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The Madwoman of Chaillot

29/11/1969

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By Jean Giraudoux
Directed Alex Henderson

Season: 29 November - 6 December 1969

The play is a kind of poetic and comic fable set in the twilight zone of the not-quite-true. At the Cafe Chez Francis, a group of promoters plot to tear up Paris in order to unearth the oil which a prospector believes he has located in the neighbourhood. These grandiose plans come to the attention of The Madwoman of Chaillot who is ostensibly not normal in her mind but who is soon shown to be the very essence of practical worldly goodness and common sense. She sees through the crookedness of the prospector and insists that the world is being turned into an unhappy place by the thieves and those who are greedy for worldly goods and power. At a tea party attended by other "mad" women of Paris, she has brought together representatives of the despoilers of the earth and wreckers of its happiness, and has them tried and condemned to extermination. In a scene which mounts into the realms of high poetic comedy, she sends the culprits one by one, lured by the scent of oil and undreamed-of riches, into a bottomless pit which opens out of her cellar. The exodus of the wicked is accompanied by another and more beautiful miracle: Joy, justice and love return to the world again.
Cast:
The Waiter - Hylton Sweeney
The Little Man - Terrance O'Cain
The Prospector - David Warwick
The President - John Bateman
The Baron - John Smyth
Street Singer - Islay McLeod
Ragpicker - Arthur Chapman
Deaf Mute - Brian Brodie
The Broker - Murray Beattie
Dr Jadin - Reg Carr
Policeman - Jim Erikson
Pierre - Donald Bruce
Sergeant - Roger Southcott
Sewer Man - Brian Brodie
The Cook - Linley Holland
Shoelace Pedler - Alison Alston
Therese - Elizabeth Massey
Flower Girl - Raynor Scandrett
Irma - Jan Watson
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Countess Aurelia (The Mad Woman of Chaillot) - Taura Henderson
Constance (The Mad Woman of Passy) - Beryl McLeod
Gabrielle (The Mad Woman of St Sulpice) - Daphne Milburn
Josephine (The Mad La Concorde) - Joan Peel
The Ladies - Islay McLeod, Carole Rout, Raynor Scandrett
The Presidents - John Bateman, John Smyth, Reg Carr
The Prospectors - David Warwick, Murray Beattie, Roger Southcott
The Press - John Bateman, John Smyth, Reg Carr
The Adolphe Bertaut - Murray Beattie, Roger Southcott, David Warwick
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Winter Journey

4/10/1969

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By Clifford Odet
Directed by Brian Deavoll

Season: 4 - 11 October 1969

A moving drama about a desperately self-destructive alcoholic actor, Frank Elgin, and Georgie, his long-suffering wife.  A searing, emotional play of love and redemption.

Cast:
Bernie - Colin Alexander
Larry - Richard Gates
Phil - John Bateman
Paul - David Gower
Nancy - Elizabeth Gates
Frank - Peter Brown
Georgie - Marilyn Eales
Ralph - Brian Brodie
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One Act Plays 1969 (July)

15/7/1969

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Season: ​15 - 19 July 1969

Sotoba Komachi
By Yukio Mishama
Directed by ​Sue Ryan

Cast:
Old Woman - Marion Edwards
Poet - Peter Cameron
Woman A - Ros Simpson
Woman B - Pauline Farrar
Woman C - Nan Turner
Woman D - Liz Gates
Man A - John Bateman

Man B - Chris Howell
Man C - David Turner
Man D - Donald Bruce
Policeman - Graeme Burbery
Waiters and Vagrants - Chris Bradley, Percy Moore

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Picnic on the Battlefield
By Fernando Arrabal
Directed by ​Brian Deavoll

​Cast:
Mother - Audrea Beddie
Father - Keith Cooke
Son - Richard Gates
Enemy - Jack Baird
Stretcher Bearers - Terrance O'Cain, Paul Dixon

The Lady Aoi
By Yukio Mishama
Directed by ​Alex Henderson

​Cast:
Aoi - Iris McNay
Nurse - Frances Pattinson
Hikaru Wakabayashi - Robert J Naysmith
Yasuko Rakujo - Raynor Scandrett
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And the Big Men Fly

18/5/1969

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By Alan Hopgood
Directed by Hunter Bell

Season: 18 - 24 May 1969 

Achilles Jones is discovered on his lonely farm near Manangatang kicking wheatbags around, as it saves him dragging them. The talent scout of the Galahs, a struggling AFL football team, plucks him from obscurity and soon he is kicking footballs and rocketing the team to victory in the Grand Final.

