The Dog Logs

By CJ Johnson

17

by Maggie Scott

MARCH - 2 APRIL, 2023

The Dog Logs

For dog owners, dog lovers and anyone who’s wondering what dogs really think as you gaze intothose deep brown eyes. With a real wag in the tale, The Dog Logs is a poignant and hilarious series of ‘dogologues’ as each canine expresses his dog’s life - from true love, friendship, libido and even death. You’ll be barking mad to miss this enchanting opener to our 2023 Season!

When Dad Married Fury

70 year-old Dad is worth a cool $100 million. His beneficiaries are his two sons… were… until Dad married Fury an American beauty queen half his age. There is no pre-nup. Family greed, jealousy and recriminations bob around in a sea of verbal hydrochloric acid in true David Williamson style, but in the end money is not what connects the family, but committed relationships.

18 AUGUST - 3 SEPTEMBER, 2023

The Appleton Ladies’

Potato Race

BY MELANIE TAIT DIRECTED BY JENNIFER WILLISON

17 NOVEMBER - 3 DECEMBER, 2023

Pope2Pope

Pope Emeritus John XXIX to Pope Pius XIII: Holiness, when I became pope, almost the first word the Curia taught me was ‘ricatto’. Blackmail. Think Agatha Christie in the Vatican. God, mammon, faith, ambition, corruption, sex, incense and Gregorian chant. Not to mention extraordinary revelations. And surprising deaths. The cardinals have secrets, and the walls have ears. And the audience is a fly on this most eternally concealed of walls! Electrifying intrigue by awardwinning Australian playwright, Melvyn Morrow.

All welcome at Lane Cove Art Society

Do you want to learn new skills and progress your art to the next level? Do you want to reach a wider audience? Or do you want to cut loose, forget convention and make the kind of art you’ve always wanted, in your own way?

The friendly atmosphere of Lane Cove Art Society nurtures creativity, with monthly meetings featuring guest artists working in many different mediums, as well as workshops and exhibitions. Everyone is welcome to come to a meeting free, and to bring

The Appleton Ladies' Potato Race

Spitting chips over a race for justice and equality ... citytrained doctor, Penny, returns to the rural town where she grew up just in time for the annual potato race. Penny upsets the potato cart when she learns the prize money is $1000 for men and just $200 for women! The play is inspired by real events in the Southern Highlands - guess where!!

a friend. If you join as a new member, you will immediately be made to feel at home.

The first meeting for the year will be on February 28 and will feature guest artist Ros Gervay, a local Lane Cove artist who paints modern, abstract botanical work. She is adept at promoting her art on social media and happy to talk about different avenues for selling work. (Ed – Ros’s regular TVO column can be seen on these very pages!)

Meetings are held at 7:00pm on the fourth Tuesday of every month in the hall at The Longueville Sporting Club (The Diddy), 243 Longueville Road, Lane Cove. The bar is open and food is available.

All information about the Lane Cove Art Society is easy to access on the Society’s website: lanecoveartsociety.com.au.

LANE COVE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate

Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth

by David McGillivray, Walter Zerlin Jr

Directed by Andrew Castle

10-26 February at The Performance Space @ St Aidan’s in Longueville

Hearty laugh out loud comedy to start stellar 2023 season

After finishing 2022 with the mind-bending brilliance of Constellations and the hi-jinx of the pantomime Hercules, Lane Cove Theatre Company start 2023 with laugh out loud fun.

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of “Macbeth” is an hilarious view of potential mishaps in the world of amateur theatre. The fearless ladies of the Farndale Dramatic Society, along with their Producer and Stage Manager offer up an audacious rendering of Shakespeare’s classic Macbeth. This, they hope, will guarantee them a place in the Drama Finals at Wellyn Garden City.

The ladies have been rehearsing for months … however the old theatre adage, “it will be right on the night” does not come to pass, and whatever can go wrong in a theatre production does and how the ‘Ladies’ deal with it creates chaos.

‘Anyone who has ever participated in amateur theatre will have understood and enjoyed this show safe in the knowledge that at least nothing ever goes quite so wrong in real life. Hopefully.” Noda

Director Andrew Castle says “I first saw the Farndale Macbeth at Hunters Hill 30 years ago… and it is one of the few nights at the theatre that had me gasping for breath, I was laughing so much. To revisit this play after so many years has for me been a sheer delight.”

“… a delightful piece of dribble that is very entertaining and a pleasant way to while away an afternoon or evening.” Stage Whispers

LANE COVE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS:

The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate

Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of Macbeth

Directed by Andrew Castle

10-26 February at The Performance Space @ St Aidan's 7.30pm Friday and Saturday; 2pm Sunday

1 Christina Street, Longueville

Tickets $30 / $25 conc / $23 groups 10+ / add $10 cheese plate/$8 dessert plate

Online booking https://www.trybooking.com/968003

For review tickets, interviews, photos, bios and all other enquiries contact Rachael Ashley at Lane Cove Theatre Company on 0414991006, email lctcpromotions@gmail.com

February Exhibitions at Gallery Lane Cove

Gallery Lane Cove + Creative Studios reopens this February with three new exhibitions including a solo exhibition by artist-in-residence Helen Morgan.

Makeshift Arrangements

HELEN MORGAN

1 - 25 February

Opening Night: Wednesday

1 February

6pm - 8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday

18th February

1pm - 2pm

Makeshift Arrangements draws on the artist’s own lived experience of self-built architecture, interpreting the aesthetic qualities of makeshift structures through printmaking and installation. Morgan presents tableaus of delicate abstract colour etchings and found objects, searching for expressions of the agency and unconventional beauty found within the resourcefulness of the self-built.

Reclaiming Beauty

ANNE KEARNEY

1 - 25 February

Opening Night: Wednesday

1 February

6pm - 8pm

Anne Kearney in Conversation with Dr Chrstine Dean:

Saturday 4 February

11am - 12pm

An exhibition of paintings by Anne Kearney exploring the untamed Australian landscape through colour and experimental mark making.

“What have we got left after the last few years, the difficulties of COVID, and everything else we have been through? Beauty. Beauty is it. For me, I want these works to express a resurgence of hope, and embody beauty and the primacy of colour.” Anne

Kearney

A Journey in Wood

BRIAN DAWSON

1 - 25 February

Opening Night: Wednesday

1 February

6pm - 8pm

Artist Talk: Saturday

4 February

1pm - 2pm

From rectilinear tables, boxes, boards and cabinets, Brian’s work today incorporates the sweeping curves and organic shapes of his sculptures. Often using recycled timber, he experiments with other materials including aluminium nails, paint and Perspex.