OTHER TIMES

Diary Dates for you

to note:

Monthly General Meeting - Wednesday 16 th April, 2014, at the Theatre.

Management Committee Meetings and the Casting Committee Meetings are monthly.

Other Times

1

From our President Liz Morris

2

2014 Productions Monthly Meeting

2

March Monthly Meeting Iona Passion Play Wynnum Mercury FOH is FUN

3

What are they thinking? 4

What’s on 4

Office Bearers 2014

4

Inside this issue:

April 2014

Volume 53 Issue 4

PROSCENIUM Villanova Players

NEWSLETTER

The

The season has closed for our Play No.1, Other Times and everyone involved should be very proud. It was a great presentation, second play in Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll trilogy. Director Leo Wockner, did a splen-did job in bringing this great Australi-an play to life. All the cast were out-standing and the set was simple but so effective. All the backstage crew and box crew should also be congrat-ulated. ‘Stage Whispers’ Peter Pinne en-joyed the play too and commented favourably on the cast, but included some other comments - “Karen Stokes’s set design was period appro-priate, as were the costumes by Pat Wockner and Mary Woodall, with Leo Wockner’s pacy direction adding to the overall performance.” So all in all, Other Times will go down as another VP success. We now look forward to play No.2, Ha-beas Corpus a fast-moving farce di-rected by Brian Cannon.

Congratulations to Leo Wockner, cast and crew for a very successful run of the play Other Times. It was such great "ensemble" production and I'm not saying that because I was in it, but due to the camaraderie and teamwork. Special thanks to Am-ber Hegarty as Assistant Stage Manager, Mary Woodall and Pat Wockner for costumes; Iona Col-lege for the loan of the army uniforms; Karen Stokes for stepping in for Stephen to operate the lights that rainy Thursday night; Mickey for running a tight FOH ship and welcome to new crew member Lyndley Barton. Also, many thanks to Leo, Dan, Maria, Rod, Andrew and all other members who worked tirelessly on Box Office and FOH. Rehearsals have commenced for Habeas Cor-pus which is being directed by Brian Cannon and opens Friday 6th June. This is a hilarious play ..very, very funny, so please book your night

to see this great play and a night for you to help with FOH. Bookings are now available both online or simply by calling Mickey on 07 3899 9962 By now many of you would have received your new members/subscribers card in the mail. This is to replace the paper booklets. Apologies for the delay - production of these took longer than ex-pected. Lastly, I would like to wish you and your fami-lies a very safe, happy and blessed Easter. Cheers, Liz Morris PRESIDENT

2014 FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

PLAY No.2 - HABEAS CORPUS by Alan Bennett

directed by Brian Cannon A hilarious comedy about the modern health

system 6th to 21st JUNE

PLAY No.3 - RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire

directed by Andrew Heron An award-winning drama about a couple’s struggle to deal with the loss of their child

29th AUGUST to 13th SEPTEMBER

PLAY No.4 - THE DEAD by Richard Nelson

Music by Shaun Davey directed by Rod Thompson

A moving musical comedy about an Irish Christmas party in 1904 with unexpected

Revelations 21st NOVEMBER to 6th DECEMBER

FROM OUR PRESIDENT—LIZ MORRIS

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MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING

AT THE THEATRE

WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL 2014 8:00pm

ENTERTAINMENT Theatre Sports night

Brush up your Shakespeare, for a night of fast paced entertainment that will put your

theatrical talent and knowledge to the test. To celebrate Easter and Shakespeare's

impending 450th birthday (still lookin’ good Mr S)

our MC, Leo Bradley, will take on a night of games to challenge and delight.

So form your teams now

or have one thrust upon you!

More fun that the bear-baiting at the old Globe... Bruce Shakespeare

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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]

Hello Everyone,

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MARCH MONTHLY MEETING

"Room 22 at the Grand Comfort Hotel", a one-act play by Pamela McManus, was presented as a cold reading. The cast of 7 received their scripts only an hour before going on stage, when a short discus-sion about the characters was held, and a quick walk around the ex-isting set established where entrances and exits would be. All props were "acted".