Cast:
JJ Forbes - Brian Deavoll
Wally Sloss - Gilbert Wiberg
Lil - Sue Ryan
Achillies Jones - Jack Baird
Commentator Harry Head - John Bateman
Wobbley Coates - Campbell McKay
Les Williams - Peter Cameron
Compere - Lilian Lawie
Singer - Dorothy Hart
Assistants - Marlyn Young, Robyn Lawrie, Patria Hart, Gillian Edwards
Spectators - Pat Burke, Normal Diehl, Graeme Burbery, Garry Sloane, Graham Loader, Ron Palmer,
  Peter Hart, Sue Newell
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One Act Plays 1969 (March)

24/3/1969

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Season: ​24 - 29 March 1969

Pidgeon Park on a Tuesday Night
By Brian Cooper
Directed by ​Taura Henderson

Cast:
Charlie - Jack Baird
Harry - Norman Diehl
Sandra - Liz Gates
Andrienne - Iris McNay
George - Murray Beattie
Constable - Graham Paton

The Spoof
By Wendy De La Bere
Directed by ​Ivan Finlayson

Cast:
Man - David Gower
Jinx - Gillian Dean 
Mum - Alison Alston
Fred - Peter Cameron
Fred's Friend - Bruce Hanton
Pamela - Jan Davis
John - Francis Porterfield
Dad - Jim Crichton

The Prospect
By N A Griffiths
Directed by ​Hunter Bell

Cast:
Jim - John Bateman
Beryl, his wife - Maysie Collins
The Salesman - John Milligan
A man learning how to sell religious literature - Peter Hart
Two girls - Anne Burke, Marilyn Young
Roger - Stewart Robertson
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The Glass Menagerie

25/2/1969

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By Tennessee Williams
Directed by Alex Henderson

Season: 25 February - 6 March 1969

Amanda Wingfield is a faded, tragic remnant of Southern gentility who lives in poverty in a dingy St. Louis apartment with her son, Tom, and her daughter, Laura. Amanda strives to give meaning and direction to her life and the lives of her children, though her methods are ineffective and irritating. Tom is driven nearly to distraction by his mother's nagging and seeks escape in alcohol and the world of the movies. Laura also lives in her illusions. She is crippled, and this defect, intensified by her mother's anxiety to see her married, has driven her more and more into herself. The crux of the action comes when Tom invites a young man of his acquaintance to take dinner with the family. Jim, the caller, is a nice ordinary fellow who is at once pounced upon by Amanda as a possible husband for Laura. In spite of her crude and obvious efforts to entrap the young man, he and Laura manage to get along very nicely, and momentarily Laura is lifted out of herself into a new world. But this crashes when, toward the end, Jim explains that he is already engaged. The world of illusion that Amanda and Laura have striven to create in order to make life bearable collapses about them. Tom, too, at the end of his tether, at last leaves home.

