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What’s On The Bogans Are Coming

World’s Worst Babysitter ■ Award-winning comedian Lauren Bok performs her self-written show The World’s Worst Babysitter on September 22, 23, 27 – 30 at 3.30pm at the Melba Spiegeltent.

This World’s Worst Babysitter is ready to eat all the ice-cream, make too much noise and never go to bed. As soon as parents fly out the door, order flies out the window!

The show is said to be full of chaos, clowning and cheeky fun. Antics, tomfoolery, and shenanigans abound.

Performance Dates: September 22, 23, 2730 Time: 3.30pm Duration: 60 minutes Bookings: www.melbournefringe.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Koo Koo, Bird Girl ■ Darebin Arts Speakeasy and Melbourne Fringe present KooKoo The Bird Girl, from September 20 (Preview) to September 29 at the Northcote Town Hall Arts Studio, Studio 2.

In her onewoman show, Sarah Houbolt explores the beauty of difference as she uncovers the cult classic film Freaks starring Minnie Woolsley (1880 – 1960) as KooKoo The Bird Girl .

Performance Dates: September 20 – 29 Time: Thurs – Sat 6.45pm Venue: Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre, Studio 2.

- Cheryl Threeadgold

Alone Outside

● Lauren Bok in The World’s Worst Babysitter.

The Dumb Waiter

● Don Bridges (Gus) and John Wood (Ben) in The Dumb Waiter.

■ The menace inherent in Pinter’s one act firmed by the revelation that they have guns. play, The Dumb Waiter, lies in the expectation Woods and Bridges physically embody of violence. their roles – the larger Woods being more Confined in a windowless room, two men threatening while the slighter Bridges provides wait for instructions. The senior partner, Ben the whining cringe of the second wheel.

(John Wood), and his off-sider, Gus (Don There is, perhaps, more nuance to be found Bridges), are preoccupied with trivia – trawl- in the pauses and timing of repartee though ing the newspaper and tying shoelaces. this can only come with actors spending time The power play between the two could well together on stage. be indicative of larger struggles for dominance The demands on the director, Paul Watson, for they bicker over meaningless things as are immense. The crescendo of violence has they wait. to develop and the growing paranoia of the The audience, however, are aware that two must be carefully handled for the questheir presence speaks to something insidious tion of who is in control, the hit men or their and this compels the narrative. masters, is central.

The activation of the dumb waiter sending The power of the play lies in its contempoorders for food adds an absurdist element to rary relevance. the scenario.

Though written in 1954, the human frailThere is an external presence. That ‘other’ ties exposed, the incongruous nature of ceris compounded by an envelope appearing un- tain events in our lives and the ability of an derneath the door and instructions via a speak- audience to exact meaning still resonate toing tube. day.

It is not until half way through the piece The Dumb Waiter was performed at that it becomes evident these working class Chapel off Chapel. characters are hit men and this is only con- Review by David McLean

● Sharon Davis in Alone Outside.

Photo: Adam Fawcett ■ Following their success with A Prudent Man at the 2016 Melbourne Fringe Festival (Audience Choice Award Winner), new writing theatre company Lab Kelpie return to Fringe with Alone Outside, a one-woman play by West Australian playwright Liz Newell that explores the conflict, awkwardness and nostalgia of returning home.

Having just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, Daphne reluctantly returns from The Big Smoke to the tiny country town she grew up in to visit her ailing grandmother.

Experiencing run-ins with a revolving door of people she hasn’t seen in years, Daphne eventually reconnects with former best-mate Aidan, sharing a long-held secret that finally brings her a sense of clarity she hadn’t realised was missing.

Directed by Lyall Brooks, this is a meditation on the concept of 'home' that examines the places and people that continually call us back – whether we like it or not .

Venue: Fringe Hub: Arts House (Studio 2) Dates/Times: Sep. 14, 15, 18-22, 25-29 at 6.45pm, Sep. 16 and 23 at 5.45pm Duration: 60 mins, no interval Tickets: Preview $20, Concession $24, Full $28, Groups 6+ $22 Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666.

- Cheryl Threadgold

● Brenton Marriott, Krissi Crieghton, Phillip A Mayer and Luke Witham in The Bogans are Coming ■ The Gippsland-based company Here, There and Everywhere present Bogan Shakespeare for the Melbourne Fringe Festival on September 27, 28 and 29.

If modern audiences find ‘The Bard’ confusing, frustrating, boring, irrelevant, incomprehensible and downright stupid, . Bogan Shakespeare aims to change all that, breathing life into some of his classic works in easy to understand and relatable language.

Mixing classic literature with contemporary characters aims to create a piece of theatre that is entertaining and informative.

Shakespeare is widely considered the greatest and most prolific English playwright, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist, with his plays still hugely popular, being performed around the world, even 400 years after his death. But who actually understands what the heck he was on about?

The show bills bogan jokes galore and non-stop fun-poking at Shakespeare, and at the fact that he was far too clever for most of us to understand.

Of course the show looks at the popular classics Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth , but it also extracts insults and humour from many of his other plays.

The company says it’s all about making the works accessible to everyone, regardless of their exposure to Shakespeare’s works. Breaking down the flowery language, explaining it, having a few laughs at what it really means, and generally making it less scary.

Throwing Aussie characters who have no understanding and a complete dislike of the classic literature, together with Shakespearian actors, is said to make an interesting clash of cultures..

Dates: September 27, 28 and 29 Times: 9:30pm (60mins) Venue: Club Voltaire 14 Raglan St Nth Melbourne Tickets: $22 Full / $16 Conc / $16.50 Fringe Dwellers. Bookings: melbourne fringe.com.au or call 9660 9666

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■ The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents Circus Showcase 2018, Company 18, from September 19 – 22 at the NICA National Circus Centre, Prahran.

This circus variety show features 18 emerging contemporary circus artists who will showcase the culmination of three years of elite training with roue Cyr, hula hoops, adagio, swinging trapeze, unicycle, handstands and aerial rope skills on display.

Curated by NICA’s Head of Circus, James Brown, each of Company 18’s acts has a different feel, from dark and moody to the pure ridiculous and everything in between.

Company 18 will be hosted by Jan van de Stool, Australian Dutch/Australian musical therapist who will combine impressive vocals and cheeky comedy to add to the evening’s whimsical variety atmosphere.

NICA is one of eight national arts training institutes and offers Australia’s only Bachelor of Circus Arts.

Graduates of NICA have gone on to pursue exciting careers both locally and internationally and have contributed to the development of Melbourne’s vibrant circus arts industry.

Season: September 19 – 22 (preview September 18) Time: 7.30pm nightly, 1.30pm matinee on 22 September Venue: NICA National Circus Centre, 39-59 Green St, Prahran Duration: 140 mins (including intermission) Tickets: Adult $30, Concession (including children U16) $23. Family (2 adults & 2 children) $85. Family (2 adults & 3 children) $99.50 Group (min. 10 people) $25pp. Preview Sep. 18 (7.30pm) — All tickets $16 Bookings: www.nica.com.au Rated: PG (parental guidance recommended) - Cheryl Threadgold

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● Joanne Davis, Zoe Ellerton-Ashley, Izabella Yena and Michael Treloar in 2.20am. Photo: Kim Landy.

■ The subject of suicide is not one that sits comfortably with ordinary people and often not spoken of.

This new production, 2.20am, deals with the stories of many people who have experienced the loss of a loved one, a family member.

Playwright Rebecca Lister draws from her own personal experience and that of 50 other people who have been impacted by suicide and brings their stories to the stage, with elements of grief, truth and humour yet always open to saying “It’s okay to cry”.

Anvil Productions of 2.20am, in partnership with Jesuit Social Services and the Support After Suicide program, takes us into the lives of four ordinary people who meet for the first time at a creative writing class and under the case worker slowly reveal their own personal experiences of the impact of suicide.

Why 2.20am? Rebecca Lister reveals, “I jolt awake at 2.20am every morning, heart pumping, pulse racing …2.20am. It’s always 2.20am”.

The script has impact, it is harrowing at times, there are very personal and raw moments, no room for complacency only anxiety. One cannot doubt the credibility of the stories that are told, only reflect on the resilience of those left behind after suicide.

Young Isabella Yena as Stella was outstanding as she stole many lines while grappling with the loss of her father.

Likewise Dave, played by Michael Treloar, with a very moving performance was coming to terms losing his 16-year-old daughter Felicity and blaming himself.

with Kerry Kulkens Aries: March 21-April 20.

Lucky Colour Blue Lucky day Sunday Racing numbers 5.6.4.8.

Lotto numbers 5.6.12.18.24.23.

Take nothing and no one at face value as your judgement may not be up to scratch. Making progress in your love life could be most important, social life about to become very hectic.

Taurus: April 21- May 20.

Lucky Colour Yellow Lucky day .

Monday Racing numbers 5.6.8.4.

Lotto numbers 1.15.19.25.26.36.

A very pleasant period ahead and take advantage of any invitations forthcoming. Many could be in the grip of wander lust and many could soon be travelling for money or better career prospects.

Gemini: May 21- June 21.

Lucky Colour Red Lucky day Monday Racing numbers 5.2.1.6.

Lotto numbers 5.4.12.18.25.22.

Avoid confrontations with authority a very impatient period so be extra careful out on the roads. Many could be in for major changes in their relationships.

● NICA Head of Circus James Brown.

Photo: Aaron Walker.

Joanne Davis as Emma lost her life partner Mandy and now faces life with their daughters and struggles each day to explain why. With Stella and Dave the three were the mainstay of the performance.

At times too soft particularly when emotional, case worker Zoe Ellerton-Ashley conducted the regular writing classes that allowed much interaction in bringing their stories and their very personal experiences to the stage.

The performance was not helped by only making use of the auditorium floor with slightly raised seating in half a round.

More attention is needed with lighting that at times under lit, at times in shadow and other times capturing some of the audience. These technical aspects can no doubt be addressed when 2.20am goes on tour.

So watch out for it and certainly support the work that is being done by both the Jesuit Social Services and the Support After Suicide program, 2.20am played until September 9 - Review by Graeme McCoubrie

Lovesong

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■ The presence of a cellist on stage (Campbell Banks) establishes the elegiac tone of Abi Morgan’s play, Lovesong. After 40 years of marriage, Billy (Paul English) and Maggie (Jillian Murray) face the prospect of their union terminating given cancer’s insidiousness. Simultaneously, we witness William (Dylan Watson) and Margaret (Maddy Jevic) embarking on their married life together. Time melds – (and not through the sharing of props between the ages) – as Billy and Maggie look back on their former selves; the innocence, joy, uncertainty and even unfaithfulness.

The actors convey an intimacy and intensity with Billy and Maggie’s dialogue fraught with the undercurrent of the unstated future that now determines their union. This adds to the poetic dimension; what is tacitly known but unspoken.

Such is the terseness of some scenes that Morgan has left little time for the actors to actually establish motivation and impulse. They must grab such moments in an instant before moving on to the next scene. As such, director Denny Lawrence has his work cut out for him.

Morgan’s portrayal of the younger William and Margaret is more conventional.

The challenges in their marriage are familiar ones; the search for identity and the prospect of betrayal.

The potential interaction between past and present is realized only in reflection without entities challenging what they have become or what they might be.

Again, Red Stitch have utilized their confined space well with bed, kitchen and backyard all realized successfully.

We see the movement of the starlings in the rapid change of light.

This Australian premier3 is a contemplative work and a testament to the company’s vision of realizing great works and bringing them to Melbourne. Long may that continue.

- Review by David McLean

Cancer: June 22- July 22.

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Friday Racing numbers 5.8.6.1.

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Personal relationships will be prominent during this period and is a happy time for family gatherings. Make sure you allow plenty of time to enjoy social activities rather than getting involved in all the hard work behind the scenes.

Leo: July 23-August 22.

Lucky Colour Lemon Lucky day Wednesday Racing numbers 5.6.1.2.

Lotto numbers 1.15.23.32.33.36.

Social life is set to keep you busy accepting some of the interesting invitations on offer. People are taking a lot of notice of what you say and some surprising developments are about to occur.

Virgo: August 23- September 23.

Lucky Colour Fawn Lucky day Tuesday Racing numbers 8.6.4.9.

Lotto numbers 1.5.16.18.25.24.

Stay out of family fights and arguments among friends, most will be in the grip of wanderlust. You could be travelling longer distances than usual. It will be very hard to balance the budget however keep trying.

Libra: September 24- October 23.

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Many will be thinking in terms of buying property, moving interstate. People you meet during social activities could become a permanent fixture many will be come engaged, married or reconciling past differences with present lovers.

Scorpio: October 24- November 22.

Lucky Colour Mauve Lucky day Friday Racing 5.8.4.6.

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A rather nervous aspect operating and no matter how you try, you are going to say or do the wrong thing to someone. Outdoor activities or travel could be rather hectic and for many a health problem.

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Most will be in a happier financial situation, however not the time to lend money or possessions. The singles could find the lover they have been seeking.

Capricorn: December 21- January 19.

Lucky Colour Brown Lucky day Tuesday Racing 2.6.3.5.

Lotto numbers 13.16.34.33.22.7.

There could be the tendency to be accident prone so watch your step. Most will be making plans for major changes to take place later this year. For most and increase in salary.

Aquarius: January 20- February 19.

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Most will be in for a very happy and relaxing period, people you meet during the holiday period destined to have a big impact on your future plans some who can't travel should be happy with friends and social activities.

Pisces: February 20- March 20.

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Contacts from old friends or past flames, most will have to be very diplomatic to keep personal relationships stable. Career activities are set to bring increased earnings and opportunities.

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Melbourne Arts String Quartet

■ Three blockbuster tours, including two world premieres by Australians Kate Moore and Nigel Westlake, are among the many highlights the Australian String Quartet has released in its 2019 National Program.

The program’s centrepiece, theASQ National Season, sees masterful performances of classic repertoire juxtaposed with fresh discoveries that speak to our Australian identity.

Built around monumental works by Beethoven, Brahms, Ives, Sibelius and Debussy, the three tours draw aesthetic connections between these past masters and contemporary composers

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Just Briefly Otello

Please Tell Me What My Work Is About

■ Please Tell Me What My Work is About will be presented by performance artist Georgia Banks from September 12 – 22 at Testing Grounds in City Road, Southbank.

Georgia is asking members of the public to tell her what her work is about – but only if they meet the criteria.

Participants must identify as straight, white, and male. Women, the queer community, and people of colour are not invited to take part.

This work is inspired by Lee Lozano’s Decide to Boycott Women, wherein the artist ceased communication with all women – from friends and peers to waitresses – which she ended up maintaining for the remainder of her life.

Feminism taught us long ago that history is written as much through its exclusions as through its master narratives.

Lozano’s work encapsulates this; by refusing to communicate in any way with women she was able to highlight the absurdity of pointedly ignoring over half the world’s population when recounting history.

Here, Banks has expanded the parameters of Lozano’s work in order to represent an entire scope of exclusion; women are not the only ones being left out.

Georgia understands that being excluded from this work may make some people angry, and to this she says great. They should be angry.

They should be angry they are being excluded from a great many conversations in the art world, they should be angry that even now, in the midst of significant change they Please Tell Me What My Work is About is taking place as a part of Critical Mass for Melbourne Fringe 2018.

Participants are invited to visit www.georgiabanks.net to make an appointment with the artist or to leave comments anonymously.

Show Appointment Hours: September 12, 10am – 9pm; September 13 – 15, 10am – 6pm;September 19 -22, 10am-6pm.

Online participation is available: September 12 - 22 (24 hours) Venue: Testing Grounds, 1-23 City Rd., Southbank. Participation is Free.

- Cheryl Threadgold

● Zoe Coombs Marr. Photo: Jacquie Manning ■ Three celestial beings, white robes flowing, The audience is complicit as a voyeur listenhover above the stage. ing into this non-stop repartee. The narrative, When they begin to speak, these virginal god- based entirely on conversations recorded over desses speak about the mundane and every day 10 years by Coombs-Marr, Grigor and Rose, as just like the rest of us. best friends and artistic collaborators, spans the Conversations between women have tradi- years from teenagers to their 30s. tionally been dismissed as irrelevant: gossiping, There is a message to found in the comic nattering, mothers’ club talk. banter. At one point, Grigor quotes the late art Zöe Coombs-Marr, Mish Grigor and Natalie critic, John Berger.

Rose, creators and performers of Ich Nibber A woman, Berger wrote, must ‘survey evDibber, put women’s conversations at the fore- erything she is and everything she does’ ultifront of this very funny comedy about life and mately through the male gaze. This scrutiny, what to make of it.

