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Lennon - the Musical of the Legend AUGUST, 1986 Vol 10 No 7 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust Lennon - The Musical of the Legend surprise he found himself standing and cheering too. LENNON was on its way to Australia. LENNON tells the warts and all story of the most famous Beatie fro!1l his childhood to that fateful day in December 1980 when he was killed. Its dialogue is derived from interviews with Lennon or from interviews with people who were close to him. Thirty-two Beatles or Lennon musical numbers illustrate different events in Lennon's life. "It's very difficult to describe because it's all on its own, it doesn't have any theatrical links really," says Ms. Venables. "The nearest is a documen­ tary. It's like a cross between a documen­ tary, a cabaret, a straight play and a rock concert. It unites the generations very powerfully because people of my age who lived through that period have that passion reactivated and young people who didn't live through it are feeling that themselves. " Auditions were recently held in Melbourne and Sydney and the casting was far from easy. There are 40 roles in LENNON played by a cast of nine, seven men and two women. Each member of the cast has to be able to play at least two instruments, sing, act and, above all, master the Liverpudlian accent. Against the odds nine very talented people were found to fill the bill, even a left-handed bass player for the role of Paul McCartney. LENNON opens at the Enmore Theatre on October 16. Trust Members John Lennon are invited to purchase tickets on Tues­ day, October 21 and Wednesday, LENNON by Bob Eaton LENNON was written by Bob Eaton October 22, at a $9 discount and may Directed by Clare Venables immediately after Lennon was shot and purchase as many tickets as they wish. Musical direction by Chris Monks killed outside his New York apartment. It See Member Activities for details of post Designed by Michael Scott-Mitchell was staged as a remembrance for Liver­ theatre supper on October 21. Enmore Theatre pool, his home town, at its Everyman Theatre where Eaton was artistic direc­ BOOKING INFORMATION "J ohn (Lennon) had a unique capacity tor. Clare Venables restaged it at the Thu Oct 16 to Sun Nov 16 for taking on new ideas about how Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and later it ·Tue to Thu at 7.30 p.m. to live. He made colourful mistakes but went to London, playing the Astoria ·Fri and Sat at 5.30 p.m. and 9 p.m. he was extraordinary." Thus director Theatre at the "Redfern" end of ·Sun at 5 p.m. Clare Venables shows her enthusiasm for Shaftesbury Avenue. There standing AETT $21.00 (except Fri and Sat 9 p.m.) the man and the era "celebrated" in the ovations were the norm and the produc­ $16.00 (Oct 21122) musical LENNON, opening in Sydney in tion was voted Best Musical of 1985. G.P. $25.00 October. It will be mounted by the Noel Ferrier, Executive Producer of the Pens/Stud $17.00 (except Sat evg) Trust's Musical Theatre Division, saw the .Provisional times to be confirmed Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Two AETT tickets per member except musical one cold afternoon when he had who will then tour it throughout Oct 21122 Australia. nothing better to do with his time. To his 2 Political Games Jim McNeil Tribute THE AMBASSADOR by Slawomir JACK and THE OLD FAMILIAR Mrozek JUICE by Jim McNeil Directed and designed by Bogdan Koca Directed by Rob Steele Cast: Patrick Dickson, Wenanty Nosul, Designed by Jack Ritchie Bert Charles, Bogdan Koca and Kris Stables Theatre McQuade Bay Street Theatre im McNeil's career as a playwright Jlasted only a few years. Imprisoned iding high on a wave of success after for armed robbery he wrote his first plays R their highly acclaimed Adelaide in Parramatta Gaol as a debating society Festival and Sydney Opera House exercise. He had never been to the theatre seasons of HAMLET and THE MAR­ and the first play he ever read was his RIAGE, Thalia Theatre Company open­ own. When he was released from gaol in ed their latest production last month at 1974 he was hailed as a "prison the Bay Street Theatre (formerly off­ playwright". Although he was given wide Broadway) coverage, the press was distracted by his KIDS' STUFF is a charming and cap­ THE AMBASSADOR is directed and criminal record and his literary worth was tivating solo performance which designed by Bogdan Koca, who is also all but ignored. He was ill-prepared for recreates a French boy's childhood - a artistic director of Thalia Theatre Com­ life