CRECHE AND BURN

Diary Dates for you

to note:

Monthly General Meeting - Wednesday 20 April, 2011, at M’Side TAFE

Management Committee Meetings and Casting Com-mittee Meetings are monthly.

Opening Night of Marvin’s Room - Friday 3 June 2011—8pm

Creche and Burn More pictures

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From our President Leo Bradley

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2011 Productions Monthly General Meeting

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March Meeting Entertainment

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Engagement News Audited Books

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What’s on in Theatres Some Announcements

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Office Bearers 2011

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Inside this issue:

April 2011

Volume 50 Issue 4

PROSCENIUM Villanova Players

NEWSLETTER

The

Play No.1 for 2011, Creche and Burn, closed this weekend and if you missed it, you missed a darn good show. The show was filled with great comedy, action and at times, some tear-jerking mo-ments of serious social commentary. The cast and crew should be congratu-lated for presenting this fine play, executed to perfection. Congratulations to Fiona Kennedy for bringing this play vividly to the stage. The set was colourful, the costumes au-thentic and the action spot-on. The back-stage crew added a further layer of excel-lence with sound and lighting. Some of the scenes were ‘stolen’ by the children who added their bit to the overall success of the production. The audiences appreciated the play and were right in there with the story line - in brilliant 3D. A number of people from child-minding centres were there and especially enjoyed the action of the play. So VPs can chalk up another great season opener. Looks like 2011, will be another great year of success - financially and criti-cally. We now look forward to Play No.2, Marvin’s Room, which opens on Friday, 3rd June. Rehearsals have already begun, so put down this date in your entertainment diaries.

MORE PICTURES

BREASTFEEDING CANNIBALISM??

SOME BABIES HAVE ANXIOUS MUMS

THE GRATITUDE SONG

A FATHER/DAUGHTER HEART TO HEART

DON’T MESS WITH THE LAW

Congratulations everyone on a wonderful production of Crèche and Burn. Yet another success for VPs. Our audi-ences, including the playwright, Elise Greig have all loved the production, showing once more that locally written plays can be just as entertaining, thought provoking and profitable as American and European plays. Many thanks to those members who helped out on Front of House, especially Robin Carney who dropped in on the night before opening and vacuumed the auditorium. The large audiences appreciated their cuppa or glass of wine and juice at interval. This production also saw a large number of our audience becoming subscribers. This is great news for our future. Committed subscribers help us greatly by providing a pre-paid audience, while they get a much cheaper ticket price. Thank you to all members who I know have encouraged their family and friends to subscribe. Sadly, there was a break in during the show. On a Tuesday night, the foyer door had been wrenched open and some lighting equipment was stolen. Thankfully we were fully in-sured so the equipment was quickly replaced. The Institute and our wonderful backstage crew have repaired and strengthened the door to prevent any further forced entries. Many thanks to Dan Knudson, Andrew Heron, Gregg Gorris and Fiona Kennedy for operating the lights (some manually)

before the replacement equipment arrived. May promises to be a busy month. Not just because of preparations for the next play, Marvin’s Room but also be-cause we have been asked to participate in a couple of out-side productions for the Qld Law Week and a dinner at the Riverside Ballroom in New Farm. The details are below, and we will need performers as well as some crew in order to make the events happen. Please have a look at the events and let the contact people know if you are interested. They promise to be a lot of fun and will help to raise our public and community profile, as well as boosting our coffers. Negotiations with the Southbank Institute of Technology continue to be positive. We have received our bill for the venue hire for 2010 and up til April 2011, and the amount is very reasonable. It means that last year we did make a profit and our first production for 2011 should make a substantial profit. May you all have a safe and happy Easter. Cheers Leo

2011 FORTHCOMING PRODUCTIONS

Play No.2 - MARVIN’S ROOM

by Scott McPherson Directed by Brian Cannon

The close juxtaposition of humour and tragedy

is just one of the strengths of this play. 3rd June to 18th June

Play No.3 - LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN by Oscar Wilde

Directed by Jill Cross A biting satire on the hypocrisy of

Victorian society's attitudes, particularly towards marriage.

26th August to 10th September

Play No.4 - SUMMER WONDERLAND by Matthew Ryan

Directed by Leo Bradley A true blue parody of life's trials and

tribulations faced by an eccentric group of neighbours in suburban Australia. 18th November to 3rd December

FROM OUR PRESIDENT—LEO BRADLEY

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MONTHLY GENERAL MEETING

AT THE TAFE THEATRE

WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2011 8:00pm

ENTERTAINMENT

This month’s meeting entertainment will be the

presentation of excerpts from The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde’s great classic. New Member Holly Williamson and Sam Tierney will present the famous

afternoon scene with Cecily and Gwendolyn.. and there may be more.

