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With sympathy
The BATS present
FEATS '87
l l th Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies
Arenberg Theatre, Antwerp
June 5 - 8 1987
Patrons
Bob Cools, Burgomaster of the City of Antwerp
Thomas G. Martin, Consul-General of the United States of America
Philip Knight, Honorary Consul-General of Great Britain
Jane Hackworth-Young, Director of the British Theatre Association
Order of peaormance
Friday, June 5
Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre, West Germany
"Idea for a Play" by Richard Tydeman
Irish Theatre Group of Brussels, Belgium
"Riders to the Sea" by J.M. Synge
British American Theatrical Society, Antwerp, Belgium
"Loot" (Act 2) by Joe Orton
Saturday, June 6
Welton Theatre, RAF Laarbruch, West Germany
"A Collier's Tuesday Tea" by Michael Green
Ariel Theatre Guild, Rheindahlen, West Germany
"The Trial" by Anthony Booth
Copenhagen Theatre Circle, Denmark
"Edwin" by John Mortimer
Sunday, June 7
Anglo-American Theatre Group, The Hague,
Netherlands
"Sequence of Events" by George MacEwan Green
The Alternative Theatre Group of Herford,
West Germany
"Ritual for Dolls" by George MacEwan Green
New World Theatre Club, Luxembourg
"Loot" (Act 2) by Joe Orton
Monday, June 8
In Players, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"The Hebrew Lesson" by Wolf Mankowitz
British Embassy Players, Bonn, West Germany
"The Nightingale and not the Lark"
by Jennifer Johnston
American Theatre Company, Brussels, Belgium
"Aria Da Capo" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
CURTAIN UP EVERY NIGHT AT 7.30 p.m.
There will be an interval between each play and a short break after the third play of the evening,
before the adjudication, when the audience is asked to remain seated.
.
Please do not use flash equipment, "bleep" watches or motor-driven cameras.
The city of Antwerp has kindly donated a prize wich will be this year's best actress award.
FEATS '87
l l th Festival of European Anglophone Theatrical Societies
FEATS originated in a two-day drama festival organized by the Anglo-American Theatre
Group of The Hague as part of the BritishWeek in Rotterdam in 1976. The Festival acquired
its present title in 1978, when, with the British American Theatrical Society of Antwerp as
hosts, it ran to seven plays over three evenings. Soon a decision was taken to rotate the
Festival among the well-placed major Benelux cities : Brussels and Luxembourg were
called on to host the following events. In 1980 a Steering Committee was formed by
the four Benelux groups AATG, BATS, English Comedy Club of Brussels and New World
Theatre Club of Luxembourg. The Festival now runs under the guiding hand of that
Committee, with an Organizing Committee formed each year to take charge of FEATS itself.
Invitations go out to more than forty drama groups all over Europe, as far afield as
Copenhagen and Monaco and the Festival is now firmly established as a four-day, twelveplay event.
This year the BATS expect to welcome groups from Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg,
Denmark and the Netherlands. Each group will present a one-act play or one act from
a full-length play, to be appraised, not by a panel of judges, but by one highly expel rienced professional, who each night will offer a critique of the evening's performances.
At the end of the Festival, he will offer a final appraisal and announce his decision as to
the best productions, the best actor and actress and thevarious technical and other awards.
For those who may be unfamiliar with drama festivals, it should be pointed out that the
productions must comply with strict rules. Each piece must last not less than 25 minutes
and not more than 45 minutes. Each group is allowed 10 minutes to set its play and
5 minutes to strike the set after the performance. A two-hour period of "stage time" is
allotted during the day of the performance, during which the group must set its lights,
practise setting and striking routines and run its dress rehearsal.
The BATSPrganizing Committee sincerely hopes that all of this frantic theatrical activity will
not get in the way of the realisation of FEATS prime objective: to bring together
like-minded theatre lovers from all over Europe so that they may enjoy their common
interest in a congenial and spirited atmosphere.
Acknowledgements
The FEATS '87 Organizing Committee is indebted to Schweppes and to Generale
Bank for their support of this year's festival.
The Province op Antwerp has kindly donated an honorary prize which will be
awarded to this year's Best Actor.
