Artistic Director: Robert Kimber

Technical Director: Tim Gow

Business Manager: Philippa Whitcombe

COMMITTEE: Marilynne Hanigan (President), Peter McGlone and David Molesworth (Vice Presidents), Esther Trewarden (Secretary), Ken Conway (Treasurer/Public Officer), Tony Soszynski, Terry Kenwrick, Marcus Eyre, Kathy Clothier, Graeme Townes, Gael Morris (Committee Members)

SPONSORS: Theatre Board - Australia Council, NT Government - Department of Community Development, Carlton and United Breweries, TAA The Friendly Way, Australian Blue Metal, Bunnings Timber and Hardware, Darwin Pharmacy, Educational and Technical Books Parap, Groote Eylandt Mining Company, Moke Rentals, Darwin Hotel, Paspaley Pearling Company, Studio Arts, Territory Insurance Office, Tivoli Music House

HIGHLIGHTS:

• DTG on Top FM, Sunday Morning, September, with People
  
• Richard Creswick scores the part of Happy Dick, the local public relations consultant, in the film “We of the Never Never”
  
• DTG participated in Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony with excerpts from You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown.

WORKSHOPS:

• “Improvisation and Acting - Incorporating Mime, Dance, Sound-Making, Music” with George Whaley from NIDA, May, Parap Primary
  
• “Improvisation” with Robert Kimber, April, Brown’s Mart
  
• “Nobody Ever Told Me That - Stage Management” with Tim Gow Brown’s Mart Rehearsal Room
  
• “Lighting” with Tim Gow, Brown’s Mart, May

So Yer’s Reckon Yer’s An Orstrylyin Does Yer! by Robert Kimber

Playreading, Lunchtime Performance
PRODUCTION Brown’s Mart, January, for Australia Day
CAST Helen Horsfield, Kathy Clothier, Denise Goodchild, Ken Conway, Terry Kenwrick, Robert Kimber, David Molesworth

· The Roy Murphy Show by Buzo

Playreading
PRODUCTION Brown’s Mart, February, 1 Performance
DIRECTOR Andy Farrant

Buffaloes Can’t Fly by Simon Hopkinson

“Set near Katherine in the1920’s, one man’s attempts to establish an air service.”

Premieres in Adelaide during April 1981 at the Australian Drama Festival Won the Critics’ Award for the Most Innovative Play of the Festival.

Best Performance: Marilynne Hanigan

Best Script: Simon Hopkinson
PRODUCTION Little Theatre, Adelaide University, April, 8.15pm, 9 Performances Tickets: $5.00/$4.00
DIRECTOR Simon Hopkinson
CAST Marilynne Hanigan (Laura Hargrave) Peter McGlone (Reginald Hargrave) Colin Jacobus (Jack Glover)

Buffaloes Can’t Fly by Simon Hopkinson

TOUR Alice Springs, Tennant Creek, Katherine, Gove, Groote Eylandt, Jabiru, Mataranka, Warrego Community Hall

Melfi and Becket

Playreading
DIRECTOR Tony Soszynski

The Bougey Family Written and Devised by Simon Hopkinson

Special feature of the Bougainvillea Festival


DIRECTOR Simon Hopkinson
CAST Ken Conway

Absurd Person Singular by Alan Ayckbourne

“A kitchen farce set in England.”

PRODUCTION Brown’s Mart, February, 13 Performances
DIRECTOR Robert Kimber
LICHTING: Tony Soszinski
STAGE MANAGER Les Browell
CONTINUITY Tracy Carr
LICHTING: DESIGN Tony Soszinski
DECOR Ben Petts
LICHTING: Marika Benn, Kerry Laizans, Judi Stevenson, Tony Soszinski
ASST STAGE MANAGERS: Peter Buckley, Brendan Rooney
WARDROBE Jenny Atkinson, Konstanze Hessing, Janet Wimbridge
SOUND: Peter Darton, Denise Goodfellow
CAST Kathy Clothier (Jane) Terry Kenwrick (Sidney) Richard Creswick (Ronald) Jessica Knight (Marion) David Molesworth (Geof) Ann Warburton (Eva)

Bleedin’ Butterflies by Doreen Clarke

“A story of three women. Set in a WA depression camp by the Canning River Bridge in 1932.”

