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IT’S THE THINGS YOU REMEMBER THAT MAKE YOU WHO YOU ARE
By Shelagh Stephenson Directed by Brian Cannon
28th August to 12th September
CAST
[The Memory of Water]
Vi ……………………………. Helen Ekundayo
Mary ……………………….. Liz Morris
Theresa ……………………. Carissa Zygis
Catherine …………………. Jane Binstead
Mike ……………………….. Patrick Mullins
Frank ……………………….. Trevor Sammon
PLAY No.3 - “THE MEMORY OF WATER”
SPREAD THE WORD
HELP US SPREAD THE WORD OUT
About THE MEMORY OF WATER
I am seeking some help with publicity for
play 3, The Memory of Water. Often times I’m
able to manage the lot, but when I’m in the play
it’s a bit trickier, and that’s the case this time
round!
So, if you’ve got some time, and a little bit
of enthusiasm, I’d love it if you could give me a
hand. Your efforts, no matter how small, will be
appreciated and you can get a kick out of knowing
you’ve helped us put bums on seats! Please give
me a call on 0417 072 512 or email me on jbin-
[email protected] if you’re interested.
Thanks ,
Jane Binstead
Diary Dates for you
to note:
Opening night of “The Memory
of Water” - Friday, 28th Au-
gust.
July Monthly General Meeting
- Wednesday, 15 July at the
hut at 7.30pm.
Management Committee Meet-
ings and Casting Committee
Meetings are monthly.
The Memory of Water Spread the Word
1
From our President
2
2009 Productions Monthly Meeting
2
June Entertainment What’s on
3
Morningside Festival Snippets/Working Bee
3
Profile Trevor Bond
4
Office Bearers 2009 The Memory of Water
4
Inside this issue:
July 2009
Volume 48 Issue 7
PROSCENIUM Villanova Players
NEWSLETTER
The
DIRECTOR Brian Cannon
STAGE MANAGER
Erin Burton
SOUND DESIGN Matt Horner
COSTUMES
Audrey McKibbin
Our wonderful run of “Wuthering Heights” has come to a close. There were very full and appreciative houses in the final week of the run and many thanks to all our members and supporters for their kind and generous words of appreciation. I was very touched by one member who said I played a very good drunk. Well, what can I say? Years of practice went into that role! Of course, we now go from a classic 19th century drama, to a modern dramatic comedy (or is that comic–drama?). Rehearsals have just started for our next production, “The Memory of Water”. The casting committee are still looking for volunteers to help out with costume design and to be on crew so please let them know if you are available. The big event for us this month is the 2009 Morningside Festival. We have been part of this local event for the past few years and it is great fun. One our members, Kerri Schrauf is a key organiser of the event. The Players will be part of the Parade in the morning and will run a stall during the day. It is a great way to keep our profile up before the local community and we always get many enquiries for the public about becoming new subscribers or new members. The event is also very popular with all the local dignitaries even our Prime Minister made an appearance last year. With the future of the Morningside campus uncertain and our access to the Theatre for next year looking grim, it is imperative that we make a strong impression on our politicians that we have community support and we are a group that matters.
The parade is only a short walk down Thynne Road and will take only a few minutes on Sunday morning 26th July but the impressions on the public and the powers that be will be lasting. It is also great fun to get dressed up in that favourite outfit from our vast wardrobe. Please come along and support your group if at all possible. The details are later in the newsletter but we’ll be gathering at the hut at 8:30 to get dressed (unless you have a costume organised beforehand) then assembling at 9:30 for the parade to begin at 10:00am.Let Jane Binstead or myself know about your availability. Also, if you’d like to spend some time during the day on our stall talking to the pub-lic about the players, we’d love to have you along. Close to 10,000 people attend the Festival each year. Cheers, and keep warm, Leo
2009 FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS
PLAY No.3 - ‘THE MEMORY OF WATER’
IT’S THE THINGS YOU REMEMBER THAT MAKE YOU WHO YOU ARE
By Shelagh Stephenson Directed by Brian Cannon
28th August to 12th September
PLAY No.4 - ‘LIVE AT THE TROCADERO’
A COLOURFUL LOCAL WARTIME MUSICAL By Brett Heath and Clarry Evans
20th November to 5th December
FROM OUR PRESIDENT—LEO BRADLEY
Page 2 PROSCENIUM
MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING
AT THE HUT
WEDNESDAY 15 JULY 2009 7:30pm
ENTERTAINMENT Brisbane in the 1940s, was home to two of our most famous
writers and poets, David Malouf and Gwen Harwood. This month’s
entertainment is taken from their writings and reflections on Bris-
bane, the place, the characters, the War, their families and life in
general. Is it really a place of beauty and vision or simply “the most
ordinary place in the world”?