FEATS '87 Steering Committee
lan Davis, Chairman
English Comedy Club, Brussels, Belgium
Graham Fairfax-Jones
New World Theatre Club, Luxembourg
Keith Bayross
Anglo-American Theatre Group, The Hague, Netherlands
Dermod O'Reilly
British American Theatrical Society, Antwerp, Belgium
FEATS '8 7 Organising Committee
Vivi Roche
Rosemary Watson
Nicole Van Honste
Tom Restieaux
George Glasgow
John Algar
Mike Chadwick
Barry lnskip
Brian Edwards
John Kingsmill
Jane Skillen
Nora Van Dessel
Frank Mahieu
Chairman
Assistant Chairman
Secretary
Treasurer
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Managers
and Time-Keepers
Lighting Manager
Sound Manager
Advertising Manager
Programme Lay-Out and Printing
Publicity and Public Relations
FEATS '87 Front of House
Deen Martin
Heather Bathgate
Mary Edwards
Kathleen Restieaux
Liz Van Dessel
Bruno Boeye
Jill Franks
Maryse Verschaeren
Jo Royen
Pat Arn, Ann Babb, Yves Bauwens,
Claudine Boeye, Chantal De Rijck,
Fiona Dunnachie, Ruth England,
Denis Franzen, June Franzen,
Tania Greenwood, Gwen Kingsmill,
Eliane McCord
Ticket Sales
Information Desk
Hotel Bookings
Catering
Belfry Manager
Belfry Decoration
Feats Party Organizer
Hosts & Hostesses Manager
Hosts & Hostesses
Our thanks to the technicians of the Arenberg Theatre :
Oscar Hoenraet, Guy Augustus, Ronny Van Bouwel, Harry Van Herck,
Guido Van Woensel and Guy Verhaegen.
FEA TS '8 7 Adjudicator
ANTHONY CORNISH
Anthony Cornish B.A., is a theatre director of international standing and reputation
as well as a lecturer and adjudicator for some 20 years.
His connections with theatre began shortly after the Second World War when he
would have decribed himself as an "enthusiastic amateur actor". This blossomed into
repertory in 1955, when in addition to acting and stage management he also made his
directorial debut in England at the King's Theatre at Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.
A short period on the London stage was followed, in 1959 by a three-year appointment as Artistic Director of Chesterfield's Civic Theatre.
In 1964 Anthony Cornish moved to the BBC to begin a ten-year term as a director1
producer of radio and television plays. During this period he also taught acting and
directing at Tufts University in Massachusetts, USA, as Artist in Residence and for
seven years was Director of the Tufts University London Programme. At the same time he
directed free-lance at repertory theatres in Birmingham, England, and Michigan, USA,
and was also director of "Games" by Andrew Cruikshank at the 1975 Edinburgh International Festival.
For two years, in 1974, he took up the appointment of Literary and Production Manager
at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre, before embarking on full-time directorship of a series of
major productions which has taken him, to the present day, to London, Richmond, Bristol,
Greenwich and major cities in America.
From 1980 to 1985 Anthony Cornish was Drama Supervisor for Capital Radio in London.
In 1982, he came to continental Europe for the first time in a professional capacity, to
direct Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in Geneva. Since then he has been a regular visitor to
our shores, adjudicating at several FEATS venues such as Antwerp and Rheindahlen.
FEATS AWARDS & PREVIOUS WINNERS
Luxembourg Cup (2nd)
1980 ECC, Brussels
1981 KENT Players, FRG
1982 ATC, Brussels
DGM, Monaco
1983 AATG, The Hague
1984 ATC, Brussels
1985 BATS, Antwerp
1986
1987
Phillips Cup (1st)
1976 ECC, Brussels
1978 ECG, Brussels
1979 NWTC, Luxembourg
1980 Kent Players, FRG
981 ECC, ~russels
982 LEST, Leiden
983 GEDS, Geneva
984 NWTC, Luxembourg
985 ECC, Brussels
986 CTC, Copenhagen
987
R.A.M.D. Award (3rd)
1983 BATS, Antwerp
1984 GTW, Gutersloh
1985 NWTC, Luxembourg
Best Actor
1979 Joe Moss, ATC Brussels
1980 Danny Strike, Kent Players, FRG
1981 peter- oure ens, Rick van Vliet, LEST, Leiden
1982 Jon van Eerd, LEST, Leiden
1983 Richard Inkleton, GEDS, Geneva
1984 David Greenfield, GTW, Gutersloh
1985 Robert Rowe, NWTC, Luxembourg
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Best ~ c t r & s
1979 Roz Jones, Highbury
1980 Paula Sepson, GEDS, Geneva
1981 Susan Blackwell, ECC, Brussels
1982 Anne Fafoutakis, DGM, Monaco
1983 Doris Biles, GEDS, Geneva
1984 Gwen Kingsmill, BATS, Antwerp
1985 Sally Boyle, ATC, Brussels
1986 Claire Campbell Clausen, CTC, Copenhagen
1987
Grand Duchy Cup (for beit set)
1980 Kent Players, FRG
1981 Kent Players, FRG
1982 ECC, Brussels
1983 BATS, Antwerp
1984 ATG, Monchengladbach
1985 BATS, Antwerp
1986 ECC, Brussels
1987
Marcel Huhn Memorial Award
(for stage management)
1983 BATS, Antwerp
1984 ATC, Brussels
1985 Hamburg Players, FRG
1986 ECC, Brussels
1987 &+L.
