your Membership is money well spent. It not only gives you these privileges but it enables us to put on the shows. (Like Glenda Jackson's Hedda Gabler, Peter O'Toole's Dead·Eyed Dicks, Kabuki Theatre, Nimrod Theatre's production of The Club and The Pleasure of His Company with Douglas Fairbanks Jnr.) So don't think of yourself as simply a lover of theatre with an eye for a good thing. But more grandly, as a patron of the arts.

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