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2006: A
BOWLS CLUB WEDDING – Darwin Bowls Club |
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Work
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Personnel : Performers : Scenario |
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Over
many years of working with the Grey
Panthers senior
women’s dancing troupe, one comes to a rich appreciation
of the ‘friendly rivalry’ that exists between
these women and their teams (bowling, softball, golf).
A Bowls Club Wedding takes this a little bit further!
Combining these amazing women with the Darwin comics
Gail Evans and Yoris
Wilson, throw in the exuberant
break and hip hop dancing of Tracks youth dancers,
and then get the audience to participate in social
dancing and you end up with an inter-generational,
cross dance style, multi-art Tracks classic.
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PHOTO: Mark Marcelis
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View the promo CLICK HERE (Quicktime Movie 5.7MB) |
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A Bowls Club Wedding is the wackiest
wedding of the decade, a celebration of love sparked
by rivalry in the twilight years. First created for
its sell-out season as part of the Darwin Festival
in 2003 and later reworked for a cast almost twice
as big for another sell-out season in 2006.
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Do you remember a time
when things were simpler? A time when the biggest worry
was who might win the next tournament? Or what to wear
to your best friend’s wedding? Who ever thought
that ‘team spirit’ could lead us to the
very brink of a world war of dancing?
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Jack and Kitty, the bride and groom,
are long standing members of feuding bowls clubs, the
Top End Terrors (sexy, bowls with bite) and the Mindil
Monitors (romantics with a prickly tongue). They are
mavericks in a world where team acrimony festers over
generations of ardent supporters. Tribal loyalties
run so deep that such
a union is an outrage!
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Can Jack and Kitty prove
that true love later in life conquers all?
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Response : |
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"I don't know
what it was like last time you went to a wedding
but this
one is a fantastic night of entertainment."
Ben Langford,
NT News |
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"It's part musical,
part dance, part drama, part party – and a sporting
tournament when the teams take their battle to the
green."
Ben
Langford, NT News |
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| Creative
Personnel |
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| Performers |
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The
Mindil Monitors |
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Gil, the MC: Yoris
Wilson
Kitty, the Bride: Audrey Gorring
Wedding Party:
Shirley Sommers (Bride’s Maid),
Kelly Beneforti (Shaynne, Flower Girl), Erwin
Fenis (Shane,
Page Boy) |
The Team: Kay
Brown (Gill’s
Mother),
Crena Hemmings, Elaine Marlow, Val Clarke,
Judith Allen, Bette Chapman, Helen Murphy, Marg Lee,
Diane Dibbins, Dianne Mount, Chris Parker, Bev Paget,
Maria Vlastuin, Karajayne
Handberg and Immanuel
Dado |
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The Top End Terrors |
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Lori, the MC: Gail
Evans
Jack, the Groom: Kevin Gould
Wedding Party:
Margaret Glowacki (Matron of Honour),
Julia
Quinn (Charlene, Flower Girl),
Xavier Burrow (Charles,
Groomsman)
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The Team: Kathleen Harding,
Marge Duminski, Judy McKerr, Lucy Aylett, Janine Sutter,
Liz Gammon, Jan Hastings, Gwen Varney, Jackie Williams,
Mavis Waddell, Jan Blackburn, Val Hristova, Punny Vegter,
Vera Tabuzo and Corina Nichols |
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Scenario
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Prologue: The Arrival
of the Bridle Party
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ACT 1: Trying to be
Nice
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ACT 2: The Attraction
/ The Art of Playing Bowls
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ACT 3: Rivalry Out of
Control
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