Anthony Cornish Discretionary Award
1980 Allen Roach. Kent Plavers FRG
981 Stage c r e w , ' A A ~ ~ ,6 Hague
e
982 ATC, Brussels
983 Bob Smith, Laarbruch
984 BATS, Antwerp
985 Braunschweig Players, FRG
Venrlam Award (for best original script)
1984 Vincent Eaton, ATC, Brussels
1985 In Players, Amsterdam
1986 Jeremy Bentham, AATG, The Hague
1987
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FOOTNOTES
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'87
- FOOTMTES - FEATS
'87
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FEATS week- end social activities
Friday, June 5
Get-together in the Betfry club-house after adjudication.
Sandwiches and drinks will be on sale.
Saturday, June 6
2 to 5 p.m.
Midnight
Tennis at Rivierenhof
After adjudication, buffet supper at Salons Jordaens
Sunday, June 7
10 a.m.
2 to 5 p.m.
3 p.m.
11.30 p.m.
Guided tour of old Antwerp. Rendez-vous in front of the Arenberg
Theatre.
Tennis at Rivierenhof
Workshop with Anthony Cornish in the foyer of the Arenberg
Theatre.
Get-together in the Belfry club-house after adjudication.
Sandwiches and drinks will be on sale.
Monday, June 8
10 a.m.
2 to 5 p.m.
Midnight
Guided tour of old Antwerp. Rendez-vous in front of the Arenberg
Theatre.
Tennis at Rivierenhof.
After awards ceremony,-farewell drink at the Belfry club-house.
Sandwiches and drinks will be on sale.
For tennis and guided tour : details from the hfo-Desk
For buffet supper : details from Host / Hostess
An actor's day at FEATS : One foot at a time
So the great day has finally arrived :tonightyou perform at FEATS. Your stomach is in a knot
and your jaw paralysed above a bone-dry throat. "Why do I do it ?" you ask yourself.
It seems a long time ago when you thrilled with pride at being picked to take part in your
drama' group's entry to this prestigious Festival. The excitement was soon overtaken by
the concentration needed to make the most of your part, by the wish not to let down the
rest of the cast or your director, but during the months of rehearsal a little voice kept
repeating "You'll be performing at FEATS, you'll be performing at FEATS", and it was like
a dream.
Now the day is here, and you must be at the theatre for your one rehearsal on a strange
stage, which always seems so much bigger than your own :acres of empty space to cover,
different acoustics, that huge gaping auditorium. In the wings all is bustle as your
stage manager wrestles with the set and your lighting person goes quietly spare trying to
set up that all-important atmosphere for your play. Suddenly you're on, and you can't
remember who you are, let alone the lines. But the months of rehearsal were not for
nothing : without the slightest conscious act you find yourself moving and speaking the
lines.
What a terrible dress rehearsal ! If it's true that it presages a good performance, then your
play is going to win ! "Get yourself together", you.admonish yourself, "off to the Belfry
for the drinks and the sandwiches and why not spend the afternoon playing tennis on one of
the courts that BATS have put at our disposal".
You won't even think about tonight and tomorrowyou'll be able to attend Anthony Cornish's
discussion on your play and learn how to improve things. Meanwhile, there are joyous
reunions with friends from other groups, a walking-tour discovery of Antwerp to look
forward to, a sumptuous buffet party and Anthony's workshop session on Sunday, and
tonight you're going to do your best even ~fyour stomach is in a knot and your jaw is paralysed above a bone-dry throat.
