AustLit

Intimate revue.

The highlights of this Phillip Street revue, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, included Gordon Chater as

'a gushingly insincere host at a party, as a lovelorn pterodactyl aroused from icy Artic entombment by a hydrogen bomb, as a raddled old barmaid named Gracious Greta, and as quizmaster Bob Dyer.... Lyle O'Hara, still expert in her mimicking of grotesque people, tantalised her audience with her impersonations of a twitchy little boy scout trying to keep the peace among fairies who refused to believe in people, of a cynical old bingo expert impatient of twittering newcomers, or of a giddy garden lover progressively dismayed by the rabbit-paced multiplication of a multicoloured bush from Mars'. Judi Farr presented a revised version of Cinderella, 'wherein the ash-grubber was shown to be a bored stiff beatnik who didn't want to go to the palace hop', while Kevan Johnston scored a hit with his tango built around a lovers' quarrel (22 October 1959, p.7).