1970 - 1979
Sweeping into the third decade of the Wyong Drama Group's shows, the list below contains all of the Group's productions from 1970 - 1979. The table may take a moment to load.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
By Oliver Goldsmith
Produced by Frank McKone
Performed April 1970
This is an old chestnut written in 1773. It is a genial comedy of manners and it owes much of its continuing popularity to the combination of the sentimental and the satirical. The central character, Kate Hardcastle, uses great skill to expose the contemporary double standard of sexual morality and force the otherwise eligible Charles Marlow to come to terms with his own sexism. These characters are surrounded by foils, each with a prevailing character trait that allows the actors considerable scope for comic intervention.
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The play was produced to commemorate the Captain James Cook Bi-Centenary, and was said to be typical of the play Cook himself might have seen had he not been entertaining himself by discovering the east coast of Australia. It was produced by Frank McKone.
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The show program can be accessed using the button below:
PRODUCED BY:
Frank McKone
CAST:
SIR CHARLES MARLOW - Arthur Gleed
YOUNG MARLOW - John Price
MR. HARDCASTLE - Ken Nunn
MR. HASTINGS - Mike Storer
TONY LUMPKIN - Greg McPhan
DIGGORY - Bruno Marsonet
ROGER - Doug Skelton
LANDLORD & JEREMY - Jim Saunders
MRS. HARDCASTLE - Janette Dan
MISS KATE HARDCASTLE - Carlotta Payne
MISS CONSTANCE NEVILLE - Heather Brown
MAIDS - Lyn Legett, Maryke Schepel & Carol Smith
THE STRING OF AMBER
By Rodney Ackland
Produced by Rene Levenspiel
Performed October 1970
This was the 1970 entry into the NSW Arts Council's Drama Festival, and opened in October 1970. It was a Rene Levenspiel production, and was a three-hander featuring Beth Gingell, Bonnie Bryant and Gwen Clarke. The show was a reprise of the 1962 production in which Bonnie also played Agatha, which was billed with the alternative title The Old Ladies.
Bonnie Bryant prepared for her role as Agatha.
Extracts from this play were more recently reprised in the 2002 revue "Us", and I can remember shivers running up and down my spine at the conclusion. The 2002 production featured Pollyana Forshaw and Kath Izzard, along with an original cast member (albeit playing a different role) Gwen Clarke.
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The 1970 production gained an award for "Best Actress" for Bonnie Bryant in the Arts Council's NSW Drama Festival. The Adjudicator was Reid Douglas.
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Note that the programme for this show was not roneo-ed off, but actually professionally printed. The next few years would see professionally printed programmes, with the odd reversion to the Gestetner machine for a programme here and there.
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The play is a clever dramatisation, by playwright Rodney Ackland, of a 1924 novel by Hugh Walpole. Three old women each living in her own bed-sitting room in a dilapidated house would not, one might imagine, give scope for dramatic episode. Yet the author has created three characters so inherently different and individual that the mere accident of their coming to live in the same house is sufficient to bring about situations of pathos, humour, intense drama, and ultimate tragedy. The story is drawn from the characters themselves. They do not fit into the story; they are the story.
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In a particularly harsh winter in a rundown old boarding house in Pontippy Square, Lucy and May have rooms in the house, and through fond memories, simple pleasures and buried hopes, happily help each other through their impoverished days.
But in the upstairs room the dark, brooding presence of Agatha threatens to ruin their friendship. Little by little she begins a journey of terror as she manipulates, ridicules and undermines the careful fabric of Lucy's and May's lives. Is Lucy's son really alive? Why does May depend so much on her prized possessions? And what is the terrible secret that Agatha craves to discover?
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The show programme can be accessed below, along with the novel on which the play is based, The Old Ladies by Hugh Walpole. Click the button below to access an easily readible PDF, or click here for a text version.
PRODUCED BY:
Rene Levenspiel
CAST:
MAY BERINGER - Beth Gingell
LUCY AMOREST - Gwen Clarke
AGATHA PAYNE - Bonnie Bryant
JACK AND THE BEANSTALK
By John Crocker
Produced by Heather Brown
Performed December 1970
This was a classic pantomime for the kiddies, produced by Heather Brown and opened in December 1970. Your current scribe actually saw the show at the ripe young age of five! I can remember to this day the two-headed giant, his offsiders "Bubble and Squeak", and the song about the cow Daisy ("Drink a pint of milk a day and moo, moo, moo!") which was sung with much audience participation.
