Programme 1964 – The One Day Of The Year

NAPIER REPERTORY PLAYERS

THE
ONE DAY
OF
THE
YEAR

by ALAN SEYMOUR

This richly human addition to the new naturalistic drama that has sprung up in Australia during the last half-dozen years made considerable impact on critics and audiences alike when it was produced in Sydney and Melbourne by Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, and in London by the trust in conjunction with the Fifty-nine Theatre Company and Laurie Lister.

Throughout this play, Alan Seymour has fused private and public issues in a way that illuminates the attitudes of two generations of Australians.

APRIL 4-11

The
One Day
of
The Year

LITTLE THEATRE, MCGRATH STREET

The Cast

Alf Cook   Brian Howlett
Wacka Dawson   Walter Gollner
Dorothy Cook   Renee Taylor
Hughie Cook   Terry Coyle
Jan Castle   Joan Titter

Produced by David Monrad for Napier Repertory Players

The scene:   A working class home in a Sydney suburb.

ACT ONE:   An evening in April.

INTERVAL

ACT TWO:
1.   Early Anzac morning.
2.   Just before dawn.
3.   Later the same morning.
4.   Anzac night.

ACT THREE:   Early evening, several days later.

Stage Manager:   Graham Murray

Production Personnel

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER   Margaret White

SET CONSTRUCTION   Dick Hood, assisted by Graham Murray, Don Hurley and Members of the Society

SET PAINTING   John Mackinnon

PROMPT   Gillian Davies

PROPERTIES   Rosalie Spence, Pat Spriggs, Allison Beer

FURNISHINGS   June Allen

WARDROBE   Jennifer Thorp

SOUND EFFECTS   Trevor Cardo

SWITCH BOARD   Kevin Flowers

MAKE-UP   Francis Reade, Pat Sinclair, Joan Colwill

PUBLICITY   Neville Baker, Kay Mooney

HOUSE MANAGER   John Fairclough

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Players wish to thank the following for their valuable assistance:
Rothmans, for cigarettes used in this production; Phillips Radio Ltd. for T.V. set; Gwyn Ace, for technical assistance and advice; McGlashans, for furniture; Philip Moore, for publicity photographs; Beryl Gollner, for painting and assistance for window display; Blythes, for window space; Daily Telegraph, H.B. Herald-Tribune, Martin Printing Co. Ltd., and those many others who helped make this production possible.

“The One Day of the Year’’ is the 80th major production presented by the Society since its formation in 1931.

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