Talk:University of New South Wales Revues

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For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/UNSW Revues

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Past executives

There has been a suggestion (in a discussion about the fate of the New South Wales University Theatrical Society page) that the information about past show titles and directors needn't be included on Wikipedia. I've been involved in the revues myself, so I think they should stay - on the grounds that revues spawn the nation's comedic talent - but I'd be interested to know what non-revuer Wikipedians think about it. Joestella 01:37, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm in agreement. Perhaps Transwiki the info to somewhere on the various revue site. I'm going to move the directors and producers list off the main page to the talk page if someone wants to move it somewhere. čĥàñľōŕď 23:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Med Revues
Year	Title	Directors	Producers
2011	Surgery Street	Ahsas Ranjan, Priyanca Menon, Justin Chau	Jonathan Li, Max Keldoulis, Swahnnya De Almeida, Charmaine Pan
2010	Procrastinator: Infection	Kirit Chaudhary, Sarina Huang, Vincent Law	Dale Sun, Sanori Nilusha Shivaraj, Zoe Page
2009	Pirates of Cardiology: Dead Man's Chest	Robyn Hutchinson, Jack Han, Hein P	Melissa Lau, Tran Nguyen, Owen Tsao, Charles Ma
2008	Happy Foetus	Laura Dawson, Glenn Leong, Tessa Kennedy	Sarina Huang, Kai Loon, Matt Nguyen, Paul Sabau
2007	Kill Bulk Bill	Bambul Shakibaei, Penny Spirou, Laura Whitehouse	Georgie Cooke, Bev Hiew, Steph Hiew
2006	Thrush Hour	Rob Lawther, Bridget Poon, Rajeev Verma	Leigh Dunlop, Alec Ricard, Rachel Smith
2005	Mary's Poppin'	Richard Dixon, Morgan Mitchell, Kahli Sanders	Blake Sandery, Michelle Durkan, Caitlin Hurley
2004	The Cat With The Fat	Chris Jolly, Craig Simms, Steve Bilkey	Morgan Mitchell, Bridget Poon, Ken Liu
2003	8 Inch	Thomas Robinson, Emma McKennna, Anand Rajan	Sarah Magnell, Laura Coleman, Mel Drinkwater (assistant)
2002	Stool Wards Episode Poo: Attack Of The Colons	Jenny Yu, Jinny Skerman, Anand Rajan	Michael Richardson, CY Chim, Jason Appleby
2001	Medicator	Sage Scroope, Brian Francisco, Kieren Bosenberg (resigned)	Jinny Skerman, Gabby Paterson, BJ Glover
2000	American Booty	Renee Lim, Keith Lim, Jason Appleby	Adam Hochroth, Kelly McManus, Alice Rooney
1999	Pre-Millennium Tension	Lainie Arnold, Renee Lim, Richard Pang	Kevin Lurie
1998	South Cark	Lisa Porter, Michael Wong	Lainie Arnold, Amanda Graupner, Joe Heiss
1997	12 Junkies	Steve Davey, Matthew Ding, Seamus Byrne	Lisa Porter, Jeff Selby, David Eyers, Richard Pang
1996	Glitter	Mat Ewart, Stewart Condon, Jeff Selby, Mic Mehmet	Alexi Warn, Terry Lurie, Michael Wong
1995	The Symptoms	Alf Conlon, Karen Jackaman, Andy Szalkay	Greg Moore, Kuru Pancharatnan, Rachel Rothwell
1994	All the President's Phlegm	Lindy Elder, Tim Levy	Nidia Danza, Julian Klentenberg
1993	Missing In Traction	Danny Kingsley, Darren Cathcart (Bobby Dazla)	Nidia Danza, Simon Harper
1992	Herniator 2	Danny Kingsley, Peter Thomas, Tim Downs	Aiveen Banaan, Matt Kinchinton
1991	Presumed Impotent	Danny Kingsley, Steve Myers, Glenn Michel	Lily Tomas, Jackie Boustany
1990	Zen Cabbage	Ramesh Manoucha, Craig McGrath	Sean Murphy
1989	Satanic Nurses	Ramesh Manoucha, Max Malev, Anthony Delaney	John Van Der Kallen, Elke Roeske
1988	Gastro Boy	Gary Latham, Sean Kennedy, Michael Novy	Anne Brady
1987	Dark Side Of The Toast	Max Malev, Sean Kennedy
1986	Twilight Moan	Nick Ignatenko, Simon Adamo
1985	All Crotches Great & Small	Phil Virgona, Dave Rowe
1984	Doctopussy	Phil Virgona, Dave Rowe, Alastair Taylor
1983	ET: The Extra Testicle	Angelo Virgona, Adrian Cohen, Mark Davies	Robert Anderson, Jim Hersey
1982	Merry Maladies: What's up Doc?	Mark Davies, Ken Armstrong	Stuart Stapleton, Richard Webster
1981	A Wet Summer Night's Dream	Paul MacDonald, Michael Kohn, Les Grujicic	Jono Howell, Helen O’Connor, Adrian Cohen
1980	My Brilliant Diahorrea
1979	The Sound of Mucus
1978	Gross Encounters of the Turd Kind
1977	It's Epidemic!
1976	Pandemonia
1975	Rumpleforeskin

