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Two One-Act Plays
In what must have proved to be a sparse year for Wyong Drama Group, only two plays were presented in 1983, both together, as they were one-act plays. They played on April 29 & 30 and May 6 & 7 at the Memorial Hall. One-act plays seemed to be quite popular in the early 1980s, and there would be at least one collection of one-act plays presented every year at this point in time (sometimes two). The Private Ear by Peter Shaffer
Peter Shaffer is the author of Lettice and Lovage, Black Comedy and Equus, among others. The Private Ear is a black comedy where the hero loves classical music and his hi-fi and so his sexual skirmishes with the girl are conducted with help from his match-making friend as a synonym for the class war. He later wrote an accompanying play called The Public Eye. Our presentation was directed by Yvonne Berry-Porter (Larrimore), who also took the rôle of Doreen. The other two actors were John Wright and Clive Gibson. Home Fires Burning by Peter Kocan
The second one-act play of the night was Home Fires Burning which would have been a world premiérè performance. Peter Kocan also had the not-so-insubstantial rôle of Tossa Grimes in this 1983 production. This play was later performed in 1990, 1993 and 2004. All of these productions were directed by Bonnie Bryant. The play is about an Australian family in the 1920s who are visited by some outsiders allegedly involved in what would today be termed terrorist activities in the bush "out the back of Wisemans Ferry". It featured Phil Bailey, Pollyanna Murphy (Forshaw), Kerri Wheway, Audrey Campbell, Carl Martin, and Su Dippel and Suzanne Campbell (alternates) as Nancy Muggleton, a rôle added later to the play by Peter for these actors. The Private Ear and Home Fires Burning Programme (pdf file, 265,471 bytes)
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