THEATRE MANDRAGORE .. one of many highlights from the sensational 1990 ADELAIDE ...

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THEATRE MANDRAGORE .. one of many highlights from
the sensational 1990 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL program.
This unique Belgian company recreates the magic of silent
movies through startling use of mime and ftlm techniques.
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Mr Brian Larking, Lady Potter, A.O.
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Mr Leonard Teale,
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Finance Director &
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The Trust:
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the generous support of
The Australian Government
through the Performing Arts and Literature
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and the Department 'of Foreign Affairs
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Esso Australia Ltd R William Cottam: Finance Director
Australian Airlines Wendy Blacklock: Australian Content Director
BP Australia U Antony Jeffrey:. Executive Officer ABSA
Commonwealth Bank of Australia S Les ley AI I en: Manager ABSA
Vincent Fairfax Family Foundation Warwick Ross: Australian Orcheslral Enrerprises
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Carol· Lee Aquiline: Theatre Of The Deaf Artistic Director
Ian Potter Foundation
Rosalind Richards: .. Theatre Of The Deaf Administrator
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Barbara Costen .. Donalions Manager
Royal Antidiluvian Order Of Buffaloes
David Goodwin: Elizaberhan Philharmonic Adminstrator
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Showtravel Tours N Wayne Kellett: Staging and Lighting Manager
Smorgon Family Charitable Foundation A Michael James: . Costume Hire Manager
Thomas Nationwide Margaret Zimitat: Accountant
Vnilever Australia Ltd G Candace Gibbons . National Patrons Manager
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Triumph.Adler Michael Harrington: Assistant to Chief Executive
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E Charmaine Hart: Victoria Manager
© 1989/90 Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust N Helen Rayson·Hill: Queensland Manager
Charmaine Moldrich: South Australia Manager
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AUSTRALIA SHOWS ITS TRUE COLOURS
understanding and appreciation of the arts in Australia".
• NATIONAL ARTS WEEK (October 8 to15) proved to Governor General, Bill Hayden presented the Media Arts
be another milestone in what marketing analyst, Jaqueline Awards for the follow~ng media categories:
Huie, calls the Australian Renaissance. PRINT -won by Janet Hawley, for her article "The
Aimed at drawing the nation's attentions to the arts, the Bitter Feud of Donald Friend and Friend", published in the
Week was co-ordinated by The Trust under the supervision Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend Magazine.
of Australian Content head Wendy Blacklock and The RADIO -Julie Rigg took out this category with her pro
Trust's State managers in their respective states. Given the gram "Art Fraud" on ABC Radio National.
limited time and non-existent financial resources available, TELEVISION -won by Nadine Amadio for her SBS
The Trust succeeded admirably in involving artists and the Television program "First Citizen -Albert Namatjira".
public in all states. A special fourth award was presented to John Cargher,
According to Jaqueline Huie, "We're becoming more writer and broadcaster, for long term service to the arts.
cerebral. There's an earthiness going on that is causing us to Along with the BP Arts Media glass sculpture by Pavel
go back to nature AND go to the Opera House." (In Tomeko, each winner took home $3000.
1988,we were the biggest consumers of opera per head in
the world and Australians are among the most environmen THE ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
tally conscious people in the world.) • The 1990 Adelaide Festival (March 1-18) is set to be the
festival to end all festivals. While the other states look on in
envy, 60 percent of Adelaide's progammed acts appear
exclusively at the southern capital's Festival.
Read on and you'll see why.