While we would prefer to present rehearsed and fully acted pieces at the Monthly Meeting training ground, cold readings have their own value. Reading well from an unknown script is a skill that all actors should have in their kit-bags, and should be practised at every oppor-tunity. The actors usually start out tentatively, but as the play pro-gresses they gain confidence in what they are doing and develop di-mensions to the characters. The members in the audience get an op-portunity to see that development, and also to appreciate the text and extend their critical script assessment abilities.

This play was first presented by the Players in the Warana One-act Play Festival at the Brisbane Arts Theatre in 1984. It was directed by Mary Woodall. For those interested in such details the original cast was Lyn Stanley, Terry Wockner, Chris Hitzman, Dean Armstrong, Ber-nadette Bielenberg, Rod Thompson and Maria Plumb. It was produced at the request of Playlab as part of their script development services, and is published by Playlab Press. In this reading the cast was Glynne Liddy, Andrew Heron, Trevor Bond, Donna Gomez, Mary Woodall, Leo Bradley and Maria Plumb, who did not play the same role as in the original. The play is a light comedy farce, and is a little Fawlty Towers, a little Hotel Paradiso, but set in Tropical Queensland, and gave the audience some good laughs. FUTURE FEATURES The Casting Committee would like to hear from anyone who wants to present at a Monthly Meeting this year. If you would like to, but don't know what to present, contact us and we can put you in touch with a script and cast and let you have your head. Be in it! Maria Plumb For Casting Committee

2014 SEASON Iona College Wynnum West 6pm

Good Friday April 18th Saturday April 19th

Australia’s National Easter Passion Play

Directed by Leo Bradley

Featuring

some VP players

“ROOM 22”

[LEFT] GLYNNE AND

MARIA

[RIGHT] TREVOR AND

DONNA

[LEFT] ANDREW AND

MARY

Have you ever considered working Front of

House for any of our productions? or if you’re an old hand at the game let Mickey know of your future availability

call Mickey on 3899 9962

VILLANOVA PLAYERS Newsletter

Villanova Players INCORPORATED Established 1948

Balmoral Park, Jean Howie Drive off Bennetts Road MORNINGSIDE PO Box 465 Morningside Qld 4170 Email:villanovaplayers@gmail.com

www.villanovaplayers.com facebook.com/Villanova Players

Theatre Company The Hut: Phone: - 3395 5168 Bookings: Phone: - 3899 9962

2014 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE President: Liz Morris 0439 670 283 Vice Pres: Trevor Bond 0408 007 213 Treasurer: Andrew Heron 0417 793 133 Secretary: Maria Plumb 3391 7180 Casting Liaison: Leo Bradley 3891 5769 Members: Dan Kennedy 3352 7717 Donna Thomas 0412 621 368 Margaret O’Donnell 3899 9962 Ric Carthew 3901 6446

2014 CASTING COMMITTEE Michael Byrnes 3820 9666 Maria Plumb 3391 7180 Trevor Bond 0408 007 213 Leo Bradley 3891 5769 Glynne Liddy 3901 7203

WHAT’S ON IN THEATRE

ST LUKE’S THEATRE SOCIETY presents THE CANTER-VILLE GHOST [Greenroom] directed by Deborah Bishop - 26th and 27th April only - Bookings - 3255 6675 ARTS THEATRE presents PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by Jane Austen- 8th March to 12th April - Bookings - 3369 2344 CENTENARY THEATRE GROUP presents TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE directed by Gary O’Neil - 8th to 29th MARCH Bookings - 3379 3937 or 0435 591 720 SUNNYBANK THEATRE GROUP presents HOLMES AND THE RIPPER directed by Loretta Donelly - 28th March to 12th April - Bookings - 3345 3964 BEENLEIGH THEATRE GROUP presents XANADU directed by Michael Skelton - 2nd to 17th May - Bookings - 3807 392 TOOWOOMBA REPERTORY THEATRE presents LAST OF THE RED HOT LOVERS by Neil Simon - 25th April to 10th May - Bookings - 4632 8058 MOUNT COTTON THEATRE GROUP presents THE 39 STEPS directed by Linda Groundwater - 25th APRIL to 10th MAY - Bookings online. WYNNUM MERCURY THEATRE presents MONEY WHO NEEDS IT? - directed by Kris Kooper - 11th and 12th APRIL - Bookings - 0431 988 965

Mmmmmmm! Her lippie tastes

so good!

Once a scoundrel always a scoundrel

I say.. heh heh!

Lady Windermere’s fan is making me

sneeze!