Berger argued, provides the marker ‘for what is Awakening and awareness of love, sex and normally thought of as the success of her life’. babies and all that this entails predominates. EvAnd this is the state of the conversation erything from the fumbling discovery of physi- where, ironically or not, talk of relationships and ology to the mechanics of bodily functions and physical appearance dominates. all in between is hilariously dissected.

Performance Details: Until September 23 A cultural history of the decades unfolds, from Venue: Beckett Theatre, Malthouse the horrific - daughters held in German dungeons Duration: 70 minutes no interval – through the aspirational – from footballers’ Bookings: www.malthousetheatre.com.au wives to professional footballers – to the inspiPlease Note. Contains adult themes and rational in the landmark marriage equality deci- course language and scatological moments sion.

- Cheryl Threadgold

End Transmission ■ The potential behind the Monash University Student Theatre production of End Transmission was evident from the attempt to immerse the small audience into the performance concept.

Emails were sent to ticket holders outlining story elements. Cast members in character took everyone through an induction process in preparation for the viewing of a reclaimed space ship with which contact had been previously lost.

Everyone was introduced via an air lock to the quarters and work spaces used by the crew.

There would have been a lot of joy and fun in creating a space ship and in playing those roles.

This was the childish delight one finds in playing characters and imagining scenarios. The set was well conceived offering a tactile experience.

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Unfortunately, the conceptualization needed a stronger performance foundation to back it up.

Speeches were given and we were assured our safety was paramount. There were video logs of the crews experience to watch along the way.

But the pace dragged somewhat. Story elements needed to be planted to create a sense of trepidation.

The one moment of intensity was the ending of the show where we were asked to vacate the space ship.

It marked the end of the evening and patrons left feeling a little confused wondering if there wasn’t something more.

Intensity needed to be built up during the course of the production but it was that very story line of what the audience should be experiencing that had not been fully developed.

Those behind the concept, Michelle Nguyen and Humphrey Cheung, needed to put more emphasis on how the audience should be incorporated into the piece if they truly want to bridge the gap between audience and performer as they state in their program.

So much effort had gone into developing language elements, makeup – the electric eyebrows were great – and costumes.

Had there been an actual performance story, this show would have realised its dream.

Monash University Student Theatre, 21 Chancellors Walk, Monash University, Clayton Performances until September 15 Bookings: https://msa.monash.edu/events/ end-transmission/ - Review by David McLean

● Director Bruce Beresford on the set of Ladies in Black.

■ Melbourne Opera presents the Australian premiere of Gioachino Rossini’s dramatic masterpiece Otello from October 17 – 20 at the Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne.

Melbourne Opera’s Australian premiere will mark the 150th anniversary of Rossini’s death.

In a major coup for the independent opera company, Academy Award nominated director Bruce Beresford will helm Melbourne Opera’s new production.

Beresford will direct a cast of international and Australian singers, led by Stephen Smith (Opera Australia) in the title role, with award winning soprano Elena Xanthoudakis (Greek National Opera) as his ill-fated lover Desdemona.

Both singers began their careers with Melbourne Opera, before establishing distinguished international careers.

Based on Shakespeare’s famed play Othello, Rossini’s opera was an instant hit when it was first performed in Italy in 1816.

It remained incredibly popular until the late 19th century when it was eclipsed by a new version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Since then, Rossini’s masterpiece has been somewhat overlooked and much more rarely performed, until the late 20th century when it began to be performed again in Europe, leading to a triumphant production at Covent Garden in 2000.

Beresford believes that a re-examination of Rossini’s Otello quickly reveals the jewel that it is.

“Rossini’s Otello is intensely dramatic and his characters are incredibly well drawn-out.

The skill and complexity of Rossini’s scoring and vocal settings are superb and the final scene, the death of Desdemona, is a unreserved masterpiece,” he says.

Other cast include the multi Green Room Award nominated Henry Choo, with commanding tenors Boyd Owen (Carnegie Hall), Paul Biencourt (Victorian Opera, OperaAustralia) and Michael Dimovski (Richard Divall Emerging Artist) joined by bass Roger Howell, who also received a Green Room nomination for Melbourne Opera’s Der Freischutz.

Dimity Shepherd (OperaAustralia, Victorian Opera) will play Desdemona’s maid Emilia.

Beresford’s production will be staged in the setting that Rossini intended, 15th Century Venice.

“Otello deals with such fundamental human passions, which are expressed through effective libretto and suburb emotional music.

“The original setting feels appropriate for this, our Australian premiere. It serves to emphasise the drama in a way no modern setting could hope to do,” says Beresford.

Melbourne Opera Director Greg Hocking and Head of Music Raymond Lawrence will conduct the company’s orchestra, bringing Rossini’s score to life.

Performances: October 17 – 22 Venue: The Athenaeum Theatre, Collins St., Melbourne Bookings: Ticketek - Cheryl Threadgold

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Kangaroo legend in WeHo ■ Hi everyone from beautiful downtown West Hollywood comes this week's news.

Out and About

Roy Ramsay on holidays

Missing people in America

■ Roy Ramsay is a former Australian Rules footballer who played with North Melbourne and Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

Ramsay, a back pocket, was originally from Broadmeadows.

His first stint at North Melbourne was from 1976 to 1981, during which time he never managed to play more than nine games in a season.

He did play in four finals, including North Melbourne's 1979 preliminary final loss to Collingwood, but didn't feature in any of their three grand final appearances.

In 1982, Ramsay played for Essendon, but was restricted mainly to the reserves, where he won a best and fairest award.

Ramsay returned to North Melbourne in 1983 and became a regular fixture in the team, playing 23 games that year, 21 in 1984 and 19 in 1985.

Roy is the cousin of Billy Swan, a former VFA footballer who is the father of Brownlow Medalist, Dane Swan.

When Roy is in West Hollywood he stays with former Director of North Melbourne Football Club and Managing Director of the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, Alan Johnson, on Santa Monica Boulevard because it's central to everything.

■ Every 40 seconds, a child goes missing in the US. ■ When a child goes missing, the first threehours are the most crucial in finding the child safely. Approximately 76.2 per cent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.

■ It can take over two hours to get information about a missing child from a panicked parent.

■ Every year, more than 800,000 children are missing in the United States.

■ A person can be declared dead in absentia or "legally dead" after seven years of being listed as missing. This time can be reduced in certain cases, such as in mass disasters like September 11, 2001 or major battles.

Finding love in the air

Broadway to Hollywood ■ Broadway productions will be coming to the Dolby Theatre in 2020 under a new partnership announced by the Hollywood Pantages Theatre and CIM Group, owner and operator of the Dolby Theatre at the Hollywood and Highland Center.

The Hollywood Pantages Theatre near Hollywood and Vine is a premier venue known for bringing Broadway productions to Los Angeles.

In recent years many of the productions have generated heightened interest in having long-term engagements in Hollywood.

The partnership between CIM Group and the Dolby Theatre allows another venue to stage high quality productions in Hollywood.

The 3400-seat venue initially called the Kodak Theatre but now named the Dolby Theatre, home of the annual Oscars event, opened on 2001.

It features the latest innovations in Dolby entertainment technology. The Hollywood Pantages is part of the Nederlander OrganiSation, which owns and operates venues on Broadway and in other major cities throughout the United States.

● Pictured outside the entrance to the Ramada Plaza Hotel is Roy Ramsay with Alan Johnson.

52 minutes a day ■ A new survey shows that fewer Americans today drive themselves to work than in 2007, and that the average roundtrip work commutes for Americans is 52.4 minutes, up from 48.1 minutes in 2007.

In the poll, Gallup asked, "How do you generally get to work - do you drive yourself, ride with someone else, walk, take mass transportation or something else?

From the Aug. 1-12 data, 77 per cent said they drive themselves. Back in August 2007 that number was 85 per cent.

Today, 6 per cent use mass transportation, which is up from 4 per cent in 2007, according to Gallup. In addition, 3 per cent now work from home (telecommute), which is up from 1 per cent in 2007.

Point of no return

Closing after 58 years

■ The 58-year-old West Hollywood institution, Ed's Coffee Shop, at 460 N. Robertson Boulevard, is closing this summer.

Owner Ada Blumstein said unlike many LA restaurant closures, this one has nothing to do with a rent hike, but rather has to do with a number of factors.

Blumstein watched her client base change from interior design customers and locals to families and folks in the entertainment business.

She also cited the rise in coffee chains as another cause, with many choosing lattes over a full breakfast.

Ada's father, Ed Blumstein, had no restaurant experience, but bought the small restaurant in 1960 and renamed it Ed's Coffee Shop.

The couple planned to run Ed's for only five years, but kept at it. Daughter Ada Blumstein started working in the restaurant in her teens, and took over in the late 1990s, along with beloved employees that remained for many decades. Ed Blumstein passed away in 1995.

Expensive US bailour

■ The 2008 U.S. financial bailout cost more than the Marshall Plan, Louisiana Purchase, Race to the Moon, S&L bailout, Korean War, New Deal, Iraq War, Vietnam War, and NASA's lifetime budget-combined.

The bailout total was $4.62 trillion.

■ There can be few more irritating people than your fellow aeroplane passengers but apparently there's still a chance you'll in love with them.

A new study from British bank HSBC suggests that 1 in 50 aeroplane passengers meet the love of their life on board an aircraft. The other 49, presumably, just annoy the heck out of each other.

The results came from interviews with 2150 people from 141 countries in which participants were asked about the likelihood of meeting "the one" while cooped up in a metal tube 30,000 feet in the sky.

Some 6,000 people from Hong Kong, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and the UK were additionally also quizzed on their flying habits.

GavinWood

From my Suite at the Ramada Plaza Complex on Santa Monica Blvd

Tom Hanks for Pres.

■ Before her death, director Nora Ephron wanted Tom Hanks to run for president, according to Arianna Huffington.

"I remember, shortly before she died, having dinner with Nora Ephron, and she said, 'Politics is about casting,'" Huffington recalls to Jordan Roth in new online monthly, Warmly Jordan.

"Literally, she was going around asking who Democrats should nominate, who Democrats should cast she thought Democrats should cast Tom Hanks."

Ephron died in 2012 but Huffington still endorses the idea: "I think he would be fantastic, because you're not casting an empty shell, you see?"

Michael Moore has also supported the idea, but Hanks himself has said: "Just because I'm an actor, I can give a good speech, I agree with that.

“But the concept of actually voting for someone just because they can do that?"

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■ A new study says that climate change could reach the "point of no return" in 2035.

If governments around the world don't take decisive action to combat pollution and global emissions by then, it's "unlikely" that global warming will remain below 2 degrees Celsius in 2100, the goal set by the Paris Climate Agreement, according to the study.

Scientists in the Netherlands and the UK published their study in the European Geosciences Union Journal Earth System Dynamics.

"We show that there are strict deadlines for taking climate action," said Henk Dijkstra, one of the study's authors. "We conclude that very little time is left before the Paris targets become infeasible even given drastic emission-reduction strategies."

Jennifer is your contact

■ If you are considering a move to Los Angeles or just coming over for a holiday then I have got a special deal for you.

We would love to see you at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Suites, 8585 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood.

I have secured a terrific holiday deal for readers of the Melbourne Observer and The Local Paper.

Please mention 'Melbourne Observer' when you book and you will receive the 'Special Rate of the Day'.

Please contact: Jennifer at info@ramadaweho.com Happy Holidays, Gavin Wood

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Victorian History

Laidlays lived in Chapel La for 137 years ■ John ( 1814 - 1888) and Margaret ( 1817-1882) Laidlay arrived on the Derry Castle on January 21,1855, in Portland, Victoria, and initially farmed in the Whittlesea area before settling in Bundoora.

I believe this property was in the Janefield area, now known as University Hill.

In the 1870s his son, William (1841 - 1912) and William's wife, Jessie Isabella Campbell (1860 1892), built up a farm out of smaller properties in Chapel Lane, Nutfield.

They had two sons John (18821928) and William and four daughters, Margaret (1884 - 1970) who married Everard Bassett and Elsie, May and Jessie.

John and William bought out their sisters and split the farm when their parents died.

John married Isabella Amelia Apted (Les Apted's sister). They had two children, Isabel (who married Donald Cracknell of Panton Hill) and Clive Laidlay who went on to run the farm.

John died young due to a farm accident so Isabella took the children to her parent's house in Preston until Clive left school.

He would have preferred to stay at school and become a mechanic but there was a farm so it was preordained that he would become a farmer.

He would work on Collins' (related via Apteds) orchard in Yarrambat all week then ride a bike home to Nutfield for the weekend.

At home would have been his mother and older sister looking after the home and farm, milking a few cows, keeping chooks and pigs through the later years of the depression and into WWII. Dad told me that it was working on Collins' orchard where he learned what hard work was.

And it was at Collins' that he learned to drive a car as they owned the Overland that his father had owned some years earlier.

After years of neglect there was a lot of fencing and weeding to be done and a dam was built on the north side of Chapel Lane, all done by hand with just horses to assist and a dog for company.

During WWII he was in the CMF which he referred to as "organised mucking about".

There is a lot that I don't know, including when he started rifle shooting but his target shooting skills would have been improved when the government was paying for the bullets.

There must be natural ability in the genes as his father and grandfather were club champions as well.

He looked back very fondly on the trips he did with the club to shoots.

He got to drive Wally Tucker's Packard a few times on these trips and found that it would see off the then new Holdens, it certainly would have had more speed than his Morris Commercial truck, Dad's first motorised vehicle.

Wally Tucker had a lot of nieces, one was Doris Elizabeth Bruce Johnson.

Doris was born on August 6, 1919, in Beaufort in the Western District of Victoria.

Her mother Elizabeth was in isolation at the time of the birth with the Spanish Flu and Doris was born some weeks premature.

Doris was the third child following Morton and Thelma and in the

Snapshot of Doreen, Nutfield

● Mark Laidlay following years, Eunice, Audrey, such as bring in the cow herd for Roy and Ada were born. milking (now the main activity on the They lived humbly and shared farm), feeding cattle and carting hay. beds and as the house was on a flood A new house was built in 1960 plain, they did have to deal with the and Doris built up a new garden. occasional flooded kitchen.

Our memories are of breakfast in Doris would have liked to be a bed on cold mornings (Doris and nurse, but this was not to be she had Clive had already got the cows in and to leave school early to work in the started milking) and bath towels family printing business. warmed in the oven of the wood fired Doris met Ronald Fiscalini of stove.

Ararat and they married, but unforClothes were hand made and retunately WWII meant that they were paired and knitting was an ongoing separated as he was sent to pilot joy/task for Doris. training in Canada, and sadly she The consumer society hadn't arwas widowed at the age of 23, thus rived in Nutfield before 1970. becoming a war widow with a sixEntertainment was limited, the month-old Heather Doreen Fiscalini. wireless was the centre and Blue Doris re-joined her mother and Hills was compulsory listening after sisters after her father died and the the country hour on 3AR and family upped sticks and moved to Bottomly on Yes, What?

Hurstbridgeinitially with Walter and Other radio favourites were (?) Tucker then in various houses in Norman Banks, Martha Gardner Hurstbridge then Montmorency. and Nightline all on 3AW. Doris worked as a dressmaker in When the first family TV arrived the building known as the "hat fac- Homicide was compulsory, Keeping tory" in Eltham.

Up Appearances and quiz shows Somehow Wally Tucker intro- were important. duced Clive and Doris and they marThe Three Stooges were considried in 1952. ered too violent for us to watch. The Having lived in the Western Dis- Plank was compulsory Christmas trict Doris thought all farmers were viewing. wealthy but she found things weren't They had a vegetable patch always what they seemed. where Doris was not content with Clive went from a small family to zucchinis of a normal size, I am sure the Johnson family which must she thought "that if I wait a day or have been a shock but he enjoyed two I will get twice the alue", a result the company of others so coped OK. of living through the Great DepresAt some point Clive moved from sion. mixed farming to primarily dairy, a There was never a school bus Ferguson tractor was purchased and along Arthur's Creek Road so Doris a new dairy was built. drove toArthur's Creek for primary A Ford truck replaced the Morris school and to meet the bus from (which became a trailer), then when Eltham High then to Hurstbridge an axle broke a new FB Holden was when the high school was moved purchased from Watsons of there.

Greensborough followed by an EH She would delight in driving then HG Holdens. through frozen puddles during the Electricity came to Nutfield school run on frosty mornings. around 1960. Until then there was a Clive was a closet orchardist, the nightly ritual where Clive cranked up dam he built was to water plum trees the generator to provide electric light near his uncle Bill's driveway (actufor a few hours and the radio. ally an unused road alignment).