The Festival will feature The Abbey, Ireland's National
Theatre performing Sean O'Casey's stunning The Shadow
Of A Gunman; the USSR's Georgian Film Actors' Studio
Theatre with Moliere's Don Juan and Bacula's Pig; renowned
director Yuri Lyubimov's Hamlet; English solo-performer
Roy Hutchins with Whale Nation and Falling For A
Dolphin; Canada's L'Ecrain Humain; Belgium's Theatre
Mandragore; France's Archaos -Circus On The Edge, the
sensational Lyon Opera Ballet; British dance-theatre The
Woodstock? -not quite -The Trust staged a twilight Rock concert as
part of National Arts Week celebrations at which Sydney's Martin Kosh with A Matter Of Chance; Argentina's Los Dinzel and
Pwce became a writhing sea of young bodies. The great success of Osvaldo Requena with Tango; India's Kathkali dancer/
the event was wrgely due to the efforts of former NSW Trust
actors; Vienna's 110-voice Singverein; East German tenor
Manager Gaille lang. Gaille's hard work and vitality will be missed
by all those who had the pleasure of working with her at The Trust. Peter Schreier; Germany's Arcata Chamber Orchestra;
Singapore's fortepiano virtuoso, Melvyn Tan; French pianist
Jean-Yves Thibaudet; Duo Crommelynk, a piano duo; the
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
Clemencic Consort; organist Simon Preston; Kronos
• JOHN BELL as Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest Quartet; minimalist composer Steve Reich; guitarists
promises to be a high spot in BELVOIR ST's 1990 "Other extraordinaire, John Williams, Paco Pena, Joe Pass. and
Worlds" season -a dynamic offering in which The Tempest Leo Kottke; Latin vocalist Mercedes Sosa; India's sarod
is the only non-Australian work. maestro Ali Akbar Khan; swinging violinist Stephane
NEIL ARMFIELD will direct The Tempest (May 30-Jun Grapelli; stunning chanteuse Ute Lemper; Irish folk singer
24) and co-direct (with State Of Shock star Lynette Narkle) Christy Moore; actress/singer Irene Papas; jazz vocal stylist
the acclaimed Jack Davis play No Sugar (Nov 21-Dec 16). Blossom Dearie; cult country pickers Butch Hancock and
ROBYN' ARCHER creates and stars in Cafe Fledermaus Jimmie Dale Gilmore; and jazz clarinet star Eddie Daniels.
(a co-production with Melbourne's Playbox Theatre), which And that's without taking into account the local contin
is set in the Vienna cafe society of Mahler's day. gent including the Australian Opera, State Theatre
Other plays in the season are Spoleto Festival hit Call Company, Kate Ceberano, Vince Jones, actors, dancers,
Of The Wild by Jenny Kemp (Mar 7-Apr 1) and Words Of orchestras and ensembles, jazz and pop acts and more ...
One Syllable (Oct 3-21). and we haven't yet mentioned the visual art on offer.
There's probably not a"F estival anywhere in the world
THE MEDIA TAKE A BOW that's better -so book early -if you miss it, you'll be kicking
yourself all the way into 1991. See FRONT ROW Section for
• The first BP Media Arts Awards, launched by BP
a Special Adelaide Festival Offer.
Australia in conjunction with The Trust, acknowledged
"the vital role the Australian Media play in the wider
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THE FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY Georgian Film Actors' Studio Theatre from the USSR
will stage two crowd-pleasers: Moliere's Don Juan, in which
• Over recent years, Sydney has been aroused from its
the womaniser is a jaded Errol Flynn type, and Bacula's Pig, a
summer reverie by the likes of Carbonne 14's Le Rail, La La
cautionary and amusing tale about bureaucracy.
Human Steps, La Fura del Baus and Michael Clark. But alas,
The dance program features the Josef Nadj Company
it seems that January heralds no such ground-breaking or
from France, with Seven Skins Of The Rhinoceros. Enfant ter
provocative acts for the 1990 FESTIVAL OF SYDNEY.
rible of European dance-theatre, Nadj, and his actor/
Sha Sha Higby could prove an exception. This perfor
dancers, who perform with a live falcon, know no bounds
mance artist from San Francisco constructs her performance
when it comes to daring theatricality.
around elaborate sculptured costumes which she also con
In contrast, the superb Kathakali Dancers from India
structs from wood, silk, paper and gold leaf. Her dancing
present traditional stories, many from the now famous
blends Indonesian mystique with pop-video im;gery.
Mahabharata with a unique blend of dance, opera, pan
Leo 'Rumpole' McKern will be shipped out to play an
tomime, mask and music.
18th century silk in Boswell For The Defence. Leo, as
The program also features Earth Angels, a new work by
Boswell, will defend a woman condemned to death for
Chrissie Parrott, Barry Moreland and Andrew Carter, per
attempting to escape the penal colony of Australia.
formed by the West Australian Ballet and created especial
Inside-Out Theatre, founded in Britain and based in NZ,
ly for the Quarry Amphitheatre.
presents The Lover And The Beloved, in which a rebuffed
The music program includes the Philharmonic
bride-groom, his would-be love and a mercenary hunchback
Orchestra, Musica Antiqua Cologne, a chamber group
play out the stories of their lives. Under-pinned by black
devoted to traditional performance of baroque music on
humour, the play not only confronts physical idiosyncracies,
original instruments; the Stuttgart Arcata Chamber
but also those of spiritual isolation and personal dignity.