Law Revues
Year	Title	Directors	Producers
2010	Abbott in Blunderland	Anna Prell, Mahmood Hussain	Ashvini Thilakeswaran, Caitlin Adcock, Kartini Saddington
2009	Harried Prosecutor and the Prisoner in Afghanistan	Sephora Sultana, Madeline Collings-Begg, Stephan Livera	Arthur Kam, Chen Wang
2008	BAR WARS: Episode QC - Revenge of the Silks	Nic Mendoza-Jones, Madelin Tomelty, Renny Wijeyamohan	Hamish Collings-Begg, Sephora Sultana
2007	Poll Fiction	Lachlan Drummond, Teddy Wang	Amanda Hoh, Reg Leones, Will Merdy
2006	Hostile Powers: International Plan For Misery	Greta Jackson, Shivam Kapila, Reg Leones	Marissa Chorn, Hayley Mednick, Sam Thorp
2005	The Chronicles of Canberra: The Liar, The Bitch & The Xenophobe	Joshua Brandon, Laura Chapple, Nic Mendoza-Jones	Julian King, Jenessa Rabone, Frank Tao
2004	Iraqi Horror Picture Show	Henry Chapple-Cox, Claire Forster, Daniel Mendoza-Jones	Alex Grey, Georgie Parrot, Sarah Smart
2003	Midget John's Diary	Heather Brandon, Nick Carney, Nikki van Roojen	BJ Glover, Daniel Mendoza-Jones, Kate Duffy
2002	Illegally Bombed/Detention Island	Michael Cooper, Adam Hochroth, Ingrid Giles	Claire Forster, Ramona Vijeyarasa, Deme Karikios
2001	Dude Where's Bob Carr?	Tristan Jepson, Katherine Fallah	Nick Carney, Dean Kelly, James Abbott, CJ Wilkinson
2000	Bored of the Rings	Andrew Dyer, Helena Golovanoff, Claire Morgan	Lindsay Leeser, Stacey Kelly, Nardia Simpson
1999	The Last Judgment	Andrew Dyer, Dan Hill, Helena Golovanoff	Claire Morgan, Rachel Eyers, Tristan Jepson
1998	Godzillaw	Hugh Driver, Alina Hughes, David Eyers	Tina Kelly, Helena Golovanoff, Meg Everett
1997	So Sue Me Street	Bill Pardy, Sally Webster, Giles Hardie	Hugh Driver, Helen Wodak, Ben Phillips, Aaron Levine
1996	Coalition: Impossible	Bill Pardy, Michaela Kalowski, Judith Levine	Connor Bannan, Hugh Driver, Giles Hardie
1995	Bombe Perignon	Rick Kalowski, Andrew Jones, Justine Munsie	Rebecca King, Bill Pardy, Greg Moore
1994	Faheywatch	Geoffrey King, Lyndall Stewart, Andrew Jones	Craog Cawood, Rebecca Huntley, Nick Quealy
1993	Juristic Perk	Lyndall Stewart, Chen Jones, Michelle Whistler	Cadell Evans, Samantha Kam, Arthur Kindle
1992	Republic Enemy
1991	QC Hammer: U Can't Judge this
1990	Sex, Bribes & Magistrates	Rachel Brun, Anthea Herron, Tim Nelson	Eileen Camilleri, Ken Foley, Rachel Francois
1989	Simply Inadmissible	Mark Adams, Robert Cook, Phil Virgona	Tim Nelson, Paul Ronfeldt
1988	Witless for the Prosecution Mark Adams, Rowan McGillicuddy
1987	Police State Your Business, or Roll Over Trimbole Gordon Fraser Farrer
1986	The Good, the Bad and the Unsworth
1985	Gone with the Breise
1984	Rebel Without a Clause		Lucy McCallum
1983	Commission: Impossible	Lucy McCallum
1982	If They Could Sue Me Now	Garry Charny, Tim Wardell	Simon Rice, Lucy McCallum
1981	A Penny For Your Torts	Garry Charny, Tim Wardell	Simon Rice, Marianne Kopeinig
1980	Evicta! Don't Cry For Me On Subpoena	Garry Charny, Tim Wardell	Simon Rice, Steven Penglis
1979	Justice You Like It	Garry Charny	Steven Penglis
1978	Don't Give Me the Writz	Bill Brewer
1977	As Crime Goes Bi	Bill Brewer, Peter Batey, David Saul
1976	The Assualt and Battery Operated Show	Bill Brewer, Peter Batey, David Saul, David Gibson

