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REMOVAL OF TREES - PALMERSTON
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MS SZUTY: I seek leave to table the response to question on notice No. 381 concerning the felling of trees at Palmerston.
Leave granted.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion by (Mr Berry) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Student Drama
MR HUMPHRIES (4.32): Madam Speaker, I will not detain members for long - - -
Ms Follett: Too right you will not.
MR HUMPHRIES: Okay. I have my marching orders from the Chief Minister. Madam Speaker, I would like to review in a sense a couple of student plays which I attended recently. Members will be aware that in the ACT secondary college system we have an incredibly productive environment in a whole series of areas, no less in the area of student drama. I was so impressed with two recent productions that I attended in the last two weeks that I would like to put on record in Hansard my appreciation for the quality of those productions, in particular for what it indicates about student drama in the ACT.
The first such play was at Narrabundah College earlier this month. Narrabundah College has an excellent drama department, which is well known, I think, throughout the Territory and, indeed, throughout the country. A number of students from that drama department have gone on to places like NIDA and similar institutions. Their production was Lulu, a play from around the turn of the century by a German-American playwright, Frank Wedekind. It was a very risque play in one sense. It was banned in many places until well into this century. The students performed that play with tremendous maturity and indicated the enormous amount of work that had gone into it. Peter Wilkins is the head of the drama department of that college and was the director. He continues to produce tremendously good work and to stimulate an enormous level of activity and creativity among his students.
A few days later I attended, as did the Minister for the Arts, a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream at Phillip College.
Mr Kaine: Who wrote that?
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