Orchestra performing with the 110 strong Vienna
Aphra Behn's The Rover, first performed in 1677, lands
Singverein, and Peter Schreier, one of the greatest tenors of
three English cavaliers on a Spanish Caribbean isle, where,
our age accompanied by pianist Walter Olbertz.
expecting women to swoon into their arms, find themselves
beaten at their own game. Gale Edward's production
SUMMER MUSIC SWINGS INTO GEAR
promises a ribald evening complete with Flamenco, acrobat
ics, sword fights and fire eating. • The Fifth Melbourne Summer Music will be known this
Then there's Peta Murray's gentle Australian comedy, year as the VICTORIAN ARTS CENTRE SUMMER
Wallflowering -about a quiet suburban couple whose mar MUSIC. Reciting the new name may call for time out, but
riage is transformed by ballroom dancing. Melburnian feet will be beating in time to the fabulous
Also programmed are Victor Spinetti -A Very Private Wynton Marsalis Quintet, a Johnny O'Keefe Memorial
Diary, a one-man show packed full of showbiz anecdotes; Concert, and a Glenn Miller night.
Expressions Dance Company from Queensland; the ever Among the many events will be works from artist-in-resi
popular concerts in the Domain; (the Opera in the Park dence Jean-Bernard Pommier and his fellow resident, Mike
this year being La Boheme); the Ferrython; the Coca-Cola Batt. Batt's acclaimed musical fantasy The Hunting Of The
Dance Hall and the Bacardi Festival Club featuring Snark and two new musicals will be staged -Gershwin -The
Pardon Me Boys, Supermarket, Raging Waters, Rick Price Musical by Gregory and Roslyn Flood and Dreamtime by
~nd the Jam Tarts. Keith Michell and Tim Sexton.
Full Festival details available from Victorian Arts Centre.
THE FESTIVAL OF PERTH
DREAM ON - Sydney Theatre Company
• The FESTIVAL OF PERTH (Feb 16-Mar 10) hosts a
strong international theatre program which includes • NICOLE KIDMAN, starlet of the swirling red tresses
Leicester HaymarketTheatre's performance of Hamlet and the movie, Dead Calm, recently offered to add her spe
directed by the renowned Yuri Lyubimov. The breathtak cial something to the role of Helena in A Midsummer
ingly simple production uses only a huge woven tapestry as a Night's Dream. However, SYDNEY THEATRE CO's produc
set and features artists from all over the world. This produc tion of Shakespeare's Dream, set for a December opening at
tion is a landmark piece of theatre. the Sydney Opera House is to proceed without Ms Kidman.
Also from England comes Whale Nation, a one-man show She has instead gone to Hollywood. Nicole's defection to
from Roy Hutchins, based on a poem by Heathcote join spunk hunk Tom Cruise in a movie called Daytona, also
Williams; and Theatre de Complicite with Friedrich left an empty chair at the local celebrations for those
Durrenmatt's play The Visit -a searing tale of greed and cap involved with the TV mini-series, Bangkok Hilton.
italism written in disgust at Germany's post-war boom. From Under Richard Wherrett's direction, A Midsummer
the rapturous reactions of the British press, Theatre de Night's Dream, sans-Kidman, will spearhead STC's season. In
Complicite should be quite amazing. a season which offers something for everyone, John Gaden
makes a welcome return to Sydney theatre in the second
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BILLY CONNOLLY NEILSEDAKA From May 30 From Apr 20
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returns unleashing his innate gift ADELAIDE CIVIC CENTRE From Apr 26
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NEWCASTLE CIVIC THEATRE Feb 27,28, Mar 1,2,3 brilliant team of Russian Brown JAMES GALWAY
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Bears! Staged at a cost of over Consumate flautist and
CAIRNS The Trust is unable ro accept 8.5 million dollars, 25 tonnes of entertainer, Galway, teamed up
CIVIC CENTRE bookings far Hilron shows as table equipment will be hauled to over with renowned Irish group, The
Apr 16 arrangements far dinner seating can 26 locations nationally. At Chieftains, performing a series of
