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an historic record of the Bellingen Playback Theatre Company
performances, events, and membership.
Chronology of Bellingen Playback Theatre
August 1989 - August 2009
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and SUMMARY
2000
Membership: 7 Christel, Josie, Deborah (on leave) Catherine, Gail, Annie & Persia
January 2000 Public performance in Bellingen. ‘Travelling into the Year 2000’ Persia conducts. Catherine back but undecided about whether to leave the Company.
March 2000 International Women’s Night performance. ‘Changes’ Persia conducts.
March 2000 Coffs High Peer Support Camp performance at Valla Beach. Persia conducts.
March 2000 Mucopolysaccharide Association performance at Pacific Bay Resort. Persia conducts. Gail Colley’s final gig. Gail Colley leaves the Company and goes to live on the Hawkesbury River.
May 2000 Big Tour Out West to Moree Department of Housing performance on Mother’s Day for Aboriginal community. Persia conducts.
Deborah is back.
Persia prepares portfolio & Bellingen Playback Theatre gets a Website. Thanks to Annie and Ben.
July 2000 Public performance in Bellingen. ‘Passion’ Josie conducts
October 2000 Louise Gore joins the Company.
October 2000 Coffs City Council Cultural Forum performance @ Boambee Bay Resort. Persia conducts.
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2000: 7 PUBLIC: 3 COMMISSIONED: 4
2001
Membership: 7 Josie, Deborah, Catherine, Louise, Annie, Persia & Christel (on leave)
March 2001 Coffs High School Peer Support Camp performance at Valla Beach. Louise’s first performance. Persia conducts.
March 2001 International Women’s Day performance. Memorial Hall ‘Courage’. Persia conducts.
April 2001 Kempsey Mental Health Services Forum performance at Kempsey. Persia conducts.
June 2001 Public performance in Bellingen for the Solstice. ‘Chocolate and other Pleasures’ Persia conducts.
July 2001 ADD: AD/HD Camp performance at Port Macquarie. Persia conducts. Annie’s last performance.
Annie and Louise leave the Company. Christel is back.
A break is taken from rehearsals until the 2nd September when a ‘burning of the old’ and ‘planning and ushering in of the new’ takes place at Josie’s. An archive is created.
October 2001 Bellingen Shire Council performance “Volunteers” @ Bellingen Memorial Hall. Persia conducts
November 2001 Kempsey Early Intervention Services performance @ Pacific Bay Resort. SAD. Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES for 2001: 7 PUBLIC: 2 COMMISSIONED: 5
2002
Membership: 5 Josie, Deborah, Christel, Catherine & Persia.
March 2002 Family Support Services Conference “Violence in Families” @ Coffs Harbour RSL auditorium. Persia conducts.
March 2002 Coffs High School Peer Support Camp performance @ Valla Beach. Persia conducts. Note: There is no performance for IWD this year.
June 2002 Carer Respite Services performance for Carers of people with mental illness @ Sails Resort Port Macquarie. Persia conducts
June 2002 Carer Respite Services performance for Aboriginal Carers @ Sails Resort Port Macquarie. Persia conducts
July 2002 Public Performance in Bellingen @ CWA Rooms. Persia conducts
July 2002 Macksville Family Support Services Performance for Denise Olsen @ Crescent Head. Catherine sick during performance. Persia conducts
September 2002 Chaplains Conference performance @ University of New England, Armidale. Persia conducts
October 2002 Young Carers performance for Macksville Carer Respite Services @ Yarahappini Retreat Centre. Persia conducts
November 2002 Coffs Harbour Drug Action Teams Performance For Premier’s Dept @ Boambee Bay Resort. Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2002: 9 PUBLIC: 1 COMMISSIONED: 8
2003
Membership: 5 Josie, Deborah, Christel, Catherine & Persia.
March 2003 International Women’s Day performance Memorial Hall Persia conducts
July 2003 Public Performance in Bellingen “Storylines… Interesting Times” Persia conducts
August 2003 Maybe Baby performance for Bellingen High School @ CWA Rooms Persia conducts
September 2003 Foster Carers Performance for DOCS @ Coffs Harbour Surf Club. Persia conducts
November 2003 Poverty Conference Performance @Southern Cross University. Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2003: 5 PUBLIC: 2 COMMISSIONED: 3
2004
Membership: 5 Josie, Deborah, Christel, Catherine & Persia. Persia resumes teaching weekly classes in Playback Theatre @ Uniting Church Centre
February 2004 Carer Respite Services @ South West Rocks Older Carers. Persia conducts.
March 2004 International Women’s Day Performance “Women and Words” @ Memorial Hall Catherine’s last performance. Persia conducts
Catherine leaves the Company Now we are 4: Deborah, Christel, Josie & Persia
May 2004 NSW Home Modification Services Conference Performance @ Pacific Bay Resort. Persia conducts.
July 2004 Public Performance in Bellingen CWA Rooms “ Virtual Reality- Down to Earth or Off the Planet” Persia conducts
August 2004 Maybe Baby performance for Bellingen High School @ Uniting Church Centre Persia conducts
November 2004 Public Performance in Bellingen “ Sweet Surrender” @ CWA Rooms. Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2004: 6 PUBLIC: 3 COMMISSIONED: 3
To treat and celebrate ourselves the 4 of us spend a luxury night @ the Aanuka Resort in Coffs Harbour and combine it with our AGM. Minutes were taken and big plans were made but little was remembered except Persia and Deborah’s dance performance.
2005
Membership: 4 Josie, Deborah, Christel & Persia We decide to invite ‘guest performers’ to join us throughout the year as a way to ‘slowly’ increase membership. We commit to regular rehearsals in the Uniting Church Centre.
