Theatre Australia was the premier monthly magazine of the performing arts in Australia during the period 1976-82. The magazine was founded by Robert Page, then lecturer in Drama at the University of Newcastle. It contained a national listing of professional productions, critical reviews, in depth articles on writers and performers along with technical reviews and notices.
ISSN (print): 0313-2080
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Theatre Australia: Australia's National Theatre Magazine 1(1) August-September 1976
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 3 Quotes and Queries 4 Reviews 6 John Smythe AC/DC 6 Leonard Radio Othello 7 Richard Fotheringham Savages 10 Collin O'Brien Hamlet 12 Katharine Brisbane Habeas Corpus 13 Rex Cramphorne Are You now or have you ever been? Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know 15 Ron Blair Cycle Sluts 17 Bruce Knappett Equus 19 Guthrie Worby Otherwise Engaged 20 Peter Ward The New Opera Season 22 Playscript Jennifer Rankin Bees: Act 1 24 Theatre Buildings Raymond Omodei The Drama Theatre 30 Australian Currents Nigel Triffitt Follow the Yellow Brick Road Shows 34 Richard Wherrett An Interview with Anna Volska 36 Lindzee Smith Pushing the Pram 38 International Alan Seymour Languishing London 41 Amateurs David Goddard The Art of Amateur Acting 43 Film, Television & Radio Brian Bell Australian TV — A Messy Compromise? 44 Drama in Education Margaret Leask TIE-ing Up Australia 46 I.T.I. News 47 Technical Ian McKenzie, Darryl Wilkinson Toward an Alternative Theatre Technology 48 Opera David Gyger Sydney Opera Season.50 Books Helen van der Poorten Pictures and Plays 52 Classified 52 Index to Advertisers 52
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Theatre Australia: Australia's National Theatre Magazine 1(2) September-October 1976
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 2, Quotes and Queries 4, Letters to the Editor 5, Reviews 7, John Smythe Halfway at Easter, Same Time Next Year 7 Jack Hibberd The Foursome 9 Garrie Hutchison Knuckle 10 Richard Fotheringham The Department 12 Collin O'Brien Last of the Knucklemen, Otherwise Engaged, Trial 14 J.S. Ryan Family Possessions 16 Ron Blair Shoemakers Holiday 17 Katharine Brisbane Man of La Mancha 18 Rex Cramphorn The Changing Room 20 Robert Page Bedfellows 21 Roger Pulvers Palach 22 Guthrie Worby Major Barbara 24 Pplayscript Jennifer Rankin Bees Act 27 Director's Casebook Richard Wherrett The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin 32 Playwright Martin Smith The Evolution of Steve J. Spears 36 Australian Currents Tom Markus Subsidy: A Case to Answer 38 Bill Redmond 7Wo Years with the Tote 40 Theatre Organisations Stanley Walsh Melodrama's Triumph or The Miller and His Men 42 Film, Television and Radio Phil Noyce Pure Shit and the Non-Professional 44 Theatre in Education Roger Chapman Relevant Theatre for Children 46 Amateurs Jane Schiller Festival of Australian Student Theatre 1976 48 International Bogdan Gieraczynski A Period of Overstrain 50 ITI News Technical Dennis Irving The Character of Australian Technology 52 Opera David Gyger John Copley, Perennial Producer 54 Books Helen van der Poorten Production Handbook /Currency Doublebill56 Classified Advertisers 56.
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Theatre Australia: Australia's National Theatre Magazine 1(3) October-November 1976
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 2 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters to the Editor 5 Reviews Game Hutchinson Diary of a Madman, The Overcoat.7 Jack Hibberd What the Butter Saw8 John Smythe A Handful of Friends10 Katharine Brisbane A Handful of Friends. 12 Collin O'Brien AC/DC14 Don Batchelor A Toast to Melba 15 Richard Fotheringham As You Like It 16 Roger Pulvers Kid Stakes, Equus 17 Guthrie Worby The Last of the Knucktemen 18 Lucy Wagner A Happy and Holy Occasion 20 Maria Prerauer The Beast of Belgrave Square 21 Alexander Buzo A Doll's House 22 Jill McRae Lunchtime Concert, The Lesson 23 Ron Blair Wonderwoman 24 Ron Blair The Duchess of Malfi 25 Playscript Michael Cove Family Lore 26 Australian Currents Mary Davies Dragging in the Audiences32 Alexander Buzo, Rodney Fisher, John Motyn, David Williams on Subsidy Replies . . 36 Technical Bill Redmond The Way Forward 38 Film, Television and Radio David Mitchell Putting in the Plug 40 Stan Marks Wendy Hughes 41 Theatre Buildings Richard Fotheringham S.G.I.O. Theatre 43 Theatre in Education Diana Sharpe Armidale Ambitions 46 International Solrun Hoaas, Roger Pulvers A Fresh Context 48 ITI News 49 Amateur Susan Vile Space Eight Festival 50 Ballet William Shoubridge Dance Company (NSW) 52 Opera David Gyger Better Played Second Half 54 Books Helen van der Poorten Plays of Hewett and Sherman 56
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Theatre Australia: Australia's National Theatre Magazine 1(4) November-December 1976
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 2 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters to the Editor 5 Spotlight Stan Marks Graeme Blundell Speaks his Mind 6 Tony Staley The Minister on the Arts 7 Reviews John Smythe Albert Names Edward 9 Louis Nowra On His Use of Language 11 Jack Hibberd Private Lives, Canterbury Tales 12 Game Hutchinson The Gift 14 Don Batchelor Lysistrata 15 Richard Fotheringham Children's Day 16 John Tasker The Season at Sarsaparilla 17 Rex Cramphorn Men Without Shadows 18 Barry Eaton A Tribute to Ten Years 19 William Shoubridge N.S.W. Theatre of the Deaf, Canadian Mime Lindsay Kemp 20 Katharine Brisbane A Toast to Melba 21 Collin O'Brien The Maids 23 Guthrie Worby And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little 24 Playscript Dorothy Hewett The Beautiful Mrs Portland 26 Playwright Barry Eaton Reprieve That Refreshes.34 Helen van der Poorten Look What They've Made Her Do 36 Rodney Fisher A Tatty Show 38 Theatre Organisation Raymond Stanley The Firm Phoenix 40 Ian Buckland Kenn Brodziak — A Personal Profile 42 Australian Currents An Economist's View of the I.A.C. Report 45 Marlis Thiersch Women In Australian Theatre 46 I.T.147 Technical Kenneth Scholz Fire! And Your Safety48 Film, TV and Radio David Chandler The Mind's Ear 50 Theatre in Education Jonathon Hardy Programme and Protest 52 Janys Hayes53 Amateur John Smythe Theatre of Themselves 54 Ballet William Shoubridge Dance of Death? 56 Opera David Gyger Long Shadow of G & S 57 Books Helen van der Poorten Critical Crossfire 59.