AUJS Revues
Year	Title (Byline? What's the 2nd line called?)	Directors	Producers
2006	Diaspora Housewives	Tali Katz, Lianne Zimbler	Genna Cohen, Simon Bruck
2005	No show	n/a	n/a
2004	No show	n/a	n/a
2003	8 Moyel	Ellie Nagel	Bekky Grammat, Michelle Rozen
2002	Debbie Does Double Bay	Jeff Spitzer	Jessica Kery
2001	Revue Live: Off Broadway	Josh Punin, Ronny Schnapp	Lisa Eckstein, Susan Heymann, Ben Zyl
2000	X-Mensch	Joel Goodman, Dave Skalicky	???
1999	Austin Payos (The Spy that Schtupped Me)	Steven Brandon, Tahnya Rudzyn	Daniel Gara, Sarah Frenkel, Neil Heymann
1998	The Full Montefiore	Steven Brandon, Dave Wolpert	Tamara Sher, Tamara Samuel (nee Greenfield)
1997	Shema Wars	Alex Kery, Andrew Schwartz	Ben Weinberg, Andrew Schwartz, Benjy Rutland, Mandi Gunsberger (nee Smith)
1996	Mishna Impossible	Josh Barr, Matthew Foster	Benjy Rutland, Mandi Gunsberger (nee Smith)
1995	A Fish Called Gefilte	Matthew Foster, Leah Reid (nee Benjamin)	Simon Foster, Elahn Zetlin
1994	Foreskins and a Funeral (The Director's Cut)	Jason Elias, Mark Greenfield	Simon Foster, David Wittenberg
1993	Miss Shugina	Nathan Moss, Kerri Rosen	Paul Slezak
1992	Hook	Paul Slezak, David Rosen	Ben Zipser
1991	Spartuchus (Bigger Than Ben Hirsch)	Dani Klein (nee Rowland), David Rosen	Jodie Kertesz (nee Sharpe)
1990	Teenage Mutant Ninja Rabbis (Kosher, Cool and in the Schule)	Anthony Igra	Marque Owen
1989	Licence to Spiel / 21 Flood St	Greg Gerstl, Drew Tanner	Denny Shagrin
1988	Three Men and a Bagel	Marque Owen	Steven Bloom, Rose Owen (nee Harris)
1987	Little Shop of Schnorrers	Geoff Rosen (dec'd), Darren Isenberg	Liat Silberman (nee Makler), Sarah Tritsch
1986	The Challah Purple	Tony Sloman, Brett Wayn	Adam Silberman
1985	Katz	Ben Joseph, Danny Challis	John Sloman
1984	Broadway Funny Nose	Geoff Sirmai	Joanne Fitzmaurice (nee Bloch)