PRODUCED BY:
Heather Brown
CAST:
SIR BERTRAM BUBBLE - Robert McGee
SIR SIDNEY SQUEAK - Barry Horey
KING UMPTY THE UMPTEENTH OF DAFYDOWNDILLY - Alan Hicks
JACK DURDEN - Jill Fallows
FAIRY EVERGREEN - Wendy Brennan
DMEON PESTBLIGHT - Clive Dowler
DAME DURDEN - Mike Storer
PRINCESS FELICIA - Cheryl Ward
SIMPLE SIMON - Leonie Gibson
JUMPING JOAN - Kaye Fitzgibbon
DAISY - Roger Fallows & Max Kenny
THE PIEMAN - Pam Wilson
GIANT BLUNDERBORE - John Edwards & Bill Ward
FAIRY & DEMON HELPER - Cecily Trapman
CHORUS OF VILLAGERS - Joanne Fernance, Kathy Baker, Varlie Flaherty, Judy Miller, Colleen Trapman, Veronica Trapman, Jane Quarton, Heather Brown & Jan Hall
CORPS DE BALLET - Robyn Duhigg, Denise Duhigg, Leslie Hails, Louise Newson, Marion Gingell, Michelle Robson, Sandra Robson& Dianne Pope
A LETTER FROM THE GENERAL
By Maurice McLoughlin
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed August 1971
This was produced by Bonnie Bryant in August 1971. The play was our entry in the NSW Drama Festival sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales. It won the award for Best Set.
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
SISTER HENRY - Dorothy Lockyer
SISTER LUCY - Anthea Rogers
SISTER BRIDGER - Roslyn Swadling
REVEREND MOTHER - Beth Gingell
SISTER MAGDALEN - Bonnie Bryant
ARTHUR STILTON - Clive Dowler
RUTH STILTON - Heather Brown
CAPTAIN LEE - Mike Storer
SNOW WHITE
By Margaret Carter
Produced by Mike Storer
Performed December 1971
Mike Storer came to the group to produce the Christmas Pantomime of Snow White in December 1971.
PRODUCED BY:
Mike Storer
CAST:
KING OF FAIRYLAND - Danella Houghton
QUEEN OF FAIRYLAND - Colleen Trapman
IRIS - Marion Gingell
MESSENGER - Heather McCredie & John Mehmet
SNOW WHITE - Helen Neenan
DAME NATTERWICK - Terri Alyson
ROGER - Clive Gibson
JANE - Lorraine Leotham
JENKS - Beth Gingell
QUEEN SCARLET - Jennifer Bevan
THE BARON WEEKINIZI - Clive Dowler
ALEXIS - Carol Smith
DOC - Barry Horey
SLEEPY - Mike Croucher
GRUMPY - Helga Dowler
SNEEZY - Debbie Croucher
BASHFUL - Kaye Fitzgibbon
POPEY - Sharon Gray
SMILEY - Graham Peace
THE CAT - Helen Clarke
LADY HUSSLING - Gwen Clarke
DUMBO - Elena Vardenaga
SAMBO - Stephen Vardenaga
SERVANTS, GUESTS, FAIRIES & SOLDIERS - Sue Bailey, Cheryl Howlett, Denise Howlett, Rodney Farrell & Errol Mehmet
CORPS DE BALLET - Helen Anderson, Michelle Wirth, Anne Barnes, Debbie Buckley, Stacey North, Vicki-Maree Sheehan, Leonie Stonestreet, Karen Green, Amanda Cameron & Anna Poulton
THE HAPPY JOURNEY
Based on The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden by Thornton Wilder
Produced by Carlotta Payne
Please refer to the programme below for the individual cast of each of these one-act plays.
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DARK BROWN
By Philip Johnson
Produced by Aub Brown
Please refer to the programme below for the individual cast of each of these one-act plays.
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FUMED OAK
By Noël Coward
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Please refer to the programme below for the individual cast of each of these one-act plays.
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Breaking with tradition, instead of a full play, a set of three one-act plays was done in May 1972. The plays were The Happy Journey produced by Carlotta Payne, Dark Brown produced by Aub Brown and Fumed Oak produced by Bonnie Bryant. The plays were performed on Friday 19 May and Saturday 20 May 1972.
Performed May 1972
A SPRING SONG
By Ray Mathews
Produced by Rene Levenspiel
Performed September 1972
A Spring Song, by Ray Mathews is an inspiring Australian play about a not so well-to-do Australian bush family. It was directed by Rene Levenspiel.