DARWIN only be done by the Hotel. Ernes(Hemmingway once said: concerts based on their recent
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From Jan 18
Nov 28,29 Cookie Monster, Grover, Jan 26
SYDNEY Ernie & Bert, Oscar the Grouch WARRNAMBOOL LAUNCESTON
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Dec 4,5 BALLARAT Jan 27
People In Your Neighbourhood
PERTH present an action packed, fun From Feb 1 HOBART
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Feb 1,2,3 Apr 16-21 ORANGE Feb 2
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Feb 17,18,20 COFFS HARBOUR Feb 7
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WESTERN
NEW SOUTH WALES Sherwoodstock 15
Venetian Twins, The 16 AUSTRALIA
MUSICALS When We Are Married 16
42nd Street 9 MUSICALS
Chess 9 DAN CE Barnum 22
The Queensland Ballet 16
THEATRE T-H EAT R E
A Night With Robinson Crusoe 9 Mus I C Billy Connolly 22
Boswell For The Defence 9 Elton John 16 Italian American Reconciliation 22
Byzantine Flowers 9 Eurythmics 16 Odd Couple, The 22
Queensland Symphony Orchestra16
Christmas At The Opera House 9 Wall Flowering 22
Great Leaping Legends 10 FILM 16 Young Playwright's Workshop 22
Circus Oz 10
SOUTH Mus IC
Cocktail Hour, The 10
AUSTRALIA Dutch Swing College Band 22
The Ham Funeral 10
Glen Campbell 22
How The Other Half Loves 10 THEATRE Musical Memories 22
Just Between Ourselves 10 A Rose By Any Other Name 17
Midsummer Nights Dream, A 10 Alice In Wonderland 17 NEW ZEALAND
Odd Couple, The 10 Big Giggle,The 17
One For The Road 10 Big River 17 NATIONAL TOURS 24
Really Silly Company 10 Lettice & Lovage 17 THEATRE
Really Silly Cafe 10 Ring Round The Moon 17 A Marvellous Party 24
Siren 11· Big Machine 24
VICTORIA
Secret Rapture, The 11 Don Juan 24
When We Are Married 11 MUSICALS Hamlet 24
Wolf's Banquet, The 11 Anything Goes 19 Ladies Night 25
Wolfmoon 11 Bad Boy Johnnie Little Shop Of Horrors 25
OPE R A And The Prophets Of Doom 19 Mrs Klein 25
Cosi Fan Tutte 13 Les Miserables 19 Noel And Gertie 25
Gondoliers, The 13 Nana 19 Once Upon A Mattress 25
II Travatore 13 Shadow Of A Gunman, The 25
THEATRE
La Boheme 13 A Midsummer Night's Dream 19 Shirley Valentine 25
La Traviata 13 Alice In Wonderland 19 Steel Magnolias 25
Tristan Und Isolde 14 Burn This 19 The Rover 25
Werther 14 Closing Time 20 Whale Nation 26
DAN C E Happy Days 20 OPERA
Antonio Vargas Flamenco Dance 12 Imaginary Invalid, The 20 Die Meistersinger 26
Mus I C Last Laugh, The 20 DANCE
Sydney Youth Orchestra 12 Los Titeras De Cachiporra 20 A Matter Of Chance 21
Lauda's Mostly Mozart 12 Odd Couple, The 20 Garth Fagan Bucket Dance 27
New Year's Eve Gala Concert 12 See How They Run 20 Pacific Trilogy 27
James Galway's Summer Music 12 Wind In The Willows 19 Tangos Argentinos 27
Messiah 12 Wood Box, The 20
Mus I C
SSO Christmas Family Concert 12
OPE R A A Child Of Our Time 26
Symphony Under The Stars 13 Cosi Fan Tutte 21 An Evening With Mel Torme
Great Performers Series 13 Gipsy Princess, The 21
and George Shearing 26
Epson Master Series 13 II Travatore 21
Arcata Chamber Orchestra 26
Great Classics Series 13 Lucia Di Lammermoor 21
Kronos Quartet 26
F I L M 14- Pearl Fishers, The 20
Lindsay String Quartet 26
Tristan Und Isolde 21
QUEENSLAND Mercedes Sosa 27
Werther 21
Midori 27
MUSICALS
Big River 15 DAN C E Musica Antiqua Koln 27
The Australian Ballet 21
New Zealand Symphony
THEATRE
Mus I C Orchestra And Heinz Wallberg 27
Cocktail Hour, The 15
1990 Brunswick Music Festival 21 Peter Donohoe -Solo Pianist 27
End Of The Decade Super Show 15
James Galway & The Chieft ans 20 Stephane Grappelli 27
Little Red Riding Hood 15
One For The Road 15 FILM 21 Steve Reich And The Musicians 27
FRONT ROW
Spilth 'Wal
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CHESS -THE MUSICAL
by Tim Rice, Bjorn Andersson,
Benny Ulvaeus
Director: Jim Shannan
Stars: Jodie Gillies, David McLeod,
Robbie Krupski
A story of love and intrigue set
against an exciting backdrop in
Bangkok, with arguably the best score of
any rock musical. 42ND STREET
THEATRE ROYAL
Director: Mark Bramble "High gloss, high energy infectious
MLC Centre, King Street
Choreographer: Karin Baker ly happy show" -The Age.