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Theatre Australia: Australia's National Theatre Magazine 1(5) October-November 1976
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 2 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters to the Editor 5 Spotlight 6 Katharine Brisbane Australian National Playwrights Conference 7 Reviews Jack Hibberd City Sugar 9 John Smythe Cascando, Finger on the Trigger, Peer Gynt 10 Garrie Hutchinson A Stretch of the Imagination, The Dudders 12 Don Batchelor And The Big Men Fly 13 Richard Fotheringham How Could You Believe Me? 14 Roger Pulvers Cabaret, Dirty Linen 15 Maria Prerauer Tarantara! Tarantara! 16 Rex Cramphorn California Suite 17 Dorothy Hewett A Handful of Friends 18 Barry Eaton Connelli at the Palace, Dead Eyed Dicks 20 Katharine Brisbane Rookery Nook, Here Comes the Nigger 21 Michael Morley Malfi 22 Collin O'Brien Arsenic and Old Lace 24 Playscript Dorothy Hewett The Beautiful Mrs Portland Act II 26 Film, TV and Radio Bruce Beresford Don's Party - From Play to Film 32 Australian Currents Graeme Blundell Don's Party - Then and Now 34 Jim Sharman, Rex Cramphorn Directors' Dialogue 38 Marlis Thiersch Women in Australian Theatre Part II 40 Playwright Stan Marks Another Summer. Another Doll 42 Carole Skinner The Character of Olive 44 I.T.I. News 45 International Al B. Weiner American Line Up 46 Theatre in Education Peter Wilkins A Sense of Involvement 48 Technical Alan Lees Designers' Difficulties 50 Amateur Robert Levis Bringing in the Professionals 52 Opera David Gyger Capital Opera 54 Books Helen van der Poorten Handful of Palaces 56
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Theatre Australia: National Performing Arts Magazine 1(6) January-February 1977
Robert Page, Bruce Knappett, and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Theatre Guide 2 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters to the Editor 4 Spotlight 6 Stan Marks Maggie Millar Calls For National Theatre 7 Reviews Garrie Hutchinson Other Times 8 Suzanne Spunner Still Life 9 John Smythe Chidley 10 Ron Finney The Misanthrope 13 Collin O'Brien Mixed Doubles 14 Rex Cramphorn The Magistrate 16 Norman Kessell Gaslight, The Star-Spangled Girl 17 Guthrie Worby Happy Landings 19 Michael Morley El Grande De Coca Cola 20 Playscript Alma de Groen Chidley 22 Director's Diary Garrie Hutchinson A Critical Direction 38 Theatre Organisations Melbourne Monolith Raymond Stanley From Origins to Athenaeum40 Ian Robinson Two Companies Or One? 42 M.T.C. Head John Sumner Talks to Stan Marks43 Australian Currents Patricia Brereton Sydney Celebrates36 John Smythe That's Entertainment 44 Theatre Buildings Margot Hilton Country Arts Centres 47 International Solrun Hoaas Norwegian Parallels 48 Opera David Gyger How To Handel Opera's Future.50 William Shoubridge Onegin 52 I.T.I. News 55 Books Helen van der Poorten The Stage Lighting Handbook 56
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Theatre Australia: National Performing Arts Magazine 1(7) February-March 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Editorial 3 Theatre Guide 4 Quotes and Queries 6 Letters to the Editor 6 Spotlight Music Theatre Forum William Shoubridge 8 Richard Bradshaw, Puppeteer Roger Pulvers 10 Reviews Roos Roger Pulvers 11 The Greatest Circus on Earth Garrie Hutchinson 13 The Game of Love and Chance Jack Hibberd 15 The Twenties and All That Jazz Raymond Stanley 16 The Golden Oldies Bruce Williams 16 The Sea Richard Fotheringham 18 Old King Cole, My Fat Friend Michael Morley 19 Caucasian Chalk Circle Rex Cramphorne 20 The Surprising Soprano David Gyger 21 Treasure Island Alison Jones 22 Young Mo Katherine Brisbane 22 How Does Your Garden Grow? Collin O'Brien37 Playscript Introduction Richard Wherrett24 Young Mo Act 1 Steve J. Spears 25 Australian Currents Garry McDonald Interview Barry Eaton 33 Perth Festival Round-up Cliff Gillam 34 Arts For Town and Country Gaenor Thomas 44 National Policy Aarne Neeme 45 Theatre Organisations Hole in the Wall: Compromising Upwards Margot Luke 38 An Unlikely Birthplace Alan Cassell 38 Theatre Buildings Behind Closed Doors Collin O'Brien 42 Film, Televisions, Radio Sympathy For A Chairman Stan Marks47 International Letter from London Alan Seymour 48 Ballet A Trying Out Period William Shoubridge 50 Opera Summer Season David Gyger 52 I.T.I. News 54 On Tap Films Barry Lowe 55 Books Helen van der Poorten 56
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Theatre Australia: National Performing Arts Magazine 1(8) March-April 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Comment 1 Quotes and Queries 2 Letters to the Editor 2 Spotlight Not On A High Horse Rick Billinghurst 4 Arts for the Drinking Man Don Mackay 6 Reviews All Australian Pub Show Garrie Hutchinson 7 Norm and Ahmed, No Worries Suzanne Spunner 8 Hats Raymond Stanley 9 The Father, The Doll Trilogy, The Training Run Katharine Brisbane 10 Inner Voices Rex Cramphorne 12 The Two Of Us Norman Kessell 13 A Toast to Melba Roger Pulvers 15 For Years / Couldn't Wear My Black Don Batchelor 16 Bullshot Crummond, Tom Richard Fotheringham 17 The Hills Family Show, Revenge Vic Marsh 18 The School For Scandal Michael Morley 19 Happy End Margot Luke 20 A Midsummer Night's Dream Cliff Gillam 21 While the Billy Boils Sue Kobulniczky 22 The Plough and the Stars Bill Dunstone 22 It's Cingalese for Lightning Margot Luke 23 Playscript Young Mo Act 2 Steve J. Spears 24 Australian Currents Facility or Liability? Ian Miller 35 A Tonic for Impotence Don Batchelor 40 How Are You Holy Trinity? Paul Sherman 42 The People Industry Marl is Thiersch 45 Theatre Organisations Queensland Theatre Company Where There's Doubt There's Hope Don Batchelor36 Emerging Patterns Peter Lavery 36 The End of a Cycle Murray Foy.36 International Directors Three Hugh Rorrison 46 Theatre in Education Theatrical Projection and Educational Enterprise Keith Hudson.48 Ballet Vision and Myth William Shoubridge 50 Opera The Ensemble Principals David Gyger 52 I.T.I. News 54 On Tap Films Barry Lowe 55 Books Helen van der Poorten 56 Theatre Guide 57