ALL SUBMISSIONS FOR PLAYS FOR 2012 MUST BE IN THE HANDS OF THE CASTING COMMITTEE BY

APRIL 2011

[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]

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AUDITED BOOKS ENGAGEMENT

MARCH MONTHLY MEETING

It was the Eve of St Patrick's Day, on the 16th March. Members were presented with a miscellany of short pieces from poets, play-wrights, "prosers", posers and musicians from Ireland and thoroughly enjoyed the craic. 48 shades of green were seen in the clothing of the assembled. Taking part were Jenny Brunner and Meagan Lawson in an excerpt from "By the Bog of Cats" by Marina Carr. Rod Thompson gave a moving unaccompanied singing of "The Auld Triangle", the signature song from Brendan Behan's "The Quare Fellow". Samantha Tierney gave Mary's poem from Sean O'Casey's play "Juno and the Paycock". Leo Bradley sang two lively traditional songs, "Kitty from Coleraine" and "The Star of the County Down". Rod and Maria played tradi-tional airs "She Moved Through the Fair", "Planxty Irwin" and "Off to California", on the concertina and autoharp. Leo, Sam and Rod pre-sented a very humorous extract from Spike Milligan's novel of the Irish village "Puckoon". Paul and Glynne Liddy took us on a very Irish tour of Ireland, with very funny travel tales both tall and true. A very enjoyable night was had by all.

JENNY AND MEAGAN “BY THE BOG OF CATS”

ROD “THE AULD TRIANGLE”

LEO, ROD AND SAM “PUCKOON”

PAUL AND GLYNNE “TRAVEL TALES’

The audited accounts of the Players will be presented to the members at the April meeting. Wilson Ross Accountants have final-ised this for the 2010 year, and we wish to thank Mark Wilson, our Honorary Auditor for his wonderful efforts in this regard. We would like every financial member to attend to receive and accept the audited ac-counts when they are tabled.

GREAT NEWS! Neil Goodwin and Meagan Lawson have announced their engagement! They tried to keep it a secret [hence the secret sunglasses and hats] but fortunately ‘Rex’ spilled the beans. Seriously - all VPs congratu-late you and wish you guys all the very best.

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

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

2011 MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE President: Leo Bradley 3891 5769 Vice Pres: Jane Hamer [Binstead] 0417 072 512 Treasurer: Rod Thompson 3391 7180 Secretary: Meagan Lawson 0401 001 391 Casting Liaison: Maria Thompson 3391 7180 Members: Trevor Bond 3393 6521 Andrew Heron 0417 793 133 Michael McNish 0427 353 639 Neil Goodwin 0402 064 487

2011 CASTING COMMITTEE Samantha Tierney 0449 861 812 Rod Thompson 3391 7180 Michael Byrnes 3849 4521 Maria Thompson 3391 7180 Jenny Brunner 3398 9592

WHAT’S ON IN THEATRE

ST LUKE’S THEATRE SOCIETY presents GREENROOM - WHERE THERE’S A WILL directed by Christopher Brad-ley - 15h & 16th April - Bookings - 3255 6675 BEENLEIGH THEATRE GROUP presents RETURN TO THE FORBIDDEN PLANET - by Bob Carlton - 29th April to 21st May - Bookings - 3807 3922 ARTS THEATRE presents COSI directed by Susan O’Toole-Cridland - 12th March to 16th April - Bookings - 3369 2344 CENTENARY THEATRE GROUP presents BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward - 7th to 28th May - Bookings - 3379 3937 SUNNYBANK THEATRE GROUP presents TRAP FOR A LONELY MAN directed by Chris Guyler - 13th to 28th May - Bookings - 3345 3964 MOUNT COTTON DRAMA GROUP presents MY HUS-BAND’S WILD DESIRES directed by Lyn and Andy Math-ers - 29th April to 14th May - Bookings - online at their website TOOWOOMBA REPERTORY THEATRE presents MOTH-ERS AND FATHERS by Joseph Musaphia - April 2nd to 16th - Bookings 4632 8058

SOME ANNOUNCEMENTS

WORKING BEE! Our next Working Bee will be on Saturday, 7th

May at the TAFE theatre from 11.00am to 3.00pm. We thank you in anticipation of your

efforts. Come and have some fun and plenty of madcap fellowship as we work together.

IONA PASSION PLAY Good Friday April 22nd

Saturday 23rd April at Stanthorpe, please Contact Leo Bradley (3891 5769)

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST Mayne Murder Mystery

Part of the Law Week Criminal History Tour of Brisbane A Play relating to the Mayne Murder

DATES - 16, 17 & 18 May

TIME - About 6.30pm when tour takes a supper break VENUE - Captain Burke Park, Kangaroo Point

Looking for 5 or 6 Actors

3 women, 2 men 1 stage manager, 1 or 2 Lights/Sound Operators

DIRECTOR - Anne Monsour

Contact Maria Thompson or Leo Bradley

1920s GANGSTERS AND MOLLS PROHIBITION NIGHT

Welcome to prohibition - we know alcohol and gambling ain’t legal, but don’t worry - the cops - they been fixed so you’re all safe from being pinched. You see the Big Boss has gone to

a ‘’loot’ of trouble to organise youse associates a nice night... so no beefs, fights, no shake-downs and no popping anyone - Okay?

Looking for 5 or 6 Keystone Cops to stage a comic police raid during the dinner

Some appropriate gangsters and Molls would also be appropriate.

Date: 7th May Time: about 7pm

Venue: Riverside Ballroom, new Farm Contact: Leo Bradley