Australia 2017 - Day 44 - 7th April

Day 44

Had a quiet morning resting up after the last few days and in the afternoon went to see Cerys’ year in their Easter Bonnet parade.   It started off as they all marched from the school and did a couple of laps of the Forest Way Shops.  After this they all marched back to the school and had a special event in the playground when, class by class. They all paraded around for the other children.

The walk around the mall

Cerys has spotted us

Outside the Mall Cerys has missed me but Alyssa has not

Class waiting their turn to march

Now they are off.  Notice the two in cardigans on a baking hot day

Cerys’s hat was a little too big for her and she had to keep hold of it as she marched around.

Careful she doesn't lose it

That's a better fit 

Then I returned home and got ready to go out to the theatre. I had given up a ticket for the Swannies (AFL) to go and see this. It was a new play called Fallen and was being put on at the Reginald Theatre at the Seymour Centre,

Not knowing where to go I arrived early just to make sure I could park OK before the show. When I had found it I parked my car and went for a drink and something to eat in the Duck Inn opposite.

The Duck Inn

Inside the duck Inn

I then entered the theatre and settled down to watch the play.

The foyer of the Seymour Centre

The Reginald Theatre

Fallen

Featuring a diverse, all-female cast, this new Australian work is set in London in 1848 and explores six “fallen” women being given a second chance. Their pasts are behind them, and they have been promised a clean slate on the other side of the world, in the new colonies of Australia.

Sealed off from the outside world, they cook, they clean, they sing, and they sew. They practice the arts of being female while they wait for their new lives to begin. But as the date of departure draws near, the women begin to wonder what the real cost of reinvention might be. What is waiting for them in this far-away continent? Are they prepared for it? Are they truly ready?

Inspired by the history of Urania Cottage, a home for “fallen” women founded by Charles Dickens, this imaginative new Australian work asks – what happens when the promise of a clean slate is built upon the suppression of the past?

It was a really good evening. The show opened with an announcement that this was a trial run evening and asked us not to be surprised if we heard the director call cut and start some parts again.  This did not happen however.

The theatre was very small, only holding 150 people.  All seats were full and the actors were right on top of the audience giving it a strange feeling.  There was a five woman cast and each of them was vey good.  All in all a very entertaining evening.