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Newspaper
Canberra Times
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Date
Jul 25, 1970
Page
9
Jon Stephens, 23, Australian National University student from 1964 to 1967, shapes theatre with precocious output including a TV series, two plays, three pantomimes, and two film scripts. His life centers on theatre as opening of Pity the Poor Cat approaches.
Do not follow. Henry II saga shows five way power struggle through modern dialogue and a Broadway heritage. Katherine Hepburn shines as Eleanor. Peter O'Toole as Henry. The film uses 12th century politics with a contemporary feel, while a later center cinema romance with Ingrid Bergman and Anthony Quinn falters under distributor pressure.
Jon devoted his life to theatre at Australian National University from revues to plays. He held roles on the theatre group committee and served as secretary of the Performing Arts Council and on the Students Representative Council. After graduation he joined the Public Defence Board while continuing to act, produce, and write. He produced 1968 with Anne Godfrey-Smith and later a solo revue, and created Pity the Poor Cat for the Festival of University Drama in Perth, seeking a small cast and thrust stage.
Four clowns live only in a theatre performing and rehearsing, hunting new bits and puns for spins on the wheel. One clowns dares to step outside, returns with a pull to recruit peers, while Jon devised the script by working backward and Steve Jodrell suggests a simple scaffolding stage for the Perth collaboration.
Music calendar lists Canyon booked with Bally Thorpe for a Friday Albert Hall concert. Parramatta Battle of the Sounds results place them fifth behind Flying Circus Freshwater and the Cleves. Several venue shows span Queanbeyan to Canberra with multiple acts and dates, including Bruce Lansley and the Presidents and others at various clubs tonight through next week.
The NZ Women beat ACT women by 89 to 24 on 32 boards. The ACT men outplayed NZ, winning 76 imps to 44 across four sessions. Canberra dominated the open teams, with Hancock, Hoffman, Pedersen taking red, Dixon, Hunt, Newman, Roper green, Caplehorn, Jesner, Pearson, Thomson yellow. NZ split two seconds and two thirds. The article includes a Thursday bridge problem and solution detailing declarer play and endgame lines.
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