University of Wollongong Research Online Theatre Australia 7-1979 Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(12) July 1979 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, (1979), Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(12) July 1979, Theatre Publications Ltd., New Lambton Heights, 50p. http://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia/32 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 3(12) July 1979 Description Contents: Comment Quotes and Queries Whispers, Rumours and Facts Letters Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Richard Wherrett — nI terviewed by Rex Cramphorn Glynne — The am n behind the G &S tour — Raymond Stanley 1979 National Playwrights’ Conference — Douglas Flintoff alcF on Island — Terry Owen Children’s Theatre: Theatre in Education — Ardyne Reid Come Out 79 — Andrew Bleby Flying Fruit Fly Circus — Iain McCalman Children's Theatre in America — Christine Westwood Big Business and the Arts Part 1 — TA Enquiry Writer’s View: Clem Gorman A Sense of Insecurity — Ken Longworth Proliferation of Secret Britain Plays — Irving Wardle Let’s Make; Secret Marriage; D'Oyly Carte — David Gyger Coppelia — William Shoubridge The Queensland Ballet's Autumn Season — Deborah Reynolds ACT Losers — Solrun Hoaas NSW The eD vil's Disciple/American Buffalo — ucL y Wagner The irM acle Worker/Under Milkwood — Bruce Knappett NT Crossfire — Alan Youngson QLD Happy End — Jeremy Ridgman Hancock's Last Half Hour— Richard Fotheringham SA Arms and the Man — Guthrie Worby Bingo — Noel Purdon VIC A Star is Torn — Raymond Stanley The eS nsational South Yarra Show — Christine Westwood The lubC — Garrie Hutchinson Arms and the Man — Suzanne Spunner WA Well Hung — Margot Luke Something’s Afoot — Cliff iG llam Swan River Saga — Margot Luke Professionalism Italian film with a message — Elizabeth Riddell Anti-illusionism, MeyerholdandPiscator — John McCallum Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 13 Publisher Theatre Publications Ltd., New Lambton Heights, 50p This serial is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/theatreaustralia/32 f y i - c m H E I Richard Wherrett heads new ^Sydney Theatre Company W Big business and the arts Aus Ballet’s Coppelia G&SandtheSA State Opera KIDS’ THEATRE ISSUE w v m m M Vf//'/' W t o t h in k TH E Y 'VE j &OT one of the^ e 1 ao&©EFss r<? fKUM 1 t h e STATE THEATKE, The national magazine of the performing arts Tliealre Australia July 1979 Volume 3 No. 12 Richard Wherrett’s — First head of the new Sydney Theatre Co. P.7 Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Letters 46 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 Richard Wherrett — Interviewed by Rex Cramphorn 8 Glynne — The man behind the G & S tour — Raymond Stanley 9 1979 National Playwrights’ Conference — Douglas Flintoff 10 Falcon Island — Terry Owen Features: 11 Children’s Theatre: Theatre in Education — Ardyne Reid 13 Come Out 79 — Andrew Bleby 14 Flying Fruit Fly Circus — Iain McCalman Falcon Island — Perth’s national 15 Children's Theatre in America — Christine Westwood children’s television programme. P.10 16 Big Business and the Arts Part 1 — TA Enquiry 35 Writer’s View: Clem Gorman 36 A Sense o f Insecurity — Ken Longworth International: 19 Proliferation o f Secret Britain Plays — Irving Wardle Opera: 37 Let’s Make; Secret Marriage; D'Oyly Carte — David Gyger Dance: 39 Coppelia — William Shoubridge 41 The Queensland Ballet's Autumn Season — Deborah Reynolds Theatre Reviews: 20 ACT Losers — Solrun Hoaas 21 NSW The Devil's Disciple/American Buffalo — Lucy Wagner Children's Theatre Supplement. The Miracle Worker/Under Milkwood — Bruce Knappett P.l 1 following 23 NT Crossfire — Alan Youngson 25 QLD Happy End — Jeremy Ridgman Hancock's Last Half Hour— Richard Fotheringham 26 SA Arms and the Man — Guthrie Worby Bingo — Noel Purdon 28 VIC A Star is Torn — Raymond Stanley The Sensational South Yarra Show — Christine Westwood Irving Wardle reports from London. The Club — Garrie Hutchinson P.19 Arms and the Man — Suzanne Spunner 32 WA Well Hung — Margot Luke Something’s Afoot — Cliff Gillam Swan River Saga — Margot Luke Records: 43 Professionalism Film: 