The distant thump of an oil enThe Fergy was connected to a gine still brings back a feeling of pump and would run for some hours comfort to me. each day during summer.

The milking plant was also an oil Picking plums was a serious job engine which lasted a few more for the whole family with long hours years before being usurped by a after school in the heat. whirring electric motor.

Other irrigation schemes were The fourth generation of Laidlays implemented, one for growing tomaborn in Australia arrived subse- toes on the big creek flat fronting the quently,1953 Elizabeth Joy, 1954 Arthur's Creek or maize for cattle Mark Addison, 1957 Anita Louise feed on the smaller flat in front of the and 1960 John Ashley. house.

We had a happy, care free childHe liked to build and fix things hood with plenty of things to explore around the farm. He enjoyed fencon the farm and huts to build. ing, laying pipes and ploughing.

There were also jobs to be done In the early 70s when milking fin-

■ European settlement started in 1844, with the area originally named ‘Hazel Glen’ changing to Doreen in 1895.

By 2036 it is estimated that the population of Doreen (within the City of Whittlesea) will increase by about 6900 from 19,900 (in 2015) to an estimated 26,800.

Schools and other facilities in the Doreen South Community and Education Precinct include: ■ Hazel Glen Primary School ■ Hazel Glen Secondary College, state government funded, expected to be completed this year ■ St Paul the Apostle Catholic Primary School (operational) ■ Proposed St Paul the Apostle Secondary College, expected to be completed in 2021/2022 ■ Hazel Glen Child and Family Centre ■ Proposed Painted Hills Recreation Reserve ■ Doreen Recreation Reserve ■ Costas Mushroom Exchange, the largest mushroom farm in the Southern Hemisphere.

■ Proposed Ashley Park Community Centre ■ Proposed Ashley Park Active Recreational Reserve ■ Laurimar Community Activity Centre ■ Laurimar Recreation Reserve ■ Laurimar Community Centre ★ Yan Yean is a local Aboriginal name for ‘young man’ (derived from yan yan) in Woiwurrung, the local language of the Wurundjeri people.

Yan Yean Road divides Doreen into two local government areas: The western part is mainly comprised of residential housing and is located within the City of Whittlesea The eastern part, including Yarrambat and Nutfield, is more rural and located within the Shire of Nillumbik.

Approximately 97 per cent of people living in the suburb of Doreen reside in the City of Whittlesea, and 3 per cent reside in the Shire of Nillumbik.

Doreen, 26 kilometres north-east of Melbourne’s city centre, is one of the fastest growing areas in Australia. mThe City of Whittlesea’s Mernda Strategy Plan provides the planning and design framework for development of the Mernda and Doreen growth area over the next 15 to 20 years.

These plans show the proposed development for a number of new housing estates within Doreen. Development of these estates will generally follow the plans but is subject to change.

By 2036 it is estimated that the population of Doreen (within the City of Whittlesea) will increase by about 6900 from 19,900 (in 2015) to an estimated 26,800 with an increase in the median age over the same period from 29 years to 35 years.

While in 2015 about 25 per cent of the population was aged between 35 to 49, by 2036 there will be a significant increase in the proportion of residents aged over 50.

Around 1 in 10 residents speak a language other than English at home with the most common languages spoken being Italian, Greek, Macedonian and Arabic.

By 2036 the number of dwellings will increase from about 6900 to 9850. For Doreen, the most recent figures show 51 per cent of households are couples with children, 9 per cent are 1-parent households and 11 per cent are 1-person households.

The most common occupations are technician and trades workers (18 per cent) and professionals (20 per cent). More residents work in the construction industry compared with any other industry and a higher proportion compared with Greater Melbourne (25 per cent versus 8 per cent).

5, 3 per cent of residents are attending preschool and 12 per cent are attending primary school.

Almost eight in every 10 dwellings have access to two or more motor vehicles and about 73 per cent of residents drive a car to their place of work. ished in the area Clive changed over to raising beef cattle and went looking for work off the farm.

He worked at a few odd places then at Melbourne Mushrooms where he worked on the very smelly job of mixing and aerating compost, initially at Yarrambat and later at Mernda.

Here he got to work with a machine and mix with other people, farming can be very lonely and he did enjoy company.

After milking cows every day for more than 30 years he now got to take the occasional holiday and spend more than a few hours away from the farm.

After retiring from Melbourne Mushrooms, Clive bought a WB Holden ute and a caravan so a few trips up the east coast followed.

Neither Doris or Clive ever left Australia. Finally in 2007 Doris and Clive sold the farm and moved to and independent living unit in Strathallan retirement village, this was especially hard from Clive having a strong connection to the property and seeing the end of 137 years of Laidlays living in Chapel Lane.

They had good health for octo and nonagenarians and sharp minds to the end. They celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary April 16, 2015.

Clive died on October 31, 2015, shortly before his 96th birthday and Doris followed on August 13, 2017, a week after her 98th birthday.

Doris was bed ridden at that time but in good form and greatly enjoyed her birthday party attended by her extended family.

- Mark Laidlay

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■ The first time I recall seeing Errol Flynn on the silver screen was at a Saturday afternoon matinee in the 1950s.

The film was The Adventures of Robin Hood and I thought he was fantastic.

I had no idea that the film had been made in 1938 or that Errol's career at that time was in a decline - no problem to us young boys, as we ran home from the pictures to climb trees and be like Robin and his Merry Men. Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania in 1909. I have stood outside the house where he lived.

His parents were both born in Australia and outlived him. In the 1920s the family moved to Sydney where Errol went to school.

He was a rebellious boy and was expelled from several schools.

At the age of 20 he went to New Guinea seeking adventure and several of his business ventures failed.

In 1932 he was in England where he worked as a stage actor with several repertory companies.

In 1933 he returned to Australia to star in the Charles Chauvel film InThe Wake of the Bounty.

Errol had a small role in an English film titled Murder at Monte Carlo and was spotted by the Warner Brothers Studios.

He signed with the studio and immigrated to the US to work as a contract player.

Errol had minor roles in two Warner Broth-

Whatever Happened To ...

Errol Flynn

By Kevin Trask of 3AW and 96.5 Inner FM

ers films before they took a huge gamble and cast him in the lead in a big budget film - Captain Blood.

Errol had the looks and the screen presence but no training or experience in being a leading man.

They filmed scenes many times over as Errol was very nervous in his first major film.

Captain Blood was a box office smash in 1935. The public loved the swashbuckling new star and from that moment his amazing career in Hollywood began.

At the height of his success he married his first wife Lili Damita.

In the following years his film roles included The Charge of the Light Brigade, Green Light,

● Errol Flynn The Prince and the Pauper, Another Dawn and The Perfect Specimen. Then in 1937 he starred in the greatest film of his career The Adventures of Robin Hood. I still say he was the best onscreen Robin Hood.

Errol began to fight the studio system and was known as a "ladies man”. I read his autobiography My Wicked Wicked Ways and if only half of it were true, he lived his life at a very fast pace.

Some of his best films included Gentleman Jim, They Died With Their Boots On, That Forsythe Woman, The Sun Also Rises and Too Much Too Soon.

In the late 1950s he had his own television series Errol Flynn Presents with a series of self contained 30-minute episodes. Sadly, Errol got into financial difficulties in his later years. He was married three times and was a father to five children.

I had the great pleasure of talking to one of his daughters, Rory Flynn, in a radio interview.

Rory felt that her father should have received a special Academy Award for his body of work.

Rory Flynn has written a great book, The Baron of Mullholland, with a fabulous selection of rare family photos.

I also had the pleasure of talking to his third wife Patrice Wymore. Patrice and Errol settled in in Port Antonio, Jamaica in the early 1950s and Patrice told me he was very quiet and did not like to go out at night - which surprised me Errol Flynn died of a heart attack in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1959. His health had declined and the excessive drug abuse had taken its toll on his body.

His son, Sean Flynn, made several films. In 1970 Sean was captured by the Viet Cong whilst covering the Vietnam War as a photographer and was presumed to have been murdered.

I love watching Errol Flynn films and it is a great shame that his fame has not been recognised in the country of his birth.

He was a screen legend and perhaps a special Australian Academy of Cinema and TelevisionArts Award in his name would be appropriate. I always enjoy watching his old films on television.

Kevin Trask Kevin can be heard on 3AW The Time Tunnel - on Remember When Sundays at 9.10pm with Philip Brady and Simon Owens And on 96.5 FM That's Entertainment - Sundays at 12 Noon

Holiday woes: ‘Too many Spaniards in Spain’ OK. With John O’Keefe Casino residency for Reyne

● The Chantoozies ■ In a first for Melbourne Crown Casino, it has contracted James Reyne to appear on the first Saturday of every month next year .

Reyne will be supported by different acts each month, starting January the Chantoozies will support Reyne. It is an nteresting concept that works well in Vegas .

Sir Snickers

■ The Snickers commercials you see popping up on telly cost a small fortune to produce. Costs are big, big due to use of top talent and expensive sets.

Rowan Atkinson and Joan Collins have already appeared in long running campaigns. The latest artist to flog Snickers is Sir Elton John who turns into a rap artist. It’s a fun TV commercial and soon to debut in Melbourne.

Snickers have come in for a lot of flak in Australia as the product is now made in China, and the taste and odour are decidedly different .The Snickers wrapper says the confectionery bar is made from ‘stuff’.

■ Like something straight out of your favourite TV comedy show, two holidaymakers from England have come home from Spain to complain to their travel agent about fellowholidaymakers they had to put up with on their vacation.

And they demanded – unsuccessfully as it turns out – a full refund of the cost of their trip, because according to them “there were too many Spaniards in Spain.”

“They were all around the place,” the ladies said, before going on to ask of their agent in a written complaint “why can’t the Spanish go and holiday somewhere else?”

An octogenarian pensioner and her 61 year old friend, the two went to the popular getaway of Benidorm on the Mediterranean coast in Spain’s east, and which has been a favourite of international holidaymakers since 1925,

Struth

with David Ellis

● Spain’s Benidorm beach is a magnet for sunworshippers, but according to a complaint by two English holidaymakers their Benidorm vacation there was spoiled by their hotel “teeming with Spaniards”. and also happens to be easily accessed by travellers from Spain’s inland.

According to the English ladies, their hotel was “teeming with rude Spaniards” and worse still “all the hotel’s entertainment was aimed at a Spanish audience.”

“The audience really got on our nerves,” they said, “we became so upset that one of us ended up in tears.”

We wonder where their agent may be game enough to send them next year?

- David Ellis

Funny Tummy

■ Maybe it’s time rapper Vanilla Ice stumped up a deposit for his own plane. Vanilla Ice was one of 500 passengers off loaded from a plane from Dubai to JFK following a number of fellow passengers feeling queasy with a virus. The Ice man was declared fit as a fiddle and made it to JFK many hours later.

Latest on Neil Finn

■ Neil Finn made his mark with Crowded House and these days he is a permanent member of the Fleetwood Mac band. The band, including Neil, wasseen on Ellen, and they’re off very soon to tour North America as well as recording a new album.

Remember Richard Simmons?

■ Remember a fitness guru called Richard Simmons who had a huff n puff show on Australian TV? Often in the news for various reasons Richard went missing for five years and reported to have spent periods in hospitals with reoccurring gastro trouble. He’s back – his latest venture is a 2019 calender only available on an American Shop At Home channel.

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Hard Times - by Charles Dickens

But, in the morning he appeared at breakfast at the usual hour, and took his usual place at the table. Aged and bent he looked, and quite bowed down; and yet he looked a wiser man, and a better man, than in the days when in this life he wanted nothing — but Facts. Before he left the room, he appointed a time for them to come to him; and so, with his gray head drooping, went away.

‘Dear father,’ said Louisa, when they kept their appointment, ‘you have three young children left.

They will be different, I will be different yet, with Heaven’s help.’

She gave her hand to Sissy, as if she meant with her help too.

‘Your wretched brother,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Do you think he had planned this robbery, when he went with you to the lodging?’

‘I fear so, father. I know he had wanted money very much, and had spent a great deal.’

‘The poor man being about to leave the town, it came into his evil brain to cast suspicion on him?’

‘I think it must have flashed upon him while he sat there, father. For I asked him to go there with me. The visit did not originate with him.’

‘He had some conversation with the poor man.

Did he take him aside?’

‘He took him out of the room. I asked him afterwards, why he had done so, and he made a plausible excuse; but since last night, father, and when I remember the circumstances by its light, I am afraid I can imagine too truly what passed between them.’

‘Let me know,’ said her father, ‘if your thoughts present your guilty brother in the same dark view as mine.’

‘I fear, father,’ hesitated Louisa, ‘that he must have made some representation to Stephen Blackpool — perhaps in my name, perhaps in his own — which induced him to do in good faith and honesty, what he had never done before, and to wait about the Bank those two or three nights before he left the town.’

‘Too plain!’ returned the father. ‘Too plain!’

He shaded his face, and remained silent for some moments. Recovering himself, he said: ‘And now, how is he to be found? How is he to be saved from justice? In the few hours that I can possibly allow to elapse before I publish the truth, how is he to be found by us, and only by us? Ten thousand pounds could not effect it.’

‘Sissy has effected it, father.’

He raised his eyes to where she stood, like a good fairy in his house, and said in a tone of softened gratitude and grateful kindness, ‘It is always you, my child!’

‘We had our fears,’ Sissy explained, glancing at Louisa, ‘before yesterday; and when I saw you brought to the side of the litter last night, and heard what passed (being close to Rachael all the time), I went to him when no one saw, and said to him, “Don’t look at me. See where your father is. Escape at once, for his sake and your own!” He was in a tremble before I whispered to him, and he started and trembled more then, and said, “Where can I go? I have very little money, and I don’t know who will hide me!” I thought of father’s old circus. I have not forgotten where Mr. Sleary goes at this time of year, and I read of him in a paper only the other day.

I told him to hurry there, and tell his name, and ask Mr. Sleary to hide him till I came. “I’ll get to him before the morning,” he said. And I saw him shrink away among the people.’

‘Thank Heaven!’ exclaimed his father. ‘He may be got abroad yet.’

It was the more hopeful as the town to which Sissy had directed him was within three hours’ journey of Liverpool, whence he could be swiftly dispatched to any part of the world. But, caution being necessary in communicating with him — for there was a greater danger every moment of his being suspected now, and nobody could be sure at heart but that Mr. Bounderby himself, in a bullying vein of public zeal, might play a Roman part — it was consented that Sissy and Louisa should repair to the place in question, by a circuitous course, alone; and that the unhappy father, setting forth in an opposite direction, should get round to the same bourne by another and wider route. It was further agreed that he should not present himself to Mr. Sleary, lest his intentions should be mistrusted, or the intelli-

Sleary, in her celebrated graceful Equestrian Tyrolean Flower Act, was then announced by a new clown (who humorously said Cauliflower Act), and Mr. Sleary appeared, leading her in.

Mr. Sleary had only made one cut at the Clown with his long whip-lash, and the Clown had only said, ‘If you do it again, I’ll throw the horse at you!’ when Sissy was recognised both by father and daughter. But they got through the Act with great self-possession; and Mr. Sleary, saving for the first instant, conveyed no more expression into his locomotive eye than into his fixed one.

The performance seemed a little long to Sissy and Louisa, particularly when it stopped to afford the Clown an opportunity of telling Mr. Sleary (who said ‘Indeed, sir!’ to all his observations in the calmest way, and with his eye on the house) about two legs sitting on three legs looking at one leg, when in came four legs, and laid hold of one leg, and up got two legs, caught hold of three legs, and threw ’em at four legs, who ran away with one leg. For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.

At last, however, little fair-haired Josephine made her curtsey amid great applause; and the Clown, left alone in the ring, had just warmed himself, and said, ‘Now I’ll have a turn!’ when Sissy was touched on the shoulder, and beckoned out.

She took Louisa with her; and they were received by Mr. Sleary in a very little private apartment, with canvas sides, a grass floor, and a wooden ceiling all aslant, on which the box company stamped their approbation, as if they were coming through. ‘Thethilia,’ said Mr. Sleary, who had brandy and water at hand, ‘it doth me good to thee you. You wath alwayth a favourite with uth, and you’ve done uth credith thinth the old timeth I’m thure. You mutht thee our people, my dear, afore we thpeak of bithnith, or they’ll break their hearth — ethpethially the women. Here’th Jothphine hath been and got married to E. W. B. Childerth, and thee hath got a boy, and though he’th only three yearth old, he thtickth on to any pony you can bring againtht him. He’th named The Little Wonder of Thcolathtic Equitation; and if you don’t hear of that boy at Athley’th, you’ll hear of him at Parith. And you recollect Kidderminthter, that wath thought to be rather thweet upon yourthelf? Well. He’th married too.