PRODUCTION March, 10 Performances
DIRECTOR Robert Kimber
STAGE MANAGER Marcus Eyre
DESIGN Sue Livings
COSTUME DESIGN Diana Jones
WARDROBE Kath Wright, Peg Gad, Christa Roderick
PUBLICITY Adriane Ross
LICHTING: Andy Farrant, Michelle Simmons, Gail Coffey
PROPERTIES Elizabeth Andrew, Lillian Gerner, Lydia Cuttriss, Kerry Laizans
STAGE HANDS Denise Cooper, John Basian, Ian Jones, Noel Clothier, Bruce Towston, Steven Pope
CONTINUITY Marjorie Frystack
FOH Annie Hastwell
POSTER & PROGRAMME DESIGN Ken Foster
CAST Shayne Laybutt (May) Michael Glasson (Jimmy) , John Evans (Jack) Dawn Ray (Nina)
Peter Fyfe (Leo) Lesley Hastwell (Chris)

Has Love Become A Four Letter Word?

Lunchtime Performance, May

Poetry Readings and Prose

Lunchtime Performance, May

Buffaloes Can’t Fly by Simon Hopkinson

PRODUCTION Brown’s Mart, May, 11 Performances Includes Extended Season!!!
DIRECTOR Simon Hopkinson
DESIGNERS Phil Harris & Adrian Welke
MUSIC WRITTEN, PLAYED & SUNG BY Sand Williams
STAGE MANAGER Adrian Welke
PRODUCTION MANAGER Gael Morris
GRAPHIC DESIGN Ken Foster
SET CONSTRUCTION Peter Jaensch
COSTUMES: Robyn Ratahai
TOUR MANAGER John Renfrew
CAST Marilynne Hanigan (Laura Hargrave) Peter McGlone (Reginald Hargrave), Colin Jacobus (Jack Glover)

Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Playreading
PRODUCTION Brown’s Mart, May, 1 Performance Tickets by Donation
DIRECTOR Jessica Knight
CAST David Molesworth, Scott Fraser, Liz McGrath, Bruce Rowston

Esson

Playreading
DIRECTOR: Tim Gow

Goodfellow

World Premiere!
Playreading
DIRECTOR: Peter Darton

The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare

For Bougainvillea Festival
East Point Gun Turret, June 25 to July 11
2834 Attendances! Extended by four performances!
Special Students/Families $2.00 Tickets on Monday and Tuesday nights.

DIRECTOR: Robert Kimber
PRODUCTION MANAGER: John Edwards
STAGE MANAGER: Esther Trewarden HOUSE MANAGER: Annie Hastwell, John Hyland, Andrew Edwards, David Grey, Tim Gow, Paul Lukitsch
WARDROBE: Kathy Wright, Mona Clothier, Peg Gard, Jean Gillies, Jane Hartwig, Dot Rawlings, Christa Roderick, Hamer Wallace
PROPS: Peter Jaensch, Lillian Gerner, Carol Willson
LIGHTING TECHNICIANS: Andy Farrant, Terry Kenwrick
LIGHTING: Judy Calvert, Peter Darton, Val Hammond, Bill Thomson
SOUND: Peter McGlone, John Bowley, Les Browell, David Booth
MAKE-UP: Jessica Knight, Kay Cook, Barbara Cox, Robyn Crompton, Robbie Giblin, Pat Morton, Glenys Savage, Margaret Towell, Elaine Edwards
DESIGN: Justin Hill WARDROBE MISTRESS: Kathy Wright
COSTUMES: David Grey, Robyn Ratahai
TECH DIRECTOR: Tim Gow
PROPS ASSISTANT: Phil Harris, David Gray, Stephen Duddy
PROPS: Peter Jaensch
CAST: Kerry Laizans (Jessica) Mark Norris (Launcelot), John Evans (Lorenzo) Alan Youngson (Skylock),Maryanne Haslam (Portia) Andy Bruyn (Solanio) Hugh Campbell (Salerio) Bruce RowstonLynda Haddow (Maid One) Bob Whitford (Antonio) Noel Clothier (Gobbo) Michael Glasson (Bassanio) Kathy Clothier (Nerrissa) Kay Bender (Maid Two)

A Squeaking of Rats by Elizabeth Perkins

Playreading
DIRECTOR: Peter Darton

Scarcity of Common Ground by Denise Goodfellow

Playreading
Brown’s Mart, July, 1 Performance

DIRECTOR: Denise Goodfellow

SPECIAL GUEST: Cec Black

People by Jules Feiffer, Devised by Robert Kimber

“Light hearted portraits.”

Lunchtime Performance
Brown’s Mart, August, 12.15pm, 1 Performance

CAST: Liz Andrew, Andy Bruyn, Jessica Knight, Tony Soszynski, Val Hammond, Peter Jaensch

The Runcible State of Mind by Simon Hopkinson

“On Lear”

Reading
Lunchtime Performance

LIMERICKS BY/CAST: Simson Hopkinson, Marilynne Hanigan, Tom Pauling

Has Love Become ...

