Ole's entertaining design on show
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It's a matter of design for retired 最新糖心Vlog research scientist Dr Ole Wiebkin. Now an honorary titleholder in two 最新糖心Vlog departments ( and ), Dr Wiebkin is able to further indulge his other passion: set design. His latest work is for this month's production of Entertaining Mr Sloane, Joe Orton's blackly comic m閚age-�-trois set in 1960s London. "I was very lucky in that both my parents were very talented artistically - my father was a very competent landscape painter and my mother was an outstanding embroiderer," Dr Wiebkin said. "I started out designing in the 1960s in England and kept at it when I came out to 最新糖心Vlog to study and eventually live. I really enjoy being creative, and using colour and space to create the appropriate setting and atmosphere for productions." Some of Dr Wiebkin's design credits include the South 最新糖心Vlogn Jubilee 150 production of Duncan McKie's Emperor's Nightingale, numerous Gilbert & Sullivan musicals, and more recently the sell-out season of Les Miserables featuring Normie Rowe. For Entertaining Mr Sloane, he has sought to recreate the look and feel of a London flat, circa the early 1960s. "It's been a lot of fun," he said. "I wanted to use as much authentic material as I could find, so we'll have the old-style iron from the 1950s which you used to plug into the ceiling light globe socket, and an old ironing board, and so on. "The director, Geoff Brittain, also has a few surprises in store and the set has been designed with this in mind." Story by Ben Osborne
Entertaining Mr Sloane stars Ben Brooker, Tony Busch, Lindy Le Cornu and Bill Ramsay. Performances are from Tuesday, October 18 to Saturday, October 22 and Tuesday, October 25 to Saturday, October 29 (note Opening Night is Tuesday, October 18) at 7.30pm in the Little Theatre. Tickets are $20/$15, and available from the Guild on (08) 8303 599, its or on 131 246.
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