Our History
Three Months Gone
13 Apr – 19 May 1973
The Program cover
Courtesy QPAC Museum.
Venue
La Boite Theatre, Brisbane
Producer
La Boite Theatre
Director
Jane Atkins
Playwright
Donald Howarth
Cast
Kaye Stevenson
Garry Renshaw
Mark Doherty
Margaret Hickey
Edward Thompson
Set Designer
Peter Copeman
Lighting Designer
Chris Johnson
Jane Atkins
Sound Designer
Brian Pickering
Alan Ball
The English play Three Months Gone by David Howarth, directed by Jane Atkins, attracted media attention for its sexual content.
Sunday Sun writer Brian Johnston (April 22, 1973) wondered why “our usually vigilant moral guardians” had allowed “two men to go through embraces – kissing each other openly right on the mouth”, but nevertheless praised it as “an hilarious, delightful, touching and truly entertaining evening of adult theatre that earns a much better audience than it is getting at La Boite”.
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Three Months Gone program list of cast and crew, 1973.
Courtesy QPAC Museum.
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Well, well, well,,,,, here I am, many years later - what a wonderful experience it was doing that play in theatre in the round , a new concept of an historic system......I was in 'Three Months Gone' and when I kissed my fellow actor on the lips, in reach of the audience, it was a first for Brisbane - if not Australia.... for part of the play I wore only a bikini bottom...(nice to be thin)...from memory it was a great run, with good houses every night, and, I think, a return season some weeks later..... pity I couldn't afford to stay in theatre and become famous on stage like my fellow cast members..... Garry Renshaw