Playreading
Lunchtime Performance

Silly Stuff by Simon Hopkinson

“On nonsense.”

Reading
Lunchtime Performance

Travelling North by David Williamson

Playreading
Brown’s Mart, August, 1 Performance

DIRECTOR: Noel Clothier
CAST: Kath Wright

Traitors by Stephen Sewell

“A political thriller based on the methods used by Stalin to set-up his authority in Moscow. The story of people trying to survive in the face of political oppression.”

Brown’s Mart, August/September, 10 Performances
Not Recommended for Children, Season Extended!!!
Tickets: $5, $3 or $2

DIRECTOR: Robert Kimber
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Tim GowCOSTUMES: Sue Schmolke, Bronwynne Cran, Peg Gard LIGHTING: Tim Gow
STAGE MANAGERS:Ian Jones, Dawn Ray
PROPERTIES: Chris Moy
SET DESIGN & PAINTING: Barbara Cox
CAST: Terry Kenwrick (Colonel Lebeshev) Marcus Eyre (Krasia) Marilynne Hanigan (Anna) Ken Conway (Joe Rubin) Jessica Knight Kerry Laizans (Ekaterina) Rob Smith & Jan Tokarczyk (Police Guards/Peasants)

1146 Attendances

Habeas Corpus by Alan Bennett

“A lecherous GP tries to get a hypochondriac to commit suicide.”

Playreading
Bown’s Mart, April, 1 Performance
Tickets by Donation

CAST: Derek Rousham, Kevin Gould, Margot Cox, Bob Whiteford, Helen Sharp, Betty Gould, Nora Miller, Peter Darton, Andy Bruyn, Philippa Whitecombe

Moving On, Moving On by Simon Hopkinson

“Two ladies in their thirties take the coach trip of a lifetime through the Territory.”

World Premiere!
Commissioned by DTC
Brown’s Mart, October, 11 Performances
Tickets: $5.00/$3.00/$2.00

DIRECTOR: Robert Kimber
STAGE MANAGER: Tim Gow
DESIGN: David Grey
PROPERTIES: Pat Moreton
LIGHTING: Judy Calvert SET: John Hyland
PRODUCTION ASST: Amanda Kirby
TOUR MANAGER: John Renfrew
CAST: David Molesworth (Neville) Val Hammond (Jennifer) Annie Warburton (Marlene)

Moving On, Moving On by Simon Hopkinson

“Two ladies in their thirties take the coach trip of a lifetime through the Territory.”

Tour: Alice Springs - Totem Theatre, Warrego, Elliott, Katherine - Rollerskating Drome, Pine Creek, Jabiru, Howard Springs

· An Inspector Calls by J B Priestley

Brown’s Mart, November, 4 Performances

DIRECTOR: Peter Darton

You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown

“A musical play based on the characters from the Peanuts cartoons.”

Brown’s Mart, Nov 26 to Dec 12 (+ 2 matinees)
Family of Four $12.00

DIRECTOR: Tony Soszynski
ASST/MUSIC DIRECTOR: Esther Trewarden
PRODUCTION MANAGER: Ken Conway SET DESIGN: Tony Sosynski
LIGHTING DESIGN: Andy Farrant/Tim Gow
COSTUME DESIGN: Carol Kenwrick
STAGE MAN/PROPS: Bridget Agrew, Peter Jaensch
LIGHTING OPERATORS: Maaike Benn, david Baldock, Bob van Pierce, Kym Royal
POSTER & PROGRAMME DESIGN: Terry Kenwrick
HOUSE MANAGER: Sandra Widen
SET CONSTRUCTION: Mark Smith,
WARDROBE: Carol Kenwrick
CAST: Andy Bruyn (Charlie Brown) Cassie McGuiness (Lucy) Geoff Wall (Linus) Chris Fearn (Schroeder) Christine Brown (Patty) Leila Kalan (Little Red Haired) John Rogers (Snoopy)

Showtime Devised by Robert Kimber

Special performance for NT News end of year staff party.

The Christmas Capers of Cocky Created by Maggi Phillips and Simon Hopkinson

Joint venture between DTG, Darwin Dance Mob and Brown’s Mart Community Arts

5 x Tuesday Lunchtime Concerts

DIRECTOR: Simon Hopkinson x 2
DIRECTOR: Robert Kimber x 2
DIRECTOR: Gael Morris (current President)

One later broadcast on TOP FM.