PRODUCED BY:
Rene Levenspiel
CAST:
KERRY DENNISON - Carlotta Payne
GEOFF MANHAM - Clive Gibson
PETER WEBSTER - John Worgan
MRS. DENNISON - Dorothy Lockyer
MR. DENNISON - Arthur Gleed
HELEN DENNISON - Heather Brown
MARGARET DENNISON - Beth Gingell
DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT
By John Crocker
Produced by Fran Godbold
Performed December 1972
This was an enormously popular Christmas pantomime directed by Fran Godbold (now Fran Kendall). The original collator of this history, Peter Deane, comments that he was actually in the audience of this production (at age seven), incidentally.
PRODUCED BY:
Fran Godbold
CAST:
ALDERMAN FITZWARREN - Clive Dowler
IDLE JACK - Kaye Fitzgibbon
ALICE - Danella Houghton
SARAH - Alf Smith
KING RAT - Margaret Cribb
FAIRY SILVERCHIME - Robyne Duhigg
TOMMY - Elena Vardenaga
DICK WHITTINGTON - Heather Brown
CAPTAIN CUTTLE - Jennifer Beaven
MR. SCUTTLE - Nancy Croucher
PRINCESS ULUL OF MOROCCO - Terri Allyson
THE EMPEROR OF MOROCCO - Heather McCredie
THOMASIA - Marion Gingell
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CHORUS OF CITIZENS, APPRENTICES, SAILORS, HAREM WIVES & RATS -
Kathy Talbot, Kerry Godbold, Debbie Croucher, Robert Beaven, Helen Neenan, Anne Smith, Steve Dowler, Peter Cusack, Narelle Woods, Dianne Gardner, Sandra Van Stappen, Bobby Dowler, Mandy & Jodie Philpot
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AS LONG AS THEY'RE HAPPY (1973)
By Vernon Sylvaine
Produced by Bonnie Bryant and Roslyn Brown
Performed July 1973
This was a reprise of the 1964 production, originally produced by Rene Levenspiel as the end-of-year farce. This time around it was presented on 6th and 7th July 1973 and produced by Bonnie Bryant and Roslyn Brown. This was the ONLY show presented by the group in 1973.
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The set for this show was a magnificent drawing room which even included the memorial hall's grand piano.
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Not quite a fully-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance interludes. Stockbroker John Bentley's household is thrown into a tizzy when popular singing star Bobby Denver visits his home. Bentley's three daughters Gwendoline, Patricia and Corinne are immediately smitten by Bobby, though each reacts to his presence in a different manner. Mrs Bentley, hoping to loosen up her staid hubby, pretends to be likewise enamoured with the singer.
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It was made into a 1955 film with Diana Dors and "Carry On" regular Joan Sims as a comic maid, among many others. The film did the most amount of good for recording artist Jeannie Carson, who landed her own American TV sitcom as a result of her appearance herein.
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant & Roslyn Brown
CAST:
GWENDOLINE - Marion Gingell
LINDA - Jennifer Bevan
PATRICIA - Helen Neenan
STELLA BENTLEY - Beth Gingell
JOHN BENTLEY - Clive Dowler
BOBBY DENVER - Terry Pitt
HERMANN SCHNEIDER - Bruno Marsonet
MICHAEL KENLEY - Peter Mills
PEARL - Janette Fox
CORRINE - Janice Proud
BARNABY - Robert Magee
LADIES IN RETIREMENT (1974)
By E Percy & R Denham
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed August 1974
This was produced by Bonnie Bryant and performed on Friday 30th August and Saturday 31st August. It was previously presented by the group in August 1956.
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This was our entry in the 1974 NSW Arts Council State-wide Drama Competition (sponsored by the Bank of New South Wales) with the adjudicator being Peter Williams. The play won an award for Best Supporting Actress. (The concise adjudication report is online).
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As an aside, at this point in time, ticket prices were $1.30 full price; 70c for students and pensioners.