outside prison and died a derelict in whole world of people portrayed through pany. Born in Poland, he worked as an 1982. ' his eyes . Warm and innocent, Julie actor, teacher and director before coming THE OLD FAMILIAR JUICE Forsyth becomes a little French boy who to Australia four years ago. He has since (generally considered to be his best play) tells the audience all he sees. The boy's striven to bring the Anglo-Celtic tradition and JACK are being presented by the name and age are never given. What is of theatre face-to-face with other theatre Griffin Company in the hope that they discovered, however, is that he has a forms and in so doing has developed a will focus public attention on one of young friend called Marcel and that they company with a unique theatrical style. Australia's foremost playwrights. The both have a healthy, pre-pubescent Bogdan Koca describes the playas a first play turns the prison cell into a inquisitiveness about the world. When "political cultural satire" although he is microcosm of the world and examines they aren't peeping over the fence to hesitant to put the play into anyone what bare necessities a man needs to live watch the butcher at work slaughtering category. It is a "Yes, Minister" with bite with himself and others. It describes how his animals, the two boys are peeping - an absurd exploration of Twentieth men are brutalised by the prison system through the keyhole of Marcel's sister's Century political games. and the seduction of a new, young bedroom. The end of the play begins to inmate. JACK demonstrates his changed expose the source of the tragedy of life attitude to life outside a prison through the child's eyes; the senselessness environment. of adult hypocrisies and failures of nerve. KIDS' STUFF is directed by Jean-Pierre BOOKING INFORMATION Mignon for the Australian Nouveau Sun Aug 24 to Sun Sep 7 Theatre. Wed to Sat at 8.15 p.m, Sat and Sun at 5 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION AETT $11.00 Tue Sep 2 to Sun Sep 14 G.P. $12.00 Tue to Sun at 8 p.m. Pens/ Stud $8.00 AETT $13.00 Two AETT tickets per member G.P. $15.00 Pens/Stud $10.00 Kids' Stuff Returns Two AETT tickets per member KIDS' STUFF by Raymond Cousse Pirandello Play Translated [rom the French by Katharine Sturak A FAULT-LINE by Luigi Pirandello Directed by Jean-Pierre Mignon Directed by Richard Lawton Starring Julie Forsyth Cast: Dasha Blahova, Brandon Burke, Belvoir Street Theatre Upstairs Tracey Callander, Danny Mitchell and Wenanty Nosul hose of you who missed the oppor­ Downstairs, Seymour Centre BOOKING INFORMATION T tunity to see one of 1985's finest Until August 16 productions, Julie Forsyth in KIDS' he Theatre Studies Service Unit of Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. STUFF, will be delighted to know that it T The University of Sydney is mounting AETT discount $2.00 Pirandello's last completed play, A Bookings on 692 0964 is to return to Belvoir Street in September. FAULT-LINE ("Non Si Sa Come") this 3 month. The production is timed to co­ had a long association with the Ensemble The role of Adrian Mole is being incide with two major conferences, the and Gillian Axtell played in their recent played by Miles Buchanan, who had such ADSA conference on performance success BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. a SU5,:cess earlier this year playing Eugene analysis and the Frederick May Founda­ in the Neil Simon play BRIGHTON tion conference on Italian Culture and BOOKING INFORMATION BEACH MEMOIRS. Mon to Sat at 8 p.m. Italy today. Delegates attend rehearsals Mats Thu at II a.m. and Sat at 5 p.m. BOOKING INFORMATION and observe the whole process involved in AETT $14.00 (Tue to Fri), $16.00 (Sat Wed Sep 17 to Sun Sep 28 the transformation of a dramatic text evg), $11.00 (mats) Tue to Sat at 8 p.m. into a stage event. Performances are then G.P. $15.00 (Tue to Fri), $17.00 (Sat Wed at 11 a.m. Sat at 2 p.m. opened to the general public. evg), $12.00 (mats) Sun at 5 p.m. A FAULT-LINE has been described as Pens/Stud $11.00 (Tue to Fri) , $9.00 AETT $18.90 (except Sep 23) a "lyric tragedy" and is an intense per­ (mats) G.P. $23.90 sonal drama dealing with human guilt Two AETT tickets per member Pens/Stud $16.90 and responsibility. One man's "innocent Children (under 12) $13.90 Two AETT tickets per member crime" totally disrupts the lives of those Adrian Mole's World around him. BOOKING INFORMATION THE SECRET DIARY OF ADRIAN STC Premiere Wed Aug 20 to Sat Aug 30 MOLE by Sue Townsend Mon to Sat at 8 p.m.
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