G.K.
British All Winners Invitation Drama Festival
The secretary of the National Drama Festivals Association informs us that the winner of
FEATS '87 will be eligible for invitation to the 1988 All Winners Festival.
The holder of the 1987 Phillips Cup should contact, if interested, Brenda Nicholl at the
following address : 24 Jubilee Road,-Formby, Liverpool L37 2HT, Tel. 070-48 72421.
FEATS '87 lnfo Desk
The Info-Desk in the upstairs foyer of the Arenberg Theatre is managed by Mary Edwards,
who will be happy to assist any FEATS participant in matters both theatrical and otherwise.
Wider horizons in view ?
The members of the Steering Committee would very much like to see one of the next
FEATS events organized outside of the traditional Benelux-circuit. If you have any ideas or
proposals to put to them, they would be more than willing to call an informal meeting during
FEATS '87 to discuss the possibilities of organizing our Festival at Copenhagen, Frankfurt,
Monaco, Tahiti....
GRAANMARKT
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SALONS JORDAENS
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during FEATS
Party Saturday Night
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THEATRE
Friday, June 5
Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre, West Germany
IDEA FOR A PLAY
by Richard Tydeman
Cast
Humanity
Religion
Science
Virtue
Vice
Education
Atom Bomb
Producer
Pamela House
Tyler Strand
Maureen Quinn
Pat Lindsey
Bil Purosky
Peter Hann
Dagmar Wynn
Les Roberts
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Lighting
Sound
Wardrobe
Make-up
Stage Assistants
John Lindsey
Harry Ladwig
David Wynn
Julie Regenbogen
Lore Schulz
Lore Wynn
Birgit rote
Ulla Ladwig
Nigel Assen
The Play
Humanity, trying to save the world, asks for the help and assistance of Religion, Science, Virtue and
Vice in turn. She is torn between Religion and Virtue on the one side and Science and Vice on
the other. Education also tries to help her by coming between the two sides. The whole thing
comes to a climax when Atom Bomb enters.
The Company
The origins of the Frankfurt English Speaking Theatre, or FEST, go back to 1975 when a number
of English-speaking people in the Frankfurt area came together at regular "Pub nights" to sing a
song or tell some jokes. The first production of FEST was an, "Old Tyme Music Hall" which was
such a success that a pantomime "Cinderella" was produced in early 1977.
That too was so popular that shortly afterwards, an amateur dramatic society was formed. With
an initial membership of 50, FEST put on its first production, "Dick Whittington", in February 1978.
Since then, the membership has grown to over 120.
FEST aims for an annual production of two plays and a cabaret or musical hall. Play-readings
and workshops are also a feature of FEST and in 1986 the Youth Theatre was started to enable a
growing number of young people to become more actively involved. FEST membership includes
Germans, Amerjcans and an assortment of other nationalities.
FEST became a German registered organization in 1981 and is a member of the BDAT (German
roof organization for amateurs).
Friday, June 5
lrish Theatre Group of Brussels, Belgium
RIDERS TO THE SEA
by John Millington Synge - Directed by John Boyle
Cast
Maurya, an old woman
Cathleen, her daughter
Nora, a younger daughter
Bartley, her son
Men and women
Claire Johnston
Julie Rowan
Mary Noonan
Michael Hales
Steve Ahern, Damion Collins, Bernard Conlon,
Pat Hourican, Vera Kerrigan, Deirdre Kerrigan,
Valerie Peters, Lyn Wainwright
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Production assistant
Set Design
Lighting
Sound
Costumes
Make-up
Props
Crew
Doria Scullion
Mark Ammermann
Naomi Kidney
David Norton
Sally Boyle
Lyn Wainwright
Ken Lennan
Elysee Studios, Brussels
Tonnie Wintermans
Ann Fox, Margaret Francey,
Kathy Heaney, Bronwen Pearce
Caroline Fitzgerald
Margaret Tuite
Susan Avery, Bill Lloyd,
Chris Russell, Bob Steen,
The Play
Riders to the Sea, J.M. Synge's tragic masterpiece in miniature, is based on the playwright's
observations and experiences among the people of the remote Aran islands off the western shores
of Ireland. In the play's brief span, we share the harshness and the sorrow of this wild place
where so many men are sacrificed to the sea, and their womenfolk left to grieve.