TRUST GALA PREVIEW JAN 26 1990 Stars: Nancye Hayes, Barry Quin, Features great songs and routines.
Opens Feb 3 1990
Toni Lamond Now booking for 1990.
5.30pm, 9pm Fri; 8pm Mon-Thu, Sat
Mat: Zpm Sat 8pm "You should walk to the ends of the HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
ARTS CARD $4Z (Mon-Thu) earth to see 42nd Street" -John Laws. Quay St, Haymarket
"Nothing you will read can prepare
mats: Wed & Sat Zpm
~ $49
you for it" - Bob Evans, Sydney ARTS CARD $40 Mon-Thu
The Trust has good seats available for Morning Herald.
specific dates in February, March and April. ~ $44
Phone for details.
Stars: Leo McKern mination over oppression, and the
The story of James Boswell's most uneasy birth of an Empire.
spectacular case - his attempts to save WHARF THEATRE
the lif~ of Mary Broad, condemned to Pier 4, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay
death for trying to escape the penal Previews Dec 23-30
colony of Australia. Drawing on Dec 30-Jan 27
Boswell's own letters and journals a por 8pm Mon-Sat; Zpm Sat; Ipm Wed Jan
trait emerges of a brilliantly funny, 3,1O,17,Z4
shameless and reluctantly brave ARTS CARD $Z5 (Mon-Thu)
A NIGHT WITH ROBINSON Australian character.
$Z7 Mat $18
CRUSOE
EVEREST THEATRE
by Linda Aronson Seymour Centre
Director: Sandra Bates cm City Rd and Cleveland St, Darlington CHRISTMAS AT
Stars: Noeline Brown, Victoria Nicolls, Jan ll-Feb 10 THE OPERA HOUSE
Denise Roberts
8pm Mon-Sat; Zpm Sat by Melvyn Morrow
Sydney Harbour is the setting for this ARTS CARD $33.90 Mat $3Z.90 Director: Richard Hunter .
hilarious yet moving story of six shop Stars: Peter Ryan, David Goddard,
$36.90 $34.90
assistants on a girls-only quise. Robert Hatherly, Roxane Hislop,
Cliff Bingham, Jay Bacik
ENSEMBLE THEATRE
BYZANTINE FLOWERS
78 McDougall St, Milsons Point This pantomime features the cele
by Louis Nowra brated singing Christmas tree. A popu
Jan13-Feb 17
Director: Kingston Anderson
8pm Tue-Sat; 5pm Sat, Sun; llam Thu lar family treat sponsored by The Sun
Stars: Kylie Belling, Simon Chilvers,
ARTS CARD $ZI (Tue-Thu) Herald and Radio 2CH.
Shane Connor, Craig Elliott,
$23-$Z5 Mat $17 Justine Saunders, John Sheerin CONCERT HALL
Sydney Opera· House
A new drama steeped in the spirits,
BOSWELL FOR THE DEFENCE crimes, and clashes of our nation. Dec 16-24 6.30pm
by Patrick Edgeworth Byzantine Flowers chronicles the tri Mats: Dec 16, 17,23,24 2.30pm
Director: Frank Hauser umph of resilience over bigotry, deter- ARTS CARD $10 Children $5
RTS CARD [phone] ~ (02) 69814
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GREAT LEAPING LEGENDS WHARF THEATRE ARTS CARD $27 (Mon-Thu)
by Michele Conyngham Pier 4, Hickson Rd, Walsh Bay
$29
Director: Glenn Butcher Until Dec 16
Legends from around the world as 8pm Man-Sat; Mats: Ipm Wed, 2pm Sat
THE ODD COUPLE
told by frogs through theatre, dance, ARTS CARD $25 (Mon-Thu)
by Neil Simon
mime, and mask.
