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Couples comedy: (Back row) Timothy Burt, Matthew Burke, Chis Richardson
and Sue Whittaker; (Front row) Chantel Ciano and Huw Jones.
Wacky play mixes
up space and time
The work of the Elanora
Players’ favourite
playwright Alan Ayckbourn
gets another curtain call
in July with the talented
ensemble presenting the
wacky comedy How The
Other Half Loves at the
Elanora Community Centre.
Ayckbourn, who rose to
fame in the 1970s, holds his
audience with the quirk of
playing games with space
and time. He overlaps two
distinct households: one, the
posh, upper-class Fosters;
the other, the messy, middleclass
Phillipses.
Production director Kerrie
King explains How The
Other Half Loves concerns
three couples: Frank and
Fiona Foster; Bob and Teresa
Phillips; William and Mary
Featherstone.
“Frank employs both
Bob and William and is
considering promoting
the latter,” she said. “Bob
is having an affair with
Frank’s wife Fiona and is in
constant conflict with his
own wife, Teresa. She feels
Bob is neglecting her while
she raises their baby and is
suspicious of his actions and
phantom phone-calls made
to the house.
Russian
maestro’s
Bayview
concert
Winner of the 2016
Sydney International
Piano Competition of
Australia Andrey Gugnin
returns to Australia in
July to deliver a national
tour in celebration of
The Competition’s 40th
Anniversary.
Local music lovers
don’t have far to travel to
see the talented Russian;
he will be performing
an afternoon recital for
Peninsula Music Club in
Bayview and everyone is
welcome.
Gugnin was the most
impressive performer
in the prestigious
competition, taking out
four prizes in addition to
his overall first placing.
“Since his stunning
Sydney win he has been
in high demand around
the world as a soloist,
chamber musician and
festival artist,” said PMC
President Janice Tuynman.
The Bayview concert
is part of a tour of six
Australian states and
territories offering
performances including
Bach, Schubert,
Shostakovich, Desyatnikkov
and Stravinsky.
After graduating from
the Tchaikovsky Moscow
State Conservatory
in 2010, Gugnin was
invited to be a regular
participant of the Moscow
Philharmonic Society
program for promising
young artists – ‘The 21st
Century Stars’.
You can see this
wonderful musician
perform at 2.30pm on July
23 at St Luke’s Grammar
School Bayview Campus,
1977 Pittwater Road
(afternoon tea served after
the performance). Tickets
$25; more info 0407 441
213 or peninsulamusicclub.
com.au
“When he returns late,
she confronts him about
his actions and he lies that
he has been comforting
work associate William, who
believes his wife Mary is
having an affair.”
In the play’s most famous
scene, Ayckbourn ups the
ante by showing the hapless
Featherstones, used as
alibis to cover an adulterous
fling between Fiona Foster
and Bob Phillips, being
invited to dinner by each
family on successive nights.
“The joke is that both
parties are shown in the
same theatrical time, with
the Featherstones swivelling
between the two events,”
Kerrie said.
“Our wonderful cast
includes a few favourites,
namely Chris Richardson
and Matthew Burke. We
welcome back Huw Jones,
Chantel Ciano and Sue
Whittaker and newcomer
Timothy Burt, with the
busy and meticulous
Jan Adamson as Stage
Manager.”
Performance dates are
July 7, 8, 13, 14 and 15 at
8pm; matinees at 3pm on
July 8, 9 and 15
plus 11am on July 9.
Bookings on 9979 9694.
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