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The programme and adjudication can be accessed using the buttons below:
DIRECTED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
LUCY GILHAM - Robyn Swadling
LEORORA FISKE - Fran Godbold
ELLEN CREED - Gwen Clarke
ALBERT FEATHERSTON - Clive Gibson
LOUSIA CREED - Beth Gingell
EMILY CREED - Roslyn Brown
SISTER THERESA - Dorothy Lockyer
CINDERELLA REVISITED
By Peg Ratliff
Produced by Gwen Clarke
Performed November 1974
This was directed by Gwen Clarke in November 1974. Unfortunately we have no material in the archives about this show. The play is about a rather reluctant Fairy Godmother helping Cinderella prepare for the ball, and is quite funny in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
PRODUCED BY:
Gwen Clarke
CAST:
Unknown
THE CONSTANT WIFE
By W Somerset Maugham
Produced by Aub Brown
Performed in 1975 (month unknown)
This was yet another one of local solicitor Aubrey A Brown's efforts at directing for the group. This show marked the debut to Wyong Drama Group of a current Life Member, Pollyanna Forshaw (aka Pollyanna Murphy in many programmes).
The Constant Wife is a comedy of manners. The pragmatic heroine of this 1926 play, Constance Middleton, is a well-groomed Englishwoman who refuses to let the scandal of a straying husband mar the perfection of her emotional décor. She simply rearranges the furniture around the uncomfortable fact, and carries on, wiser perhaps, but certainly not sadder.
PRODUCED BY:
Aub Brown
CAST:
MRS CULVER - Dorothy Lockyer
BENTLEY - Fred Chapman
MARTHA CULVER - Pollyanna (Murphy)Forshaw
BARBARA FAWCETT- Bonnie Bryant
CONSTANCE MIDDLETON - Roslyn Swadling
MARIE-LOUISE DURHAM - Kay Fitzgibbon
JOHN MIDDLETON - Clive Dowler
BERNARD KERSAL - Simon Convy
MORTIMER DURHAM - Rob Magee
JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT
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FAMILY ALBUM
A Revue
By Noël Coward
Produced by Rene Levenspiel
Performed June 1975
Here were two One-Act plays presented by the group with a musical interlude in between with John Harden singing and Meg Foster at the piano. There was also a dance sequence from the Helen Neenan studio featuring Robin Grey, Janine Portener, Lynette McAurther, Tanya Lloyd, Linda Crawley, Clive Gibson, Cathy Reid and Helen Neenan herself.
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The show was presented on 17th and 18th June 1975.
PRODUCED BY:
Rene Levenspiel
Just For The Fun Of It
PERFORMANCES:
The Headmistress and Monica - Pollyanna Murphy & Mary Smith
The Drinkers Ditty - Beth Gingell & Helen Neenan
The Chairwoman- Bonnie Bryant
The Telephone Call - Beth Gingell & Helen Neenan.
A Very Busy Day - Roslyn Brown
The White Magnolia Tree - Gwen Clarke
The Man With A 'Cello - Mary Smith
Advice to Mice - Beth Gingell
The Vicker's Play Reading Circle - Clive Dowler, Mary Smith, Bonnie Bryant and Roslyn Brown
John Harden - Vocalist, with Meg Foster at the piano.
From the Studios of Helen Neenan:
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1. Diamonds are Forever
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2. Jazz Ballet
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3. Super Star
Robyn Grey, Lynnette McArthur, Linda Crawley, Cathy Reid, Janine Portener, Tanya Lloyd, Clive Gibson and Helen Neenan
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Family Portrait
CAST:
JASPER FEATHERWAYS - Clive Gibson
JANE - Judy Dovey
LAVINA FEATHERWAYS - Roslyn Brown
RICHARD FEATHERWAYS - Jim Douglas
HARRIET FEATHERWAYS WINTER - Pat Baetge
CHARLES WINTER - Greg Schiemer
EMILY FEATHERWAYS VALANCE - Pollyanna Murphy
EDWARD VALANCE - Simon Convy
BUTLER - Clive Dowler
TEMPTATION SORDID
Or Virtue Rewarded
By Winifred Phelps
Produced by Beth Gingell
Performed November 1975
This is a classic melodrama written in 1960 which even includes a chairman (although in our case it was a chairwoman played by Roslyn Brown). The fortune-hunter Sir Jasper, assisted by the voluptuous Fanny, plots to marry the lovely Arabella. Clarence, who has a pure love for Arabella, resists the evil Sir Jasper, and they all travel through valleys of iniquity. At the end Clarence and Arabella are united over the dead bodies of their enemies. There is plenty of audience participation with boos, hisses and cheers.
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This was performed on the 7th and 8th November 1975 as a theatre-restaurant with a three-course dinner and wine along with the melodrama. It was directed by Beth Gingell. Sounds like a great night out indeed!