CSE Revues
Year	Title	Directors	Producers
2009	Gossip Geek	Xin "Som" Guan, Samantha Ho, Alex Bradner (assistant)	Melissa Hong, Stephanie Sandoval, Stuart Robinson
2008	CSE++ //Revue Goes Large	Ben Lambert-Smith, Robert Sison, Anne Sastro (assistant)	Ben Waterhouse, Charissa Upcroft, Emily Siow
2007	Sand Theft Auto: Agrabah City	Sam Gentle, David Loxton, Jebediah Cole (assistant), Carolyn Eccles (assistant)	Alison Voon, Alex Mednis, Jane Sivieng
2006	The teXt Files: Close Encounters of the Nerd Kind	Nick Gibson, Michael Tokar, David Vallance (assistant)	Piyush Bedi, Anuraag Sridhar, Oleg Sushkov
2005	Sin CSE	Matt Lee, Robin Chow, Barry Skalrud (assistant)	Karamvir Singh, Daniel Danilatos, Lily Xia
2004	Star Key and Hash	Joe Au, Craig Foster, Matt Lee (assistant)	Ardrian Hardjono, Margaret Rozali, Victoria Vitaver
2003	Revue Reloaded	Paul Ayre, Kesavan "K17" Paripurapavan	David Abdelmassih, Marc Chee, Savita Varshney
2002	Minority Revue	Matthew Herrmann, Avishkar Misra	Avishkar Misra, Naveed Hussain

Well-attended

An anonymous contributor has softened the language on Law Revue's political leanings - which is fair enough. It was pretty strong. Curiously, this contributor appended "The show is well attended every year" to the paragraph, as if as a justification.

If that person visits again, they may be interested to note that (correct me if I'm wrong) the best turnout Law Revue ever enjoyed was in 2002, the year after what was considered to be a very right-wing show (Dude, Where's Bob Carr?). 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 ran heavily on left-wing themes and were rewarded with smaller audiences from 2003 onwards. This may be related to other factors. But don't kid yourself that audience turnout vindicates the revue's politics.

Of course, if someone out there has the exact numbers, please add them to the article. Joestella 09:40, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

You guys are seriously lacking in historical perspective. I reckon Faheywatch would have gone very close to selling 3000 tickets over the five nights. 203.35.254.234 01:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Yes, but what happened to the money from that show? Ended up under a producer's mattress by his own account. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.43.138.32 (talk) 07:18, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Past Directors

"Former directors ... are often instrumental in annointing directors for the following year."

I'm curious as to how valid a claim this is. They do have their involvement in the enite process of selecting the new directors, but surely it isn't "instrumental" in all cases is it? --Billy C 13:51, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

In Law Revue and CSE Revue, yes. In Med Revue, not so much. Unless things have changed significantly. Joestella 13:59, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

In CSE's case if you are referring to the screening process, it's the orgs comittee who determine the canidates. Current directors would make up only 2 of the dozen or so votes. More ex-director influence could be possible if there were former directors in the orgs team, but this hasn't happened in the past as far as i know --Billy C 05:28, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm aware of the screening process. The article uses qualified terms to give a sense of the persistance of institutional memory in the organisation, not the formal selection processes. The latter are arcane and ill-defined, the former speaks to the history and development of the medium. Joestella 06:00, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Back in the mid-1990s, the tradition was that next directors would be selected through trial by combat, where candidates would be forced to duel naked using chickens strapped to their chests, in a strange parody of the 1970's animated movie "Fantastic Planet". The directors from the previous year would watch and offer advice in overly loud voices such as "Bigger movements!" and "Don't wear dark colours on stage!". These comments were all taken from a one-page document titled "How to direct a Law Revue" handed down from director to director since the early 1980s. The winners would celebrate with a round of nitrous oxide. Then, in the later 1990's, the scene turned to hard drugs and this tradition was lost. This is a pity, as this practice was carried out for many years and hence, pursuant to Law Revue lore, should have been carboned copied in each future year. To preserve this tradition, I will also add this description to the University of New South Wales Revues page.

