Theatre Australia
 
Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(11) June 1979

Theatre Australia: Australia's magazine of the performing arts 3(11) June 1979

Robert Page, Editor
Lucy Wagner, Editor

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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