It was that way when I got here
Season 8-11 May 2008
Venue Theatre 3
TheStory
It’s okay to be fat, lazy and drunk, isn’t it?
If you are a Brother at the once prestigious St Flavian’s college for young gentlemen, there is little else to do. Written in a burst of creative energy, this hilarious and light-hearted musical charts the rise of the “Worst Run School in Christendom” and the lives of its dysfunctional inhabitants.
Brother Don is no ordinary Brother. He is an alcoholic history master who has spent the last eighteen years hiding in the monastery from a past that is about to catch up with him.
Plant fancying Headmaster, Brother Ferris has problems of his own. His job is on the line and the Government is threatening to slash his funding. The school’s survival rests on the shoulders of its sometimes talented rugby team and the staging of a new play penned by Ferris’ trouser-chasing assistant, Francha Hollenbrackenhoffa.
The scheming and manipulative deputy, Barnaby Tolfree, smelling a ‘shot’ at the top job has set himself the task of ensuring that the school continues its downward slide into hell. He not only reinstates an old school rule in an attempt to sideline the football team, but also orders the reluctant and inebriated Brother Don to direct Francha’s epic tale.
For Deano, by far the oldest student at St. Flavian’s, changes in the hierarchy could jeopardize his rather extensive and lucrative business interests. He convinces Brother Don to re-write the play and for the first time at Flavians, cast real girls from neighbouring St Brigitte’s.
In desperation, Don teams up with attractive foreign languages mistress Miss Juliet Givings. They soon find themselves struggling to control the newfound feelings they have for each other and the raging hormones of the Flavian’s rugby team who have mysteriously arrived for auditions.
Happiness is not always that hard to find …
ProductionTeam
| Co-writer/Director | Jonathan Flack |
| Co-writer/Director | Andrew Hackwill |
| Choreographer | Lisa Buckley |
| Production Manager | Liz Methorst |
| Conductor | Ian McLean |
| Costumes | Christine Pawlicki |
| Lighting/Sound Design | Chris Neal |
| Lighting Operator | John Cooper |
| Spotlights | Thomas Steele |
| Sound Operator | Simon Ellero |
| Stage Manager | Myles Leon |
| Assistant Stage Manager | Alana Teasdale |
| Props | Jasmine Cooke |
| Set Design and Construction | Brian Sudding |
Cast
| Br. Don | Richard Phillips |
| Juliet | Lainie Hart |
| Br. Ferris | Kevin Crowe |
| Francha | Jane Kellett |
| Tolfree | Michael Heming |
| Deano | Dan wells |
| Brian | David Spence |
| Shirley | Tim Dal Cortivo |
| Fully | Dim Ristevski |
| Antonio | Toby Francis |
| Colette | Alyce Nesbitt |
| Consuela | Anne Timperley |
| Colleen/TS Lady/Female Ensemble | Michelle Klemke |
| TS Lady/Female Ensemble | Gaby Schmid |
| TS Lady/Female Ensemble | Kellie Hart |
| School Girl/Female Ensemble | Alicia Da Costa |
| School Girl/Female Ensemble | Kathleen McCoy |
| School Girl/Female Ensemble | Kerrie Brown |
| School Girl/Female Ensemble | Peita Chappell |
| Br. Mary/School Boy | Richard Block |
| Br. Ishmael/Male Ensemble | Charles Blackney |
| Br. Gracelands/Male Ensemble | Donald Harvey |
| Sister Elton John/Male Ensemble | Mark Woods |