PRODUCED BY:
Beth Gingell
CAST:
CHAIRWOMAN - Roslyn Brown
LADY LUCRE - Dorothy Lockyer
ARABELLA - Judy Douey
CLARENCE - Robert MaGee
SIR JASPER - Bruno Marsonet
FANNY - Roslyn Swadling
HALFWAY UP THE TREE
By Peter Ustinov
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed December 1975
This is a generation gap comedy. The British General Sir Mallalieu Fitzbutress returns from a four-year campaign against the Chinese to find a barely recognizable family. He then decides to go and live up a tree. The play was yet another directed by Bonnie Bryant.
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
LADY FITZBUTTRESS - Gwen Clarke
HELGA - Pollyanna Murphy
GENERAL SIR MALLALIEU FITZBUTTRESS - Aubrey Brown
ROBERT - Clive Gibson
LESLEY - Judy Dovey
JUDY - Pat Baetge
BASIL UTTERWOOD - Robert MaGee
BRIGADIER (TINY) GILLITAT-BROWN - John Worgan
VICAR - Clive Dowler
BLITHE SPIRIT (1976)
By Noël Coward
Produced by Aub Brown
Performed May 1976
Noël Coward's play is described as "an improbable farce". It was reprised in 2004 by director Denise Cooper, but was first presented on 19th and 20th May 1976 ( a Wednesday and Thursday, strangely enough). It was directed by Aubrey Brown.
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In the play, Charles Condomine has arranged a dinner party and séance to help him research his latest mystery book. As he says to his second wife Ruth, he wishes to meet "a real professional charlatan - a complete impostor" on which to base the lead character of his book. To this end, he invites Madame Arcati - psychic, medium, author and general eccentric - to entertain them with her "tricks of the trade".
Unfortunately for everyone, Madame Arcati's tricks work too well and an uninvited guest puts in an appearance - Charles' first wife Elvira - who has been dead for seven years!
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As an aside the programme encourages potential members to join the group at a cost of $2. Even in 2009 (when this text was written by Peter Deane) the membership fee was still $2!
Playwright Noël Coward
Noël Coward's biography, and the show programme, may be accessed using the buttons below:
PRODUCED BY:
Aub Brown
CAST:
EDITH - Janice McEachran
RUTH - Merleen Bennett
CHARLES - Robert MaGee
DOCTOR BRADMAN - Clive Dowler
MRS. BRADMAN - Louise Lange
MADAME ARCATA - Gwen Clarke
ELVIRA - Beth Gingell
HISS THE VILLAIN
Or Foiled and Counterfoiled
By W Ernest Cossons & A R Taylor
Produced by D Lockye & Beth Gingell
Performed September 1976
This is a classic melodrama in one act. The infamous banker Silas Snaker and his clerk Bowler have contrived to rob old Captain Noble out of his savings. The Captain expires from the shock, leaving the lovely Miss Lucy in dire straights. When Bowler sees her plight, he repents and compels the villain to pay back all of the money.
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This was sponsored by the Wyong Apex Club and presented as a Theatre-Restaurant at the Wyong Masonic Hall in Howarth Street Wyong (the other side of the tracks). The producers were D Lockye and Beth Gingell, with music by Meg Foster.
PRODUCED BY:
D. Lockye & Beth Gingell
CAST:
SILAS SNAKER - Frank Frenken
BOWLER - Clive Dowler
CAPTAIN NOBLE - Bob Hammond
MRS. NOBLE - Marise Frakes
LUCY - Helen Clarke
PERCY - Clive Gibson
HAROLD - Jim Yule
MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM (1977)
By Ray Cooney and John Chapman
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed May 1977
This play was directed by Bonnie Bryant and opened in May 1977. This is the ultra-typical British Farce, and probably Bonnie's favourite play. She ended up directing it for the group three times; this one her first effort, then again in April 1985, and finally in September 1992 when it was a Wyong Drama Group offering at Laycock Street Theatre.
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In the play, Phillip Markham, a laid-back and slightly naive publisher of story books for children, has been asked by his business partner, the roguish Henry Lodge, if he can use his apartment to entertain his latest conquest, a naughty call-centre girl called Miss Wilkinson, whilst the Markhams enjoy a rare evening out.
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At the same time, unknown to her husband, Joanna Markham has reluctantly agreed to let her friend and Henry's wife, Linda Lodge, to use the flat to spend the evening with her lover, the dashing Walter. The Markhams' evening out is cancelled and they return home, with hilarious consequences.
