To be not to be

1986 Hirschfeld House – winners of the Doreen Yeates Interhouse Play Competition. Drama staff member, Suzanne Burrows, was a House staff member, seated front row 7 th from the right.

The Interhouse Drama competition became an avenue for keen student playwrights to showcase their talents. The first few years were won by Houses performing plays written by students, notably England’s Erica Fryberg (1989) with “Abracadabra” (1988) and “England Shows the World” (1989) and Gibson’s Katrina Torenbeek (1989) with “Obsessions” in 1989. Erica became an award-winning writer, producer and executive arts manager and Katrina continued her association with Girls Grammar for many years by teaching private Speech and Drama lessons and becoming a well-respected Queensland Arts practitioner. She is currently a producer at QPAC, working for many festivals and theatre companies.