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(1) May 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Guide What to see and where to see it3 Quotes and Queries 6 Comment 2 Theatre Forum Professionals get to vote; you get to guess the winners 8 Focus on South Australia On the Festival Centre by Kevon Kemp and George Molnar 10 Ruth Cracknell Profile: Just Ruth by Colin George et al. 13 Deadly Accurate — that’s Cracknell by Kevon Kemp. 15 The South Australian Theatre Company by Peter Ward 16 George Ogilvie and Colin George by Kevon Kemp 20 Australians worst enemies are other Australians by Ron Blair 23 Don Dunstan Speaking Out to Tony Baker 25 Features Now where were we up to Sally? Filmmaker Gill Armstrong looks at an actors’ director 27 Directed by Ken G. Hall. Extracts from his forthcoming autobiography 65 Playscript Jack Hibberd’s The Overcoat 35 An underview by Tim Robertson 36 Underview 2 by Malcolm Robertson 37 Ballet Interview with Graeme Murphy 32 The Australian Dance Theatre by William Shoubridge 72 International Lively trends in Poland by Bogdan Gieraczynski 69 Theatre Reviews The Elocution of Benjamin Franklin Roger Pulvers 47 Lust for Power Maria Prerauer 48 Travesties Bob Ellis 49 The Pleasure of His Company Norman Kessell 50 You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown Alison Jones 51 What the Butler Saw Robert Page 52 Next/ Brylcreme and Maggot Pies Rex Cramphorn 53 Hobson’s Choice Richard Fotheringham 54 Dangerous Corner Don Batchelor 55 The Department Margot Luke 56 A t War with Shaw Cliff Gillam 57 Same Time Next Year Ted Knez 58 Macbett Michael Morley 59 Ravages Suzanne Spunner 60 The School for Scandal Jack Hibberd 61 The Fall Guy Garrie Hutchinson 63 Leading Lady Raymond Stanley 64 Opera La Belle Helene David Gyger 74 Records Britten’s parables and the return to ritual by Roger Covell Film Eliza Fraser Barry Lowe Books Five Plays for Stage, Radio and Television
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(2) June 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 76 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance 5 Letters 74 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 69 International Theatre Institute Features 8 Chorus Line A photoessay of the Sydney production by Peter Holderness with a preview by William Shoubridge 13 Cover story: Thring interviewed by Raymond Stanley 32 Floating Parachute Wilton Morley, entrepreneur, talks to Robert Page 22 Fred Schepisi Australia Focus on Tasmania 16 Hobart's Historic Theatre Royal Ross Thorne 20 The Tasmanian Theatre Company Karl Hubert 20 Small State, Big Plans John Unicomb talks to Stan Marks 30 They tell it like it was Axel Kruse Playscript 35 The Fall Guy: Act One 36 Playwright, Linda Aronson, on the drama behind the play Opera 65 Lingwood’s Crisis of Identity David Gyger International 24 New Zealand Theatre Reviews 47 Queensland The Merchant of Venice Something’s Afoot Three Queensland Plays Queensland Playwright’s Conference 50 A.C.T. Chidley 51 South Australia The Cherry Orchard Jack the Ripper 53 New South Wales Diamond Studs Double Edge The Alchemist Caesar and Cleopatra Medal of Honour Rag Alison Mary Fagan Twelfth Night 58 Western Australia Crossing Niagara Ashes Absent Friends 62 Victoria Juno and the Paycock The Painted Devil and Peter Pan Film 64 Pure Shit and Don’s Party Barry Lowe Records 73 The Real Rachmaninov? Roger Coveil Books 75 Drag Show Helen van der Poorten
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(3) July 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 77 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance 5 Letters 74 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 64 International Theatre Institute Features 8 Vaudeville Follies Peter Kenna on the ‘good old days’ 14 The Head and the Heart John Gaden talks to Robert Page 17 The Tasmanian Puppet Theatrè Launt Thompson 22 The Awards 25 The Playwrights’ Conference Richard Wherrett reports 58 The Peanuts Problem David Marr on the Elizabethan Theatre Trust 57 Post-Cyclone Theatre Darwin theatre after Tracy 70 The Crystal Palace New life for Perth theatre Playscript 35 The Fall Guy: Act Two 42 Mick Rodger’s Director’s Casebook International 66 U.S.A. Study Guide 68 Don Reid on Peter Kenna’s Hard God Theatre Reviews 26 New South Wales Going Bananas The Cakeman Hamlet A Chorus Line Unspeakable Acts Puppets and Pantomime 33 A.C.T. Three Sisters Amputation 47 Queensland The Last of the Knucklemen Abelard and Heloise 49 Western Australia Travesties Otherwise Engaged 51 Victoria The Club Yesterdays News The Interview and Oscar Wilde 54 South Australia Four Plays Just Ruth All My Sons Ballet 61 William Shoubridge Opera 75 David Gyger Film 72 Elizabeth Riddell Records 73 Roger Covell Books 62 Helen van der Poorten Raymond Stanley
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(4) August 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Letters 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 75 David Marr 77 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Carlton Special 8 Ten Years of Carlton Theatre Garrie Hutchinson 12 The Many Masks of Max Gillies Cover Story by John Larkin 22 Carlton Designs Peter Corrigan Playscript 35 Marvellous Melbourne — Part One with an introduction by Jack Hibberd on ‘How Marvellous Melbourne Came to Life’. Two Playwrights 18 Dorothy Hewett discusses the plays of Patrick White in ‘The White Phenomena’ 66 International — Trader Faulkner discusses the work of Ramon Maria del Valle Inclan ‘A playwright ahead of his time’. Theatre Organisations 64 M & L Casting Consultants Denis O’Brien Ballet 61 Australian Dance Theatre William Shoubridge 63 The Queensland Modern and Contemporary Dance Company Don Batchelor Opera 56 The Coronation of Poppea Adrian Slack 70 Survey David Gyger Theatre Reviews 26 New South Wales 45 Queensland 47 Victoria 50 A.C.T. 51 Western Australia 54 South Australia Film 72 Elizabeth Riddell Books 73 Helen van der Poorten Records 74 Roger Covell
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(5) September-October 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 5 Quotes and Queries 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 61 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Musical Theatre 8 Tony Sheldon looks at the uneven history of Australian musical theatre 46 Hello World — This is Sondheim Robert Page Spotlight 3 The Passing of The Independent — Toni Reed Alan Schneider — Barry Eaton Nancye Hayes — Barry Eaton Regional Theatre Part One 18 Hunter Valley Theatre Company How and Why — Tony Trench Frayed Shoestring — Terence Clark Riverina Trucking Company Survey by Terry O’Connell Mobilising Wagga — Marguerite Wells Young Playwrights 14 Errol Bray discusses the first National Young Playwrights Weekend David Marr 16 Sweeney Agonistes David Marr profiles the new Chaiman of the Theatre Board Playscript 29 Marvellous Melbourne — Part two Opera 52 Survey David Gyger Ballet 54 Dance Company (NSW) William Shoubridge International 48 Germany — Berlin Theatertreffen Hugh Rorrison 51 Amsterdam — Festival of Fools Solrun Hoaas Theatre Reviews 22 Queensland Stampede Fall Out and Follow Me South Australia Four Play Readings The Coronation of Poppea 24 A.C.T. Marcel Marceau 25 New South Wales The Glitter Sisters The Ripper Show Don’t Piddle Against the Wind, Mate A Stretch of the Imagination Three Sisters Boeing Boeing The Hostage Big Toys Confusions 40 Victoria Radioactive Horror Show Ashes 42 Western Australia HMS Pinafore As You Like It Martello Towers Records 57 Roger Covell Film 58 Elizabeth Riddell Books 60 Helen van der Poorten