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The show programme, and the biography for Ray Cooney, can be accessed below:
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
JOANNA MARKHAM - Gwen Clarke
ALISTAIR SPENLOW - Clive Gibson
SYLVIE HAUSER - Merleen Bennett
LINDA LODGE - Mary Smith
PHILIP MARKHAM - Gary Armstrong
HENRY LODGE - Philip Grieve
WALTER PANGBOURNE - Clive Dowler
OLIVE HARRIET SMYTHE - Dorothy Lockyer
MISS WILKINSON - Lisa Casson
DO I HEAR A WALTZ?
By Richard Rodgers, Steven Sondheim & Arthur Laurents
Produced by Margaret McGowan
Performed November 1977
This is billed as "A Musial Play" and was a big effort for director Margaret McGowan who took over the job halfway into the rehearsal period. Wyong Drama Group does occasionally foray into the musical productions [more recent presentations have been Heaven Can Wait (Aug 2005) and Fourth Wall (August 2001)] and we tend to make a reasonable fist of them. As Margaret herself says, it is easier to teach an actor to sing than to teach a singer to act.
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This production ran for four performances, Tuesday 29th November, Thursday 1st December, Friday 2nd December and Saturday 3rd December 1977. The cast included three McGowans, including Margaret herself.
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Leona is a woman who has dedicated her life to her family after the death of her parents. She decides to travel to Venice in search of the love she has never known, and finds Renato - who sadly fails to match up to her romantic ideals. Too late she realises she has finally thrown away her last remaining chance of true love.
PLOT:
PRODUCED BY:
Margaret McGowan
CAST:
MALRO - Peter Williams
LEONA SAMISH - Sue Speirs
FLORIA - Margaret McGowan
EDDIE YEAGER - Philip Grieve
JENNIFER YEAGER - Vivian Dein
LLOYD McILHENNY - Barry Horey
EDITH McILHENNY - Beverley Perks
GIOVANNA - Megan McGowan
VITO - Stewart McGowan
RENATO DI ROSSI - Michael Bright
SUPPORTING CAST:
Merleen Bennett
Beth Gingell
David Worland
Helga Dowler
Lisa Casson
Mark Rosa
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
By Allan Ayckbourn
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed July 1978
The play is based from first to last in a series of multiple confusions. Never has the device of mistaken identity, misunderstandings and misapprehensions been ridden so hilariously hard. The audience is let into the secret early on and so can comfortably settle back while the four characters on stage respond to the endless chain of alarums and revelations with expressions of stupefaction and dumbfoundedness.
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Aside: Ticket Prices for this show were $2.50 adults, $1.50 concession.
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
GREG - Barry Horey
GINNY - Beth Gingell
PHILIP - Aub Brown
SHEILA - Gwen Clarke
BRUSH WITH A BODY (1978)
By Maurice McLoughlin
Produced by Bonnie Bryant
Performed July 1978
This is by the same author as A Letter from the General, produced by the group in August 1971. In it a chimney sweep dislodges a body leading to misunderstandings and surprise. It played on 15th, 16th and 17th November 1978 and was yet another play directed by Bonnie Bryant. It was reprised later in 1996.
PRODUCED BY:
Bonnie Bryant
CAST:
SARAH WALLING - Yvonne Brajje
CYNTHIA WALLING - Marise Frakes
MR. FLAHERTY - Barry Horey
MRS. D'ARCY - Josephine McKettrick
HENRY WALLING - Geoff Broadfoot
PAUL MARTELLI - Bruno Marsonet
SYBIL WALLING - Dorothy Lockyer
DETECTIVE-INSPECTOR HARDY - Clive Dowler
SERGEANT BRAY - David Wall
ROSITA HERNANDEZ - Mary Smith
PAMELA COLEFAX - Susan Wall
CINDERELLA
A Pantomime
By Betty Astell
Produced by Mary Smith & Barry Horey
Performed July 1978
In the International Year of the Child, we presented this panto for children. It opened at the Dolphin Theatre at The Entrance High School running Friday 12th October at 7:30pm and Saturday 13th at 2:30pm and 7:30pm. The following week it was presented at Wyong Memorial Hall on Friday 19th October (7:30pm) and Saturday 20th October (2:30pm and 7:30pm). It was directed by Mary Smith and Barry Horey and had a cast of 21 main characters a chorus of about a dozen and eight dancers. Helen's School of Dancers was associated with the drama group on the production side of things.
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The programme and poster for the pantomime can be accessed below:
