No Time On

1996

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No Time On

About No Time On

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After 28 premiership-free years and with the town on the decline, Gilgerie Football Club President, Wally Carlisle, has the solution. He sacks coach Silic Hunt and brings in the great Shark Bateman, the man who once kicked four goals in time on to win an AFL Premiership.

But Shark is not the man he once was. The path to a Premiership is not smooth and all the bluster of Wally and self-confidence of Shark begin to look hollow.

Shark has to face the inevitable and Shark's wife, Barbie, is left to pick up the pieces. Billy Glass is heading for the big league and, who knows, a career just like Shark's.

There is no time on now and Nine Times, who's been the club's trainer forever, begins to tidy up for another year, another coach, another dream.

18th - 27th April, 1996

The Courthouse Theatre
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Playwright: Graeme Forsyth
Director: Barry Breen

About the Director

Graeme Forsyth

Graeme is a full member of the Australian Writers Guild and has a range of credits from corporate videos to children's television and feature writing in the print media.

In 1992 he wrote and co-produced a stage play No Time On which played to packed houses during its premier season in Melbourne, before touring Victoria under the banner of the Victorian Arts Council in 1993.

Graeme was formerly a physical education teacher and spent two years at Ballarat North Technical School in the late 1970s. He is now executive director of the Victorian Touch Football Association.

Graeme's other productions with BNT include When Grief Hath Mates (2000), and When Grief Hath Mates (1995)

Cast

Paul Rose

Wally Carlisle

Michael Zala

‘Silic’ Hunt

Ken Prato

‘Nine Times’ Noonan

Anna Pollard

Chrystal Carlisle

David Patullo

Billy Glass

Brett Edgington

Shark Bateman

Bianca McIntyre

Barbie Bateman

Peter Zala

‘Crayfish’ Fisher

Crew

Stage Manager

Wendy Hall
Lighting

Frank and Leon Hanrahan
Sound Recording

Michael Zala
Sound Operator

Wendy Hall
Back Stage Crew

Julie Hancock, Laura Fazzalari
Program and Poster

Barry Breen
Set Crew

Gary Hall, Bob House, Daniel Waffler, Andrew Seeary, Wendy Hall, Peter Zala, Gavin Cormick, Anne-Marie Cormick, Ken Prato, Julie Hancock, Michael Zala, Ivan Downing
Foyer Decorations

James and Ben Zala
Front of House

Yvonne Downing, Ann Savage and BNT Members, Gala night Annie-Marie Cormick
Photography

Daniel Waffler