Married a widder. Old enough to be hith mother.

Charles Dickens Thee wath Tightrope, thee wath, and now thee’th gence of his arrival should cause his son to take find the bills of Sleary’s Horse-riding on barns nothing — on accounth of fat. They’ve got two flight anew; but, that the communication should and walls, and one o’clock when they stopped children, tho we’re thtrong in the Fairy bithnith be left to Sissy and Louisa to open; and that in the market-place. and the Nurthery dodge. If you wath to thee our they should inform the cause of so much mis- A Grand Morning Performance by the Riders, Children in the Wood, with their father and ery and disgrace, of his father’s being at hand commencing at that very hour, was in course of mother both a dyin’ on a horthe — their uncle a and of the purpose for which they had come. announcement by the bellman as they set their retheiving of ’em ath hith wardth, upon a horthe When these arrangements had been well con- feet upon the stones of the street. Sissy recom- — themthelvth both a goin’ a black-berryin’ on sidered and were fully understood by all three, mended that, to avoid making inquiries and at- a horthe — and the Robinth a coming in to cover it was time to begin to carry them into execu- tracting attention in the town, they should present ’em with leavth, upon a horthe — you’d thay it tion. Early in the afternoon, Mr. Gradgrind themselves to pay at the door. If Mr. Sleary were wath the completetht thing ath ever you thet your walked direct from his own house into the coun- taking the money, he would be sure to know her, eyeth on! And you remember Emma Gordon, try, to be taken up on the line by which he was to and would proceed with discretion. If he were my dear, ath wath a’motht a mother to you? Of travel; and at night the remaining two set forth not, he would be sure to see them inside; and, courthe you do; I needn’t athk. Well! Emma, upon their different course, encouraged by not knowing what he had done with the fugitive, thee lotht her huthband. He wath throw’d a heavy seeing any face they knew. would proceed with discretion still. back-fall off a Elephant in a thort of a Pagoda The two travelled all night, except when they Therefore, they repaired, with fluttering hearts, thing ath the Thultan of the Indieth, and he never were left, for odd numbers of minutes, at branch- to the well-remembered booth. The flag with got the better of it; and thee married a thecond places, up illimitable flights of steps, or down the inscription SLEARY’S HORSE–RIDING time — married a Cheethemonger ath fell in wells — which was the only variety of those was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but love with her from the front — and he’th a branches — and, early in the morning, were Mr. Sleary was not there. Master Kidderminster, Overtheer and makin’ a fortun.’These various turned out on a swamp, a mile or two from the grown too maturely turfy to be received by the changes, Mr. Sleary, very short of breath now, town they sought. From this dismal spot they wildest credulity as Cupid any more, had yielded related with great heartiness, and with a wonwere rescued by a savage old postilion, who to the invincible force of circumstances (and derful kind of innocence, considering what a happened to be up early, kicking a horse in a his beard), and, in the capacity of a man who bleary and brandy-and-watery old veteran he fly: and so were smuggled into the town by all made himself generally useful, presided on this was. Afterwards he brought in Josephine, and the back lanes where the pigs lived: which, al- occasion over the exchequer — having also a E. W. B. Childers (rather deeply lined in the though not a magnificent or even savoury ap- drum in reserve, on which to expend his leisure jaws by daylight), and the Little Wonder of Schoproach, was, as is usual in such cases, the le- moments and superfluous forces. In the extreme lastic Equitation, and in a word, all the comgitimate highway. sharpness of his look out for base coin, Mr. pany. Amazing creatures they were in Louisa’s The first thing they saw on entering the town Kidderminster, as at present situated, never saw eyes, so white and pink of complexion, so scant was the skeleton of Sleary’s Circus. The com- anything but money; so Sissy passed him of dress, and so demonstrative of leg; but it was pany had departed for another town more than unrecognised, and they went in. very agreeable to see them crowding about Sissy, twenty miles off, and had opened there last night. The Emperor of Japan, on a steady old white and very natural in Sissy to be unable to refrain The connection between the two places was by horse stencilled with black spots, was twirling from tears. a hilly turnpike-road, and the travelling on that five wash-hand basins at once, as it is the ‘There! Now Thethilia hath kithd all the chilroad was very slow. Though they took but a favourite recreation of that monarch to do. Sissy, dren, and hugged all the women, and thaken hasty breakfast, and no rest (which it would have though well acquainted with his Royal line, had handth all round with all the men, clear, every been in vain to seek under such anxious cir- no personal knowledge of the present Emperor, one of you, and ring in the band for the thecond cumstances), it was noon before they began to and his reign was peaceful. Miss Josephine part!’

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Observer Classic Books From Page 26 As soon as they were gone, he continued in a low tone. ‘Now, Thethilia, I don’t athk to know any thecreth, but I thuppothe I may conthider thith to be Mith Thquire.’

‘This is his sister. Yes.’ ‘And t’other on’th daughter. That’h what I mean.

Hope I thee you well, mith. And I hope the Thquire’th well?’

‘My father will be here soon,’ said Louisa, anxious to bring him to the point. ‘Is my brother safe?’

‘Thafe and thound!’ he replied. ‘I want you jutht to take a peep at the Ring, mith, through here.

Thethilia, you know the dodgeth; find a thpyhole for yourthelf.’

They each looked through a chink in the boards.

‘That’h Jack the Giant Killer — piethe of comic infant bithnith,’ said Sleary. ‘There’th a property-houthe, you thee, for Jack to hide in; there’th my Clown with a thauthepan-lid and a thpit, for Jack’th thervant; there’th little Jack himthelf in a thplendid thoot of armour; there’th two comic black thervanth twithe ath big ath the houthe, to thtand by it and to bring it in and clear it; and the Giant (a very ecthpenthive bathket one), he an’t on yet. Now, do you thee ’em all?’

‘Yes,’they both said.

‘Look at ’em again,’ said Sleary, ‘look at ’em well. You thee em all? Very good. Now, mith;’ he put a form for them to sit on; ‘I have my opinionth, and the Thquire your father hath hith.

I don’t want to know what your brother’th been up to; ith better for me not to know. All I thay ith, the Thquire hath thtood by Thethilia, and I’ll thtand by the Thquire. Your brother ith one them black thervanth.’

Louisa uttered an exclamation, partly of distress, partly of satisfaction.

‘Ith a fact,’ said Sleary, ‘and even knowin’ it, you couldn’t put your finger on him. Let the Thquire come. I thall keep your brother here after the performanth. I thant undreth him, nor yet wath hith paint off. Let the Thquire come here after the performanth, or come here yourthelf after the performanth, and you thall find your brother, and have the whole plathe to talk to him in. Never mind the lookth of him, ath long ath he’th well hid.’

Louisa, with many thanks and with a lightened load, detained Mr. Sleary no longer then. She left her love for her brother, with her eyes full of tears; and she and Sissy went away until later in the afternoon.

Mr. Gradgrind arrived within an hour afterwards.

He too had encountered no one whom he knew; and was now sanguine with Sleary’s assistance, of getting his disgraced son to Liverpool in the night. As neither of the three could be his companion without almost identifying him under any disguise, he prepared a letter to a correspondent whom he could trust, beseeching him to ship the bearer off at any cost, to North or South America, or any distant part of the world to which he could be the most speedily and privately dispatched.

This done, they walked about, waiting for the Circus to be quite vacated; not only by the audience, but by the company and by the horses.

After watching it a long time, they saw Mr. Sleary bring out a chair and sit down by the side-door, smoking; as if that were his signal that they might approach.

‘Your thervant, Thquire,’was his cautious salutation as they passed in. ‘If you want me you’ll find me here. You muthn’t mind your thon having a comic livery on.’

They all three went in; and Mr. Gradgrind sat down forlorn, on the Clown’s performing chair in the middle of the ring. On one of the back benches, remote in the subdued light and the strangeness of the place, sat the villainous whelp, sulky to the last, whom he had the misery to call his son.

In a preposterous coat, like a beadle’s, with cuffs and flaps exaggerated to an unspeakable extent; in an immense waistcoat, knee-breeches, buckled shoes, and a mad cocked hat; with nothing fitting him, and everything of coarse material, moth-eaten and full of holes; with seams in his black face, where fear and heat had started through the greasy composition daubed all over it; anything so grimly, detestably, ridiculously shameful as the whelp in his comic livery, Mr. Gradgrind never could by any other means have believed in, weighable and measurable fact though it was. And one of his model children had come to this!

At first the whelp would not draw any nearer, but persisted in remaining up there by himself.

Yielding at length, if any concession so sullenly

made can be called yielding, to the entreaties of Sissy — for Louisa he disowned altogether — he came down, bench by bench, until he stood in the sawdust, on the verge of the circle, as far as possible, within its limits from where his father sat.

‘How was this done?’ asked the father.

‘How was what done?’ moodily answered the son.

‘This robbery,’ said the father, raising his voice upon the word.

‘I forced the safe myself over night, and shut it up ajar before I went away. I had had the key that was found, made long before. I dropped it that morning, that it might be supposed to have been used. I didn’t take the money all at once. I pretended to put my balance away every night, but I didn’t. Now you know all about it.’

‘If a thunderbolt had fallen on me,’ said the father, ‘it would have shocked me less than this!’

‘I don’t see why,’grumbled the son. ‘So many people are employed in situations of trust; so many people, out of so many, will be dishonest.

I have heard you talk, a hundred times, of its being a law. How can I help laws? You have comforted others with such things, father. Comfort yourself!’

The father buried his face in his hands, and the son stood in his disgraceful grotesqueness, biting straw: his hands, with the black partly worn away inside, looking like the hands of a monkey. The evening was fast closing in; and from time to time, he turned the whites of his eyes restlessly and impatiently towards his father.

They were the only parts of his face that showed any life or expression, the pigment upon it was so thick.

‘You must be got to Liverpool, and sent abroad.’

‘I suppose I must. I can’t be more miserable anywhere,’ whimpered the whelp, ‘than I have been here, ever since I can remember. That’s one thing.’

Mr. Gradgrind went to the door, and returned with Sleary, to whom he submitted the question, How to get this deplorable object away?

‘Why, I’ve been thinking of it, Thquire. There’th not muth time to lothe, tho you muth thay yeth or no. Ith over twenty mileth to the rail. There’th a coath in half an hour, that goeth to the rail, ‘purpothe to cath the mail train. That train will take him right to Liverpool.’

‘But look at him,’ groaned Mr. Gradgrind. ‘Will any coach — ’ ‘I don’t mean that he thould go in the comic livery,’ said Sleary. ‘Thay the word, and I’ll make a Jothkin of him, out of the wardrobe, in five minutes.’

‘I don’t understand,’ said Mr. Gradgrind.

‘A Jothkin — a Carter. Make up your mind quick, Thquire. There’ll be beer to feth. I’ve never met with nothing but beer ath’ll ever clean a comic blackamoor.’

Mr. Gradgrind rapidly assented; Mr. Sleary rapidly turned out from a box, a smock frock, a felt hat, and other essentials; the whelp rapidly changed clothes behind a screen of baize; Mr. Sleary rapidly brought beer, and washed him white again.

‘Now,’ said Sleary, ‘come along to the coath, and jump up behind; I’ll go with you there, and they’ll thuppothe you one of my people. Thay farewell to your family, and tharp’th the word.’

With which he delicately retired.

‘Here is your letter,’ said Mr. Gradgrind. ‘All necessary means will be provided for you.

Atone, by repentance and better conduct, for the shocking action you have committed, and the dreadful consequences to which it has led.

Give me your hand, my poor boy, and may God forgive you as I do!’

The culprit was moved to a few abject tears by these words and their pathetic tone. But, when Louisa opened her arms, he repulsed her afresh.

‘Not you. I don’t want to have anything to say to you!’

‘O Tom, Tom, do we end so, after all my love!’

‘After all your love!’ he returned, obdurately.

‘Pretty love! Leaving old Bounderby to himself, and packing my best friend Mr. Harthouse off, and going home just when I was in the greatest danger. Pretty love that! Coming out with every word about our having gone to that place, when you saw the net was gathering round me. Pretty love that! You have regularly given me up. You never cared for me.’

‘Tharp’th the word!’ said Sleary, at the door.

They all confusedly went out: Louisa crying to him that she forgave him, and loved him still, and that he would one day be sorry to have left her so, and glad to think of these her last words,

far away: when some one ran against them. Mr. Gradgrind and Sissy, who were both before him while his sister yet clung to his shoulder, stopped and recoiled.

For, there was Bitzer, out of breath, his thin lips parted, his thin nostrils distended, his white eyelashes quivering, his colourless face more colourless than ever, as if he ran himself into a white heat, when other people ran themselves into a glow. There he stood, panting and heaving, as if he had never stopped since the night, now long ago, when he had run them down before.

‘I’m sorry to interfere with your plans,’ said Bitzer, shaking his head, ‘but I can’t allow myself to be done by horse-riders. I must have young Mr. Tom; he mustn’t be got away by horse-riders; here he is in a smock frock, and I must have him!’

By the collar, too, it seemed. For, so he took possession of him.

Chapter IX— Final IT is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself. Mr. Bounderby felt that Mrs. Sparsit had audaciously anticipated him, and presumed to be wiser than he. Inappeasably indignant with her for her triumphant discovery of Mrs. Pegler, he turned this presumption, on the part of a woman in her dependent position, over and over in his mind, until it accumulated with turning like a great snowball. At last he made the discovery that to discharge this highly connected female — to have it in his power to say, ‘She was a woman of family, and wanted to stick to me, but I wouldn’t have it, and got rid of her’ — would be to get the utmost possible amount of crowning glory out of the connection, and at the same time to punish Mrs. Sparsit according to her deserts.

Filled fuller than ever, with this great idea, Mr. Bounderby came in to lunch, and sat himself down in the dining-room of former days, where his portrait was. Mrs. Sparsit sat by the fire, with her foot in her cotton stirrup, little thinking whither she was posting.

Since the Pegler affair, this gentlewoman had covered her pity for Mr. Bounderby with a veil of quiet melancholy and contrition. In virtue thereof, it had become her habit to assume a woful look, which woful look she now bestowed upon her patron.

‘What’s the matter now, ma’am?’ said Mr. Bounderby, in a very short, rough way.

‘Pray, sir,’returned Mrs. Sparsit, ‘do not bite my nose off.’

‘Bite your nose off, ma’am?’ repeated Mr. Bounderby. ‘Your nose!’ meaning, as Mrs. Sparsit conceived, that it was too developed a nose for the purpose. After which offensive implication, he cut himself a crust of bread, and threw the knife down with a noise.

Mrs. Sparsit took her foot out of her stirrup, and said, ‘Mr. Bounderby, sir!’

‘Well, ma’am?’ retorted Mr. Bounderby. ‘What are you staring at?’

‘May I ask, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, ‘have you been ruffled this morning?’

‘Yes, ma’am.’

‘May I inquire, sir,’ pursued the injured woman, ‘whether I am the unfortunate cause of your having lost your temper?’

‘Now, I’ll tell you what, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, ‘I am not come here to be bullied. A female may be highly connected, but she can’t be permitted to bother and badger a man in my position, and I am not going to put up with it.’ (Mr. Bounderby felt it necessary to get on: foreseeing that if he allowed of details, he would be beaten.)

Mrs. Sparsit first elevated, then knitted, her Coriolanian eyebrows; gathered up her work into its proper basket; and rose.

‘Sir,’ said she, majestically. ‘It is apparent to me that I am in your way at present. I will retire to my own apartment.’

‘Allow me to open the door, ma’am.’

‘Thank you, sir; I can do it for myself.’

‘You had better allow me, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, passing her, and getting his hand upon the lock; ‘because I can take the opportunity of saying a word to you, before you go. Mrs. Sparsit, ma’am, I rather think you are cramped here, do you know? It appears to me, that, under my humble roof, there’s hardly opening enough for a lady of your genius in other people’s affairs.’

Mrs. Sparsit gave him a look of the darkest scorn, and said with great politeness, ‘Really, sir?’

‘I have been thinking it over, you see, since the late affairs have happened, ma’am,’ said

Bounderby; ‘and it appears to my poor judgment — ’ ‘Oh! Pray, sir,’ Mrs. Sparsit interposed, with sprightly cheerfulness, ‘don’t disparage your judgment. Everybody knows how unerring Mr. Bounderby’s judgment is. Everybody has had proofs of it. It must be the theme of general conversation. Disparage anything in yourself but your judgment, sir,’ said Mrs. Sparsit, laughing.