The Company
The lrish Theatre Group was founded in Brussels in 1982, when it presented Sean O'Casey's
"Juno and the Paycock". Since then it has performed "Translations" by Brian Friel, "A Life" by
Hugh Leonard "I Do Not Like Thee Dr Fell" by Bernard Farrell, "The Playboy of the Western World"
by J.M. Synge, "The Loves of Cass McGuire" by Brian Friel and Tomas Murphy's adaptation of
"She Stoops to Conquer". In addition to these main-stage productions, it has organized cafetheatre events and play-readings; it has also hosted shows for visiting lrish actors. The group's aim
is to promote the best of lrish theatre in Brussels. This is its first time participating in the FEATS
festival.
Friday, June 5
British American Theatrical Society, Antwerp, Belgium
LOOT (Act 2)
by Joe Orton - Directed by Liz Van Dessel and Rosemary Watson
Cast
McLeavy
Fay
Hal
Dennis
Truscott
Meadows
Peter Welbourne
Fiona Dunnachie
Robin Monk
Tom Restieaux
Vincente Drews
Roger Duthie
Production Staff
Producer
Set Design
Workshop
Prompt
Props
Costumes
Lights
Sound
Make-up
Pat Arn
Linda Durrant
Mike Chadwick
Dermod O'Reilly
Dean Liedberg
Jo Royen
Angela Whistler
Anne Marie O'Reilly
Bruno Boeye
Fernand Arn
Josepha Doran
The Play
On the day of his mother's funeral, Hal and his mate Dennis, an undertaker, have robbed a bank.
To fool Inspector Truscott, masquerading as a water board employee, the corpse has been disguised as a dressmaker's dummy and the loot hidden in the coffin. Meanwhile, the bereaved
widower McLeavy is being courted and "consoled" by the scheming, oft-wedded and -widowed
nurse Fay McMahon.
Will Fay settle for McLeavy and his money, or will she succumb to the all too familiar charms of
Dennis ? Or will Dennis and Ha1escape to a life together in Portugal ? And what was the mysterious
object found by lnspector Truscott ... ?
The Company
BATS is now rounding off its 31st season of presenting plays in English to the Antwerp public.
The club presents four productions annually, including a Christmas pantomime. Its 160
members enjoy a good social life as well : every month begins with an Open Evening in the Belfry
club-house, an occasion usually highlighted by a well-rehearsed entertainment presented by
some of its more adventurous members. BATS also hold regular theatre workshops and playreadings, which attract a large group of participants.
Saturday, June 6
Welton Theatre, RAF Laarbruch, West Germany
A COLLIER'S TUESDAY TEA
by Michael Green - Directed by Nick Barber
Cast
Ida Hepplethwaite
Daniel Obadiah Hepplethwaite
Victoria Hepplethwaite
Albert Hepplethwaite
Joe Clegghorn
Margery Hackforth
Lionel Headbracket
P.C. Clement Boothroyd
Jed Throttle
Chris Corser
Tim Henson
Maggie Barnett
Keith Heald
~ick'priddle
Janet Driver
Chris Kakol
lan Williams
Dave Barratt
Production Staff
Producer
Stage Manager
Stage Crew
Lights
Sound
Prompt
Wardrobe Mistress
Properties & Make-up
Nick Barber
Graham Hogben
Nick Clark, Coz Conlin,
Sue Hogben
Tony Kingston
Careen Callingham
Carolyn Barber
Pat Priddle
Anne Kingston
The Play
"A Collier's Tuesday Tea" has been given the subtitle : "with apologies to D.H. Lawrence." The
scene is the cosy cottage of the Hepplethwaite family in Slagton, a mining village in deepest
Yorkshire.
The Company
A quest for a home for the Laarbruch Players began in mid 1967 when a request was made to the
Nuffield Trust for a grant of f 1200. By March 1968 the Phoenix Theatre had been created from a
disused cookhouse. The Laarbruch Players' first production was "The Secret Tent" by Elizabeth
Addyman.
The driving force behind the creation of a theatre at Laarbruch was Major Lief Welton. It was
through his inspiration, enthusiasm and stewardship during six months of unceasing hard work
that the Phoenix came to life. In honour of his remarkable ingenuity and energy, the theatre was renamed the Welton on March 21, 1970.