Cast:
Tom Wingfield - Martin Harris
Amanda Wingfield - Joan Peel
Laura Wingfield - Dorothy Hart
Jim O'Connor - Brian Brodie 
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Major Barbara

23/10/1968

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By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Hunter Bell

Season: 23 October - 5 November 1968 - Season extended due to demand

Andrew Undershaft, a millionaire armaments manufacturer, loves money and despises poverty. His estranged daughter Barbara, on the other hand, shows her love for the poor by throwing her energies into her work as a Major in the Salvation Army, and sees her father as another soul to be saved. But when the Army needs funds to keep going, it is Undershaft who saves the day with a large cheque forcing Barbara to examine her moral assumptions. Are they right to accept money that has been obtained by Death and Destruction'? Full of lively comedy and sparkling debate, Major Barbara is one of Shaw's most forward-looking plays, brilliantly testing the tensions between religion, wealth and power, benevolence and equality, and metaphors and realities of war.
Cast:
Lady Britamart - Margaret Collins
Stephen - Ross Prebble
Morrison - Barry Williams
Sarah - Jenny Papprill
Barbara - Helen Browning
Adolphus Cusins - Bill Hayward
Charles Lomax - John Bateman
Andrew Undershaft - John Smyth
Rummy Mitchens - Joan Peel
Snobby Price - Pat Burke
Jenny Hill - Gillian Dean
Peter Shirley - Jack Baird
Bill Walker - David Gower
Mrs Baines - Frances Pattinson
Bilton - Barry Williams ​
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One Act Plays 1968 (July)

17/7/1968

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Season: ​17 - 20 July 1968

The Death of Bessie Smith
By Edward Albee
Directed by Brian Deavoll

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Next Door
By J P McKinney
Directed by Sue Ryan

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The Brain Factory
By Brian Cooper
Directed by Alex Henderson

Cast:

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The Ballad of the Sad Café

18/5/1968

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By Edward Albee
Directed by Hunter Bell

Season: 18 - 25 May 1968

Amelia, the proprietor of the Sad Cafe, throws her new husband out of their bedroom on their wedding night. Torn between anger and desire the husband finally leaves town only to return some years later to find Amelia showering all her affection on a dwarf cousin who has come to live with her. At their first meeting the dwarf is hopelessly attracted to the husband. In turn, the husband moves back into the Sad Cafe, threatening to run away with the dwarf if Amelia objects. The day of reckoning soon arrives and the husband and wife meet to settle their differences with their bare hands.
Cast:
The Narrator - Bill Hayward
Rainy 1 - David Williams
Rainy 2 - David C Goode
Stumpy MacPhail - Chris Howell
Henry Macy - John Bateman
Miss Amelia Evans - Jenny Papprill
Cousin Lymon - Basil O'Sullivan
Merlie Ryan - Pat Burke
Horace Wells - David Brockett
Henry Ford Crimp - Frances Porterfield
Emma Hale - Beryl McLeod
Mrs Peterson - Ruth Winstanley
Mrs Lucy Williams - Mary Hudson
Hasty Malone - Glennis Paine
Alice Drummond - Sue Newell
Marvin Macy - Ivan Finlayson
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One Act Plays 1968 (March)

14/3/1968

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Season: 14 - 21 March 1968

Shade for Ginger
By Gary Lynch
Directed by ​Ivan Finlayson

Cast:
Ginger - Bill Hayward
Meg - Glennis Paine
1st Soldier - Peter Brown
2nd Soldier - Jim Erikson
3rd Soldier -  Francis Porterfield
Nobby - Jim Browning
Charlie - Peter Brown
Lennie - <tba>
Maisie - Rosemary West
Phyllis - Sue Snelgrove
Guest - Francis Porterfield
Voice of Sergeant Turton - Francis Porterfield

The Dreamland Tree
By Mollie Elder
Directed by John Milligan

Cast:
Smith - Jack Baird
Sam - Basil O'Sullivan
Copper - John Bateman
Flossie - Lynley Howard

The Paradoxical Quest
By Wayne Tourell
Directed by Hunter Bell

Cast:
Tom - David Williams
Mum - Lillian Lawrie
Dad - Steve Dakin
Foreman - David C Cooke
Barman - David Gower
Girl - Shirley Low
Secretary - Alison Alston
Manager - Murray Beattie
Director - Steve Dakin
Geoff - David Goode
Barmaid - Alison Alston
Bar Patrons - Murray Beattie, David Gower, Toni Currin, Sue Newell
Marcher - Toni Currin
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