Mr. Bounderby, very red and uncomfortable, resumed: ‘It appears to me, ma’am, I say, that a different sort of establishment altogether would bring out a lady of your powers. Such an establishment as your relation, Lady Scadgers’s, now. Don’t you think you might find some affairs there, ma’am, to interfere with?’

‘It never occurred to me before, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit; ‘but now you mention it, should think it highly probable.’

‘Then suppose you try, ma’am,’ said Bounderby, laying an envelope with a cheque in it in her little basket. ‘You can take your own time for going, ma’am; but perhaps in the meanwhile, it will be more agreeable to a lady of your powers of mind, to eat her meals by herself, and not to be intruded upon. I really ought to apologise to you — being only Josiah Bounderby of Coketown — for having stood in your light so long.’

‘Pray don’t name it, sir,’ returned Mrs. Sparsit.

‘If that portrait could speak, sir — but it has the advantage over the original of not possessing the power of committing itself and disgusting others, — it would testify, that a long period has elapsed since I first habitually addressed it as the picture of a Noodle. Nothing that a Noodle does, can awaken surprise or indignation; the proceedings of a Noodle can only inspire contempt.’

Thus saying, Mrs. Sparsit, with her Roman features like a medal struck to commemorate her scorn of Mr. Bounderby, surveyed him fixedly from head to foot, swept disdainfully past him, and ascended the staircase. Mr. Bounderby closed the door, and stood before the fire; projecting himself after his old explosive manner into his portrait — and into futurity.

Into how much of futurity? He saw Mrs. Sparsit fighting out a daily fight at the points of all the weapons in the female armoury, with the grudging, smarting, peevish, tormenting Lady Scadgers, still laid up in bed with her mysterious leg, and gobbling her insufficient income down by about the middle of every quarter, in a mean little airless lodging, a mere closet for one, a mere crib for two; but did he see more? Did he catch any glimpse of himself making a show of Bitzer to strangers, as the rising young man, so devoted to his master’s great merits, who had won young Tom’s place, and had almost captured young Tom himself, in the times when by various rascals he was spirited away? Did he see any faint reflection of his own image making a vain-glorious will, whereby five-andtwenty Humbugs, past five-and-fifty years of age, each taking upon himself the name, Josiah Bounderby of Coketown, should for ever dine in Bounderby Hall, for ever lodge in Bounderby buildings, for ever attend a Bounderby chapel, for ever go to sleep under a Bounderby chaplain, for ever be supported out of a Bounderby estate, and for ever nauseate all healthy stomachs, with a vast amount of Bounderby balderdash and bluster? Had he any prescience of the day, five years to come, when Josiah Bounderby of Coketown was to die of a fit in the Coketown street, and this same precious will was to begin its long career of quibble, plunder, false pretences, vile example, little service and much law? Probably not. Yet the portrait was to see it all out.

Here was Mr. Gradgrind on the same day, and in the same hour, sitting thoughtful in his own room. How much of futurity did he see? Did he see himself, a white-haired decrepit man, bending his hitherto inflexible theories to appointed circumstances; making his facts and figures subservient to Faith, Hope, and Charity; and no longer trying to grind that Heavenly trio in his dusty little mills?

Did he catch sight of himself, therefore much despised by his late political associates? Did he see them, in the era of its being quite settled that the national dustmen have only to do with one another, and owe no duty to an abstraction called a People, ‘taunting the honourable gentleman’ with this and with that and with what not, five nights a-week, until the small hours of the morning? Probably he had that much foreknowledge, knowing his men.

To Be Continued Next Issue

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My Kiwi Mate wins again ■ Parwan trainer/driver Craig Demmler’s quality 7Y0 ex-New Zealand Bettors Delight-Classic Nymph gelding My Kiwi Mate returned to the winners list with a brilliant victory in the feature event of the evening – the $20,000 2240 metre M2 to M4 class The Gammalite at Tabcorp Park on Saturday.

Settling handy from gate four, My Kiwi Mate was shuffled back through the field as several runners made forward moved moves ending up near last with a circuit to travel.

Still a “mile” away approaching the final bend, My Kiwi Mate produced a flying finish out wide to defeat Magical Marn which went with him from mid-field, with Burnaholeinmypocket also from the rear 5 metres away in third place. In a final quarter of 28.2 seconds, My Kiwi Mate returned a mile rate of 1-55.2. ★ Terang part-owner/trainer John Meade’s USA bound 7Y0 Great Sensation-Diamond Insitu gelding Sparkling Success was a tough victor of the $20,000 (Group 2) Garrards Maoris Idol Trotters Free For All over 1720 metres in 155.9.

With regular reinsman Chris Svanosio in the sulky, Sparkling Success despite racing in the open from gate five for the entire journey, was much too strong for his rivals, scoring by 3.4 metres from Kyvalley Blur and Conon Bridge.

Sparkling Success has been invited to contest a an internation race at Yonkers in New York. ★ The $20,000 Battle Of The Claimers Final over 1720 metres went the way of heat winner With Gusto in 1-55.1.

Trained at Sutton Grange by Graeme Dalton and driven as usual by Chris Alford, With Gusto a 10Y0 It Is I-Sedgwick Lass gelding led for the majority of the race, accounting for Major Kiwi and Trison. Both Sultan Fella and Hes Okey Dokey were claimed from the event.

Night of nights

■ Youthful Coimadai based trainer Brandon Bonavia will long remember Wednesday September 5 at Ballarat trots - the night he trained his first ever double, with 8Y0 Village JasperMessage From gelding Run Rabbit Run taking the 1710 metre ID18@Ballarat 4/12/18 Pace for C0 & C1 class and much travelled 9Y0 Yankee Boy-Racy Remarque gelding Chevals Racer the Plinius Engineering Trotters Mobile for TR1 & TR2 class over 2200 metres.

Run Rabbit Run, driven by Chris Alford, exploded away from outside the front line to lead, before handing over to the hot favourite Tallaras Bettor racing for the bell.

Extricating away from the inside on the final bend, Run Rabbit Run finished best to prevail by 1.2 metres from Me Mate Les (one/two), with Tallaras Bettor a disappointing third 3.8 metres back. The mile rate 1-59.3.

Chevals Racer with Matthew Horsnell in the sulky having start number 111 settled four back along the markers from inside the second line as the speedy Lilymaystorm crossed poleliner Sizzlin as the start was effected.

Easing away from the inside in the final circuit to make the home turn three wide, Chevals Racer ran home strongly to blouse Sizzlin by a half neck in a rate of 2-01.4 Express Yourself (three back the markers) was third 6.7 metres away after having every chance in the straight.

It was Chevals Racer's 11th success.

Started swiftly

■ Terang's Mattie Craven snared the DNR Logistics 3Y0 Pace over 1710 metres at Ballarat with Sportswriter-Wantano filly Miss What Usain in a rate of 1-57.8.

Beginning swiftly from gate three to lead, Miss What Usain was given as easy time at the head of affairs, sprinting home her last quarter in 28.9 seconds to defeat the hot favourite Cautivar which raced outside her by 4.4 metres, with Lochstar 10.2 metres away in third place

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■ Melton's Paula Martin was successful in the Gayle Hossack Memorial Pace for C2 class at Ballarat in a rate of 1-58.8 with Bettor Be The Bomb, a 5Y0 Bettors Delight-Atom Bomb Belle gelding part-owned, trained and driven by her.

Leading out from the pole, Bettor Be The Bomb was rated to perfection with Paula not panicking at any stage of the race. Still under a tight rein at the straight entrance, Bettor Be The Bomb had too much in reserve at the finish to score by a half neck over a game The Real Affair which raced exposed after racing outside him, with Our Pontiac 2.1 metres back in third place after trailing the winner.

Fourth victory

■ At Yarra Valley on Monday, Avenel trainer Colin Duncan's honest 5Y0 Mach Three-Confetti mare Dearest notched up her fourth victory in 36 outings when greeting the judge in the 1650 metre C1 class De Bortoli Pace.

Given the run of the race from gate two by Chris Alford trailing the poleline leader and hot favourite Be No Afraid, Dearest made full use of the sprint lane to prevail by 1.4 metres in a rate of 2-00.1. Villareal was third 4.1 metres back after racing wide in the last lap.

14.3m margin

■ At Echuca on Tuesday, the cries of joy could be heard all over the racetrack after 9Y0 EarlOn The Lips mare Miranda Kay making her first race appearance, scored in the Moama Bowling Club Trotters Mobile for T0 class over 2160 metres giving young Marong trainer Maddie Ray her first success since taking out a licence at the start of the season.

Driven by partner Haydon Gray, Miranda Kay was slowly out from gate four settling four back along the markers as Eurasian Success led from gate two.

Going forward in the final circuit, Miranda Kay despite making the final bend three wide, raced away on turning to register a 14.3 metre margin over Soh Twisted which trailed the pacemaker, with Monikat (three back the markers) third 2.6 metres away. The mile rate a leisurely 2-06.

Most improved

■ The most improved horse in the state at present must surely be former Lancefield pacer Brocks Territory who brought up a hat-trick of wins when successful in the Tankard Dental Pace for C5 or better class at his new home Mildura last Thursday.

Trained and driven by Merbein South's Luke Watson, Brocks Territory a gelded 6Y0 son of Lombo Mandingo and Hush Hush Lombo began with tremendous speed from outside the front line to lead running into the first turn, before coasting to the wire 2.6 metres in advance of Itmademyday (gate three) which trailed in a mile rate of 2-01.8. Larisas Advice was third 7.6 metres away after racing in the open from the bell. Brocks Territory has now recorded four

wins at Mildura since re-locating to Sunraysia at the end of June.

Runaway victory

■ Aer Major-Shes Got It All colt Malcolms Rhythm was a surprise victor of Heat 2 of the Empire Stallions Vicbred Platinum Home Grown Classic for Three Year Olds over 1650 metres at Bendigo on Friday. Trained at Avenel

by David Aiken, Malcolms Rhythm driven by Kima Frenning finished full of running from midfield to score a runaway 4.2 metre margin over the favourite Shoshone Brave and Explicit Castle which led, returning a mile rate of 1-56.

Mildura salutes

■ It is incredible the number of South Australians who have saluted the judge at Mildura in recent times considering they have trouble winning in their home state in much a weaker grade.

Last Thursday saw Rhyflective and Topnotch Mach score for Waylon Hornhardt (Port Pirie) and Chasing A Win (John Olds - Kadina) victorious.

Prolific winner

■ Prolific cups winning pacer Messini a win-

● Pictured: My Kiwi Mate at Tabcorp Park, Melton

Sulky Snippets This Week

■ Wednesday - Swan Hill, Thursday Cranbourne, Friday - Ballarat, Saturday Melton, Sunday - Kilmore, Monday Horsham, Tuesday - Bendigo.

Horses to follow

■ The Real Affair, Aldebaran Prince, Jilliby Mako, Larisas Advice, Tina Calls.

ner of over 30 races collapsed and died during trackwork at trainer Brent Lilley's Bolinda property last week, his most recent victory being the Terang Cup in February.

Entertainment Extra ■ Lansy Feng stars in How I Met My Dead Husband, being presented from September 20 – 27 at Gasworks Arts Park, Middle Park.

In a cabaret, woven with songs in Mandarin, English, and French, spanning jazz, pop and music theatre genres, Cheun-Jiau is giving an eulogy to her dead husband, Yueh.

She has been hiding this secret for a very long time...

How did the husband die? Do you believe that things are written in the stars from the day you were born?

“They say that after you die, you will have your memory removed from this life.And you will be reborn in a different body as a baby and start a new life.”

When reincarnation is not a choice but fate, do you still know what love is?

The moment he held her hand, their destiny was changed. But ... what is love?

Warning: Contains moderate coarse language.

Performance Details: September 20 – 27 Time: 6.45pm Venue: Gasworks Arts Park, Middle Park.

Bookings: https://melbournefringe.com.au/ event/how-i-met-my-dead-husband/ - Cheryl Threadgold ■ Majella Productions present Waiting On You, the original stage play, to the Melbourne Theatre Company’s Lawler Theatrefor a four show season running from November 1 – 3.

This original play by Gabrielle Pearson follows a young woman's move abroad, and delves into the underground world of modern hospitality.

Featuring music composer Emily Dynes

● Lansy Feng in How I Met My Dead Husband.

with Cheryl Threadgold performing an original setlist throughout the performance, the audience are lured into the nightmare of modern day 20-something year olds, and are invited to explore the darker corners of our lives unapologetically.

Featuring a cast of up and coming actors and a female dominant production team, the story hones in on relevant themes within the hospitality industry that will hit home to a broad range of young people who are travelling, or away from home and are adapting to the life style of lower middle class independence, in particularly women.

For further details about this production, visit https://www.waitingonyoustageplay.com - Cheryl Threadgold

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BLUE STOCKINGS Le Petit Circus

● Le Petit Circus. Photo: Brig Bee ■ The Famous Spiegeltent touches down at St Kilda’s Luna Park these September School Holidays with a lineup of live family and adult entertainment from September 22– October 14.

Nestled in the heart of Melbourne’s iconic amusement park, The Famous Spiegeltent will deliver magic, music, thrills and spills to audiences of all ages inside its vintage opulent setting.

The Famous Spiegelent is world-renowned as the ultimate performance salon built of wood, mirrors and leaded glass and detailed in velvet and brocade.

The last of the remaining original Belgian spiegeltents built in 1920, it has travelled the world from Edinburgh to Melbourne and Paris to New York.

“Live entertainment ... a vintage fairground … The Famous Spiegeltent …what could be more romantic and tantalizing?” said David Bates, Director of Spiegelent International.

“The original concept of the fairground is being reinstated with the much loved Famous of all Spiegeltents.

This is the world that imagined the spiegel (mirror) tent and we are thrilled to present a season of concerts, comedy, cabaret and carnival dreams,” Bates said.

“What could be better than The Famous Spiegeltent in Luna Park?” agreed Luna Park CEO Mary Stuart.

“The links between the world of carnival history that is Luna Park and the world of performance art that is The Famous Spiegeltent are very strong.

“Heritage amusement parks were the places of the people’s art. We are delighted to welcome the rich diversity of live performance to co -mingle with the thrills and excitement of everything ‘Just for Fun’ at Luna Park,” she added.

If your Spiegeltent visit falls during Luna Park operating hours, continue the magic on all the rides and carnival games on offer. Special Spiegeltent park and ride bundles are available.

Visit lunapark.com.au for more information, operating hours, ticket prices and additional show details.

Dates: September 22 – October 14 from 11.30am – 11pm Venue: The Famous Spiegeltent @ Luna Park,16 Lower Esplanade, St Kilda.

- Cheryl Threadgold

Heidelberg Theatre Company’s latest production

● Natasha Arancini (Carolyn), Thalia Dudek (Celia), Zoe Hawkins (Maeve) and Claire Abagia (Tess) in Blue Stockings. Photo: David Belton ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company’s latest production, Blue StockBookings: 9457 4117 www.htc.org.au ings, presents a first-class theatrical package.

- Review by Cheryl Threadgold Loosely based on true facts, the show comprises Jessica Swale’s compelling, entertaining script, director Natasha Boyd’s skilled, artistic interpretation, a top notch cast, beautiful multilevel set designed by George Tranter, elegant, era authentic costumes designed by Wendy Drowley, Cathy Christensen, Maureen McInerney and Melanie Belcher, and effective sound and lighting design by Chris Collins and Michael Rowe.

Set in Cambridge in 1896 at Girton College, home to Britain’s first female university students, and in the male university student residence, Trinity College, Blue Stockings tells the story of ■ What do PM Alfred Deakin’s son-in-law, the King’s four female undergraduates who rightfully wish to obtain a deCup, mobile phone addicts, a Miami homicide trial, This gree at the end of their studies, like their male counterparts. is your Life, and some Parktone Primary students all A vote will decide whether females can graduate with formal qualifications, but unfortunately those wishing to make the change have in common? meet with prejudice and conflict. We learn ‘blue stockings’ is a Well, they are all part of an evening of theatre to be derogatory term to describe female intellectuals. presented at the National Australian Aviation Museum , Swales’s script cleverly entwines a romantic sub-plot with Moorabbin as part of LOTS Theatre Inc.’s Series 6. varied perspectives concerning this social issue, such as the These series of plays tell great stories of remarkable girls’ realising their careers may render them ‘untouchables’ and prevent marriage and motherhood, while a talented student endeavor and courage displayed by legends of our Austramust choose between studies or returning home to care for siblian skies in both war time and peace time. lings on their mother’s death.

