Adelaide University Theatre Guitd
IN CONJUNCTION WITI-I THE
CONSERVATORIUM OPERA CLASS
PRESENTS
HAD{SEL AND GRETEL
HUMPERDINCK
AT THE HUT Tuesday, April I Wednesday, April 2 Thurday, April 3 1947
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK was born in Siegburg, in the Rhein provinces, in 1854. He rose with lightning rapidity to fame. He was a iupil of the famous Rheinberget at Munich and won a--prize which took Lim to laly, where, as Naples, he met Richard \fagner and returned with him to Bayreuth to assist with the production of
"Patsifal."
He composed "Hansel and Gretel" in 1893 and Gustav Kobbe tefers to it is "perhaps the most imPortant conttibution to German opera during the decade that followed \Tagner's death." ft achieved immediate p-opularity everywhere and has been a favourite with musi- cians and the public ever since. It was produced in London in 1895.
A great number of the melodies are German folk songs, but his own inventions are just as successful and beautiful.
This work is a fairy opera in three acts. The story is an old one of the mother who, findng her children idle, sends them to the woods to gather strawberries fo. ih"it frugal meal. Bemoaning their poverty, ,h."f"ll, asleep exhausted, only to te awakened.by the riotous -song of her homecoming drurk husband. Her reproaches ate silenced at the sight of the sutptuous food he has btought homg' .When lre asks fo-, th" children. he is horrified to hear of them being in the woods where lives the wicked fairy.
In the woods, the children have eaten all the berries they gathered' lJnable to 6nd their way home through titedness and the darkness, they fall asleep and angels come down to watch over them.
Morning comes and the dew fairy sprinkles them with dew;- they awake to ,J" th. sugar-covered house with a row of ginger-bread children. lrhen they break ofi and eat bits of the house, the wicked witch comes orrt .rrd catches them, to imprison them and later bake them in the oven. But instead, the witch is pushed into the evsn - arid all ends happily.
Act Act
I: Peter's cottage in a wood II: In the forest
Act III: The enchanted glade
HANSEL AND GRETEL
The Cast HANSEL
GRETEL
PETER (a broom maker) GERTRUDE (his wife) SANDMAN (the sleep fairy) DEW FAIRY
ANGELS AND CHILDREN
LORNA GRAY LORNA LEE GEAN FLECKER FAY SUTER KHAMA KEMPSON HEATHER ROBERTSON MARGARET S!?IFT MARION ROBERTS WILMA MCCAULEY
MERLE DAMON
MARIE BATES PEGGY FEARN WALTER WOTZKE
LILLIAN SIGGS - LORNA LEE - LORNA GRAY
At the Piano
Stage Management Settings Lighting Decoradons
Production under the direction of MISS BARBARA HO\fARD
VALERIE CLISBY CHARLOTTE HOLDER VIVIENNE DUCE PHYLLIS TURNER LENORE KOEHNE BARBARA'$fELCH HELEN ADAMS BETTY MITCHELL MARGARET LEWIS
ALISON HOLDER
Ray Langsford Michael James
Bruce !0falton Gwen \0(/alsh
UNIVERSITY THEATRE GUILD
Patrons
Professors E. Harold Davies and J. G. Cornell Dr. Charles Fenner and Mr. Frank Johnston
Ptesident
P r o f e s s o r J. I. M. Stewart
Gommittce
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Miss Thelma Baulderstone Mr. Tom Brown
Dr. T. D. Campbell Mr. Alan Dunstan Miss R. Fitch Miss Patricia Flackett Miss Barbara Howard
Mr. John Horner Professor C. Jury Mr. Hetbert Kollosche Dr. E. Mclaughlin Miss B. A. Robertson Mr. Allan Sierp Miss Gwen Walsh Jl
NOTICES
Annual General Meeting to be held at the Hut on Ftiday, 28th March, at 8 p'tn Communications, enquiries, and subscriptions may be addressed to the Hon' Secretary, Miss E. Wedd, Lister House, North Terrace (C. Z3l5l' or care
lJniversity
Anyone ' interested in active theatre work should communicate with the Hon.
Secretary, stating their particular interest
Arrangements are being nrade for class work in stage technique, voice and p"odrrltior. studies und-er Miss Barbara Howard. Miss. Patricia. Hackett, and i4r. Colin Ballantyne, Moderate fees for Guild members. Those interested
in joining this class please communicate at once with the Hon' Secretary
Will members who are in arrears with their subscriptions kindly forward same to the Hon. Secretary. The Guild relies solely on membership fees for carrying
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