In This Issue
Act 1 Theatre
Newsletter
Volume 19 Issue 2 Feb 2017
President’s Message .......... Pg 1
Current Performance .......... Pg 1
Committee & Contacts ........ Pg 1
Please Note ........................ Pg 2
Social Notes........................ Pg 2
Contribution and quiz .......... Pg 3
Act 1 Calendar 2017 .......... Pg 4
Our Local Theatres ............. Pg 4
President’s Message
Hello and welcome to the 2017 season.
The AGM on 6th February was well attended, thank you
to everyone who came.
Nikki Boyd officiated at the election and all positions were filled.
Welcome to Karen Barnett as our minutes secretary Alix Fortescue as
our V.P. and to all who are filling the same positions as last year.
Act 1 Theatre 2017
Committee
P਱ਤਲਨਣਤਭਲ਼
Michele Radford
Vਨਢਤ P਱ਤਲਨਣਤਭਲ਼ | Nਤਸ਼ਲਫਤਲ਼ਲ਼ਤ਱
Alix Fortescue
T਱ਤਠਲ਴਱ਤ਱
Myra Fortescue
Nikki Boyd also accepted the invitation to be our patron for another
year.
Mਨਭ਴ਲ਼ਤਲ Sਤਢ਱ਤਲ਼ਠ਱ਸ
Karen Barnett
Trevor Howden and Chrissy Russell were awarded life membership
for all they have done over a number of years.
Cਮ਱਱ਤਲਯਮਭਣਤਭਢਤ Sਤਢ਱ਤਲ਼ਠ਱ਸ
Anne Wilson
The A.G.M. booklet is at the theatre for any member to peruse please
ask F.O.H. staff.
Officers
Bਮਮਪਨਭਦਲ | Mਤਬਡਤ਱ਲਧਨਯ Cਮ-ਮ਱
Michele Radford
The new kitchen has been installed and thanks to Terry the splash
back too. There are only a couple of things to be finished ie:- vinyl on
the floor to be done in March and the purchase of a new stove which
will be done in the next couple of months.
By the time you read this "The Importance of being Earnest" will be
underway and from the reaction by the preview night audience it will
be enjoyed by all.
If there is anything you would like to see happen at theatre please let
a committee member know. .
F਱ਮਭਲ਼ ਮਥ Hਮ਴ਲਤ Cਮਮ਱ਣਨਭਠਲ਼ਮ਱
Val Rowles
P਴ਡਫਨਢਨਲ਼ਸ Oਥਥਨਢਤ਱
Trevor Howden
Wਠ਱ਣ਱ਮਡਤ Cਮਮ਱ਣਨਭਠਲ਼ਮ਱
Anne Wilson
Bਠ਱ Mਠਭਠਦਤ਱
David Radford
Let your friends know about our great theatre and invite them along.
Sਮ਴ਭਣ ਠਭਣ Lਨਦਧਲ਼ਨਭਦ
Andrew Munslow
Cheers
Michele
Wਤਡਬਠਲਲ਼ਤ਱
Will Downes
Sਤਲ਼ ਡ਴ਨਫਣਤ਱
Terry Frawley
Current Performance | The Importance of Being Earnest
Written by Oscar Wilde | Directed by Pat O’Callaghan
Oscar Wilde’s classic, hilariously witty, wittily satirical,
satirically hilarious take on English upper-class manners.
Synopsis: Ernest isn’t really Ernest, he’s Jack (well, he doesn’t actually
know who he is). Algernon isn’t really Ernest either, he’s just
pretending to be. Gwendolen and Cecily both declare they could only
love someone named Ernest. But who, and how earnest, is Ernest?
Remaining Dates: 8pm 24, 25 Feb & 3, 4 Mar. 2pm 26 Feb.
How to Contact Act 1 Theatre
Lਮਢਠਲ਼ਤਣ: Old Shire Hall
Cnr. Gympie Road and Hall Street
Strathpine Qld 4500
Pਧਮਭਤ: 0458 579 269
Mਠਨਫ: PO Box 436
Strathpine Qld 4500
Wਤਡਯਠਦਤ:
www.act1theatre.com.au
Bookings | Phone Michele on 0458 579 269
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Please Note:
Stage Managers are a rare breed and one of ours has fallen ill and we wish them a speedy
recovery. That means we need another one for this year. If you would like to take on this position or
want to learn please phone Michele on 0458579269 for further information.
Social Notes: Meet our Member | Clare Kenny Hughes
Clare was born in 1954 at Tullamore N.S.W. Clare moved around a lot during her early
years and this instilled a passion for meeting interesting people and travel and
adventure. After finishing school in QLD she moved to Sydney where she met her first
husband. She shifted to NZ married and had her first child. Due to the weather always
being very cold she returned to sunny Bundaberg and had two more children. Clare
separated from her husband and this is when her acting adventure began. She went to
her first audition at Bundaberg Playhouse but left without auditioning. Clare felt
intimidated. She returned however (after a stern talking to herself) auditioned and
received her first talking part and this instilled a passion for acting.