From LOTS (Legends of the Skies Theatre) inception A cast of 19 excellent actors portray 30 characters. Conin 2013 over 30 original scripts have now been tendered by gratulations to all for such fine performances the local and wider community for consideration and preSpecial acknowledgement must be made of the four female undergraduates’ delightful portrayals: Natasha Arancini sentation by this not for profit theatre company.

(Carolyn), Thalia Dudek (Celia), Zoe Hawkins (Maeve) and As usual, this year’s cast ages range from 8 – almost 80. particularly Claire Abagia (Tess).

LOTS resident guitarist, Paul Ditchburn , will lead nuPerformances that stood out for me in the male cast include merous sing-alongs , which all un■ derline the amazing Mark Yeates (Will), Liam Gillespie (Lloyd) and Laurie Jezard stories that unfold.

(Dr Maudsley).

Juliet Hayday commands the stage as caring Girton College Performance Details: October 1 -13, 18 -20at 8pm; Tues Head, Mrs Elizabeth Welsh, while Rachel Negus (Miss Blake) and Wed., Oct 16 and 17 at 12.30pm and Steve Saul (Mr Thomas Banks) capture well their characVenue: The Australian National Aviation Museum, ters’ compassion.

Moorabbin airport.

Boyd’s meticulous direction ensures the show’s pace never ■ Please note that the audience move through the exhibits waivers during 25 scenes. The result of her team’s creative talent and dedicated hard work is an exquisite piece of theatre. as the stories unfold , and the museum is an old hanger – so Don’t miss it. be warmly dressed.

Performance Details: Until September 22 - Cheryl Threadgold Venue: Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna.

Legends of the Skies at Aviation Museum

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At Glenmaggie ■ The Glenmaggie Country Rock Festival will showcase a number of Australia's prestige artists and groups.

The local Mechanics Institute Hall will come alive with the calibre of Della Harris, Nikki Nicholls, The Mason Boys, Alberta and The Backroads, Innocent Eve and Rose Zita Falko. November 3, commencing 4pm till late. Tickets at Eventbrite .d Friday

Queenz at Fringe ■ Comedy trio Queenz is appearing at Arts House in North Melbourne from September 14 – 21.

The show is created by Emily Carr, Alexandra Hines and Kaitlyn Rogers.

Having independently sold out shows in Edinburgh, Perth, Adelaide and Melbourne, the award-winning trio Queenz is now premiering their new show at the Melbourne Fringe Festival.

Season: September 14-21 (No Monday performance) Time: 10:30pm, Sun 9:30pm (60 min.)

Venue: Studio 2,Art House, Fringe Hub, North Melbourne Tickets: $18-$25 Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Portrait of an Artist

Light the Night ■ The annual Light The Night fundraising event will be held on Saturday, Oct 6.

From 4pm the beautiful Victory Park in Traralgon will play host to artists Chris Newman, Ryan Shore, Bill Rowleyand Brian Barker. The lantern raising ceremony commences 7.45pm. Other activities also contribute to making it a true family event.

Funds raised go to the Leukaemia Foundation. More info: contact Dawn O Connell, 0412 161 419.

● Elizabeth Brennan in Portrait of an Artist.

■ Fresh from appearances alongside cheese and tomato, Ham makes its cabaret debut at The Butterfly Club, for A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Ham, playing until September 16.

It has been seen in sandwiches, sipped it in soups, maybe even tried its controversial appearance alongside pineapple on pizza. Now Ham is finally trying its hand at live performance.

Appearing alongside Elizabeth Brennan, Ham will cure audiences of their environmental existentialism once and for all.

“I’m so lucky to be collaborating on this new show with a household name,” said Brennan.

“We’re taking these really challenging issues, around climate guilt and activism in the arts, and shaving them down to the bone.” Ham was unavailable for comment.

Dates: Until Sunday, September 216 Time: 5.30pm (onehour) Cost: Full $34, Concession $30, Groups (6+) $27. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Pl (off Lt Collins St), Melbourne Bookings: melbournefringe.com.au, thebutterflyclub.com, 9660 9666 - Cheryl Threadgold

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Wednesday Thursday September 12 September 13

■ Singer-songwriter Barry White was born in 1944. He died aged 58 in 2003.

English actress Rachel Ward was born in Oxfordshire, England in 1957 (61).

French singer/actor Maurice Chevalier was born in Paris in 1888.

He died aged 83 in 1972.

● Emily Carr, Alexandra Hines and Kaitlyn Rogers are Queenz.

Malthouse Theatre

Mildura is ready ■ Mildura's 32nd Country Music Festival kicks off, September 28-October 2.

Highlight of the event is the prestigious Independent Country Music Awards that are well regarded by Australia's country music community.

The culture of Mildura has built up on a real family factor that applies equally to the artists as well as the fans, say their PR campaigners.

More info at www.milduracountry music.com.au

Le Grande Cabaret

■ US jazz singer Mel Torme was born in Illinois in 1925. He died aged 73 in 1999.

English-born US-resident-actress Jacqueline Bisset was born in 1944 TV newsreader MarieLouise Thiele was born in 1965 US sprinter Michael Johnson is 51 (1967).

■ Malthouse Theatre has announced its season for 2019, and cast featured include Guy Simon, Natasha Herbert, Bert LaBonté, Greg Stone, Alison Whyte, Zahra Newman, Eamon Farren, Ursula Yovich, Elaine Crombie, Linda Cropper, Meow.Meow,Nicola Gunn, Ash Flanders, Tara Jade Samaya and Richard Cilli.

Directors, playwrights and key contributors include: The Rabble, Janice Muller, David Greig, Declan Greene, Leticia Cáceres, Tim Winton and Matthew Lutton.

Malthouse 2019 includes five world premieres, seven new Australian works, three literary adaptations, and one stellar new production from the United States.

It has been almost 20 years since the two families at number one Cloud Street have collided on both sides of the corridor of a haunted house.

Tim Winton’s award-winning Cloudstreet will be brought to life in an epic, rarely-performed five-hour staging of the Australian literary masterpiece, directed by Matthew Lutton.

With an all-star cast conjuring the two families - the Lambs and the Pickles - Guy Simon (Jasper Jones, Blaque Showgirls), Natasha Herbert (Trustees, Away), Bert LaBonté (The Book of Mormon, I Am A Miracle), Greg Stone (The Government Inspector, Pompeii L.A.) and Alison Whyte (Love and Information, The Bloody Chamber) Cloudstreet can be experienced as a one-night extravaganza with an all inclusive dinner break or savoured over two evenings.

For more information, visit malthousetheatre.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

● Burlesque title-holder Camilla Cream in Le Grande Cabaret.

■ Le Grande Cabaret, featuring Camilla Cream (Miss Burlesque Tasmania 2018 and World Record Holder) presents a ‘night of vintage glamour and burlesque noir’ at 63 Johnston St., Fitzroy on September 13, 14 and 15.

Guest artists include Michael Wheatley, Lana Lunacy, Lord Lovat, Miss Holly Wouldn’t, Egson Ham and more.

“Melbourne is a melting pot of performing arts, but there wasn’t a show that puts all types of burlesque onto the stage”, says artist and producer, Camilla Cream.

“Le Grande Cabaret was born out of a desire to showcase the different types of burlesque to audiences all over Australia” Dates: September 13 - 15 Times: 9pm (60 mins) Venue: Hares and Hyenas , 63 Johnston Street, Fitzroy Tickets: $20 for Early Bird and groups of 6 or more, $25 general admission Bookings: visit melbournefringe.com.au/ event/le-grande-cabaret - Cheryl Threadgold

Alliance Francaise Everywhen, Nowhere An exhibition by artist Sylvain CouzinetJacques who is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille and the École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie in Arles.

Exhibition opens September 21 to October 20.

Alliance Française, 51 Grey St, St Kilda - Peter Kemp Melbourne

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■ New Zealand actor Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland in 1947 (71).

US actress Mary Crosby, daughter of Bing, was born in 1959 (59).

Australian singer Wes Carr is 36 (1982) The late Amy Winehouse was born in 1983. She died in 2011

Saturday September 15 ■ Dame Agatha Christie, author, was born in Torquay, England, in 1890. She died aged 85 in 1976.

US actor Jackie Cooper was born in Los Angeles in 1922. He died aged 88 in 2011.

Rev. Fred Nile is 84.

Prince Harry (Henry Charles Albert David Windsor) is 34.

Sunday September 16 ■ US actress Lauren Bacall was born on this day.

US blues guitarist B.B. King born in 1925.

Columbo star Peter Falk was born in New York in 1927.

US magician David Copperfield is 62.

American singer Richard Marx was born in Chicago in 1963 (55).

Monday September 17

■ US country and western singer Hank Williams was born in 1923. He died aged 29 in 1953.

English actor Roddy McDowall was born in 1928.

He died aged 70 in 1998.

Actress Anne Bancroft (Anna-Maria Italiano) was born in New York.

She died aged 73.

Tuesday September 18

■ Actress Greta Garbo was born in Stockholm in 1905. She died aged 84 in 1990.

Australian comedian Slim de Grey was born in England in 1918. He died aged 88 in 2007.

American singer Jimmie Rodgers was born in Washington in 1933.

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Crash Pad

● Rhian Wilson and Sophie BerryPorter. Photo: James Collopy ■ Crash Pad is a new work being presented from September 17 – 23 at The Butterfly Club.

Written by Rhian Wilson, Crash Pad looks at what it’s like to be a young woman who’s not healthy but not dying, and the friendship that can be fostered through shared experience.

Cel and Holly appear to be healthy, but underneath they are suffering from invisible illnesses that affect their day to day function.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Endometriosis cause them to bond in the refuge of Holly’s apartment when they can’t handle the physical demands expected of a young social life.

Chronic and mental illness are becoming ever-more prevalent in young adulthood, yet the experience is often misunderstood or behind closed doors.

Crash Pad seeks to open the door into the somewhat mundane realism of chronic illness, while celebrating what can come out of it – a friendship stronger than any setback.

Bringing humour to tough situations, Crash Pad uses lightness to explore how people get through the day.

This is the Melbourne Fringe Festival debut of writer and actor Rhian Wilson and actor Sophie Berry-Porter, graduates of the 16th Street Actors Studio.

Writing from a personal experience with chronic illness, Wilson says: “I am still struck by the unique understanding that can be received from a friend in a similar boat, and how much you can laugh and cry with the same person.”

Performance Dates: September 17 -23 at 5.30pm Duration of Show: 55 minutes Cost: $25-$34 Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne Tickets: the butterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

The Fall at Fairfax Studio

● Thando Mangcu, Cleo Raatus, Ameera Conrad, Rankiso Marnabola, Sizwesandile Mnisi, Oarabile Ditsele, and Sihle Mnqwazana in The Fall.

■ The rhythm of the voices, the energy of the The arc of the story line is perhaps clearest movement and the exuberance of the cast in when the fight to remove Rhodes’s statue domiThe Fall are what compel this production that nates. documents the fight to undo centuries of coloThe internal ructions within the protest group nial thinking, firstly in the University of Cape do not have the same force of story.

Town in 2015 and later within the South African What is inescapable, though, is the passion Government. and feeling of the cast that drive this production.

The cast (Ameera Conrad, Oarabile Ditsele, The songs and movement used as a backZandile Madliwa, Tankiso Mamabolo, drop to the story atavistically centre this in the Sizwesandile Mnisi, Sihle Mnqwazana, Cleo heart of African culture and identity.

Raatus) are the story, are the actors and are the It is an expression of their feeling and, as writers. This ensemble both witnessed and par- such, there is no need for sets or props. ticipated in the events of those times.

Three tables are periodically used as is docuSeen as a symbol of oppression, the statue of mentary footage from the time. Everything else Cecil Rhodes was removed from campus after centres on individuals, appropriately lit, telling protests and sit-ins by students. their personal stories or discussions on the isThe production highlights the depth of feel- sues of the day; poverty, identity, discrimination, ing amongst those who participated but also their Eurocentric views, opportunity, racism and innocence and naivety. acknowledgement.

The success of their campaign then led to This production is the second in The Big internal division as contemporary issues such World Up Close season at the Victorian Arts as feminism, gender fluidity and privilege mud- Centre where works have been chosen for their died the waters. political significance.

When the government resolved to raise uniThe personal involvement of these actors in versity fees, the protest movement unified again an ongoing story, an ongoing reality, makes this arguing against the escalating costs but also something worth seeing. against an entrenched poverty within the AfriThe Fall was presented in the Fairfax Studio can communities that had been initiated and at Arts Centre Melbourne. perpetuated by colonial thinking.

- Review by David McLean

Boss Octopus at Butterfly

Funerals with Phoebe ■ Funerals with Phoebe: Songs for Farewells will be presented from September 24 – 30 at The Butterfly Club, Melbourne.

Through songs and anecdotes, Funerals with Phoebe will present a funeral repertoire to convey the powerful connection between memories and songs.

Phoebe says: “Death is sad, but it doesn’t have to be boring”, and points out that songs can unite people in grief.

Unlike glamorous wedding singers, Phoebe feels that funeral singers are overlooked in ‘status, media and movies’, and is addressing this oversight with her funeralthemed cabaret.

A classically trained soprano, Phoebe is passionate about all types of vocals and uses singing to ‘empower and bring communities together’. Recently she was awarded a Creativity Australia With One Voice grant for a community choir in Coburg.

Dates: September 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30. Time: 5:30pm. Cost: $25-32. Venue: The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, Melbourne. Tickets: thebutterflyclub.com - Cheryl Threadgold

● Will Burrage, Brit Green, Yiannis Efstathiadis andSam Haswthorne ■ Boss Octopus have been entertaining audi- Hawthorne and Brit Green. Former cast memences since 2013 when they first appeared in bers Nathan Murfey and Brendan Myers head the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. up the writing team, whilst Heli Simpson has If you like Mitchell & Webb, A Bit of Fry moved from the stage to the Producer’s chair. and Laurie, or Monty Python, then you’ll love Lucas Silva-Myles is the Director once again, Boss Octopus: A Sketch Show. solidifying the show with his lifetime of theatre With sketches ranging from the clever to the experience. stupid, the profound to the profane, the logical to Dates: Until September 16 the ludicrous - the high energy, clever characTime: 8:30pm ter-isations, and pumping pace will keep audiCost: $27-34 ences on their toes.

Venue: The Butterfly Club, Upstairs, 5 Carson The experience of cast members Will Place, Melbourne Burrage and Yiannis Efstathiadis is compleTickets: thebutterflyclub.com mented by the energy of new additions Sam - Cheryl Threadgold

Paris is Fine ■ Deafferent Theatre presents Paris is Fine from September 22 -29 at Arts House, North Melbourne.

Paris is a 20-something woman who watches too many movies and spends all her money on designer tea, aka #millenniallife.

She’s stuck in the waiting room of a Medicare-approved counsellor. She’s doing just fine.

Deafferent Theatre is an innovative bilingual theatre company that creates work by and for deaf and non-deaf people.

The company was founded by deaf director Jessica Moody and actor/Auslan interpreter Ilana Charnelle Gelbart.

2018 marks Deafferent Theatre’s third appearance at Melbourne Fringe; their 2016 season Black is the Colour earned them the award for Best Emerging Producer, while their 2017 production of The Vagina Monologues, was the recipient of the Melbourne Fringe award for Access and Inclusion.

Deafferent Theatre productions have also been nominated for three Green Room Awards, including Independent Actor (2017, 2018) and Sound Design (2017).

Deafferent Theatre are current recipients of Malthouse Theatre's In House Artist Residencies.

Dates: September 22, 23, 25, 29.

Times: Tues- Sat at 6.30pm; Sun 5.30pm.

Venue: Fringe Hub: Arts House, Studio 1, 521 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Tickets: Full $26, Concession $24, Group 6+ $24 Bookings: visit melbournefringe.com.au or call 9660 9666. - Cheryl Threadgold

Emil and the Detectives ■ Emil and the Detectives is a beautifully creative and magical adaptation of Erich Kastner’s 1929 novella, and is everything children’s theatre should be – visual, dramatic, engaging, uplifting and moving.

This is storytelling at its best, and the creative team from Adelaide’s Slingsby productions deserve every accolade - director Andy Packer, composer Quincy Grant, designers Wendy Todd and Ailsa Paterson, lighting Geoff Cobham and Chris Petridis, and producer Stacey Baldwin.

Contributing to the genius of this production is that they had their target audience captured before any stage action even happened.