March 2005 International Women’s Day performance “Mad, Bad and Dangerous” @Uniting Church Centre Persia conducts
May 2005 Amnesty International Performance @ Catholic School in Coffs Harbour with ‘guests’ Michele Balharry and Sarah Leek. Persia conducts
June 2005 Public Performance in Bellingen “Cobwebs in the Attic” @ Uniting Church Centre with ‘guest’ Dorin Hart. Persia conducts.
August 2005 Maybe Baby Performance for Bellingen High School @ Uniting Church Centre with ‘guests’ Ruth Maitland and Sudarshan. Persia conducts
September 2005 Public Performance in Bellingen “The Edge” @ Uniting Church Centre with ‘guests’ Sylvia Georgi and Michele Balharry. Persia conducts
November 2005 Public Performance in Bellingen “Family Matters” @ Uniting church Centre with ‘guests’ Ruth Maitland & Michele Balharry. Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2005: 6 PUBLIC: 4 COMMISSIONED: 2
2006
Membership: 4 Josie, Deborah, Christel, Persia + 2 trainee members Sylvia Georgi and Michele Balharry
March 2006 International Women’s Day Public Performance Uniting church centre, Bellingen First ‘official performance’ of new trainee members, Sylvia Georgi & Michele Balharry. Persia conducts
March 2006 Punjabi Women from Woolgoolga Performance Commissioned by Carer Respite Services @ Pelican Beach Resort. Persia conducts
June 2006 Public Performance in Bellingen. “As Good as it Gets” @ Uniting Church Centre. Persia conducts.
September 2006 Public Performance in Bellingen. “Seeing Red” @ Uniting Church Centre. Persia conducts
September 2006 ALMA medical professionals Conference Commissioned performance @ Nautilus Beach Resort. Christel conducts
November 2006 Public Performance in Bellingen “Going Bush” @ Uniting Church Centre. Persia conducts
December 2006 Bundagen 25 years celebration Commissioned performance @ Bundagen Persia conducts
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2006: 7 PUBLIC: 4 COMMISSIONED: 3
2007
Sylvia & Michele now full members of the company. We decide to enlist Dorin as promotions person.
March 2007 International Women’s Day Public Performance Memorial Hall Bellingen “Power, Passion & Udder interests”. Persia conducts
May 2007 “Stories from the Plateau” Performance in Dorrigo. Persia conducts
July 2007 Public Performance in Bellingen “In Bed with Playback Theatre” @ Memorial Hall. Persia conducts.
September 2007 “Young Women’s Performance” @ Memorial Hall. Coming out of a long project of working with and training a bunch of young girls from Bellingen High School.
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2007: 4 PUBLIC: 3 COMMISSIONED: 1
2008
March 2008 International Women’s Day performance @ Memorial Hall. “Common Bloody Sense”. Michele conducts.
March 2008 DOCS performance in Armidale for Family Support Services Sleepover @ Sandstock Motor Inn. Persia conducts.
July 2008 Persia attends 10 year anniversary performance of Cape Byron Playback Theatre @ Mullumbimby.
December 2008 “Climate for Change” performance @ Memorial Hall for Bellingen Shire Transition Initiative. Persia conducts.
TOTAL PERFORMANCES FOR 2008: 3 PUBLIC: 3 COMMISSIONED: 0
2009
Rehearsals @ the showground studio space.
March 2009 “Daemons are a Girl’s Best Friend” IWD performance @ Memorial Hall. Persia conducts.
March 2009 “Palliative Care project” gig for division of General Practice in Coffs Harbour. Persia conducts.
March 2009 “Headspace” gig @ Coffs Harbour Education Campus. Persia conducts.
June 2009 Public performance @ Memorial Hall “Walk on the Wild Side” Persia conducts.
SUMMARY of performances;
| SUMMARY: Year |
Public Performances
|
Commissioned Gigs
|
Total |
| 1898 & 1990 |
6
|
0
|
6
|
| 1991 |
12
|
5
|
17
|
| 1992 |
7
|
5
|
12
|
| 1993 |
7
|
9, +8 grant
|
24
|
| 1994 |
4
|
5
|
9
|
| 1995 |
8
|
5
|
13
|
| 1996 |
7
|
3, + 12 grant
|
22
|
| 1997 |
4
|
4
|
8
|
| 1998 |
3
|
8
|
11
|
| 1999 |
2
|
13
|
15
|
| 2000 |
3
|
4
|
7
|
| 2001 |
2
|
5
|
7
|
| 2002 |
1
|
8
|
9
|
| 2003 |
2
|
3
|
5
|
| 2004 |
3
|
3
|
6
|
| 2005 |
4
|
2
|
6
|
| 2006 |
4
|
3
|
7
|
| 2007 |
3
|
1
|
4
|
| 2008 |
3
|
0
|
3
|
| 2009 |
2
|
2
|
4
|
|
87
|
88 / grant 20
|
195
|
Persia has conducted 143 performances
Deborah has conducted 14 performances
Other conductors have been Josie, Christel, Michele, Wendy, Caroline, Phil, Carole & Catherine
Total rehearsals: Approximately 740
Total Membership from 1989-2009: 22
in approximate order of appearance Susan McGowan, Lorraine O’Brien (who
became Persia Wildwood), Deborah Ryan, Gail Colley, Caroline Mueller,
Josie Robinson, Wendy Haynes, Christine Rees, Carole Kostanich, Barbara
Byng, Phil Young, Catherine Campbell, Martin Hogan, Ellen Miller, John
Saunders, Janine Gilmore, Lynne Robertson, Christel Wecker, Annie Bassey,
Louise Gore, Michele Balharry, Sylvia Georgi
last updated: August 2009