Since that time Welton's membership and productions have steadily increased. The club
produces four to five plays a year, including a Pantomime, an entry to the annual British Forces
Drama Festival and its own "in house" Three One-Act Festival.
Saturday, June 6
Ariel Theatre Guild, Rheindahlen, West Germany
THE TRlAL
By Anthony Booth - Directed by Kate Goodall
Cast
Brent, Captain in the Organization
Cole, a Witness
Adams, the Accuser
Brede, the Guard
Collins, the Accused
Pam Boxx
Heather Cowans
Judith Chamberlain
Mary Lillywhite
Sally Purkiss
Production Staff
Prompt
Crew
Make-up
L~ghtmg
Sound
Joan Bagwell
Eric Bagwell
Peter Grist
Frankie Bulmer
Alan Boxx
Bobby Timnley
Margaret Eagan
The Play
In the early hours of the morning, three people wait in a cellar. One is a captain in an organization pledged to bring freedom to the city which is in the throes of a struggle for power, another
is a witness, the third is an informer in the coming "trial". Afrightened girl is brought in and severely
questioned regarding her alleged betrayalto the authorities of hidden stocks of ammunition :she is
in love with a soldier.
The Company
The Guild is a Royal Air Force theatre group based at the NATO Joint Headquartersat Rheindahlen
near Monchengladbach in West Germany. The group has been in existence for more than forty
years and has, in the past, hosted FEATS as well as being a regular contributor to the festival.
Because of the nature of their employment, the members of the Guild are a constantly changing
mixture of serving personnel, their families and members of the various support units plus members of the local community.
Saturday, June 6
Copenhagen Theatre Circle, Denmark
ED WIN
by John MortimerV-Directed by lan Russell
Cast
Lady Margaret Truscott
Sir Fennimore Truscott
Tom Marjoriebanks
Diana Goetz
Frank Theakson
John Weait
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Set Design
Lighting Design
Sound
Prompt
Stage Crew
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Solvejg Glass
Lone Sander Klan
Barbara Lehman
Ed Kowalski
June Bramson
Joan Weber
The Play
A retired High Court judge with time on his hands becomes obsessed with finding out whether
his wife and his artistic neighbour have had an affair in the distant past. He chooses to broach the
subject on the day that his son Edwin is due to visit them after several years abroad. That is,
of course, if Edwin is his son ! His apparent paranoia, together with his typical udicial manner
of interrogating the two "accused", lead once again to a completely unexpected result.
The Company
Copenhagen Theatre Circle is now in its 17th season. It was formed by a group of Englishspeaking theatre enthusiasts - British, American and Danish. The membership of 80 includes not
only people with experience of acting but also those whose interest in theatre extends to all aspects
of drama production and making the group function. Besides monthly membership events
which range from talks on theatre, play-readings, a theatrelfilm quiz to social evenings with
members providing the entertainment, the group also presents two productions a year.
Sunday, June 7
Anglo-American Theatre Group, The Hague, Netherlands
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS
by George McEwan Green - Directed by Keith Bayross
Cast
Hangman
Claude Vole
Herbert Vole
Margaret Vole
Lilly-Ann Turbett
Agnes
Donal Merren
John Kearey
John Humphrey
Nola Dutton
Susan Hunt
Frances Billington
Production Staff
Producer
Production assistant
Costumes
Lighting
Sound
Backstage crew
John Newsome
Jane Perks
Margaret Humphrey
Hans van Bemmelen
Trevor Gale
Steve Atkinson, Jane Easton,
Roger Perks
The Play
A hangman, a prostitute, a murderer and the murderer's stricken parents are the ingredients of
this taut drama set in the Edwardian period. In a fascinating, time-chopped sequence they spin
a strange web of sex and death.
The Company
The AATG has provided English-language theatre to audiences in The Hague for over 35 years.
Productions have ranged from Restoration comedy to modern drama and the group has even
been known to stage the occasional musical. There are three major productions a year including the now traditional Christmas pantomime. In-house productions, cabaret and playreadings offer opportunities at all levels and encourage new talent.
