1998 School Magazine

Girls Grammar ^ichool a!artsbane 1998

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The Slita. .I^espea. .re Guild

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Throughout the evening interludes of Shakes peareanletters and poems were presented by Mrs Particia Rhodes and Ms Christme Cabin. The BGGS Recorder Consort and Recorder Ensemble, led by Ms Bathara Chaffe, presented a fine selection of Renaissance items, and their combined talent added jinmeas- urably to the atmosphere of the evening

HalfLET, ACT 11, SCENE 11

he Shakes peare Guild met regularly throughout the year, sharing in a range of activities, including viewing of films, readings from, and discussion of, a range of Shake- spearean plays, and even the screenprinting of our tee shirts, with OUT pun motif of "Will Power", of which we are sure that the Bard himself would have approved

As well as performances from original works, light relief was provided by Me lissa Chambers, Kale del Mar, Lucy Came, Tony Bean, Cecilia Bouohen and Milch Ryan, in a combined BGS- BGGS performance of the satirical and witty spoof, A Midst, in- merNjgbtm@re. Mrs HeIen Geraghty, Mrs Patricia Rhodes, and Mrs Lana Hadgraft performed Act IV, Scene I, from Macbeth, in a postmodern interpretation of the witches' cauldron scene, that was as inventive as it was hilarious. The Baz Luhrmann interpretation of Romeo and/unet was also somewhat ITrever- Gritly revisited by Mr A1an Dale, as a tremulous Juliet, and Mrs Robyn Golwill, as a Romeo who poses little threat to Leonardo

One of our members, Kale del Mar, won the Queensland Division of the Shakes peare Globe Competition finals, held at the Brisbane Arts Theatre on Monday, 3 August, with her performance from Act I, Scene v, and Act Three, Scene i, of Truertb Night. Kale will compete in the National Finals of the Competition to be held in Canberra in September The culmination of

di Caprio, in a moving rendition of the Balcony Scene The evening was a and great success, thanks go also to Vivien Stewart, SarahJane Miller, Miki Boyd, Satah Hoyes, Ros Crone, GIIa Bolton, Vanessa Roth- well, A1'iadne Zanella, Nicola Clavatino, and Angela Dennis for' their efforts andtalencedcon- Inbutions

our year's activities was the Annual Shakes pear- ean Soir6e, held on F1i- day 22 August in the Gehrmann Theatre. A large and appreciative audience was enter- lained by a range of excerpts from plays as diverse as Ham!at, The 7100 Gentlemen of Ve- foilc, , Macbeth, Ro"Ieo and IIJ!jet, hue!Ith Night, 471d Mt{cb Ado About Nothing

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