As you enter Monash AlexanderTheatre, in the middle of the stage is a suspended red button with a sign above which reads, DO NOT PRESS. Like a red flag to a bull, the anticipation and excitement was epic, and the 11-yearold next to me had to be restrained.

The play is about Emil (Danielle Catanzariti), a young girl from a small town who travels on a train to the big city to visit her grandmother. She shares a carriage with a suspicious and devious character (Nathan O’Keefe).

After he steals from her, she embarks on an adventure to get it back, demonstrating courage, resourcefulness and determination.

Catanzariti is superb as the innocent but determined and resilient Emil, but the show belongs to O’Keefe in his many guises, and to the lighting creatives Cobham and Petridis.

O’Keefe’s versatility is stunning, playing multiple characters from narrator, Emil’s mum, tram conductor, evil predator to the legendary Gustav. His physical comedy and the shades of light and dark are spot on.

The lighting design and shadow play, using elements hand-crafted by the audience before the show, were just great.

This was artful, creative, inspiring and funny theatre. I can’t wait to see their next production.

- Review by Beth Klein

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Genre: Comedy/Drama.

Year: 2017.

Rating: MA15+ Length: 71 Minutes.

Stars: ***½ Verdict: To celebrate her post as a Shadow Minister for Health and, hopefully, the stepping stone to party leadership, the newlyappointed British opposition politician, Janet, is throwing a party for friends at her London flat, but before dinner is even served, the ambience begins to shatter as festering secrets start surfacing and becomes a domestic war-zone.

Devilishly delicious politically garnished and provocative gathering for the connoisseur of the more refined taste in cinema, a selfcontained, angst-driven tragicomedy and vigorous social satire of skewering hypocrisies brimming with raw energy, savage wit and biting dark humour.

Even though the ensemble cast in this intimate gathering all shine, playing off each other with great professionalism, but the acting honours go to Kristin Scott Thomas as the newly appointed Shadow Minister for Health, Janet, and Patricia Clarkson Janet's acerbic best friend, April.

Writer-director Sally Potter utilizes the striking black and white palate to great effect, which reflects a fragmented reminiscence of numerous early 60s British classics from Karel Reisz, Tony Richardson, Lindsay Anderson and John Schlesinger, as well as Mike Nichols searing 1966 black comedy "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf" starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

Not for the "Black Panther" or Marvel brigade, and clocking in at only 71 minutes in total, this tightly wound Murderer's Row of toxic and claustrophobic cynicism is a thought-provoking, wry, wicked, ambiguous and entertaining character driven celebration that makes you wonder, with friends like these, who needs enemies?

FILM: LOVELESS: Cast: Stars: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov.

Genre: Crime/Drama.

Year: 2017.

Rating: M. Length: 127 Minutes.

Stars: **** Verdict: A Moscow couple are in the final stages of a bitter divorce, and their 12-year-old only son feels that he is an intolerable burden, and as a result, they finally realize that the boy has been missing for nearly two days, and the search begins, but it may already too late.

Well deserved Oscar and Golden Globe nominated Best Foreign Language Film, this unforgiving, psychological, slow burning character driven crime-drama on the complexity of human emotions and a society through a middle class marriage crisis of a Russian family slowly envelops you like a chilling fog that refuses to lets go.

Meticulously co-written and directed (by Andrey Zvyagintsev), and photographed by Mikhail Krichman, the stark Russian landscape parallels the anguish, frustration, anger and anxiety with a hypnotic intensity as the search for the missing child deepens, in a society of flawed characters and dark multi-layered ideologies.

Flawless performances drive a nail to its heart, however, it is the filmmakers meticulous pacing, ever deepening atmosphere and constantly growing and unbearable ambiguity that ultimately creates a haunting, disturbing, mysterious and shattering journey of every parent's nightmare .... a journey that will leave you shellshocked and unable to shake for long after it's over, an all-too real experience that, not surprisingly, demand a repeat viewing!

FILM: OCEAN'S 8: Genre: Crime/Comedy.

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Dakota Fanning, Helena Bonham Carter, Olivia Munn, Katie Holmes, Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Elliott Gould, Richard Armitage, James Corden.

Year: 2018.

Rating: M. Length: 110 Minutes.

Stars: **½ Review: Newly released from jail, Danny Ocean's sister, Debbie, attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City's starstudded annual Met Gala, but her first stop is to assemble the perfect crew.

While none of the "Ocean's" film are in the league of such heist classics as "Rififi" (1955), "Topkapi" (1964) or "The Sting" (1973), what they are is a couple of hours full of fun, cheek, humour, charm and charismatic characters that simply lights up the screen, as well as a great heist-job, and there lies their on-going appeal and worthy success.

All the pomp and ceremony and glitz of this all-star-cast heist romp is all there, but it falls short in reaching the heights of entertainment value first established by Frank Sinatra and his "Rat Pack" in 1960, and its remake and subsequent two sequels from 2001 to 2007 by director Steven Soderburgh.

The velvet lined female cast all seem to be having a great time as they follow in the tradition established by their predecessors, The velvet lined female cast are all having a good time as they follow in the tradition established by their predecessors, yet they don't quite seem to enthusiastically embody their characters, but also plot flaws, cliché, poor pacing and miscasting, most notably James Corden as an insurance investigator, do rise, and it shows that all the star power in the world can't be solely relied upon to pull off the greatest heist in the world completely alone.

A smooth, glossy, fun, stylish, celebrity cartoon-caper, it's all there, and there is fun to be had, especially if you are a fan of the "Ocean's" films, however, you can't quite help but feel that we've seen it all before, only better.

Director and co-writer Gary Ross (Seabiscuit-Big) has created a devilishly entertaining but fairly pretentious and pedestrian crimecomedy that lacks originality, spark, edge and sting, and ultimately, it isn't quite as smart as it thinks it is.

Rourke’s Reviews

Top 10 Lists SEPTEMBER 9-15 (2018): THE AUSTRALIAN BOX OFFICE TOP TEN: 1. CRAZY RICH ASIANS. 2. THE MEG. 3. MILE 22.

4. BOOK CLUB. 5. MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - FALLOUT. 6. BLACKKKLANSMAN. 7. SLENDER MAN. 8. HAPPYTIME MURDERS. 9. MAMMA MIA!: HERE WE GO AGAIN. 10. LUIS AND THE ALIENS.

● John Cho gives an excellent performance as the everyman father who desperately wants to find his missing daughter in Searching, which opens in cinemas on Thursday. way no other show did (even more than the iconic Sesame Street, which ■ (M). 101 minutes. Opens in cin- is what I remember watching as a youngster). emas September 13.

Some of the parallels are unnervCleverly using a platform many people live by nowadays, this ing, especially the similarities bethriller manages to absorb and in- tween Rogers' view of what Nixon volve for most of its running time, was doing then, to the terrible things only faltering somewhat during its Trump is doing now.

There are plenty of interviews final stretch, when it becomes prewith friends and colleagues (includdictable and anti-climactic.

John Cho is terrific as David ing Rogers' wife), as well as clips Kim, who is doing his best to raise detailing how his low-key persona his teenage daughter Margot affected everyone (one famous (Michelle La) after the death of his comedy sketch shown is Eddie Murphy's more streetwise version wife Pamela (Sara Sohn).

When Margot doesn't come of Mr Rogers on Saturday Night home after a night at study group, Live).

RATING - ****½ and he can't contact her at all, David calls the police, and is assigned Detective Vick (Debra Messing), who dedicates herself to finding David's daughter, though the prospects ■ (MA). 96 minutes. Now showing in cinemas. aren't looking good.

The Conjuring continues its As the case progresses, the distraught father realises he may not Marvel-type expansion with The have known who Margot really Nun, a dreary, dull viewing experience that contains not a single dewas.

Co-writer/director Aneesh cent scare.

Set in 1952 Romania (though Chaganty effectively sets up the Kim family (with an opening mon- there is little period flavour to inditage that is highly reminiscent of cate that timeframe), the 'story' Pixar's Up), successfully jumping takes place at a large, isolated abthat hurdle of getting the audience bey, where a group of nuns have to to care about his characters, and deal with an evil presence that is as such we are genuinely invested trying to enter the human world, and in David's search and the growingly has taken the title form to do so.

After an incident that leaves a slim chance of finding Margot young sister dead, the Vatican alive.

The plotting unfortunately goes sends Father Burke (a bored down a rather obvious path, slightly Demian Bichir) and nun-in-training diminishing the film's overall im- Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga, pact, and is undercut even more by younger sister of Vera, who stars in Messing's unconvincing, one-note The Conjuring films) to investigate. performance.

Acting as their guide is FrenchRATING - ***½ Canadian immigrant Frenchie (Jonas Bloquet), who found the deceased nun, and along with all the local villagers, sees the abbey as a cursed place.

■ (PG). 94 minutes. Opens in seDuring their stay, these rumours lected cinemas September 13. are certainly proven to be true. The Though his TV show was never Nun barely has a script (by Gary aired in Australia, this illuminating Dauberman, who penned the and compassionate documentary Annabelle films), relying solely on about Fred Rogers and the little the concept itself, and every charshow he created and moulded for acter is a cardboard cut-out, comover three decades is must-see mitting an act of stupidity every few viewing, proving to be as relevant minutes. now as when it first turned up on Director Corin Hardy (The HalUS television in the late 1960s. low) delivers the same three scares Director Morgan Neville, who over and over, ad nauseam, and the won an Oscar for his 2013 docu- whole thing is nothing more than a mentary 20 Feet Of Stardom, beau- series of derivative, poorly extifully covers and explores Rogers ecuted set-pieces, making its 96and his groundbreaking TV series minute running time feel double Mr. Rogers' Neighbourhood, atten- that. Bad performances also sink a tively (but subjectively) explaining film that is neither scary or fun. just how daring it really was, conRATING - *

Searching

The Nun

Won’t You Be My Neighbour

NEW RELEASES AND COMING SOON TO CINEMAS AROUND AUSTRALIA: SEPTEMBER 6: HEARTS BEAT LOUD, JULIET, NAKED, MCQUEEN, THE MERGER. THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, THE NUN, WAYNE, YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE. SEPTEMBER 13: A SIMPLE FAVOUR, BEAST, CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, SEARCHING, TEEN TITANS GO! TO THE MOVIES!, THE PREDATOR. THE DVD AND BLU-RAY TOP RENTALS & SALES: 1. OCEAN'S 8 [Crime/Comedy/Drama/ Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Helena Bonham Carter].

2. DEADPOOL 2 [Action/Adventure/ Comedy/Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin].

3. CARGO [Horror/Thriller/Drama/Martin Freeman, Susie Porter, David Gulpilil].

4. GRINGO [Action/Crime/Comedy/Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, David Oyelowo].

5. THE PARTY [Comedy/Drama/Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Timothy Spall].

6. UNSANE [Drama/Thriller/Claire Foy].

7. AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR [Action/ Fantasy/Chris Hemsworth, Robert Downey Jr].

8. THE GUERNSEY LITERARY & POTATO PEEL SOCIETY [Drama/Romance/Lily James].

9. LAST FLAG FLYING [Comedy/Drama/ Steve Carrell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne].

Also: THE ESCAPE, LOVELESS, REDOUBTABLE, READY PLAYER ONE, I FEEL PRETTY, LIFE OF THE PARTY, ISLE OF DOGS, RAMPAGE, 7 DAYS IN ENTEBBE, LOVING PABLO. NEW HOME ENTERTAINMENT RELEASE HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK: DISOBEDIENCE [Drama/Romance/Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams].

IDEAL HOME [Comedy/Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan].

THE BACHELORS [Comedy/Drama/ Romance/J.K. Simmons, Julie Delpy].

DVD AND/OR BLU-RAY NEW & RE-RELEASE CLASSIC MOVIES HIGHLIGHTS: RAZORBACK [Thriller/Gregory Harrison, Judy Morris, Bill Kerr].

NEW RELEASE TELEVISION, DOCUMENTARY AND MUSIC HIGHLIGHTS: THE BIG BANG THEORY: Season 11.

MODERN FAMILY: Season 9.

THIS IS US: Season 2.

- James Sherlock

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Local Theatre with Cheryl Threadgold and team SIDESAULT B ■B

● The cast of Rock of Ages, presented by Cardinia Performing Arts Company (CPAC) at Cardinia Cultural Centre,45 Lakeside Drive, Pakenham played until September 7.

Photo: Frank Scaturchio ● Jugglers Richard Sullivan and Byron Hutton in Sidesault at the Melba.

■ Returning from October 11-21, the second iteration of Circus Oz’sSidesault at The Melba festival will feature six local, national and international circus companies who will present experimental works that challenge and push the notions of contemporary circus.

Sidesault at The Melba will feature heartbreaking stories, compromised sight, smashing stereotypes, love addiction and Dadaism presented through a range of styles and approaches that span breathtaking physical stunts, high tech juggling, unpredictable clowning, dance, theatre and comedy.

Integral to the ongoing development of the circus sector, The Sidesault at The Melba festival not only presents the shifting concepts and evolution of contemporary circus – it also complements Circus Oz’s ongoing Sidesault program that enables independent artists to interrogate new circus approaches and styles onsite at the Circus Oz headquarters.

Co-curated by Antonella Casella (Circus Oz Senior Artistic Associate) and Brian Robertson (The Melba Spiegeltent Producer), Sidesault at the Melba allows circus artists the licence to take creative risks.

“This years artists bringing bold new voices into the circus arena. They are driven to combine and push their incredible circus skills to create some really edgy, emotive and exciting works. Our Sidesault at The Melba festival offers a platform to develop, mentor, present and profile these artists and their inventive creative aspirations,” explained Casella.

Circus Oz Artistic Director, Rob Tannion, explains that so much is happening at Circus Oz throughout 2018, “As we continue to celebrate 40 fabulous years of defying gravity, it’s thrilling to see our Collingwood home base has evolved into a welcoming and bustling creative circus hub that offers rehearsal spaces and other support to numerous small to medium sized companies and individual artists to dream and take creative risks.

“And now, for the second year running, our Sidesault at The Melba festival will showcase the very best of new and innovative circus. Here’s to the next 40 years.”

Circus Oz Performances: Oct. 11-14. 6.30pm My Sight – Their Sight – Blindful. 8pm Laser Kiwi – Colossal Productions. 9.30pm BOSS Squad – Madhouse Circus & Point and Flex Circus Oct . 18-21. 6.30pm Jugg Life – Jugg Life Productions. 8pm Hell is other people – Love is the Drug. 9.30pm Feed the Horse – Radish

by Night Venue : The Melba Spiegeltent Location: 35 Johnston St, Collingwood Tickets: $27 single show, $60 three show pass and $100 season pass (plus booking fees) Booking: themelbaspiegeltent.com.au - Cheryl Threadgold

Latest shows, auditions SHOWS

SHOWS

■ Eltham Little Theatre: On Golden Pond (by Ernest Thompson) Until September 22 at Eltham Performing Arts Centre, 1603 Main Rd., Research. Director: Roderick Chappel. Bookings:0411 713 095.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Pack of Lies (by Hugh Whitmore) Until September 15 at the Shirley Burke Theatre, 64 Parkers Rd., Parkdale.

Director: Cheryl Ballantine Richards. Bookings: 9587 5141 or www.mordialloctheatre.com ■ Melbourne French Theatre: Love is Better in the Afternoon (C'est Encore Mieux L'ApresMidi) (by Ray Cooney, adapted by Jean Poiret) Until September 15 at La Maison de Maitre Building, 203-205 Canning St., Carlton. Director: Kotryna Gesait. Bookings: www.melbournefrenchtheatre.org ■ Williamstown Little Theatre: Silent sky (by Lauren Gunderson) Until September 22 at 2 Albert St., Williamstown . Director: Ellis Ebell.

Bookings: www.wlt.org.au ■ Heidelberg Theatre Company: Blue Stockings (by Jessica Swale) Until September 22 at Heidelberg Theatre, 36 Turnham Ave., Rosanna.

Director: Natasha Boyd. Bookings: www.htc.org.au ■ Phoenix Theatre Company: Chicago Until September 15 at the Doncaster Playhouse, 679 Doncaster Rd., Doncaster. Director: Craig Maloney; Musical Director: Peter Verhagen; choreographer: Renee Maloney. All Tickets $30.

Bookings: 9012 5897 or phoenix@phoenixtheatrecompany.org Please note: September 14 at 8pm will be an Auslan interpreted performance.

■ Geelong Repertory Theatre Company: The Charitable Sisterhood of the Second Trinity Victory Church (by Bo Wilson) Until September 22 at the Woodbin Theatre, 15 Coronation St., West

Geelong. Director: Geoff Gaskill. Bookings: GPAC 5225 1200.

