Seaborn Broughton & Walford Foundation Newsletter 925 Botany Rd Rosebery NSW 2018 Phone - 9955 5444 Email – [email protected] For bookings please call Carol Martin -on 9955 5444 Monday to Thursday - 10am - 4pm Volume Number Issue Number Date 22 1 16th January 2014 Chairman’s Letter (incorporating Nan’s Letter Space) Dear Friends Congratulations to playwright Reg Cribb who won On behalf of the Board and Staff of the SBW Foundation the $20,000 award for his play Buried Country. may I wish you, your family and friends a Happy New This joyous, irreverent, theatrical and musical Year. May your 2014 be brimful of good health and journey is based on the story of Jimmy Little and theatrical delights. other indigenous country and Western pioneers such as Bobby Mcleod and boxer Lionel Rose who fought FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY: January is a vibrant month in to be accepted on their own terms. Reg has a the Sydney performing arts calendar. The Sydney Festival background as an actor and musician. His plays have has burst onto the scene with a dazzling choice of been performed nationally and internationally have engaging and provocative productions, events, free won many awards including the Rodney Seaborn performances and installations. I have been impressed by Playwrights Award in 2010. We were most gratified the enthusiasm of Festival Director Lieven Bertels and his to hear Reg’s acceptance speech: ‘The Rodney team who have organized an eclectic array of Seaborn Award is going to allow me to craft and entertainment, with a Festival Village in Hyde Park and a hone Buried Country into the stageworthy piece it schedule catering for all ages and tastes. Information and threatens to be and to honour the legacy of these great ticketing details are publicized in the media, in the artists’. Festival booklet and can be accessed by computer at www.sydneyfestival.org.au/2014 or by ringing the BOOK NOW FOR A FEAST OF FINE Festival Office 82486500. ENTERTAINMENT: To book tickets ring Carol Martin: Mon to Thurs CHRISTMAS PARTY: Our Christmas Party at the 10.00am to 4.00pm – 9955 5444. Stables , Kings Cross was a great success. Friends came Thanks to the Sydney Opera House Ladies’ from near and far, including Bundanoon in the Southern Committee for invitations to their Dinner Dance on Highlands, to share the Christmas spirit, to witness the the 21/3 and forthcoming lunch at the Women’s Club presentation of the 2013 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights with Peter Cousens- Diary date Thursday 29/5. Award and attend the final play in the Griffin Theatre Great productions at the New Theatre Newtown and Company’s season. I flew in for our Christmas function the Genesian Theatre, also Actors’ Forum play from Melbourne, where I was attending Wagner’s Ring readings and ‘Letter to Larry’ at the Independent Cycle. Having recently completed the Kokoda trek as a Theatre North Sydney, plus many others. fundraiser for the Wayside Chapel (another treasured Please book early so you will not be disappointed. institution in Kings Cross) I must say these contrasting experiences were among the highlights of 2013. The SPECIAL THANKS: performances of an international cast, including fine I would like to express special thanks to our Australian opera singers and the singing of the Papuan Administrator Carol Martin for another great line up porters in the PNG Highlands were both, in their of wonderful shows. Many thanks, too, to our SBW different ways, moving and inspirational. And, as a Board members for their contributions and especially result of the PNG adventure, I was able to deliver to our dedicated Secretary Treasurer Bill Winspear Christmas greetings to SBW partygoers in pidgin! for his outstanding support with administration matters and managing our finances. RODNEY SEABORN PLAYWRIGHTS AWARD: The exciting moment of the Christmas party is always Thank you all for your ongoing support. the announcement of the winner of the Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award. Our thanks to distinguished cinema Peter Lowry OAM and theatre critic Evan Williams AM who presented the Chairman award. PRIVATES ON PARADE Opera & Arts Support Group Inc by Peter Nichols Music by Denis King Invites you and your friends to a New Theatre 542 King Street Newtown RECITAL Pavilion Lounge When young and innocent Private Steven The Manors of Mosman Flowers is posted to the British Army’s 6 Hale Road Mosman ‘Song and Dance Unit South East Asia’ to Under the musical direction of Sharolyn entertain the troops during the Malayan Kimmorley, you will be entertained by an Emergency in 1948, he finds himself in the ensemble of exceptional young singers the OASG company of military misfits. have assisted with their professional The star of the troupe is flamboyant Captain development, including exciting tenor, Matthew ‘Auntie’ Terri Dennis, a soldier who much prefers Reardon. lipstick and a feather boa to a rifle and fatigues. Matthew is the recipient of the Opera & Arts While their martinet commander Major Flack, a Support Group Award through the Dame Nellie religious fanatic and patriot, is greatly Melba Opera Trust. discomforted by his men performing in drag. Savouries and drinks will be served on arrival Terri delights is running the gamut from Carmen and following the Recital, we welcome you to Miranda to Marlene Dietrich to Vera Lynn. join the artists for refreshments on the terrace Peter Nichol’s outrageously funny play, part and in the elegant sitting rooms. satirical revue, part coming-of-age drama, is underpinned by a darker and more poignant Sunday 16 February 2014 reality. 