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Caught in the Net by Ray Cooney
The play opened on 11 November 2010 and was directed by Peter Deane (your current website scribe). Previous shows from this director for WDG include Kid Stakes (1989), The One Day of the Year (1990 and 2001), Other Times (1996), Hot Taps (1999), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (2005) and Pass the Butler (2007).
Video ClipsOpening (3:10 3,167,743 bytes) Hello, Dad (0:51 1,017,990 bytes)
Programme & Poster
Radio InterviewsHere's the interview with Scott Levi and Yianni Johns on Smart Arts on ABC 92.5FM broadcast on Friday 5 Nov 2010 at 1:45pm. This includes an extract from the play done by Stephen McDonald and Steve Killeen.
Here's the interview done with Lyn Smith (the Drama Queen) on 96.3 CoastFM on Friday 12 Nov 2010 at 11:15am. This is just me rabbiting on about the show after opening night, which was a sheer pleasure, given the standard of performance we managed to achieve.
NB: To use, RIGHT-click each link above, and select "Save Target As". You'll then be sent an MP3 file to your computer. Note the location where you saved it. You then just play it in the usual way such as using Windows Media Player or any other program that you'd use to play an MP3 file.
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 | Plot Summary |
| Character Summary |
| Miscellaneous Photos |
| Act I Photos (page 1) |
| Act I Photos (page 2) |
| Act II Photos (page 1) |
| Act II Photos (page 2) |
| Curtain Call Photos |
| Ray Cooney Biographical notes
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Our policy is to progressively release information on the show to further our publicity aims. Here's what's been issued so far:
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Press Release #1 4 Sep 2010 (pdf file, 120,120 bytes) |
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Press Release #2 12 Oct 2010 (pdf file, 140,715 bytes) |
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Press Release #3 20 Oct 2010 (pdf file, 145,748 bytes) |
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Press Release #4 04 Nov 2010 (pdf file, 133,564 bytes) |
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Press Release #5 14 Nov 2010 (pdf file, 278,014 bytes)
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Initial auditions were held on Tuesday 27 July and Thursday 29 July at 7:00pm in the Green Room. This was a break from tradition for the November production which is usually cast after the August production. Further canvassing and private auditions were carried out over the next couple of weeks and the final cast announced on Tuesday 10 August. In order to get the rehearsal time needed for a November opening, auditions were in July/August, with rehearsals to commence on Tuesday 24 August, three days after Harp on the Willow closed.
We are delighted to finally to announce the cast. The successful auditionees are depicted below.
The below cast photos are thumbnails. Click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized image.
Stephen
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Stephen’s love for drama began at school with the role of Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. He continued his dramatic forays through his university days, but had a hiatus for a number of years. He’s now back with a vengeance, having completed three shows for Wyong Drama Group in the last year starting with Fawlty Towers in August 2009. He then relished the opportunity of the lead role in No Sex Please, We’re British in November and backed it up with another lead role in Louis Nowra’s Cosi in April. Still not pausing for a rest he played yet another lead role in Wyong Musical Theatre Company’s Bye Bye Birdie only last month, and now he has the lead role of John in Caught in the Net! | ||
Rohan
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Rohan studied drama at school but his first foray into community theatre was in the cameo role of Lucky Joe in WDG’s Inheritance last year which called for his death on stage. He has gone on to do shows with both Wyong Musical Theatre Company and Jopuka Productions. Rohan has been praised for his role of Sonny in Grease. He has just completed Harp on the Willow for WDG where he played the moving part of Richard Selig and had to die on stage eight times. He also recently appeared in WMTC’s Bye Bye Birdie which did not require his demise! | ||
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Sara has been involved in theatre with Wyong Drama Group for some time. Her first role was under the direction of Peter Deane as Tess in Hot Taps as far back as 1999. She was later seen in the one acter Positively Vile. She returned to the fold last year with a role in No Sex Please, We’re British and appeared in Cosi this year. She has continued her involvement locally, having appeared in Bye Bye Birdie for Wyong Musical Theatre last month. Sara’s other interests include competitive ballroom dancing. In her day job she can be found practising chiropractic locally. | ||
Virginia
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This is Virginia’s first appearance with Wyong Drama Group, and we certainly are hoping it won’t be her last. She has previously been affiliated with Woy Woy Little Theatre. Her debut was as Harriet in Key for Two, and she then went on to play Miss Burns in Don’t Drink the Water in 2009 and Jane in Sauce Bernaise, a one act play in 2010. She has appeared in a television commercial and starred in Speaking Out for Laycock Street Theatre in 2002. After recently completing her PhD, she is looking forward to continuing her involvement with Wyong Drama Group and is loving her role as Barbara in such an hilarious play as this. | ||
Nikki
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Nikki joined WDG in 2002 with two roles in the 50th Anniversary revue Us. She followed this up playing Liz in Darlings, You Were Wonderful and also played the reporter in the 2003 production of Run for your Wife. She played Marge in Bonnie Bryant’s production of Home Fires Burning, which collected five awards at TheatreFest 2004. Nikki has since played Nicole in ’Allo ’Allo, Mickey in The Odd Couple, Mary in What’s for Pudding (TheatreFest 2007) and Julia Griffith in Short Changed (TheatreFest 2009). In this year’s TheatreFest she not only appeared in, but also co-directed You Can Pick Your Friends by Duncan Mitchell and Josh Aspinall which won the Best Unpublished Play award. | ||
Steve
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Steve has over twenty five years of theatrical experience. In the last few years he has played Richard in Key for Two at Woy Woy Little Theatre, and featured as Magee in Don’t Drink the Water also for Woy Woy. For Wyong Musical Theatre Company he played the music man in The Music Man last year. Steve was most recently cast as the husband in Joining the Club which Woy Woy Little Theatre brought to the 2010 TheatreFest. The production picked up the award for Best Ensemble Performance. This is his first production with Wyong Drama Group and he’s having a ball playing Stanley. | ||
Hagen
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Hagen started with WDG in 1980 in Bang Bang Beirut. He returned in the 21st century with roles in Running Riot, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Arsenic and Old Lace, Life Goes On, Inheritance and as Arthur in the 2006 Theatrefest entry, The Last Straw (from Mother and Son) for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Canberra Theatre Festival. He turned his hand to directing, producing Loot for Wyong Drama Group in 2008. Hagen feels that he has now come full circle as Dad Gardner, as he appeared as his son, Stanley Gardner, in Morisset Drama Group's production of Run For Your Wife in 1991. |
We are producing many documents which would assist other producers of the show. We'll be placing them online here as they are available in the interest of saving you work. Click below to download:
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Fact Sheet with key dates and information for auditionees (pdf file, 144,616 bytes) |
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Audition Form (pdf file, 68,273 bytes) |
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Set Design - early edition in September (pdf file, 51,487 bytes) |
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Set Design - as built in November (pdf file, 52,426 bytes) |
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Character Schema (pdf file, 21,536 bytes) |
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