Rowella Drama Club History
- Life Members of the Rowella Drama Club
- List of plays performed
- Winners of the West Tamar Drama Competition
The RDC came into being in 1947.
2008: The RDC was invited to stage a reenactment of the first Beaconsfield council meeting to celebrate the centennary of that event.
2006: We were invited to entertain the 'Medical History Symposium' held at Launceston General Hospital. Madeline Colam researched, wrote and directed a piece especially fro this titled 'A Bawdy Business', exploring the fine line between early hospitals and bawdy houses in the colony.
2005: We performed a couple of murder mysteries aboard the Don River Railway trips to Georgetown.
2004: We were honored
by the attendance of Kerry Finch, MLC, Barry Easther, West Tamar Mayor
and
Max Burr.
Kerry's
web page has several photos of us.
Councilor Vivienne
Lambert is highly
supportive in a number of ways, not least of all is the preparation of
the
supper.
We were fortunate to be
supported to the
tune of $2500 by the West Tamar Council through their 'Community Grant'
Program.
This grant met the cost of 4 new
stage lights, bars to hang them on and black stage curtaining.
2003: Extensions to the Rowella Hall extended to stage and supplied indoor toilets and another dressing room.
Top
Life
Members
of the Rowella Drama Club
|
Mary Burkitt
Marie Stephenson Sandra Hunter Patricia Clark Rosemary Trezise Ray Edwards Diane Hillier Marie Bender Frances Mamo Helen Smyth Jannie Turner Naomi Swain Jeff Watts |
List of plays performed
| 2007 | Garbage (Helen Wyngard), The last dance of the plum sisters (Michael Olsen) and poetry reading | |
| 2006 | A kiss in time (Patrick Carr), Baudy Business (Madeline Colam) | |
| 2005 | Two women and a chair (Michael Olsen) & Evidence (Ian Austin) & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 2004 | Gentlemen Incorporated (Deborah Mulhall) & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
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| 2003 | In the blood (Helen Wyngard) & After dinner (Andrew Bovell) & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 2002 | Agatha Chrispie (Cenarth Fox) & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 2001 | The Disaster (Len Randall) & Variety Show | |
| 2000 | Drink To Me Only (Brian J Burton) & Monday to Friday (Ian Austin) & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 1999 | Five Women Wearing the Same Dress (Alan Ball) | |
| 1998 | Blythe Spirit & Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 1997 | Not Now Darling (Alan Ackboyne) | |
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| 1995 | Motorised float depicting a circus for the Beaconsfield Gold Festival | |
| 1994 | Ten Times Table | |
| 1993 | Beaconsfield gold festival - First Council Meeting reinacted | |
| 1992 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (Ray Lawler) | |
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| 1990 | Talk to the Moon | |
| 1989 | Cockatoo Springs | |
| 1988 | Toward Zero (I think Agatha Christie) | |
| 1987 | Cat in the Bag | |
| 1986 | The Holly and The Ivy (Wynyard Browne) The Furtive Fortunes of Fickle Fate (Nevil Thurgood) | |
| 1985 | Can't Hear you talking to me (Nora Dugon) | |
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Winners of the "West Tamar Drama Contest"
| Year | Group | Producer |  |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Mersey CWA Group | Mary Houghton | |
| 1966 | Devonport Repertory Society | Mary Houghton | |
| 1965 | Mersey CWA Group | Eileen Barnett | |
| 1964 | Mersey CWA Group | Brenda Kestles | |
| 1963 | Exeter Dramatic Club | E.P.Tunks | |
| 1962 | Westbury Drama Club | G. Maloney | |
| 1961 | Westbury Drama Club | G. Maloney | |
| 1960 | Westbury Drama Club | G. Maloney | |
| 1959 | Georgetown CWA Group | E.Willson | |
| 1957 | Rowella Players | L.McIntyre | |
| 1956 | Rowella Players | J.Burgess |