Sunday, June 7
Alternative Theatre Group of Herford, West Germany
RITUAL FOR DOLLS
by George MacEwan Green - Directed by Ann Whalley
Cast
Jo-JO
Golly
Lieutenant
Arabella
Pamela Whalley
Richard Ancliffe
lain Cassidy
Linda Jones
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Lighting
Sound
Make-up and costumes
Properties
lan Whalley
John Guthrie
Alison King
Jean Ancliffe
Fran Cassidy
Gaby Kable
The Play
The action of the play takes place in the attic of an old Victorian house. The time is around the
turn of the century. A golliwog, a toy soldier, a doll and a monkey with a drum lie forgotten
in an attic. Each night they enact the story of the brother and sister who owned them long ago a story that bursts with violence through the strait-lacing of Victorian society.
The Company
The Alternative Theatre Group of Herford is the travelling section of the Phoenix Theatre Club
based in Herford, West Germany. The group is fortunate in having two facilities at its disposal for
the presentation of plays : a 500-seat theatre and a 60-seat attic theatre which isvery popular with
the theatregoers of the town for intimate one-act play evenings. Because membership of the
group is small, enthusiasm is allowed free rein.
Sunday, June 7
New World Theatre Club, Luxembourg
LOOT (Act 2)
by Joe Orton - Directed by Pen Turner
Cast
MC Leavy
Fay
Hal
Dennis
Truscott
Meadows
Peter Milne
Niamh Huggard
Tim Ward
Jim Christen
Chris Bearne
Stuart Alexander
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Set Design
Set Construction
Properties
Lighting
Costumes
Make-up
On the Book
Stage crew
Pauline Lloyd
Catriona Bullock
Richard Lloyd
Tom Ashley
Laine Jacob
Hilary O'Carroll
Brian Love
Fay Wolstencroft
Ann Overstall
Mair Turner
Graham Fairfax-Jones
Darrell Perry
The Play
The scene is London in the summer of 1966, the year that "Loot" first shocked and delighted
the critics and audiences of the capital. With lines of lacerating wit that remind one of Oscar
Wilde, Orton derides the Church, British police and justice, and the solemn trappings of death.
Orton treats the theatrical conventions of form, plot and character with similar scorn. In this
blackest of blackfarces, the plot of the standard detective mystery stands on its head as rapacious
characters combine to ensure that injustice wins the day. When our excerpt opens, Hal and
Dennis, two young bank robbers, have hidden the loot from their latest crime in the coffin of Hal's
mother, Mrs McLeavy, as she awaits burial. As their plan begins to go awry, they have to take Fay, a
homicidal nurse, into their confidence. Next they must outwit the law-abiding Mr McLeavy and the
psychopathic Inspector Truscott, who has entered the house in the guise of a Metropolitan Water
Board official ...
The Company
Founded in 1968, the New World Theatre Club has a membership nearing 150, largely AngloAmerican but with a significant minority of Luxembourgers and other nationalities playing a very
active part. The NWTC generally performs three full-length plays a year and several fringe
productions. This year the Club has presented Bond's "Restoration", Shaw's "Arms and the Man"
and Orton's "Loot" in the delightfully restored TheGtre des Capucins, as well as "The Hollow Crown"
in a local castle, and a programme of poetry, prose and drama developed specially for touring
the high schools of the Grand Duchy. The Club also organizes monthly play-readings, workshops
(professional and home-grown) and social events.
Monday, June 8
In Players, Amsterdam, Netherlands
THE HEBREW LESSON
- Directed by Michael O'Riordan
by Wolf Mankowitz
Cast
Man
Jew
l st Black and Tan
2nd Black and Tan
Peter Clarke
Tony Hart
Fred Bare
Luud Peters
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Set DesignKonstruction
Costumes
Make-up
Lighting
Soundlslides
PropsIAssistant Stage Manager
Backroom/Backstage
Nina Cohen
Damien O'Reilly
Petra Dijkstra
Lydia Otte
Michael O'Riordan
Frans De Jong
Annie Glamuzina
Lesley Davies, Peter Hopwood
Marianne Ottans
The Play
The play is set in Cork in 1920, in a country occupied and struggling for its independence not
so far away from the North today. A confrontation between an assimilated Jew, the survivor of
pogroms in Poland and thirty years in Ireland, found praying on a Friday, and a young Irish
patriot bent on dying for his country, forms the basis of the action.
The occupying forces are the notorious "Black and Tans", said by some to be recruited from the
prisons of Britain to subdue the unruly Irish. It is not so much aplayabout politicsas an analysis of
the alternatives put before those confronted with violence from without and within.
The Company
This group of dedicated amateurs, a mixed bag of varying nationalities, is no stranger to FEATS.
