Programme 1965 – The Season That Was Yesterday

REPERTORY presents

THE SEASON
THAT WAS YESTERDAY

by TERRY COYLE

LOOKING AT OURSELVES

. . . Playing games is a natural part of the process of growing up, an aid to physical and emotional maturity; continuing to play them in moderation when we have grown up is good for us in many ways.

The contention that rugby develops such qualities as courage, sense of fair play, manliness, self control, co-operativeness in greater measure than any other game is, I am sure, pure nonsense . . .

I question very much whether the sort of courage that rugby, or for that matter any other game, may be held to develop is the sort that will make [a man] better able to endure pain, loss and disappointment, misunderstanding, calumny and ostracism . . .

The single minded pursuit of a transitory physical glory often prevents the full use of the intellectual and other talents [a man is] endowed with.

This is a serious matter because a successful professional career is much more valuable to both the individual who follows it and the society he serves than the ephemeral winning of a provincial or national jersey, followed by a less useful working life, quite often slowed down by mental and physical fat.

W. J. SCOTT
1964

LITTLE THEATRE, NOVEMBER, 1965

THE SEASON THAT WAS YESTERDAY
by TERRY COYLE

The Cast

JIM SLADE   BRYAN JOHNSON
ANNE SLADE   GAYLENE PRESTON
NORM McLEAN   JACK CRISP
MOIRA SLADE   PRISCILLA BALL
GLADYS RUSSELL   ANNA MOLENAAR
MICHAEL LOGAN   BRIAN HOWLETT

Directed by DAVID MONRAD

The scene is a small house in a provincial New Zealand town

ACT ONE   Early Saturday afternoon in summer
FADE
Later that evening

ACT TWO   Saturday Morning two weeks later
FADE
Saturday Evening
FADE
A few minutes later

ACT THREE   Early next day (Sunday)
FADE
An hour later
FADE
Shortly after
CURTAIN

This premiere is the Society’s 87th major production

PRODUCTION
Stage Manager   GRAHAM MURRAY

Assistant Stage Manager   MURRAY FARQUHAR

Prompt   MARY COLWILL

Properties   GWENYTH MENTZER, LEONE WHITE,
TRICIA DINGLESTAD, SUZAN GRIEG

Sound Effects   MICHAEL FAGG, HEATHER WALKER

Decor   JUNE ALLEN, JOAN TITTER

Set painting   SUE SWANNEY, NAOMI ORMSBY,
BERYL GOLNER, WALTER GOLNER,
OLIVER CHRISTOFFERSON

Switchboard   KEVIN FLOWERS,
MICHAEL MCCARTHY

Set Construction   PETER WARE, MURRAY FARQUHAR,
COLIN EAGLE, JOHN MATTHEWS

Publicity   ROY PEACH, TERRY COYLE
BRIAN HOWLETT, ERIC BALL

Theme music composed and played by DON MORI

Acknowledgments
LONG & BARDEN   stage drinks
McGLASHANS LTD.   furniture
ROTHMANS   cigarettes
MISS MARGARET McKENZIE   historical photographs
McCONNELLS PHOTO SERVICES LTD.
MARTIN PRINTING CO. LTD.
GREATBATCH LTD.
We would like to thank TIM McCARTHY for construction of additional scenery effects

Printed by Martin Printing Co. Ltd.