44 Italian film with a message — Elizabeth Riddell Books: 45 Anti-illusionism, MeyerholdandPiscator — John McCallum 48 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 13 David Gyger on SA State Opera and G & S. P.37 William Shoubridge reviews Coppelia. P.39 Hiealre Australia Editor: Robert Page Executive Editor: Lucy Wagner Ed. A sst. Ardyne Reid GUEST EDITORIAL FROM BARRY DICKINS Artist: Henry Cho Advisory Board: Theatre Australia, what is it? John Bell, Graeme Blundell, Ellen Braye, television and menthoid-dependants. (Oh, but I Katharine Brisbane, Vivian Chalwyn, Gordon A seafood? A horse-race? A wart-cure? A fox Chater, John Clark, Michael Crosby, W.A. running through the suburbs? Glued, and pasted love that city, remember that old standard song Enright, Jack Hibberd, Ken Horler, Garrie correctly, perhaps it could be the first steam- sung in the sun in philanthropic Droop Street Hutchinson, Robert Jordan, Philip Mason, Stan operated hat. Yes, it’s all of these things, and Footscray; Marks, Jake Newby, Phil Noyce, Raymond Omodei, Philip Parsons, Diana Sharpe, Ken perhaps even further, it is none of these things. “Melbourne, City Of Light, City Of Footwear”?) Southgate, Raymond Stanley, Elizabeth Sweeting, There being a world cork shortage, it cannot even But, I digress. Marlis Thiersch, John Timlin, Tony Trench, be smoked. And this is not only an indictment As one who has had the honour of being Guthrie Worby, Richard Wherrett. egged, cabbaged, kicked, spat on, booed, brayed of the boot-trade, but publishing in general. 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We once shot, on the stage, I feel honoured to guest edit Adelaide: here, particularly now, as theatres crumble away Brad Keeling existed in fact as well as in deed, but that ever Melbourne: (02)411-3074 crippling old shitarse, Frazer, has hopped into us beneath our feet, much like the sort of terriers Sydney: } with his double-bill, The Restraint Show, and the who attack postmen for no reason, with tiny Brisbane: Media Resources, Queensland one-actor, The Total Embarassment Show, and rows of shoe-tack teeth, as he plods up unknown (07) 262-6798 we now only exist in fact, but not indeed. concrete hills delivering bad news to all the Perth: Patrick Cordier (09) 364-2127 bickering, backstabbing red neck flesh, he asks We are read, to our knowledge, in all languages Correspondents: all over the world, even in Penrith. 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A certain bad play S.A.: Michael Morley (08) 275-2204 Quarterly, The Phantom, Woods O f The World, recently bumped out at The Seymour Centre Theatre Australia gratefully acknowledges the Desk And Ruler and the rarest and most loved of after losing more dough than you could point a financial assistance of the Theatre Board of the all intellectual monthlies, The War Cry. shavingstick at, was promoted, publicised and Australia Council, the Literature Board of the praised almost beyond belief, but, as the truth of Australia Council, the New South Wales Cultural Indeed, we are popular, modern succinct, Grants Advisory Council, the Arts Grants witty, precise, and rectangular. But something is the play is in the bump-out, it would seem that Advisory Committee of South Australia, the decidedly wrong. What? those in control of our lovely country, absolutely Queensland Cultural Activities Department, the We cater to a definite need, that of don’t mind the untold millions of quids down the Victorian Ministry of the Arts, The Western Australian Arts Council and the Assistance of the popularising the stage, making known drain, as long as it’s not their drain. And, as far as University of Newcastle. forthcoming plays, introducing actors not known that goes, not their quids. Manuscripts: in Western Australia to one another, or even to Theatre Australia is also further kicked in the Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should Melbourne, that cultural tip-heap of tubes, guts by Gordon and Gotch, those standup be forwarded to the editorial office, 80 Elizabeth Continued on page 33. Street, Mayfield, NSW 2304. Telephone (049) 67-4470. 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