AUJS Revues not included...?

AUJS Revues

This topic could probably be archived now... AUJS revues have been rightly given their proper place in the main article. The below relates to the previous version(s) of the main article, which failed to recognise the AUJS revue as a UNSW revue at all and as the third longest running revue.

Yoni 10:40, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I hope the 'main author' sees fit to adjust the main 'UNSW Revues' page, given the total lack of credit to the decades of contributions to this sphere of endeavour made by the Australian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS).

Many Law and Med revue band members and tech crew actually got their first revue tastes in an AUJS revue! (true in the mid to late 1990s).

Due to a big downturn in AUJS in general in the early 2000's, 2003 was the last revue for a while, but this year (2006) sees AUJS, backed up by over 600 AUJS revue alumni, resurrect the AUJS revue.

Revue Alumni: [1]

2006 Revue Participants: [2]

Yoni 11:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I was under the impression that AUJS Revue wasn't based in UNSW, unlike the other three major revues, since it came from a multi-campus society. But I do agree that AUJS Revue should be mentioned in the article. --Billy C 05:41, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, some facts:

- The vast majority of AUJS Revues have been held on UNSW

- AUJS (NSW) and AUJS (National Pres., when held by a NSW person) resides/has its office at Shalom College, UNSW

- UNSW is the campus with most Jewish students in NSW, by an estimated factor of 3 to 4 times

- MANY Law & Med Revue hacks have done their training at AUJS Revues (mainly in bands and tech crews), especially through the late 90's.

And, while not meaning to sound defensive, which other revues can claim 100% UNSW staff/student participation? To claim that CSE is one of the 'three major revues' at UNSW, while ignoring AUJS, is laughable.

AUJS has commenced prep for 2006. Sun 30 Apr saw a kick-off meeting with producers and directors being formerly inducted (see tables above). The show is called "Diaspora Housewives" and is booked to go on stage in October 2006 ... just trying to find which stage... ;-)

Over and out!,
Jono Herrman
AUJS NSW Pres 1989 (!!)
AUJS Revue Alumnus 1987 - 1991

147.10.125.99 02:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Revues have been moved to chronological order, except for Arts Revue which is a newly established revue. Please keep all revues in order in future in order to keep things consistent and easy to understand. Editing the Wiki to put one's personal interests in precedence will not be tolerated. If you wish to further clarify details about your revue, please redirect users to another page.

211.31.43.16 12:44, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

re: "MANY Law & Med Revue hacks have done their training at AUJS Revues (mainly in bands and tech crews), especially through the late 90's." - Many people who did the revues in non-cast roles did all 3 revues (particularly the band), so it's difficult to claim that AUJS Revue was the training ground. In many cases, I think it was the other way around. The AUJS Revues in the late 1990s ended up being highly teched by cast and crew who started in other revues (mainly Med, some Law), in part due to the work of one tech director who started in Med Revue as a cast member, later went to NIDA to become a techie and was asked to tech direct the AUJS Revue some time in the mid-to-late 1990s. For many of those who followed him, it was often a case of wanting one more fix of wearing techie black, impersonating pirates, attending revue parties and doing bucket bongs under the Science Theatre stage.

Digitising (Preserving) Revue Videos

The AUJS Revue Alumni have decided in 2006 to try and track down master videos of each year of AUJS revue and digitise them, ie put it on DVD.

Together with scanned images of the programmes and tickets (if clean copies or original artwork can be found), the aim is to produce a DVD for each revue (or we might be able to get two revues onto one DVD given the poor VHS quality we're working with) AND producing a 'best of' DVD.

Any queries or offers of help (equipment, material?!, advice) should be forwarded to the site moderators of the alumni forum.

147.10.125.99 00:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Breaking up the show list

Just wondering why all the shows were seperated by revue and not kept as one list - thought it would be easier to read in the original layout Billy C 07:20, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

• I always hated that list, especially since CSE and Arts leave large trails of white through it. Also, the main reason you'd have a table is to compare information across rows, and there's not much need to do that. Joestella 07:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)