BOY´S OWN
McBETH
... a really rotten tragedy
By Grahame Bond and Jim Burnett
EARL ARTS
CENTRE
16 - 18 December
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Boy’s Own McBeth toured Australia and the US from 1979 until 1982. It was the longest running Australian written musical ever staged with more than 600 performances and was only eclipsed in the 1990’s by The Boy From Oz.
What the critics said....
“A combination of Welcome Back Kotter, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Shakespeare in Rock n Roll” Sunday Telegraph
“Explosively funny” Canberra Times
“Full Marks” Sunday Mail
ABOUT Boy´s Own McBeth
Terry Shakespeare is really the school old boy – he’s 42. He’s been in fifth form for 26 years and his two children Dopey and SS are in the same class – but he’s not silly... he’s turned staying at school forever into a tax dodge.
Finally the school becomes desperate to offload Terry and his boys, so the headmaster hatches a plot to get rid of Shakespeare. If he passes they can finally boot him out. So they make him direct the school play Macbeth.
In a bizarre send-up of the happiest days of your life, the authors have assembled a cast of swots, crawlers, stirrers and dunces into a pantomime which took the Australian public by storm, both for its outrageous antics and appealing music and, more seriously, its glimpse of the doubts and confusion which haunt the school-leaver.
ABOUT Grahame Bond
Grahame Bond has been entertaining and informing Australians for over 30 years. Famous for his ABC comedy series The Aunty Jack Show, followed by Flash Nick from Jindivick, Wollongong the Brave and the Off Show, Grahame has won numerous awards, including a Logie for Best Australian Comedy (Aunty Jack), and an Awgie Award from the Australian Writers´ Guild in recognition for his contribution to Australian comedy.
More recently, Grahame has had a six year stint as an Architect on Better Homes and Gardens, followed by his own show Whose House is it Anyway on the Seven Network. He has just completed writing a new musical Boil of Cathar with Jim Burnett. The play is set in Australia during the 13th Century and will be production by July 2010.
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