David Malouf is the author of several novels including Johnno,
The Great World, Remembering Babylon and Ransom. He is also
known for his poetry and short story collections and has written the
libretti to three operas, notably the adaptation of PatrickWhite’s-
Voss.
Gwen Harwood (nee Foster) is regarded as one of Australia's
finest poets, publishing over 420 works, including 386 poems and
13 libretti. She won numerous poetry awards and prizes. Her work
is commonly studied in schools and university courses.
Her poetry has recurring themes of motherhood and the stifled
role of women. Music, landscape, and Aboriginal dispossession are
another theme in much of her writing.
Starring in this month’s entertainment are new comers to the
players, Andrew Herron, Megan Lawson and Natasha Williment,
with Morna Kassulke in charge of sound and music and Leo Brad-
ley as director.
"The place you come from is always the most exotic place you'll
ever encounter because it is the only place where you recognise
how many secrets and mysteries there are in people's lives" …
David Malouf
[If anyone is interested in presenting an item at our
Monthly Meetings, contact a Member of the Casting Committee - phone numbers are on the back page of
The Proscenium]
"Serenity Downs", a play for radio by Anne Monsour, told the story of a farm suffering badly from prolonged drought, whose owner (read by Glynne Liddy) decides to take in guests from the city for an outback experience. Her faithful manager (Paul Liddy) sup-ports this proposition to bring in some funds, but her son (Luke Monsour) a citified writer, opposes it. The first paying guests are actors (Robert Gettons and Nicole Harb) whose marriage is in a fragile state. The crafty son regales them with tall stories of the dangers of life in the country, but his nefarious actions, instead of scaring them off, only succeed in bringing them closer together. They leave the farm determined to tell all their friends of the wonderful, rejuvenating holiday they have enjoyed. Rod Thompson played some atmos-pheric linking music on his concertina, and Maria Plumb read the intros and outros in the style of the old Sunday night Radio Thea-tres. The large number of members present enjoyed this light- hearted presentation, which won an award in the 2008 Dogwood Play-wrights Initiative - "the richest competition for radio plays in Austra-lia" - conducted by the Miles Regional Arts Council Inc.
Which two committee members were seen bargain hunting at
the recent Qld Ballet costume sale oohing and aahhing over
Russian costumes from “The Nutcracker” and who had worn them?
Unfortunately, a planned after-show party for Wuthering Heights had to be postponed. Stay tuned for further developments.
Hope everyone is enjoying the school holidays - especially the parents!
Who were the two cast members who got into the olives backstage at the run
of Wuthering Heights and hopefully didn’t burp on stage.
The cast of Wuthering Heights all give Fran Campbell a big hug of apprecia-
tion for all her work during the play and to Colleen Lock for stitching up some problems during the play also.
SNIPPETS WORKING BEE
ST LUKE’S THEATRE SOCIETY presents Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime directed by Peter Parkinson - 11th to 19th September - Bookings - 3844 7257 SUNNYBANK THEATRE GROUP presents Silhouette directed by Pam Cooper - 3rd to 18th July - Bookings - 3345 3964 CENTENARY THEATRE GROUP presents Radio Waves directed by John Boyce - 4th to 25th July - Bookings - 3379 3937 ARTS THEATRE presents Man of La Mancha directed by Lynne Wright 24th July to 15th August - Bookings - 3369 2344 MT COTTON DRAMA GROUP presents Cosi directed by Laraine Dil-lion & David Renn - 24th July to 8th August - Bookings - Internet site
WHAT’S ON MORNINGSIDE FESTIVAL
JUNE ENTERTAINMENT
Page 3 Volume 48 Issue 7
WORKING BEE
Saturday 18th July
Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Please come along to help keep the Hut in
good condition.
The objective this month is our costume
area, a bit of sorting, folding hanging.
March with the Players in the Morningside Festival
parade
Villanova Players is marching in the parade at the Morning-
side Festival and we need bodies!
A few of us proudly paraded in 2007 and 2008. We’ve had a
nun, Romeo and Juliet, the Queen, a pirate, you name it. If
you’ve got a spare couple of hours on Sunday 26 July, then
please come along and walk with us behind our banner. We
normally meet at the hut at 8:15 beforehand to costume up (or
bring your own) then car pool to the marching site. No outfit
too outrageous or too dull. And if you feel a little silly
walking along in costume and waving to the
onlookers, remember there’s power in numbers!
