1994 School Magazine

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Girls' Otaniniar School longbaiic 1994

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JEAN ERl_INDLE COMPE'1'1'ITON ENTRY

aclT year the Brisbane Arts Tlleatre stages its Drama theatre. other interesting challenges includecl learnino to con- Festival, whiclT incorporates three sections: Junior. In- struci a human pyramid. working OUT how 10 create a church for

termedlate, and Open. Part of the prize for the Inter me <11ate section, whiclT is for' actors Lip to eighteen years, is the Jean TTLindle Memorial Trophy, so that the intermediate section is LISually known simply as the Jean TTLindle Competition. This years Grilly from Brisbane Girls' Grammar was a play called Apples. By CGci! P. Ta\, 10r. 11 was a conscious clecision on my part to choose a complete contrast to last yeai"s choice, Riders to the Sea, and this play was Brechtian in style, focussing on the issue of young people going out into the world to 'seek Their

'God' 10 appear in without benefit of sets. and finally ancl most dramatically of all. the terrible 'Bruce ancl Spider' incident. A discreet \, eil has been drawn o1\ tlTis trauma: suffice it to say, that anyone Lisino the Gehrmann Theatre shoulcl be \vaiy of strange black objects which may descend from the roof. Come back, Bruce; all is forgiven On the night, the adjudicator gave particular mention 10 the e\, Griness and lean\ quality of this enseiTThle piece. to its visual

originality and appeal, to The 'ino\, ing qLiality of innocence an <1 optimism in the opening scenes an<1 10 the multiple talents of the cast wliich wei. e eviclent in the 'Talent Gate' scene, w^ere each actor was required to pertOTiT\ an 'act' in order to pass Ihrougl\ the gate to reach The Givni Apple rite. These talents in- cludedjuggling, ITandsiands. balletdanc- ing ei?'01/11e. a flute solo, a rendition of 'Ode to a SI

fortLine' - or in this case, Ihe g;erri dpp/e Iree The play called for. a cast of eighteen 'kids' - there were no character names - but this was TetlLiced 10 eight, being a more nTanageable nLimber as well as eaclT individual actor a nlore giving substantial part, as well as a Stage Man- ager's position, whiclT expandecl to be- Come a props designer and nLimerOUS other Liseful things. Auditions were held in June. giving Lis a rehearsal lime of It11y 10 Septembei One of the main challenges in 111is style of play lies in sustaining the energy an <1 the meaning of the lines without relying on traditional 'helps' suclT as character development, realism. sets and so forth. The cast nTanaged to create

The cast was: (in order of speaking) Allson LIT!/e BIToiiyivdcG!Intr. ny S, !Iub Hellbi'Gun Rebeccd IMO!lit/ Tel'esd/eiiiiei' Gene"!'e, e SIe!, dit 111di'!'lid-Poit!',! Ajithoi?y Bel^^Idd Vatsoi!

Director: Pdii'!tici Rhodes Stage Manager: SI

the!'I' 19s I, e!'e only 126,842, and they bddiil d ceit!/ICd/e beltreeii Ibein. they never did find the apple tree BLit we all liard a really good lime. Except for Brticc PATRICIA RHODES

their allegorical world very efficiently, battling on through laryngitis, shinsplints, nTaths exams and other obstacles to reaclT the competition night, SepteiTmet 7 Many of the ideas whiclT made Lip the final \, ersion came from The cast themselves. My sister, Chiyss Cahill, contribLiiecl inLicl\ valuable aclvice fron} her nackgrouncl in professional

DRAlv^ CL{B mina Club emerged in 1989. 11 was the idea of a planning to pel'form The WITale. Due to other extra-curricLilar student named Ienny Stewart-Ricliardson, and aimed activities, marry girls found clifficulties in attending all the activities, marry oir!s found clifficulties in tt i ll t

reltearsals Instead. we Ilave clecidccl to I\o1<1 workshops to proctise oLir theatrical skills, inclLiding extensive work in the areas of improvisation and nullding characters. We ITope to write our

at giving students 11\e opportunity to participate in extra- CLIrricular Lirama. Under 11Te guidance of Philip Dean members of the drama club ITave been able to extencl themselves and

experience clifferent aspects of theatre it is our goal, eveiy year. to pro- dLice a play, usually performccl ITTid-year in the Gehrmann Theatre. Unfortu- nately, this year's play was. perhaps. a little ambitious. and the project was aban- doned. \i, 'e were

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own playro be per formed at the encl The of the year Drama Clul> ITas many, talentecl an <1 creative people. so IIOPeftilly we will develop an inter esting production MEG HADGRAFT

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