Desert Song
Frankston Teachers College
December 1965
A dashing rebel leader whose band of freedom fighters, the Riff, threaten the safety of a French outpost in the Moroccan desert. … Margot, a French girl soon to be married at the fort, is in love with the Red Shadow, little suspecting his true identity.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director | G. E. Brennan |
Musical Director | B. Gleeson |
Choreographer | Stelsa Carruthers |
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Stage Manager | Fred Wagg |
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Wardrobe | Nance Wagg |
Scenery Design | John Downie |
Lighting Design | Peter Hart |
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Assistant Music Director | Nylma Spark |
Organist | Nylma Spark |
Pianist | Judy Hyde |
Set Construction | John Downie |
Photographs | Joe Szczepanski |
Assistant Stage Manager | Lorrane Williams |
Make Up | Dawn Fletcher |
Ticket Secretary | Eunice Brennan |
Publicity | Pam Irvine |
Front of House | Bob Hallett |
| Margo Hallett |
Program Design | Gordon Brennan |
Production Assistants | Judy Grieg |
| Coral Porter |
| Claire Durkin |
| Dora Warner |
| Owen Marsh |
| Ross Richards |
| Bruce Blenheim |
| Margaret McGregor |
| Dorothy Thompson |
| Mavis Conlan |
| Alan Warner |
| Harry Thompson |
| Georgie McIlory |
| Roger Townsend |
CAST
Pierre | Robert McGregor |
Margo | Lorraine Hart |
Paul | Cliff Hallett |
Bennie | Arthur Mead |
Suasn | Elvie Mead |
General Birabeau | Martyn Keeley |
Azuri | Esther Greig |
Ali-Ben-Ali | Ian McWilliams |
Hassi | Bern Conlan |
Clementina | Gladys Bailey |
Sid-El-Kar | Harold Knott |
Hadji | Walter Spurrell |
Neri | Dorothy Wilding |
Edith | Nioma Allen |
Mindar | David Copeland |
Lt. Laverne | Ray Abbott |
Riffs, Soldiers | Ray Abbott |
| Ted McMahon |
| Jack Wilding |
| Alan Warner |
| Jim Richards |
| Peter Capon |
| Norm Smart |
| Rod Carruthers |
| John Rekers |
| Lou Taylor |
| Wally Spurrell |
| Jim Harris |
| Richard Froude |
| David Rich |
| John Langman |
| George Bailey |
| Eddie Jones |
| Mike Porter |
Spanish Girls, Soldiers Wives | Veronica Ferguson |
| Coral Rekers |
| Sally Maunder |
| Julia Power |
| Sheila Haylock |
| Sue Kinnersly |
| Pam Irvine |
| Marie Couper |
| Mavis Langman |
| Coral Langman |
| Mary Kerrigan |
| Jean Riley |
| Roslyn Da Costa |
| Judy Aisbett |
| Pamela Bull |
| Pamela McCook |
| Dorothy Wilding |
| Noelyne Godson |
| Marilyn Langman |
Dancers | Pat Blencowe |
| Joan Keeley |
| Karen Brent |
| Cheryl Brent |
| Barbara Evans |
| Jan Gilbert |
| Joan Hooke |
| Madeleine Turnbull |