Although not a large group, it has managed in recent years to produce avaried programme, from
large-scale musicals such as "Chicago" and "Merrily We Roll Alongnto "The Elephant Man" and
"Gotcha" (last year's FEATS entry). Because of the open-door policy of the In Players, people who
want to act, sing, direct or write their own material even for the first time, receive afriendly welcome
and a sympathetic ear.
Monday, June 8
British Embassy Players, Bonn, West Germany
THE NIGHTINGALE AND NOT THE LARK
by Jennifer Johnston - Directed by Matthias Vennemann Bundschuh
Cast
Mamie
Owen
Janet
Tom
Margot Nisita
Karl Krebs
Sarah Bogusch
Paul Speller
Production Staff
Stage Manager
Set Design
Set Construction
Make-up
Props
Lighting and Sound
Stage Assistants
Christina Karsten
Matthias Vennemann-Bundschuh
Detlev Karsten
Lutz Frenzel
Maggie Moss
Carole Eniffer
Ajantha Sahabandu
Christian Onof
Elisabeth Karsten
Ursula Schwalb
The Play
Mamie, an aging, not-too-successful actress, lives in a cluttered attic above a hall of which she is
caretaker. She takes little care of the building and less care of herself, spending most of her time
and money on whisky and cigarettes. The hall is being used by a touring theatre company and
strains of "Romeo and Juliet" filter up to Mamie, bringing back memories happy and sad. In an
alcoholic haze, torn between hating and loving, she talks to Owen, her husband, of their days in the
theatre and rails at him for leaving her for another woman. In the end, Mamie is left, alone
at last, to take her final curtain call.
The Company
The British Embassy Players was formed by a group of theatre enthusiasts in 1980. The
Society was firmly established in 1981. It arranges a variety of informal monthly events such as
rehearsed and unrehearsed play-readings, visits to various theatres in the vicinity, and even winetastings ! The Players mount two productions of plays in English each year. All profits from these
productions are donated to British, American and German charities. At this moment, the Players'
membership numbers approximately 80 people from the diplomatic and German communities.
Monday, June 8
American Theater Company, Brussels, Belgium
ARIA DA CAP0
by Edna St. Vincent Millay - Directed by Lyrr Descy
Cast
Colombine
Pierrot
Cothurnus
Corydon
Thyrsis
Chorus
Deborah Emmert
Ron Bemrich
Arnaud Schmutzer
Larry Corwin
Curtis Andes
Karin Weinhofer, Alma Forsyth
Thierry Delvigne, Martin Uijldert
Production Staff
Set Designer
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Lighting Designer
Stage Manager
Set Construction
Properties
Costumes
Asst Stage Managers
Make-up
Bob Bender
Jeannie Swartele-Wood
Susan North
Patrick Linton
Cherry Cabban
Chris Russell
Derek Hawkins
John Garnish, Malinda Coleman
Lyrr Descy, Jane Varrall,
Judy Myers
Jacqueline Ackers, Bob Steen.
Jaimie Andes
Tracie Ryan
Catrina White
Natalie Leemans
The Play
Written in 1919, "Aria da Capo" is an allegory in the form of a harlequinade in which Millay,
a prolific poet immersed in the avant-garde movement of the post-war years, juxtaposes two
apparently unrelated societies.
First, the world of plenty - in fact devoid of any real substance :a world of form with cultural and
intellectual pretentionsbut no heart, represented by Pierrot and Columbine dining ata sumptuous
banquet And then, the simple world of Arcadian shepherds which is doomed from the outset :
greed sows the seeds of distrust, and artificial barriers are created where none exist Cothurnus,
the Spirit of Tragedy (or Fate ?) presidesover the defeat of Arcadia, not infair combatwith Mammon
but throught the corruptive influence of the tinsel world of plenty with its false values and empty
pleasures which pit shepherd against shepherd. The wheel comes full circle, and history simply
repeats itself.
Though the FirstWorld War was doubtless the play's immediatepoint of reference. "Aria da Capo"
even now shakes us out of our complacency in the face ofthe unacceptable differences between
the rich nations and the poor nations, and makes us reappraise the western values we want to
foist on the third world.
The Company
The ATC was created in 1969. It specialises in the presentation of American drama in Brussels,
ranging from informal cafe theatre to full-scale musicals.
The ATC has participated many times in FEATS, winning a variety of awards.
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