Bring a friend. To let us know if you’re coming
and for more info call Jane Binstead on 0417
072 512 or email [email protected] or Leo
Bradley [email protected]
VILLANOVA PLAYERS Newsletter
the latter part of this year. In 2007 Trevor first appeared with VPs as Frank in Over the River and through the Woods and has continued to appear in VP productions - Sergio/Mac/Voice-over/Bible Basher/Chinese man in Getting Betterer all the Time and Weismann in Edith Stein last year and has just completed playing Lockwood in Wuthering Heights.
FAVOURITE ACTORS: Hugh Jackmann, Joan Crawford and Maggie Smith
FAVOURITE FILM: Trevor shamelessly admits to being a Harry Potter fan and has followed all the Harry Potter films so far.
FAVOURITE ROLES: Trevor has enjoyed many roles, but Charles in Blithe Spirit for Kingaroy Little Theatre in 1991, Nanki-poo in Mikado for SBMCS in 1992, Gordon in The Farndale’s Christmas Carol for Toowoomba Repertory Theatre, for which he won a best supporting actor in the Toowoomba Drama Festival in 1998 and Frank in Over the River and through the Woods for VPs in 2007, number amongst his favourites.
EMBARRASSING MOMENT: While singing “Swinging on a Star” in a Balmoral Players production in 1964, Trevor was the Moon-beam fairy suspended on a swing tossing moonbeams. Unknown to everyone con-cerned, the rope suspending the swing worked loose and Trevor ended up splat-tered on the stage with moonbeams every-where. The results were a shattered ego and a very bad rope burn.
AMBITION: To continue to enjoy doing theatre for as long as he is able and to rise to the challenge of forthcoming future roles.
FIRST STAGE APPEARANCE: At the tender age of three, Trevor appeared as the Captain of the Good Ship Lollipop at a Morningside Sunday School con-cert.
CAREER: Trevor appeared in many school productions including Balmoral SHS productions of Trial By Jury and Barbarina. He was to appear in Arts Theatre’s Toad of Toad Hall in 1967 but came down with measles. He then joined Coorparoo Drama Club in such plays as Impromptu and A Question of Fact. He also joined the Balmoral Players playing Rolf in The Sound of Music, Curly in Oklahoma and Sid in The Pajama Game and also directed many of their productions. In 1984 Trevor became a Principal of several country schools and moved from Brisbane. During his fifteen years in the country he joined many country theatre groups including the Wandoan Amateur Thea-tre Society. In 1988 Trevor formed the Wowan Amateur Little Theatre [WALT] which specialised in Theatre Restaurants with such productions as Egad, the Woman in White. While at Tingoora, Trevor joined the Kingaroy Little Theatre, South Burnett Musical Comedy Society and South Burnett Chorale. He appeared in such productions as Charles in Blithe Spirit, Nanki-Poo in The Mikado, Charlie Davenport in Annie Get Your Gun, Hines in The Pajama Game and Will in Oklahoma. Trevor’s last country posting was at Wyreema, where he was able to join Toowoomba Repertory Theatre and Toowoomba Philharmonic Society where he played such roles as Stanley in A Streetcar named Desire, Albert in When we Are Married, Ken in Rumors, Saunders in Lend Me a Tenor, Dennis in Outside Edge and Lindsay in the musical Mame. For USQ Trevor also appeared as a Lord in their production of Iolanthe. He returned to Brisbane in 1999 and played Mr Capper in Igna-tion’s production of The Sentimental Bloke. Trevor joined St Luke’s Theatre Group and has played many roles in such productions as Pete in For Pete’s Sake, Len in Rumors, the father in Come Blow Your Horn and the greedy son in The Curious Savage. He has also directed Rumors [2007] and Shock Tac-tics [2008] for St. Luke’s. Earlier this year Trevor played Abe in Squabbles, is currently directing a Greenroom, and will be directing Lend Me a Tenor in
PROFILE No.15 - Trevor Bond
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2009 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE President: Leo Bradley 3891 5769 Vice Pres: Jane Binstead 3847 1187 Treasurer: Rod Thompson 3391 7180 Secretary: Fran Campbell 3399 1863 Casting Liaison: Samantha Tierney 0419 736 562 Members: Robert Gettons 0409 595 197 Trevor Bond 3393 6521 Mary Woodall 3395 5268 Audrey McKibbin 3394 1860
2009 CASTING COMMITTEE Samantha Tierney 0419 736 562 Colleen Lock 0428 122 026 Rod Thompson 3391 7180 Michael Byrnes 3849 4521 Maria Thompson 3391 7180
