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Title | The Green Pastures |
Start Date | 24/06/1959 |
End Date | 27/06/1959 |
Abstract | Farrago journalist states’: “This play is an epic, setting forth with comedy and pathos the religious and racial aspirations of the negro people…Connelly says ‘Green Pastures’ is an attempt to present certain aspects of a living religion in the terms of its believers. The religion is that of thousands of negroes in the Deep South”. |
Author | Marc Connelly |
Music Director | William Fitzwater |
Company | Ormond College and University Women’s College |
Venue | Union Theatre |
Notes | This was the Australian premiere of the play. The play won a Pulitzer prize. Producer: Barbara Ann Stephenson |
Cast | De Lawd – Ron Brandt, Moses – Ian Harrison, Noah – Ian Maddocks, Gabriel – Hugh Newton-John, Adam – Graeme Griffin, Eve – Susan White, Cain – Robert Patterson, Cain’s Girl – Ann Woodward, Zeba – Camilla Maxwell, Noah’s Wife – Jennifer Murphy, Abraham – Barry Taylor, Zipporah – Cynthia Jones, Pharaoh – Gordon Murray, Aaron – James McCaughey, Joshua – Barry Fry. The Cast contained 65 people playing over 100 roles |
References | Farrago (19/5/59 and 16/6/59 p.7.) |
Extra Notes | Olivia Newton-John, as an infant, made her first stage appearance in this production as a Cherub. Also among the large cast was Stephanie Alexander (then Stephanie Burchett). Ron Brandt and Ian Harrison were jointly awarded the 1959 Union Theatre Repertory Company Prize for Student Drama. |