Art Exhibition Hugh Heaven

Hugh Heaven
even physical challenge for the large
This issue of from the archives
cast and production team. The Evening
celebrates
the work
of Arthur
A proud
Welshman
whoMiller,
Mail review notes in particular a
widelysettled
regarded
the greatest
in as
Birmingham
“towering performance by Patrick
playwright
of hisI generation,
in 1969,
cannot singwho
or died
Cleary in the central role as the
10th February
2005. was
Brought
up in the
speak Welsh,
useless
Brooklyn Waterfront worker”. Louis was
depression
of and
the confess
thirties, tohisbe work
at rugby
played by Malcolm Robertshaw, Mike
reflected
a of
strong
social than
conscience,
more
a deportee
an
by Harry Davis, the young lovers were
deep immigrant.
interest in family and human
played by Laura Smalley and Richard
relationships, and concern for the
Ham with Marcelle Burnhope playing
responsibilities
of theBrummie,
individual. IMiller
An adopted
Beatrice. The play was directed by June
workedpossess
in a variety
of jobs
before
a great
pride
in he
Meller and stage managed by Ted
began our
writing
plays
scripts
great
city.and
Myradio
career
Bennett.
with his
first
Broadway
play ThePrimary
Man schools
was
spent
in Birmingham
with the last twenty one years as
Who Had
All The Luck
openingDixon
in 1944.
Headteacher
at George
Junior and Infant School.
Ten years ago the play was Miller’s
Miller declared that “in all my plays and
On
my
retirement
I
decided
to
return
to developing
my artistic
talent.
I sought
Broken
Glass, written
in 1994
about
the
books I try to take settings and dramatic
helpfrom
and guidance
from Allison
and Karen
Birdwar
at Lichfield
College.
pre-second
world
era when
the
situations
real life which
involveChurchill
Terry Mullet
and
Peter
Valentine RBSANazis
have been
mentors
over the
wereinspirational
overwhelming
Germany,
real questions
of right
and
wrong”.
years, lately to be joined by Mary Griffin
andRBSA.
the world began to realise what was
happening to the Jews in that country.
Highbury have produced all of Miller’s
I
also
enjoyed
ten
years
as
a
guide/enabler
Birmingham
Museum
Art
Miller isatalso
looking back
to hisand
own
plays with ‘A View from the Bridge’
Gallery.
It was a2005,
fine opportunity
to study
appreciate
the magnificent
youth
in and
Brooklyn,
which
still had
produced
in March
just a fewfor me
works
of
art
which
are
displayed
there.
remnants of its pastoral past. That
weeks after Miller’s death. Originally
world and
wasbecoming
to be shattered
andofwould
writtenMy
as ainterest
one-actinplay
1955
wasto joining
the inarts
ledit me
chairman
Sutton
never
be
the
same
again.
The
Evening
rewritten
in
three
acts
but
proved
Coldfield Decorative Arts Society.
Mail review reported that the “wordy
controversial as it concerned a false
and
angst-ridden
play
receives
attribution
homosexuality.
The playofisArtists
The of
Sutton
Coldfield Society
has
been a good
social
outlet stirring
and my
treatment”
and
that
“Tony
Mackey,
as
set in paintings
Brooklyn,are
New
York
in
the
late
often included in exhibitions.
Gelburg, is a remarkable study in
1950s and concerns a possessive
I am inspired
by to
thehis
south
west
am a member
ofHyman
the Lamorna
torturedand
torment”.
Margaret
was
uncle unduly
attracted
niece
andof Cornwall
which is concerned
with promoting
interest
in the
Newlyn
and
Lamorna
played
by Mary
Dodd.
The
play
was
driven Society
to desperation
when a young
schools
of painting
andThe
arts. directed by Ron McKechnie with set
illegal Valley
immigrant
arrives
in her life.
and lighting design by Brian Parker.
play retains the power to shock and the
My
style
of
painting
and
drawing
is
quite
“loose” and oil paints and acrylics are
director’s notes states that the
my preferred
. The Impressionists
are ancompiled
inspiration
I particularly Notes
by and
Martin
Walker
production
had beenmediums
an intellectual
and
admire the work of Ken Howard RA and the palette knife paintings of Neil
Pinkett.
The exhibition is an eclectic mix of subjects which have interested me. Enjoy!
For all information on exhibiting your work at Highbury, please email
Sheila Knapman, exhibitions@highburytheatre.co.uk
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The Birthday Party
Art Exhibition
16 - 27 March 2010
From the Archive....