2pm for 2.30pm Playing – 13 February to 8 March 2014 Entrée - $65.00 Thursday to Saturday- 7.30pm Bookings – Carol Martin- 9955 5444 Sunday – 5pm (The Opera & Arts Support Group kindly donate 10% Tickets - $30.00 of all ticket money to the SBW Foundation for bookings made by SBW Friends through our Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Foundation office) LETTER TO LARRY HOTEL SORRENTO by Donald MacDonald by Hannie Rayson Independent Theatre 269 Miller Street North Sydney Directed by Shane Bates Starring – Susie Lindeman Genesian Theatre 420 Kent Street Sydney Introduced by Greta Scacchi Directed by Wayne Harrison Hilary lives in seaside Sorrento a small Victorian As 2013 marked Vivien Leigh’s 100th birthday town with her father and sixteen-year old son; this production had the world premiere in Paris Pippa is visiting from New York and Meg returns in November last year. from England with her English husband. When Vivien Leigh received a letter from Three sisters, reunited after ten years in Laurence Olivier asking for a divorce, her different worlds, again feel the constraints of response created a sensation. But a new family life. revelation takes her to the edge, balancing A lifetime of secrets and jealousies can never be between magic and madness, she fights for buried forever and the shocking exposures rock Larry’s love – and her life. this family to the core. The lesson that we can As Vivien Leigh frequented the Independent never really escape our actions is brutally learnt. Theatre, and Tyrone Guthrie discovered one of It is a very realistic portrayal of family her co-stars and friends, Trader Faulkner, upon relationships as well as addressing many issues its stage. Trader will be in Sydney to launch his and themes such as masculinity and Australian book which tells of his work as an actor from identity. Radio days in Sydney, being a protégée of Peter Finch, and working with the Oliviers at Stratford Sunday- 16 February 2014 – 4.30pm and with Gielgud and more… Tickets - $26.00 Sunday -23 February 2014 – 3 pm Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Tickets- $40.00 Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD Novel by Harper Lee New Theatre 542 King Street Newtown Six-year old Scout’s world is turned upside down when her widowed father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a young black man accused of raping a FRANKENSTEIN white woman. by Mary Shelley Adapted by Victor Gialanella As tensions erupt and neighbours take sides in Genesian Theatre 420 Kent Street Sydney the life-and-death case, it is Scout’s clear-eyed There have been many versions of Frankenstein courage in the face of ignorance and bigotry that and his monster it is refreshing that Victor ultimately brings hope to a damaged Gialanella went back to the original novel to community. bring us Mary Shelley’s classic as it was Set against the backdrop of entrenched intended. prejudices and deep inequality in the segregated Frankenstein asks us the question, when is the world of small town Depression-era Alabama, its villain the victim and where does the guilt lie? plea for tolerance and human decency helped change the way America viewed itself. Sunday – 9 March 2014 – 4.30pm Tickets- $26.00 Playing – 20 March to 19 April 2014 Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 Thursday to Saturday – 7.30pm Sunday –5pm Discounts are available to SBW Friends at- Tickets - $30.00 THE COSTUME SHOP Bookings – Carol Martin – 9955 5444 19/198-222 Young Street Waterloo NSW Phone – 9318 2511 Website- thecostumeshop.com Sydney Opera House Ladies Committee Invite you to join them for a fundraising DINNER DANCE The Macquarie Room Actors’ Forum presents a professionally Royal Automobile Club 89 Macquarie Street Performed Reading of…… Sydney GASLIGHT Established in 1957 to raise funds for the by Patrick Hamilton construction of the Sydney Opera House the Directed by Nicholas Papdemetriou Sydney Opera House Ladies’ Committee now Independent Theatre 269 Miller Street North Sydney raises funds in support of the ARTS Assist A cunning bigamist is slowly and deliberately program. This program provides the opportunity trying to drive his timid ‘wife’ mad.