ADTLAIDE UNIVERSITY THEATRE CUILD
EVENING of SHORT PTAYS
AT THE HUT V/ednesday, August 29 Thursdoy, Augurt 3O Fridoy, August 3 |
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JOHAN AUGUST STRINDBERG was born in Stockholm, Sw'eden, in- 1849. His father was first a small tradesman, and later a successful merchant and shipping agent. August's earliest years were spent in the worst kind of poverty. His early educa- tion w49 at the Technological Institute where he studied zoology, anatomy, botany and physics. At nineteen he gave up the role of schoolmaster to become a student of medicine. But other p.owers undermined his application to science. The Dramatic Theatre was near at hand-he rnet writers and artists. Bv the end of the century, he-was one of the most fenowned of European dramatists. However much one may agree or disagree with the sub_stance of his plays, he relnains almost always unsur- passed technically and was practically the founder of the modern impressionistic theatre. His life, in many ways, was a varied and unhappy one; but as a dramatist, one writer states:-"he raised modern Swedish to the utmost potency of beauty and power." He died in 1912.
"The Stronger," written in 1890, is one of his briefest dramatic works, He called it "a scene."
LADY GREGORY was a woman of middle age when the Irish Dramatic Movement began. She had had wide experience of men and afiairs in many countries; she was a great landowner, a widow of a distinguished Colonial Governor. Within a few
years of comnrencing to write plays, she was the most popular comedy writer of the movemeqt. She was the grand old lady of The Abbey Theatre, and contributed much to its development and to modern Irish drama-activities which stre worked for and vitalised for-lhirty years. She pirblished- her last volume of plays in 1928. In 1932 she died at Coole in Galway,
"'l-he Gaol Gate" is one of several brief plays which best depict the graver side of her imagination.
ANTON CHEKHOV (1860-1904) one of the most con- spicuous writers of his pq$od, was born in Taganrog in Russia.
His father came from a family of liberated serfg. After receiv- ing the degree ef Doctor of Medicine at the University oi M?"cow, Anton started a literary caree-r by sending short humorous sketches to the newspaper. His lifg was very quiet and uneventful. In 1890 he visited the convict prisons on the Island of Sakhalin, near Japan. In a later period he wrote a number of notabte and still popular plays. Chekhov was more of a realistic painter, and his aim was to show life as it is, rather than to preach a new salvation,
"The Bear," written in 1890, may be taken as a good example of the sort of humour admired by the average Russian. It is interesting to note that in 1914 it was put on as a "curtain-raiser"
to a cinematograph entertainment at a London theatre, and, it is stated, "had quite a pleasant reception from a thoroughly Phitistine audience."
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I. STRINDBERG.
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Miss Y Mrs. X The Waiter
' Scene: Corner in a ladies' Directed by
THI PTAYS
Stronger"
E N I D B R O W N
- MARGARET WARD
TONY TAVERNA restaurant on Christmas Eve.
Kester Berwick.
II. LADY GREGORY.
'The Gool Gote"
Ivlary Cahel
I\fary Cushin (her daughter-in-law)
J E S S L Y N E F A Y N O B B S
The Gatekeeper - FRANK GARGRO
Scene: Outside the gate of Galway Gaol.
Directed bv Thelma Baulderstone.
I I I . C H E K H O V .
Elena Popova - Grigor/ Smirnov Luka
S c e n e : A
"The Beor"
HAYETTE MINTHER - S Y D N E Y A . D O W N I E
- F. H. DAY drawing roonr in Popova's house.
Directed by F. H. Day.
Settings Lighting
Stage Management
M I C H A E L J A M E S BRUCE WALTON
F. J. WATSON
THE THEATRE GUILD
Patrons:
Professors E. Harold Davies and J. G. Cornell Dr. Charles Fenner and Mr. Frank Johnston
President:
Professor J. I. M. Stewart
Committee:
Dr. T. D. Campbell Mr. Sydney A. I)ownie Miss Patricia Hackett Miss Barbara Howard Mr. Leo Howard M1. Herbert Kollosche Mr. Roy Leaney
Dr. E. Mclaughlin Miss Mignon Michell Miss Jahet Paine Mr. Allan Sierp Miss Gwen Walsh Mr. Bruce Williams Mrs. Roma Williams
Noticor
Communications and enquiries may be addressed to the Hon, Secretary and subscqiptions sent to the Hon- Treasurer, care University. Sqbscriptions may also bC paid on the evenings of performances.
On Monday and Tuesday, September 10 and 11, in association with the Conse*r- vatorium Opera Class, the Guild will-prcse{r-t performances of Acts I and II of Mozart's ofera, "The Marriage of Figaro." Performances will commence at 8.1s p.m. -A
limited number of guest tickets will be available at the University froni ofiice from Monday, September 3.
PLAYBOX PRODUCTION. This well-known amateur theatre group under the direction of Lloyd Prider, will give performances of "lightning Strikes Twice'], by an Ausralian author, Rex Rienits, in The Australia Hall on Thursday, September P0 and Friday, September 21.
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