Clare then moved to Brisbane in 1992 to marry Dean and inherit two step children. Clare immediately
joined Act One Theatre and has been an active member for the last 25 years not only performing on the
stage but in the Sound and Lighting box and Front of House and kitchen duties for various Theatre
Restaurants as well as Host for Theatre Festivals. One of her favourite memories is acting with her
daughter Rose on the stage. Clare loves theatre because you can bring black dots on a white sheet of
paper to life and make that character a real person. Clare retired in 2016 from her working life and also
made the decision to retire from her theatre life and at this stage has never been so busy. A caravan was
purchased and small trips away have begun until her husband retires in 2018 and then the grey nomads
set off on their indefinite trip around Australia. They will eventually settle in Ballina NSW. Clare wonders if
Ballina has a playhouse ?????? ( wink wink )
Social Notes: Meet our Member | Patrick O’Callaghan
Pat lived in Bray Park for thirty years, continually thinking ‘I must go and join that
theatre group down the road at Strathpine.’ Finally, with children grown up and a
bit more time on his hands, he did so in 2003. The first production he was
involved with was The Anniversary, as Stage Manager. Since then, he has
appeared in about twenty productions and also directed several one-act and fulllength plays, including the current performance The Importance of Being Earnest.
Pat retired two years ago after a career mostly in the Public Service and is
enjoying the fruits of retirement, such as mowing the yard, cleaning around the
house, grocery shopping, etc. He and his wife, Joy, have four children and six
grandchildren so a lot of their time is spent entertaining small people, although
they have still found time for a couple of holidays.
Social Notes: Meet our Member | Errol Barnett Errol has performed in amateur theatre groups for more than 50 years, in dramas
and comedies, beginning with Twelfth Night Theatre, Brisbane Independent
Theatre, Pine Rivers Theatre Company, Samford Theatre, and he has enjoyed a
long association with Act 1 Theatre.
Earlier plays of particular note include The Rainmaker, Death Trap, House Guest,
The Proposal and Confusions; and at Act 1, he has appeared in The Foreigner,
Hancock’s Half Hour, After Magritte, She’s Apples, the women’s version of The
Odd Couple, Over the Gate and Twelve Angry Men, not forgetting the festival play
Carrot. Errol has also appeared in many of Act 1’s Theatre Restaurants.
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Submitted by Bill Thomas | voluntary work career
My voluntary work career began on 17th December 2001 as assistant groundsman at St Vincent’s Hospital, which was then known as Mt Olivet Hospital at Kangaroo Point in Brisbane, where I still enjoy working
2 to 3 hours every Monday hose-watering plants, pruning bushes and hedges and sweeping up leaves
and other matter and disposing of them. At the hospital, my grounds-keeping boss Jamie helps me with
the grounds-keeping when he’s not busy doing maintenance jobs throughout the hospital with the help of
other maintenance men.
Then my next voluntary job started at the RSPCA at Fairfield, Brisbane in
March 2002. I still work for them for a few hours every Wednesday at Wacol,
where the RSPCA has been located for at least 5 years after the January 2011
floods affected most of the Fairfield RSPCA campus. I have always worked
mostly in the Dogs Adoption section at both places and sometimes I’ve helped
out in the Cats Adoption section also.
I particularly love the interaction I have with the dogs even more than with the
cats. At the RSPCA, my main job is collecting the dogs empty food kongs from
their pens and after washing them, I fill them up with food and put them in the freezer for their breakfast
the following morning. The Dogs Adoption section at Wacol has kitchens for food preparing, fridges and
toilets for disposing of waste.
I used to walk dogs on leads which I loved doing but most of the dogs walking is done by younger volunteers as I keep very busy attending to the dogs in their pens, filling up their water bowls, cleaning up
waste and giving the dogs affection and attention which I also love doing.
The volunteers and the paid animal attendants are very nice people to work with.
Questionnaire
From which famous actresses do these quotes come?
“Being a famous actress may give you a sense of being important, but believe me, it’s just an illusion.”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
“I don’t mind living in a man’s world as long as I can be a woman in it.”
“Happy girls are the prettiest girls.”
“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
From which movies did these lines come?
“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”
“I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.”
“You don't understand! I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I could've been somebody, instead
of a bum, which is what I am.”
”Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.”
“Here's looking at you, kid.”
“Go ahead, make my day.”
“All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up.”
Answers will be published in our next edition.
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Local Theatres | Reciprocal Rights
Act 1 Theatre members are offered
reciprocal rights to these local
theatre groups; Sandgate Theatre;
Mousetrap Theatre Company Inc.
and KSP Theatre Inc.
KSP Theatre Inc.
Caravans | Theatre Restaurant
This hilarious show is set in a caravan park
where Laurie McGuire and his wife Joan are
trying to enjoy a summer holiday. Laurie
suffers ongoing complications when a new
van arrives next to their site...
Mar 3, 4, 10, 11, 12, 17 & 18
Bookings Ph: 07 3888 8580
www.ksptheatreinc.net
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