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Major works on boating improvements NEW pontoons have been installed in Mordialloc in a bid to make boating better and more accessible. Work was completed this month to install an accessible pontoon at Pier Road. Its main features will be wider gangways, intermediate landings, grab rails, and tactile surfaces. Work has also been completed on the installation of new floating pontoons at the Governor Road boat ramp. The new pontoons are longer than the existing ones to allow for more capacity. An update on the Better Boating Victoria website reads that it is also
“working with the City of Kingston to upgrade the Governor Road boat ramp carpark to increase boat and trailer parking capacity.” “The upgrade will reconfigure the layout and provide for a small number of extra car-and-trailer spaces. The upgrade will also improve the surface of the parking area, provide safer pedestrian access and landscaping. “A concept design has been developed which aims to achieve the following: provide approximately nine additional trailer/boat parking bays, install a queuing lane beside the boat ramp
to improve the flow and efficiency for launching and retrieval of vessels, upgrade the existing car park pavement, kerb, channel and drainage, improved traffic flows to and from Governor Road, additional landscaping around the carpark, including planting three new indigenous trees for every tree that needs to be removed, and improve the footpath network.”
NEW pontoons at Governor Road. Picture: Better Boating Victoria
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AWARD WINNING ADAPTATION OF ANIMAL FARM HITS THE STAGE AFTER a year off the road thanks to the pandemic, shake and stir theatre company are keen to be back on stage and bringing their award winning production of George Orwell’s intensely powerful novel to Frankston Arts Centre. Co-artistic director Nelle Lee explains it is not just about performing, but performing for and engaging with audiences, which is an essential ethos of the company, “It’s important to be able to offer programs to regional Australia as well as those metro cities. For a company like ours, it’s essential that we maintain that touring circuit, which is such a big part of what we do.” This production of Animal Farm has taken a novel that is a gritty, disturbing tale and turning it into a passionate theatrical romp where the cast enthusiastically portrays the animal characters in a spirited, physical
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performance, bringing the farm and its tragedy to life. While many may see the choice of story as poignant, considering the state of the world, even pre-pandemic Lee felt the time was right to resurrect the adaptation. There will be some nods to Trump in there, certainly the tag line of ‘Making Animal Farm Great Again, Again’ hints that the Trump presidency, which many described as Orwellian, was on their minds when choosing what to take on the road. Created by shake & stir and directed by Michael Futcher, Animal Farm promises to be one of the most shocking, relevant and wickedly funny theatre events of 2021. Book now to see it at Frankston Arts Centre on Friday 27 August, 7.30pm. Tickets at thefac. com.au or 03 9784 1060.