~ $27 Director: Graeme Blundell
BELVOIR ST THEATRE -UPSTAIRS Stars: Pamela Stephenson,
Belvoir Street, Surry Hills HOW THE OTHER HALF Angela Punch McGregor
Jan 14-27 1O.30am and Ipm Man-Sat LOVES Pamela and Angela take a new slant
by Alan Ayckboume on Neil Simon's witty script. The
$8.50 Children $6.50
Director: Peter Williams recently separated fastidious one is
Stars: Rowena Wallace, Belinda Giblin, Florence. Sideplitting wrangles ensue as
CIRCUSOZ Tom Oliver, Peter Rowley
she is confronted with the uncompro
Artistic Director: Tim Caldwell "Polished and exquisitely, painfully mising divorcee home and life-style of
Australia's home-grown circus - a funny ... one of Peter Williams' best slothful confidante and journalist Olive.
contemporary entertainment which cel productions" - Bob Evans, Sydney
FOOTBRIDGE THEATRE
ebrates physical skills. Take a bit of Morning Herald
Parramatta Road, Sydney University
straight theatre, a dollop of traditional "Shrewdly, devastatingly funny ...
Feb 16-Mar 24
circus, some cartoon capers, a touch of brilliant cast" -Radio 2GB
Spm Tue-Fri ; S.30pm Sat; Spm Sat/Sun;
Australian larrikinism and you have the
FOOTBRIDGE THEATRE
2pm Wed
International Circus Oz. Parramatta Road, Sydney University
ARTS CARD $33.90
OPERA HOUSE FORECOURT Jan 10-Feb 10
Sydney Opera House 8.30pm Tue-Sat; Ipm Wed, 2pm Sat $36.90 $21.90 Mat
Jan 3-28 S.3OpmSun
8pm Wed-Sat; 2pm Sat; 3pm Sun ARTS CARD $29 ONE FOR THE ROAD
ARTS CARD $15 Children $9.50 by Willy Russell
~ $32
Director: Mike 0' Brien
$19 $48 family
Stars: Beth Child, Bill Conn,
JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES
Chris Dibbs, Elizabeth Chance
THE COCKTAIL HOUR by Alan Ayckbourn
A witty and caustic look at mid-life
by A.R. Gurney Director: Sandra Bates
crisis, marriage crack-up, and middle
Stars: Googie Withers, John McCallum Stars: Robbie McGregor, Henri Szeps,
Marion Sandberg, Brenda Senders, class pretensions. From the author of
Two of Australia's stage greats star in
Carol Willesee Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine.
this hilarious comedy about a play
Just Between Ourselves takes a rib YORK THEATRE
wright who returns to his family's house
tickling look at three birthdays during a Seymour Centre, cm City Rd and
bringing with him a new script. To pro
madcap year involving two couples and, Cleveland St, Darlington
duce his new work, he needs only the
of course, a spare mother-in-law. Nov 29-Dec 16
permission of his parents and sister -but
it is them that the play is about. ENSEMBLE THEATRE 8pm Tue-Sat; Ipm Wed, 2pm Sat
78 McDougall St, Milsons Point ARTS CARD $21.90 (Tue-Thu, Sat mat)
THE PLAYHOUSE $25.90 (Fri, Sat)
Sydney Opera House Nov 16-Dec 23 $17.90 (Wed mat)
8pm Tue-Sat; Spm Sat, Sun; 11 am Thu
Closes Dec 23 8pm Tue-Sat;
ARTS CARD $21 (Tue-Thu) $27.90
Mats: Ipm Wed, Thu, 2pm Sat
ARTS CARD $27.90 (Tue-Fri) $23-$25 Mat $17
Mats $19.90 REALLY SILLY COMPANY
Sat mat $20.90
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S A new show from the same people
$29.90 (Tue-Sat) DREAM who brought us Unspeakable Mockbeth
by William Shakespeare and Hamlet Improvised.
THE HAM FUNERAL Sydney Theatre Company BELVOIR ST THEATRE
Director: Richard Wherrett Belvoir St, Surry Hills
by Patrick White
Stars: Rebecca Frith, Miles Buchanan
Sydney Theatre Company Until Dec 24
Director: Neil Armfield Special Summer fare production that 8.1Spm Tue-Sat; S.ISpm Sun
Designer: Brian Thomson almost featured Nicole Kidman till she ARTS CARD $14
Stars: Max Cullen, Kerry Walker, was tempted to Hollywood by Tom
~ $16
Robyn Nevin, Maggie Kirkpatrick Cruise.
Nobel Prize winner, Patrick White, DRAMA THEATRE
instills wonderfully bizarre character Sydney Opera House REALLY SILLY CAFE
and colourful language into this, his first Dec 7 1989-Jan 201990 Stars: Geoff Kelso
play. 8pm Man-Sat; Mats: Ipm Wed, 2pm Sat Madcap ad lib comedy. The audience
TS CARD [phone] ~ [phone]