AUDITIONS ■ The Basin Theatre Group: Murder by Natural Causes (by Tim Kelly), September 16 at The Basin Theatre, Cnr. Doongalla Rd., The Basin.

Director: Bob Bramble. Enquiries: bobbramble2013@gmail.com ■ The 1812 Theatre: Breaking the Code September 16, 17 at 7.00pm at 3 Rose St., Upper Ferntree Gully. Director: Malcolm Sussman.

Enquiries: 0417 141 803.

■ Mordialloc Theatre Company: Good People (by David Lindsay Abaire) September 24 at 7.30pm . Director: Helen Ellis. Enquiries: ellisproductions@me.com

Black Swan Prize

■ David Disher of Fitzroy has been announced as one of the 40 finalists in the prestigious Black Swan Prize for Portraiture, the third richest prize in Australia after the Archibald and the Doug Moran competitions. David's work is entitled Selfie in the Trump era.

More than 500 emerging and professional artists entered the prize, with 40 finalists to be exhibited in partnership with the Art Gallery of Western Australia from October 27 November 26. Winners announced on November 28.

Now in its 12th year, this event id WA's only portrait prize and is highly regarded by artists nationwide. Some 38% of fibnalists come from Victoria.

- Peter Kemp

Warriors at St Kilda ■ Dramatic Pause Theatre Company presents Warriors, an one-act youth play, as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival, at Theatre Works, St Kilda, from September 25 – 30.

The show is written by award winning playwright Hayley Lawson-Smith and directed by Melbourne Opera assistant director David Lawson-Smith.

Not every hero gets a song or the cheers of the crowd—or even acknowledgement. In Queen Zordana's land, a hero fights bravely in the open field, destroying monsters and dark magic. In Amy's world, her hero is the sister who takes care of her.

For Maddie, her hero is her brother, who may tease her mercilessly but loves her dearly. As tragedy threatens to consume their separate worlds, only in coming together can they battle back the dark.

Featuring Jazi Hall, Lavender, Matilda, Royal Shakespeare Company, Young Cosette, Les

BLASTED

● Jazi Hall and Michael Hollis Miserables, Her Majesty's Theatre), Chloe Ferrigno, Stage Left Theatre, Western Arts Theatre, People's Playhouse Theatre Company, Michael Hollis, VCASS Theatre Arts Graduate, 2017, Mary Baras-Miller, Isabella Antonacci.

Dates: September 25 -30.

Tickets: Full: $15 / Concession: $20 Times: Each performance commences at 2pm Venue: Theatre Works, St Kilda

● Pia Johnson ■ In a hotel room in Leeds, Ian, middleaged and world-weary, patronises and dominates his much younger companion, Cate.

The power imbalance sets off a game of sadomasochism where past consensual sex precipitates no excuse for refusing sex in this set-up.

Misogynistic, cruel and paranoid, Ian points his gun at his victim shifting the responsibility to satisfy him onto Cate who then is bullied into feeling culpable, and who then contributes to her own abuse.

Ian’s barbarism is equated by him with love. “Loved me last night,” he says to Cate.

“Made enough noise.”

“It was hurting,” Cate replies between tears.

Halfway through the play, an apocalyptic explosion shatters the domestic scene, transforming it into a dystopian war zone.

The scenario between Ian and Cate is replayed. Ian is raped by a Soldier. He too becomes complicit in his own rape by complying with the Soldier’s demands.

As with Ian’s rape of Cate, the Soldier holds a gun to Ian’s head. A myth is exploded, that which states that anyone who resists cannot be raped.

Rape, here, is used as punishment for the rape and murder of the Soldier’s girlfriend by unknown forces.

Sarah Kane’s Blasted is a confronting play. Kane presents the politics of rape, sexual violence and power as common sexual practice, unfortunate but understandable, versus the unacceptable; the inter-ethnic violence that led to shocking accounts of mass rape as a weapon of war such as that perpetuated during the time in which the play was written during the early 1990s in the former Yugoslavia.

The ensemble cast of David Woods, Eloise Mignon and Fayssal Bazzi are exceptional.

This is a brave choice under Anne-Louise Sark’s direction with an astounding set by Marg Horwell.

Panned by critics in its first iteration, Kane’s play has sadly proved prescient.

Performance Season: Until September 16 Venue: Malthouse Theatre, Southbank Bookings: www.malthousetheatre. com.au - Review by Kathryn Keeble

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Makybe Diva Stakes

■ Sportsbet has framed at early market on the all- important Makybe Diva stakes to be run at Flemington this Saturday.

The early market has the champion galloper,, Winx, quoted at around $1.25, but she is odds on to miss that event concentrating on the George Main Stakes in Sydney or the Turnbull Stakes to be run at Flemington on October 6.

This would leave the Cox Plate runner up last year, Humidor, as favourite, especially after his great win in the 1400 metre Memsie Stakes at Caulfield.

Humidor surprised punters with his tenacity to win especially over the short trip.

He has now amassed over $3 million in stakemoney throughout his career.

He has been a revelation since joining the Weir team, and appears to have got over his bad habit of hanging in his races.

Humidor has been quoted at around $4.40 and will come right in with Winx a no show.

The Godolphin-owned and James Cummings-trained Kementari has exceptional talent as shown with his very unlucky second to Humidor in the Memsie.

From his 14 starts in the best of company he has amassed nearly $1.75 million, with four wins, four seconds and two thirds.

As mentioned in my column many times, the Cummings camp have a big opinion of the Lohnro galloper.

Another of Darren Weir's team is the former international , Kings Will Dream, previously had won four in a row including the Mornington Cup, which gave him entry into the Caulfield Cup. He ran a great fourth over 1400 metres in the Peter Lawrence, then buttered over the similar distance in the Memsie flashing home again to run third.

He will be much better suited over longer trips and has been nominated for both the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

One with talent also is the Chris Wallertrained D'Argento, who has attacked the best around and in good style.

Waller has quite an opinion about him, hence his nomination for the Makybe Diva.

Epsom and Doncaster winner, Happy Clapper, prepared by Pat Webster at Randwick, is a good galloper, but appeared to be all at sea with the tricky Caulfield track in the Memsie, he is much better than that as his record indicates.

You can't leave him out especially over his pet distance of 1600 metres, if he goes around in the Makybe Diva.

The Mick Price-trained Grunt hasn't shown a great deal in his first two starts back against the best, but Mick Price said not to give up on him; he will improve once he hits his straps.

He is a winner of the Australian Guineas, and is nicely bred being by the New Zealand sire, O'Reilly, and will improve with more experience.

Another that has first class form is the Sydney mare, Unforgotten another of the Chris Waller team, an Oaks winner, and my ideal type to win a Caulfield Cup. She is one of my early tips for the Caulfield Cup as the distance and the pace of the race is right up her alley.

Another of the James Cummings team, Hartnell, a good stayer on his day, ran a big race when he finished a great second behind the Hawkes trained Showtime over 1400 metres, in the Peter Lawrence, coming home hard.

At the time of going to press he was running at Moonee Valley.

He has been most consistent since arriving from overseas, and is being quoted at the good odds of $17.

Of the others among the nominations is Sydney galloper, Comin'Through, a strong winner of the Tramway Stakes in Sydney over 1400 metres, beating Tom Melbourne and Dixie Blossoms.

Consistent galloper, Black Heart Bart, has been nominated but is still shaking off some niggling injuries.

While a very promising galloper , Night's Watch, is smart with the Caulfield Cup in mind

● Humidor wins the Memsie.

Photo: Racing Photos for the Weir team. He too was racing at Moonee South Melbourne.

Valley as we went to press.

It was a big day for Deane as he was also celebrating his 50th birthday.

A good gathering of members of the VRMA enjoyed a great day, washed down with a few Well known television and radio racing man, nice reds.

Warren Huntly, is the new President of the VicThe special guest speaker on the day was torian Racing Media Association after the Presi- well known owner come breeder, Wylie Dalziel. dent Greg Miles stepped down from the position Wylie along with the late great jockey Roy after four years as President and a time on the Higgins got the His Syndicate on the road in the Committee. early stages with the Chefs on the Run SyndiThe Vice-Presidents are Greg Miles, the cates, which has increased rapidly, despite the former top race caller with Racing Victoria and death of Roy. RSN form expert, Deane Lester.

He was a n entertaining speaker, touching on The changes were announced at the Annual recent times when they were able to latch on to General meeting at the Emerald Hill Hotel in former top trainer, Peter Moody, who joined

New VRMA chief

Ted Ryan

Oh memories News that Channel 10 would cover the Melbourne Cup Carnival for five years commencing with the 2020 Carnival brought back many memories to me.

Back in 1981, I was approached by the late Phil Gibbs, the Sports and Racing Editor of Channel 10 to join the team for the Melbourne Carnivals.

I had finished with Channel 9 after many years, joined Channel 10 in Sydney for about six months then back to Melbourne.

I moved to Channel 7 for two years before joining Phil and the team and 10 in Nunawading.

Phil Gibbs headed up the team which consisted of Graeme Kelly from The Australian newspaper, the late Peter Lovett, the late Des Spain, from then 3UZ, the Racing Editor of the Truth newspaper, Ron Taylor, and Bloodstock expert, Vivienne Smith.

The original racecaller was the late, Clem Dimsey, with the current Harness Racing caller, Dan Mielicki, taking over.

I worked with Phil and the team from 1981 through until 1996, a few years later, Channel 7 got the rights.

The big question is to who will take over the role of racecaller, will Dan come back and get leave from the Harness Racing Board to do the Carnival, or will they use Racing Victoria's top man, Matthew Hill?

Then there is the role of the panel on the four days of the Carnival.

Very interesting, will Bruce Mc Avaney go back to where he started back in 1984, or concentrate on the Olympics?

Could it be a whole new ball game with the massive team they have at Racing.Com?

● Jane Ferrari: among her beloved old vines in the Barossa.

■ Forewarned is forearmed, the saying goes - or something along those lines anyway.

They'd told me the day before that there was nothing quite like the whirlwind that is Jane Ferrari, and that if there was anything she didn't know about Yalumba or the Barossa then it probably wasn't worth knowing.

Nothing, though, could have prepared me to meet the quietly spoken category-six cyclone that picked me up from the foyer of the Weintal in Tanunda and took me on a tour of the valley.

Jane's official job title at Yalumba is listed as 'Wine Ambassador' but as the company's website points out, she is multi-faceted - a qualified winemaker, a talented storyteller, a skilled communicator, indeed a legend.

Anyway, I'm very lucky to spend most of the day with her, one-on-one, and gain just a glimpse of her knowledge and passion.

Jane seems to know everyone in the Barossa, and she obviously loves the place dearly, but I think she seems happiest when she's surrounded by the valley's gnarled old vines and talking about the glorious fullbodied reds they make.

Such as when we're near The Nursery vineyard and she's explaining the nuances of old bush-vine grenache, using bottles of the Yalumba 2013 Tri-Centenary and 2015 Carriage Block to highlight the differences that are possible to get from the same variety grown in same region.

Or near Light Pass where we taste the 2014 Steeple Vineyard Shiraz among the vines it was made from and within a stone's throw - at least a well hit fairway wood from the church it take its name.

The vines here were planted in 1919, the year after World War I ended and the year before Frank and Lily Beaurepaire, brother and sister, swam for Australia in the Antwerp Olympics.

WINE REVIEWS Yalumba 2013 Tri-Centenary Grenache ($64): This densely coloured red is made from just 820 vines planted in 1889 on a deep sandy loam underlain with red-brown clay.

The soil retains moisture well even in hot, dry years and the wine is juicy, complex and rich - an absolute joy to savour. The significance of the age of the vines isn't lost on Jane Ferrari. Nor on me.

Yalumba 2015 Carriage Block Grenache ($45): Much lighter in colour than the TriCentenary but still substantial, this wine has been made from relatively 'young' vines planted in 1954 by Elmore Schulz, a local train driver. This medium-bodied wine is redolent of red fruits and, according to winemaker Kevin Glastonberry, ideally suited to roast chicken.

The suggestion was available at tasting, but I'll take his word.

WINE OF THE WEEK Yalumba 2014 Steeple Vineyard Shiraz ($70): This powerful dry red typifies oldvine Barossa shiraz.

It's still quite youthful and sings dark-berry flavours backed by some very classy oak, apparently coopered from a special 362year-old tree in France's Bercé forest.

It was an absolute privilege to taste this wine among the vines that produced it.

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Deck-Doc

Local company chosen as best in the world

For many years Deck-Doc has been supplying retailers throughout Australia with their premium range of timber and decking oils.

For the past three years, Deck-Doc has been predominantly selling their products online to service the whole of Australia as well as international customers.

Deck-Doc was recently chosen over other companies to supply their oils to an international company and is in the process of sealing an agency agreement for exclusive distribution and selling rights in Sri Lanka and the Maldives.

Deck-Doc timber oil is environmentally friendly and the business has been manufacturing unique, lanolin-based timber oil in Geelong for 15 years.

The formula was developed by Robert Hylands to preserve the natural oils and tannins in the timber.

The timbers oils and tannins determine the colour of the timber.

If the tannins dry out, the timber will lose its own natural colour.

The formula is made up of many different plant oils, waxes and lanolin and designed to stay soft and pliable when absorbed into the surface layers of the timber, therefore will not solidify and form a hard membrane of the surface.

It will move with the timber during all weather conditions preventing water absorption and drying out of the tannins.

Mr Hylands first developed the timber oil when he noticed there was nothing on the market that preserved the timber and protected the timber’s natural colour.

Before his time at Deck-Doc, he gained experience when he owned a factory making hand carved, handpainted wooden decoy ducks for duck hunters.

The timber used for the ducks had to maintain its natural colour and stay on the water without absorbing moisture.

After extensive research, he found lanolin (wool grease) gave excellent water repellency as well as UV protection.

Mr Hylands developed lanolin-based timber protection oil and found the water-repellent protection and preservative way far superior and says lanolin is “Nature’s natural UV protection”.

Lanolin comes from the wool of sheep and is extracted from the fleece.

It is a substance that waterproofs, insulates, and protects sheep from the cold, wind, rain and harmful CV sun rays.

Deck-Doc uses the best merino wool to extract lanolin.

Throughout history ancient mariners such as the Vikings used lanolin to protect, waterproof and preserve the wooden boards on their ships.

Many of the ships were away from their home bases for many years and their ships were subjected to wild storms at sea.

They survived thanks to the protection of Lanolin.

Deck-Doc invites all to visit their showroom in Moolap for free advice in a number of important issues concerning timber care.

There is a large selection of timber types that have been exposed to severe weather conditions, enabling people to understand the importance of choosing a suitable timber type. for the right application.

Also know what happens to the different types of decking stains and coatings, how they weather, and the maintenance required.

The friendly staff have useful hints for anyone preparing to build a new deck.

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Learning to Ride

Balance Bikes from Ivanhoe Cycles Balance Bikes (also called training bikes) are pedalless bikes designed to provide fun and exercise and to teach the basic skills of steering, balance and co-ordination.

They are suited to a child from 2 to 5 years of age.

The child simply sits astride the balance bike and "walks" while steering with the handlebars.

It effectively allows them to learn balance without having to learn to pedal at the same time. It cuts the learning "gradient" down. They are also called pre bikes or first bikes.

Balance bikes are becoming increasingly popular, as it is so much easier to learn to ride. Learning to ride can be achieved at their own pace. A less confident child can “walk� it around for as long as they like, then

when ready, they can gradually lift their feet and scoo along until they are ready to simply push off and jus roll along.

More confident kids will be flying around with huge smiles in no time at all.

Because they have a sturdy aluminium or steel frame and well constructed wheels they are virtually trouble free, and can be passed down from child to child.

BYK E250L PURPLE $219

GIANT PRE BIKE - RED $199

Mongoose Lilgoose WNR Girls Balance Bike 12 Inch $179

Byk E250L Purple - Girls 14inch Balance Bike

12 inch boys balance bike that is a perfect gradient for learning to ride a real bike

The low stand-over height makes it very easy to get on and off the bike,

LIL ZOOMER BALANCE BIKE - GREEN $99

BYK E200L $189

Little Zoomer Balance Bike in any colour. A fun way to teach balance and coordination! Suitable 2-4 years.

Byk E200L. Balance Bikes make it so much easier for your child to learn to ride.

MONGOOSE LILGOOSE WNR BOYS BALANCE BIKE 12 INCH $179 The Mongoose Lilgoose Balance bike is not only one of the cutest designs we've seen on a training bike.