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 23 Nov 2006

Sniffings of the Newshound

HOF HOF HOF!!  Andrew Jacobs has started some sort of south-east Asian trend with all his trips to Malaysia. Apart from Andrew turning his mid-season jaunt into a permanent job position, we’ve seen Richard Pappas and Jenny Boadle sample the same place. Meanwhile Cam Van Steel and family have holidayed in Hong Kong. Actually, the trip was to see his wife Anne, walk 100km for charity. Some holiday! Cam has come back from Hong Kong tailors with a doggy-bag of wigs—hopefully not made of dog hair.

WOOF!! Off to the vet for these sick actors: Kate Deavin, Tony Rainer, John Bayly, Louise Steele, Felicité Keeble, Maureen Lesjak, Colin Donald are all working as simulated patients for Melbourne and Monash Uni medical departments. Stay away from them—they have every disease imaginable.

GRUFFLE!! Ross Ditcham’s powerful performance as King Richard III was a Hartwell highlight last year. Obviously sticking with the classics, he can now be seen in The Stupid Play at the Carlton Courthouse Theatre.

RAAWR!! Watch out for a special edition of the Melbourne Weekly sometime in the future. There will be a feature article on theatre in the suburbs featuring photos by Kellie Raymond and an interview with Colin Donald. The article was actually written during our one act season, so it’s taking its time getting to print!

GROF!! GROF!! Louise Steele, Peter Murdoch and Melanie & Keira Macdonald (and the rest of us) have waited many months for the first broadcast of the historical docu-drama The Floating Brothel. ABC TV obliges this week and you can catch your Hartwell favourites in this critically acclaimed piece.

SNORTLE!!  Kirrily Rule is jetting back from Germany for a visit and barbeque in Feb 2007. Our only current nuclear physicist is coming back at an interesting time: when nuclear power is a hot and glowing subject on the national political scene.

Shakespeare Festival

The Shakespeare on the River Festival is undergoing many changes in 2007, many of which are due to a drop in funding and a wish to experiment with the format.

Unfortunately that means we won’t be taking The Merchant of Venice to Stratford next year, so there will be an extra week back here in Ashwood. Overall, the whole season will shift forward a couple of weeks .

Nathan Jones will direct, with support from Cam Van Steel.

Returning to Stratford at some other time is still on the table; we’ll just have to wait and see.

We’ll Drink to That

Those with really, really long memories may recall the lyrics to a song composed for a Hartwell show…

“Let’s have a cuppa,
A real pick me upper…”

Fifteen years later, the ditty has proved to be prophetic with a $250 prize being granted to the Hartwell Players by Bushell’s Tea. Yes, many dollars were given to community groups during a promotional campaign and we scored a handy fillip.

Thanks, Bushells!

2006 Awards and AGM

Notifications have been mailed to all eligible voters for our 2006 AGM and barbeque, as well as full details being posted on www.hartwellplayers.org.au. Apart from presenting our annual Rosabelle Kinsey and Peter Coe awards, a number of proposals are being put forward to bring our constitution out of the ‘80s and into the 21st century.

All non-voting others are welcome to come along for the award-giving and the barbeque afterwards. It’s the usual BYO backyard affair at the Watt-Lee household.

5.30pm Sunday 26th November
2 Carmody St, Burwood

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