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(6) November 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comments 4 Quotes and Queries 5 Letters 6 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 62 Guide, Theatre, Opera, Dance 3 Spotlight Peter Hemmings Features 7 Tracks and Ways - Robin Ramsay talks to Theatre Australia 16 The Edgleys: A Theatre Family Raymond Stanley 22 Sydney’s Theatre - the Theatre Royal Ross Thorne 14 The Role of the Critic - Frances Kelly and Robert Page Playscript 41 Jack by Jim O’Neill Studyguide 10 Louis Esson Jess Wilkins Regional Theatre 12 The Armidale Experience Ray Omodei and Diana Sharpe Opera 53 Sydney Comes Second best David Gyger 18 The Two Macbeths David Gyger Ballet 58 Two Conservative Managements William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews 25 Western Australia King Edward the Second Long Day’s Journey into Night Of Mice and Men 28 South Australia Annie Get Your Gun HMS Pinafore City Sugar 31 A.C.T. Miss Litchfield’s Riverina Follies 32 New South Wales Going Home Fanshen Side by Side by Sondheim Jack A way Match The Time is not yet Ripe 37 Victoria While the Billy Boils The Bastard from the Bush Pygmalion 39 Queensland The Brass Hat The Season at Sarsparilla Books 56 John McCallum Records 57 Roger Covell Film 60 Elizabeth Riddell
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(7) December 1977
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 39 Guide: Theatre, Opera Dance 56 I.T.l. Roundup Features 13 Cuckoo in the Nest — Pamela Ruskin profiles Barry Humphries 10 Where the Stars Eat Out — Barry Eaton asks where the eating action is in Sydney — From Harry’s to Patrick’s 17 Stars of Musical Theatre, Tony Sheldon 8 100 years on: Australian theatre a century ago 22 Sydney’s Theatres — Part II Ross Thorne 48 Living on Hope, Anne Fraser on the prbblems of the designer Spotlight 59 Spotlight on Ron Blair, Bill Akers, Dallas Lewis, and Killara 680 International 47 ‘Voice from the Dead’; Alan Seymour reports from London Playscript 41 Jack — Act 11 Jim McNeil Opera 50 David Gyger’s Survey: Focus off the National Ballet 53 Australian Dance Theatre and Dance Company (NSW) William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews 25 NSW The Norman Conquests Ashes A Marriage A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum The Lower Depths 30 WA Southern Ape The Brass Hat 33 ACT Twelfth Night 34 SA Macbeth 35 VIC Desire Under the Elms 37 QLD Inner Voices Otherwise Engaged Film 55 Elizabeth Riddell Books 6 John McCallum Records 57 Roger Covell
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(8) February 1978
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Knappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Whispers, Rumours and Facts Letters 54 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Theatre Photography 4 Photographer Philip Morris Shoots Ned Kelly 6 Don’t Tell me, Show me — Peter Holderness Features 10 Molto Temperamento — Pamela Ruskin interviews Richard Divall of the Victoria State Opera 13 Gordon Chater writes on a year to remember A Year of Benjamin Franklin 50 Twilight of the Gods — Geoffrey Hutton on the Star System 53 John McCallum on Billings, Broadsheets & Brochures International 19 Barry O’Connor reports from Canada Playscript 21 A Happy and Holy Occasion (Act One) by John O’Donaghue with an introduction by Terence Clark Survey 77 Theatre 34 NSW — Katharine Brisbane 37 VIC — Garrie Hutchinson 38 QLD — Don Batchelor 39 TAS — Karl Hubert 41 SA — Tony Baker 42 WA — Margot Luke Ballet William Shoubridge 47 Opera David Gyger
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(9) April 1978
Robert Page, Lucy Wagner, and Bruce Kappett
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 5 Quotes and Queries 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 49 I.T.I. Roundup 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera Dance Features 8 Old Tote Crisis — Douglas Flintoff examines the situation behind the Totes losses. 10 Illusion Comique — Rex Cramphorn in interview with Roger Pulvers. 10 National Theatre Award Nominations 12 Theatre Training — Richard Mills and Bea Star give contrary views of N.I.D.A. Spotlight 3 Spotlight on Stephen Barry, Robert A lexander and Robert Van Macklenburg 48 ‘Where are the writers?” Desmond O’Grady in Rome Playscript 28 A Happy and Holy Occasion John O’Donoghue Act II Opera 41 David Gyger’s Survey: Australian Opera Summer Season Ballet 39 Australian Ballet: Swan Lake William Shoubridge W.A. Theatre Reviews 17 WA The Norman Conquests Othello & The Rape of Lucretia The Wakefield Mystery Days 19 VIC. Rock 'ola Melbourne Survey Dusa, Fish, Stas & Vi ‘Breaker’ Morant 22 QLD. Flight Path Small Change 23 S.A. Adelaide Survey Oedipus 25 N.S.W. Marxisms, Stubble, Everyman Edith Piaf Ned Kelly Sydney Survey Film 43 Elizabeth Riddell/Terry Owen Records 45 Roger Coveil 46 John McCallum
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(10) May 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment Quotes and Queries 3 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 5 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 7 Ray Stanley talks to Keith Michell Catching Up With Kate — Barry Eaton Portable Lighting Controls for the Non-Professional — David Bird Tadeusz Kantor — Roger Pulvers Features 10 Only Heroes and Heroines, Twelfth Night Traumas Assessed by Colin Robertson Katharine Brisbane sums up the Adelaide Festival Melbourne’s Lost Theatres, Part 1 — Ross Thorne International 19 Classics and Contemporary Charisma, Bob Henderson in Greece Playscript 33 Don’t Piddle Against The Wind, Mate — Act 1, Kenneth Ross. Introduction, Alan Edwards Ballet 41 Cocteau: The Man, The Works, The Ballet — William Shoubridge WA Ballet Company's Festival of Perth Season — Terry Owen Opera 44 Midsummer Marriage & country tours — David Gyger Theatre Review 21 VIC Richard III — Ray Stanley Perfect Strangers/Brothers — Jack Hibberd Makassar Reef — V I Richards 23 QLD Don’t Piddle Against The Wind, Mate — Richard Fotheringham Brisbane Survey — Don Batchelor 24 NSW The Cassidy Album — Katharine Brisbane East — Rex Cramphorn Sydney Survey — Robert Wagner Kold Komfort Kaffee — Lucy Wagner 28 SA Glass Menagerie/The Right Man — Tony Baker Festival Fringe — Bruce McKendry 29 WA The Seagull — Collin O’Brien Chinchilla — Cliff Gillam Film 46 Elizabeth Riddell Records 48 Roger Covell Books 49 John McCallum
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(11) June 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 20 I.T.I. Roundup 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 7 Frank Hauser interviewd by Ray Stanley 10 Bruce Barry talks to Barry Eaton Features 8 Designing Minds 11 Alternative Adelaide — Frank Ford 14 Subsidy and Commercialism — The Profit Stage 16 Organised Niceness — Kirsten Blanch talks to Alex Buzo International 18 Polarities in German Productions — Michael Morley Playscript 33 Don’t Piddle Against The Wind, Mate — Act II, Kenneth Ross Dance 42 William Shoubridge Opera 44 Ten and Thirty Years On — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC The Beaux Stratagem — Raymond Stanley True Romances — Jack Hibberd 23 NSW The Misanthrope — Lucy Wagner Journey’s End and Romeo & Juliet — Greg Curran Comedy of Errors — Robert Page 26 SA 1 + 2 Henry IV by William Shakespeare — Tony Baker Gents — Michael Morely 27 WA Doubling Up — Cliff Gillam Greenroom G 's and Gaucheries — Cliff Gillam 29 QLD In Praise of Love — Don Batchelor Records 41 Roger Covell Film 46 Elizabeth Riddell Books 49 John McCallum
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 2(12) July 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 8 Letters 9 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 5 Canberra Theatre Centre — Marguerite Wells 6 The Mask and the Everyman Experience — Sol run Hoaas 7 Katharine Brisbane reviews this year’s Playwrights Conference Features 11 Melbourne's Lost Theatres, Part 2 — Ross Thorne 14 The Australian Film & Television School 16 Rex & Jim International 18 Hungary has never known avant-garde Theatre — Bogdan Gieraczynski Playscript 33 Marx — Act 1, Ron Blair Dance 40 Poppy as their creation — William Shoubridge WA Ballet Company's Winter Season — Terry Owen Hans Brenaa’s Master Classes in Ballet — Terry Owen Figaro a happy medium — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Oh; Let me in — Suzanne Spunner Departmental — Raymond Stanley Troylus and Cressida — Vi Richards 23 NSW Da — Robert Page A Day in the Death of Joe Egg — Adrian Wintle Isn't it Pathetic at his Age — Greg Curran What Every Woman Knows; Spokesong — Lucy Wagner 26 SA Marx — Michael Morley The Winter's Tale — Bruce McKendry 28 WA A Streetcar Named Desire — Collin O’Brien Waiting for Godat — Cliff Gillam 29 QLD King Lear — Don Batchelor City Sugar — Veronica Kelly Rocky Horror Show; Young Mo — 31 ACT Act Now — Marguerite Wells 32 TAS Tasmanian Survey — Karl Hubert Richard Fotheringham Film 46 Records 48 Books 49 Elizabeth Riddell Roger Coveil John McCallum
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(1) August 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 7 Quotes and Queries 9 Letters 11 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 54 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 3 John Waters talks to Jill Sykes 4 Quentin Crisp John Byrne 5 Playwrights Discovered Richard Murphett 6 You winsome... Richard Fotheringham Features 13 East and Australia Steven Berkoff 18 Shakespeare Production in Australia John Bell interviewed by Nick Enright, and Mick Rodger, Ted Craig, Alan Edwards, Colin George, Peter Oyston, Richard Wherrett. International 16 Finding the Japanese Element Roger Pulvers Playscript 35 Marx — Act II & III, Ron Blair Dance 46 Just what is a classic? William Shoubridge Opera 48 First performances with enlarged pit David Gyger Theatre Reviews 25 VIC Everest Hotel — Jack Hibberd Electro — David Parker King Lear — Vi Richards 27 SA Les Darcy Show, Cedoona — Michael Morley 28 QLD The Good Person ofSechwan Richard Fotheringham Point of Departure — Katharine Brisbane 29 NSW Pandora’s Cross — Bob Ellis Henry IV — Robert Page Mother Courage — Dorothy Hewett 32 WA A Happy and Holy Occasion — Collin O’Brien Big Bad Mouse — Margot Luke Hancock’s Last Half Hour — Margot Luke 34 ACT Witold Gombrowicz in Buenos Aires — Marguerite Wells Film 50 Sydney Film Festival: Australasian Opposites Elizabeth Riddell Foreign Shorts Solrun Hoaas Records 52 Bernard Herrmann Roger Coveil Books 53 Metamorphosis and other playtexts — John McCallum 56 Thespia’s Crossword
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(2) September 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 8 Letters 9 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 50 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 5 Hayes Gordon — from Kate to Annie Sharen Flanagan 6 A Theatre Opened to the Future Senda Akihiko 7 Music Theatre in Melbourne 7 Theatre in Schools with Andrew Ross — Joan Ambrose Features 11 La Stupenda — Mastery or Myth? A personal assessment of opera’s superstar by Greg Curran 14 The Politics of Self Indulgence — Wal Cherry looks at the aims and uses of ‘political’ theatre 16 Mick Rodger — John Hindle on the life and work of Mick Rodger International 18 New York, New York — A1 Weiner, USA Playscript 33 Pandora 's Cross — Act I, Dorothy Hewett Dance 41 World Ballet Stars — William Shoubridge Opera 44 Opera from the capitals — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC The Playboy of the Western World — Raymond Stanley Just Between Ourselves — Jack Flibberd Whittle Family Singers — Les Cartwright 23 NSW Crown Matrimonial and Hay Fever — Greg Curran As You Like It — Robert Page Catch Me If You Can — Anthony Barclay St. Mary's Kid and The Glass Menagerie — Greg Curran 28 QLD The Homecoming — Elizabeth Perkins The Father we loved on a beach by the sea — Richard Fotheringham Children's Theatre Survey — Don Batchelor 29 TAS Tasmania Survey — Karl Flubert 30 ACT Spring Awakening — Roger Pul vers 31 SA Cheap and Nasty — Michael Morely Peer Gynt — Katharine Brisbane 32 WA The Ghost Train — Collin O'Brien Film 46 Jimmie Blacksmith — Elizabeth Riddell 47 Newsfront — Elizabeth Riddell Records 48 Concertos and lieder’s last refuge — Roger Covell Books 49 Sixteen new Australasian plays — John McCallum 52 Thespia’s Crossword No.3
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(3) October 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 4 Letters 9 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 41 I.T.I. 54 Guide: Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 5 Jan Friedl — a passion for work with others — Bruce Williams 6 The INSEA Congress — Solrun Hoaas 7 The Continuing Saga of Twelfth Night — Veronica Kelly 8 Adelaide Commentary — Tony Baker 8 Don’t Forget Tassie — Karl Hubert Features 10 Kenn Brodziak interviewed by Robert Page 13 New Theatre Movement — Part I, Mona Brand 16 Kristian Fredrikson, Designer in Excelsis — Pamela Ruskin 42 The State Theatre and its Alternatives — Colin Ballantyne International 18 The last time Isaw Paris — Bogdan Giercznski reports. Playscript 33 Pandora’s Cross — Act II, Dorothy Hewett Dance 45 Dance Company — handed to us like a dead fish — William Shoubridge 47 A Profile of Ann Jenner — John Byrne Opera 48 Imported Wagner — David Gyger Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Under Milk Wood — Raymond Stanley Adventures in Opera — David Gyger The Fools’Shoe Hotel — VI Richards Freaks — Jack Hibberd 24 NSW Dracula — Robert Page The Removalist — Greg Curran Lamb of God — Anthony Barclay Metamorphosis — Roger Pulvers The Rocky Horror Show — Adrian Wintle Lovers (Winners & Losers) — Anthony Barclay The Knack — Lucy Wagner Visions — Roger Pulvers 30 QLD Tales from the Vienna Woods — Jeremy Ridgman Clowneroonies! — Veronica Kelly Just Between Ourselves — Richard Fotheringham Big Toys — Don Batchelor 31 SA A Manual of Trench Warfare — Tony Baker Film 32 50 51 51 Books 53 56 WA Dick Whittington and his Cat — Cliff Gillam Small Change — Peter Mann Mary Stuart — Cliff Gillam Those who go under and those who survive — Elizabeth Riddell 1978 Australian Film Awards — Terry Owen Macbeth on Video — Robert Page Better Plays from Colder — John McCallum Thespia’s Crossword No. 4
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(4) November 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 6 Noises Off 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 8 Letters 58 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 9 Producer’s Day — Stuart Wagstaff talks to Barry Eaton. 9 Harry Miller’s Computicket — Brad Keeling 10 Zygmunt Molik — interviewed by Jeremy Ridgman 10 Myle Stones — Pamela Ruskin on Bruce Myles 10 WA Playwright problems — Katharine Brisbane Features 13 Dimboola — Jack Hibberd 16 Googie Withers — Ray Stanley 19 New Theatre Movement — Part 2, Mona Brand Playscript 39 Gone with Hardy — Act I, David Allen International 50 The New York City Ballet — William Shoubridge Dance 45 Ballet 78 — William Shoubridge Australian Ballet — Alan Brissenden Australian Dance Theatre — Alan Brissenden The New York City Ballet — William Shoubridge Opera 52 Problem month for A O: Seymour and UNSW successes — David Gyger. Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Film Books Gone with Hardy — Raymond Stanley The Masters — Raymond Stanley Dreamers of the Absolute — V 1 Richards The Emigrants — Jack Hibberd 26 NSW Bedroom Farce — Greg Curran The Club: Sisters — Adrian Wintle Entertaining Mr Sloane: An evening with Adolph Hitler — Tony Barclay Night of the Iguana: Widowers Houses — Robert Page The Waltz of the Toreadors — Lucy Wagner Richard II — Katharine Brisbane Keep on Truckin 'Francesca — Cliff Gillam Between the Lines — Collin O’Brien 33 SA The Servant of Two Masters — Michael Morley 35 QLD The Ancient Mariner: Oedipus at Colonus — Veronica Kelly King Richard: Dry Run — Richard Fotheringham The Cherry Orchard — Jeremy Ridgman 37 ACT Lunchtime Season — Marguerite Wells Flextime — Roger Pulvers 54 The Last Tasmanian — Elizabeth Riddell 55 Film Australia — Rozamund Waring 56 Greek for actors — Suzanne Spunner 57 Culture for the people — John McCallum 60 Thespia’s Crossword No.5
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(5) December 1978
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: tments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 6 Noises Off 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 8 Letters 50 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 9 Alexander Hay on acting — Joan Ambrose 10 Joe MacColum looks back at his seven years with the Queensland Theatre Co. 11 Telethon Appeal 11 Profile: Joan Sydney — Colin O’Brien Features 12 Whose Stocking would you like to share for Christmas? 15 John Pinder — Raymond Stanley reports 17 Louis Nowra — Writer's View Playscript 35 Gone With Hardy — Act II, David Allen International 20 Random Jottings on London Theatre and Film — Alan 42 Bayreuth King — William Shoubridge Dance 46 ADT's Choreographic Worksop-— Alan Brissenden Opera Extra — Pamela Ruskin, David G^ger and William Shoubridge f wollongoni 1 Opera 41 Theatre Reviews 21 VIC Film Records Books Annie — Raymond Stanley Nygwc The Spalding Family Album — Margaret McLusky The Next Greatest Pleasure — John Bryson Liv Ullmann — Roger Pulvers The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui — Roger Pulvers Light Shining in Buckinghamshire — V. 1. Richards 25 QLD Habeas Corpus and Mothers and Fathers — Veronica Kelly Heartbreak House — Jeremy Ridgman Hamlet — Don Batchelor 27 WA A Hatful of Sykes and The Hostage — Collin O'Brien The Empire Builders — Peter Mann Rock-ola — Cliff Gillam Die Zauberflote — Derek Moore Morgan Patience — Peter Mann 30 NSW Flesh and Blood — Anthony Barclay The Lady from Maxim's — Errol Bray A Lad 'n his Lamp — Robert Page A Visit with the Family — Rex Cramphorn 33 SA Cymbeline — Michael Morley Windows and On The Edge in Search of Happiness — Bruce McKendry 47 Patrick — Elizabeth Riddell 48 Lighter listening; operetta, ballet — Roger Coveil 49 The great revealed — John McCallum 52 Thespia’s Crossword No.6
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(6) January 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Comment Quotes and Queries Noises Off Whispers, Rumours and Facts Letters IT1 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Patricia Kennedy's brilliant career — Ray Stanley Actors at Sea — Barry Eaton Liv ¡liman travelling alone — Miriam Fleischman In Townsville the Council Gets Into The Act Save the Regent — Richard Fotheringham David Williamson — My Life and Times in the Big Apple Hoopla — John Larkin Strike At The Port — Nick Enright China — Carillo Gantner Ballet '78 — William Shoubridge TV and 3d operas — David Gyger NSW John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert — Adrian Wintle Cabaret — Rex Cramphorn Gone With Hardy — Robert Page ACT Godspell: The Seventh Seal — Roger Pulvers VIC January Theatre in Victoria — Malcolm Robertson Once A Catholic — Jack Hibberd The Ship's Whistle — Raymond Stanley WA New Moves in Perth — Collin O’Brien No, No, Nanette — Collin O’Brien Tosca — Derek Moore Morgan SA Adelaide's Highpoints — Peter Farrell Film Records Books 35 47 48 49 52 QLD Queensland Overview — Veronica Kelly The Prisoner of Second Avenue — Veronica Kelly Catch Me If You Can — Richard Fotheringham Blue Fin lacks the magic of Storm Boy — Elizabeth Riddell Art of the recorder and Boccanegra — Roger Covell Australian Theatre and Drama — John McCallum Thespia’s Crossword No. 7
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(7) February 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 6 Noises Off 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 8 Letters 50 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 9 11 Ray Stanley pays tribute to Jill Perryman Marilyn Richardson — Pamela Ruskin 12 The John and Sue Fox Tour — Fiona Batchelor 13 International Puppet Festival in Hobart — Carol Thompson Features 14 Television 1979— Michael Hohensee 35 Children's Theatre — Helmut Bakaitis 39 Peter Kenna — Writer’s View International 41 Italian avant-garde revival — Desmond O’Grady Opera 42 Light opera from Sydney — David Gyger Dance 44 Fille Mai Guards and Spartacus — William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews 23 VIC Records Books Roma — Margaret McLusky The Young and the Jobless — Gail Raymond L FSloane's Three Black and White Jubilee Minstrels — V 1 Richards The Kingfisher — Raymond Stanley Arsenic and Old Lace — Jack Hibberd 28 NSW Treasure Island — Robert Page They Are Dying Out — John McCallum Jumpers — Tony Barclay 31 OLD Mr Herod's Christmas Pageant — Don Batchelor Sleuth — Don Batchelor 33 SA Summer of the Seventeenth Doll — Guthrie Worby 34 WA California Suite — Collin O’Brien 47 George Dreyfus — Roger Covell 48 The immortal, the ephemeral and the bardolatrous — John McCallum 52 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No.8
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(8) March 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: Departments 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 6 Noises Off 7 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 8 Letters 50 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight 9 Thoughts of an Uncultured Philistine — Noel Ferrier 10 State Theatre Co, Adelaide — Guthrie Worby 11 Michael Siberry — John Edge 12 Brisbane Actors’ Company — Richard Fotheringham Features 13 Robyn Nevin — Robert Page 15 Jim Sharman directs Patrick White’s most challenging play — Anthony Barclay reports 18 The Pram’s New Push 39 Children’s Theatre: Women, Theatre and Education International 35 Focus on Canada — Barry O’Connor and John Tasker Opera 43 Exciting Bolshoi, mixed Fidelio, well matured Herring — David Gyger Dance 41 Not dancing but moving — William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews 21 NSW A Cheery Soul — Katharine Brisbane Makassar Reef — Dorothy Flewett Last of the Red Hot Lovers — Robert Page Statements — Lucy Wagner Festival of Sydney Playwrights — Anthony Barclay The Club — Bruce Knappet The Bed Before Yesterday — Lucy Wagner 27 VIC Journey’s End — Raymond Stanley Bodies Fukien Puppets — Suzanne Spunner 30 QLD The Human Voice/Madam's Late Mother — Jeremy Ridgman 31 SA The High and the Mitey — Bruce McKendry Merely Players — Bruce McKendry 32 WA No W.A.Y. — Cliff Gillam 33 ACT A Midsummer Night's Dream — Roger Pulvers Film 46 Aus Shorts on Unemployment — Elizabeth Riddell 47 Money Movers — Bloody but worthy — Elizabeth Riddell Records 48 The Myth of the Troubadour — Roger Coveil 49 Myths and National Identity — John McCallum 52 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 9
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(9) April 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Noises Off 12 Letters 54 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 The Annual Meet — Ron Blair 8 Playwrights’ Conference — from Strength to Strength — Mick Rodger 9 Stoppard — Collin O’Brien 10 Troupe — Guthrie Worby 11 Prospect’s Grand Tour — An interview with Theatre Australia Features: 13 Reg Livermore’s Singular Burlesques — Peter Batey, Director 16 Dorothy Hewett — Kristin Green 19 Emerald Hill Theatre — Raymond Stanley 39 Children’s Theatre: PipiStorm Children’s Circus — Murray Oliver 41 Writer’s View: John Romeril International: 47 Focus on Finland — Jacqueline Mulhallen Opera: 49 Improved revivals; Don, Merry Widow, Mastersingers, and G and S David Gyger Dance: 43 Dance Extra: Graeme Murphy on Rumours, William Shoubridge on Modern Dance Theatre Reviews: 21 WA Film: Records: Books: Romeo and Juliet — Collin O’Brien Great English Eccentrics — Margot Luke Makassar Reef— Cliff Gillam The Way of the World — Cliff Gillam Marriage of Figaro in Perth — Derek Moore Morgan Night & Day/After Magritte — Collin O’Brien 26 VIC The Bridal Suite — Jack Hibberd Jeremy Taylor — Margaret McClusky Garden of Delights — Suzanne Spunner 29 QLD BoadiceaJYou Never Can Tell — Veronica Kelly Irish Stew — Jeremy Ridgman 31 SA Hamlet — Guthrie Worby 32 ACT Man and Man — Roger Pulvers The Anniversary/The Flaw — Marguerite Wells 33 NSW Lost To The Devil — Lucy Wagner Sacred Cow — Dorothy Hewett Hancock’s Last Half Hour — Robert Page The Murder Room — Anthony Barclay Lady of the Cornelias — Roger Pulvers Cabaret — Lucy Wagner 51 Dawn — they’ve laboured in vain — Elizabeth Riddell 52 Treasures from a Seven Hundred Year Old Song Collection Roger Coveil 53 From the Maestro to a Master — John McCallum 56 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 10
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(10) May 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Letters 54 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 The Inner Life of Helen Morse — Lucy Wagner 8 Does Australian Theatre want an international contact? — Robert Quentin 9 Vivien Davis — Les Cartwright 10 7th Australian National Playwrights’ Conference — Mick Rodger 11 Civic Playhouse — Felicity Biggins Features: 13 Gentlemen Only — Peter Corrigan 15 Rodney Fisher talks to Rex Cramphorn 40 Booming in the Backblocks — Regional Theatre Revisited — Prudence Anderson 45 Children’s Theatre: TIE: Education & Community — John Lonie International: 18 Keeping Options Open — Irving Wardle Opera: 47 Sutherland in Melbourne; Rhinegold in Sydney; Fledermaus in SA — David Gyger Dance: 49 ABfirst programme — William Shoubridge 50 Tchaikovsky Ballet Company — Terry Owen Theatre Reviews: 20 ACT Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi — Roger Pulvers The Sound of Music — Marguerite Wells 22 NSW Inner Voices — Adrian Wintle Rain — Mick Rodger The Bastardfrom the Bush — Dorothy Hewett How the other half loves — Marlis Thiersch Deathtrap — Robert Page Othello — Anthony Barclay 27 QLD 'Breaker' Morant — Richard Fotheringham Fallen Angels — Jeremy Ridgman Scapino — Veronica Kelly 29 SA American Buffalo — Susie Mitchell Tales from the Vienna Woods — John Kirby The Police Commissioner’s Grandmother — Bruce McKendry Pike’s Madness — Bruce McKendry 32 VIC Gentlemen Only — Albert Hunt Concerning Poor BB/The Hypothetical End of Bert Brecht — Jack Hibberd Mickey’s Moomba — Murray Copland Tricks — Les Cartwright Macbeth — Raymond Stanley 37 WA Death of a Salesman — Margot Luke Nola Rae — Peter Mann Gone with Hardy — Collin O’Brien Theatre De Papier — Margaret Maslen Film 51 Odd Angry Shot — Elizabeth Riddell 52 Femflicks — Elizabeth Riddell Books 53 Australia, Beckett, Bergman & Marowitz — John McCallum 56 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 1
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(11) June 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Letters 54 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 Clifford Hocking — Profiled by Raymond Stanley 8 TN Co — Jeremy Ridgman 9 Example of Survival — David K Wheatley 10 Melbourne Search for an Audience — Suzanne Spunner 11 Adelaide’s Alternative Company — Bruce McKendry 12 The World of Puppets — Richard Bradshaw Features: 14 Bertolt Brecht — Introduced by Wal Cherry 16 The Transportation of Jack Punt — John Willett 18 Grass vs Brecht — Martin Esslin 20 What is Brechtian — 1979? Roger Pulvers 20 Caucasian Chalk Circle — Amanda Davies 43 Writer’s View: Alexander Buzo 45 Children’s Theatre: Processes & Product International: 41 Internal Changes in the RSC — Irving Wardle 42 Broadway, Off and On — Karl Levett Opera: 47 Romeo and Juliet, Paul Bunyan and an excellent Mikado — David Gyger Dance: 49 Rumours — William Shoubridge 51 WA Ballet — Terry Owen Theatre Reviews: 21 ACT The Room — Roger Pulvers 22 NSW The Good Soldier Schweik — Anthony Barclay Ten Times Table — Marlis Thiersch Gimme Shelter — Rex Cramphorn The Sea — Robert Page Indians — Adrian Wintle 26 QLD Hedda Gabler — Robert Kingham Visions — Richard Fotheringham Macbeth — Veronica Kelly 29 SA The Shaugraun — Guthrie Worby No Room for Dreamers — John Kirby Mrs Thally F/Eva Peron — Bruce McKendry 32 VIC Film: Books: Fefu and her friends — Suzanne Spunner Notes from an Old Man’s Diary — Jack Hibberd Antigone — Ray Stanley The Grand, Grand Final Show — Julie Copeland Traitors — Garrie Hutchinson 37 WA City Sugar — Collin O’Brien The Beggar’s Opera — Derek Moore Morgan George and Mildred — Collin O’Brien Approaching Simone — Collin O’Brien 52 The Distant Lens — Terry Owen 53 Brechtfrom Eyre Methuen — John McCallum 56 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 12
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(12) July 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Comment Quotes and Queries Whispers, Rumours and Facts Letters Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Richard Wherrett — Interviewed by Rex Cramphorn Glynne — The man behind the G &S tour — Raymond Stanley 1979 National Playwrights’ Conference — Douglas Flintoff Falcon 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 Devil's Disciple/American Buffalo — Lucy Wagner The Miracle 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 Sensational South Yarra Show — Christine Westwood The Club — Garrie Hutchinson Arms and the Man — Suzanne Spunner WA Well Hung — Margot Luke Something’s Afoot — Cliff Gillam Swan River Saga — Margot Luke Professionalism Italian film with a message — Elizabeth Riddell Anti-illusionism, MeyerholdandPiscator — John McCallum Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 13
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(1) August 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Letters 46 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 Carol Burns — Suzanne Spunner 8 Youthful Dancers Make Box-Office Waves — David K Wheatley 9 Cooke’s Cordon Bleu Tours — Ray Stanley 10 Theatre of the Deaf— Ian Watson Features: 11 A-Polo Gies for MTCee-ats — Barry Dickins 12 From Theatre to Film — Christine Schofield 14 Sydney's Lost Theatres Part One — Ross Thorne 17 TA Enquiry: Big Business and the Arts Pt 2 — Do we need A. R. T.S. 35 Writer’s View: Roger Pulvers 37 Children’s Theatre: Children in Children's Theatre International: 33 Dances of Death in London — Irving Wardle Opera: 39 Three AO openings; QLO duo; and Seymour single — David Gyger Dance: 41 Wildstars — William Shoubridge Theatre Reviews: 19 ACT Wind in the Willows — Marguerite Wells A Handful of Friends — Marguerite Wells 21 NSW Tribute — John McCallum From Laughing About the World to Living with the World/ The Caucasian Chalk Circle/Galileo — Mick Rodger How Sleep the Brave — Anthony Barclay 25 QLD Gone with Hardy/Travesties — Richard Fotheringham A Man for all Seasons/The Merry Wives of Windsor — Jeremy Ridgr 27 SA Departmental — Guthrie Worby 28 VIC Miss Julie — Jack Hibberd Uncle Vanya — Garrie Hutchinson 30 WA Three Sisters/Gay Plays — Collin O’Brien Film: 43 Dimboola/Sydney Film Fest — Elizabeth Riddell Books: 45 The World of Theatre, Wit and Williams — John McCallum 48 Thespia’s Prize Crossword No. 14
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(2) September 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
Contents: Departments: 2 Comment 3 Quotes and Queries 5 Whispers, Rumours and Facts 6 Letters 46 Guide — Theatre, Opera, Dance Spotlight: 7 Robert Lewis ’ Long Journey to O ’Neil — TA Interview 8 Everyman's Theatre Collective — Margaret McClusky 9 The Writer Behind Errol Flynn — TA Interview 10 Buttercup and Gladys — John Smythe Features: 11 Travelling North — Robert Page interviews David Williamson & Frank Wilson 13 Sydney’s Lost Theatres Part Two — Ross Thorne 15 Writer’s View: Dorothy Hewett 31 Film Extra — Raymond Stanley & Elizabeth Riddell 39 Children’s Theatre: Freewheeling TIE International: 37 Influence from the East — Irving Wardle Opera: 41 Three Mozarts, Tchaikovsky and George’s opera debut — David Gyger Dance: 43 Comparisons from Adelaide — Robert Bath Theatre Reviews: 17 ACT Canberra Survey — Roger Pulvers 19 NSW Waiting for Godot/Chapter Two — Anthony Barclay Boy’s Own McBeth — Philip Parsons 21 QLD A Streetcar named Desire; Marat/Sade — Jeremy Ridgman Viva Indonesia/Hills Family Show — Peter Lavery 23 SA Missis Queen/The Sound of Silence — Susan Vile 24 WA The White Devil/The Tempest — Cliff Gillam Ruddygore — Margot Luke 27 VIC Errol Flynn & Gough Whitlam — Garrie Hutchinson The Point Isn’t To Tell You — Suzanne Spunner The Woman/The Immortalist — Margaret McClusky Books: 45 Barba and Third World Theatre — John McCallum
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(3) October 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(4) November 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(5) December 1979
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(6) January 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(7) February 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(8) March 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(9) April 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(10) May 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the Performing Arts 4(11) June 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 4(12) July 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(1) August 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(2) September 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(3) October 1980
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(4) November 1980
Ardyne Reid and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(5) December 1980 - January 1981
Ardyne Reid and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(6) February 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(7) March 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(8) April 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(9) May 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(10) June 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(11) July 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 5(12) August 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 6(1) September 1981
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's Monthly Magazine of the Performing Arts 6(7) April 1982
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's Monthly Magazine of the Performing Arts February 1982
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: National Monthly Magazine of the Performing Arts 6(6) March 1982
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
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Theatre Australia: Australia's Monthly Magazine of the Performing Arts 6(8) May 1982
Robert Page and Lucy Wagner
