The next year, 1990, saw the Society gather a faster pace with four productions, a three act play, a junior play, a one act play and a revue to finish the year.
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Toni Lamb, directed the first production, “Not even a Mouse”, a murder mystery in May with a mixed cast of regular and new performers.
Beth Taylor was stage manager with Dot Buchanan, Hilary Wright, Bruce Whitmill, Beth and Adam Taylor, John Short and Isabelle Powter filling the actor roles, it held the audience in suspense right up to the end.
This was Toni Lamb’s Initial Direction which was to continue over the next four years.
In June, the Society once again participated in the annual StageWest One Act Play Festival, this year being hosted by the Mudgee Drama Society.
Parkes had two entries, “You, Me and Mrs Jones”, directed by Beth Taylor and assisted by Hilary Wright, while the junior group staged “Remains to be Seen” directed by Nancy Main.
In the first play, Ian Wright, Liza Phipps and Elizabeth Hunt performed and this junior play won an award.
However, as always, it was a fun weekend for those who attended and gained much from the experience.
The final production for the year was “Femme Tastic” a loosely themed revue which took a lighthearted look at women’s liberation.
It explored this through the ages, with them at work, in the home and in education, both through a woman’s eyes and the woman through a man’s eyes.
It was not a revue with a deep message but one to be enjoyed and was written by members of the Society.
Alan Wright assisted by Liz Matthews directed “Femme Tastic” with thirty regular members of the Society Combining to stage and produce the entertainment which was complemented with a meal between the first and second acts and coffee and sweets between the second and third act.
