Screen Star Events - MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK & GLENDA LINSCOTT - 29 JUNE 2010

Due to overwhelming demand for their forthcoming events featuring GLENDA LINSCOTT and MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK announced this week, Screen Star Events are pleased to announce that they have secured a SECOND date featuring two of your Prisoner favourites! They've been absolutely blown away with the response that everyone has given following the announcement earlier this week - this has been their fastest selling event ever! So, to make sure that people don't miss out, the whole event will also take place in Birmingham on Sunday 14th November too! A limited number of ALL DAY PASSES are now on sale via the Screen Star Events website. If you weren't quite fast enough in booking for Saturday, you might be able to make it after all - but you'll have to be quick because they expect that this second (and final) date will also sell out soon.

Green Lizard Australia - VAL LEHMAN - 28 JUNE 2010

Ever wanted to walk in Val Lehman’s footsteps?!! Well, now you can - literally! Val has teamed up with Australian-owned sheepskin boot Company ‘Green Lizard Australia’ (www.greenlizardaustralia.com) to launch her own Limited Edition range of signature sheepskin boots stylishly adorned with her autograph. ‘Prisoner’ fans have definitely been considered during the manufacture of these luxurious sheepskin boots. Not only is Val Lehman’s autograph delicately embroidered on the side pocket, which also has a ‘prison bars’ theme, included with each pair of sheepskin boots sold will be a hand-signed autographed photo featuring Val as the legendary ‘Bea Smith’. Importantly, for each pair of boots purchased, fans will be helping Green Lizard Australia to benefit Australian charity ‘Positive Women’. For those of you unaware, Positive Women is the only national Australian charity working to improve the quality of life of women and families affected by HIV. (www.positivewomen.com.au).

The Librarians - AMANDA MUGGLETON - 27 APRIL 2010

Amanda Muggleton will shortly be filming a guest role for an upcoming episode of the ABC Network TV Show 'The Librarians'. She will play one of the main characters mother's 'Rose'. She will be squeezing the shoot in between her appearances in Calendar Girls, now playing in Sydney.

A Current Affair - MAGGIE KIRKPATRICK - 27 APRIL 2010

Watch an interview HERE with Maggie Kirkpatrick from CH7's 'A Current Afair'.

The Soap Show - PETA TOPPANO - 11 March 2010

Peta Toppano will be interviewed for The Soap Show on April 9th. If you are interested in asking Peta a question then please submit something to Ian by April 7th on peta@thesoapshow.com

Screen Star Events - LOUISE SIVERSEN - 5 March 2010

Screen Star Events are delighted to announce that we have been fortunate enough to secure another much loved Prisoner star to attend their Events. They only have a very limited number of places available, so if you would like to attend please contact them as soon as possible. Their events are carefully planned to provide an intimate atmosphere in order for you to really get to know the actor. With thanks to Fremantle Media, Louise Siversen will delight the Prisoner fans with a live commentary of one of Prisoner's most talked about episodes - the Episode 600 Riot.

BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, SUNDAY 28TH MARCH 2010 - Guests to arrive for 3pm
GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, TUESDAY 30TH MARCH 2010 - Guests to arrive for 7pm

An event not to be missed! Cost per person: £100 To register your interest, please contact the team at loukelly@screenstarevents.com

Madagascar - AMANDA MUGGLETON - 1 March 2010

Madagascar is the haunting story of a mysterious disappearance that changes three lives forever. At three different points in time, three people find themselves in the same hotel room overlooking the Spanish Steps in Rome: June, a young woman who works as a tour guide of the city's ancient ruins; Lilian, her wealthy and elegant jet-setting mother; and Nathan, an awkward university economist and the best friend of Lilian's deceased husband. "When I read this play, I could not put it down. I was captivated by the beauty of the language and enticed by the fascinating mystery that lurks beneath this delicate character study. Amanda Muggleton, who has entertained so many of you over the years, returns to Perth to bring to life the matriarch of the play alongside Rebecca Davis. I hope you will enjoy unravelling the mystery as much as I did." Kate Cherry. "Madagascar" opens at the Playhouse Theatre, Nedlands (Perth, WA) on 23rd October to 7th November.

Calendar Girls Tour Dates - AMANDA MUGGLETON - 24 February 2010

CALENDAR GIRLS is based on the very successful film of the same name starring Helen Mirren and Julie Walters, which in turn was based on an uplifting and inspiring true story that is quirky, poignant and hilarious. A group of extraordinary middle-aged women, members of a very ordinary Yorkshire Women's Institute, spark a global phenomenon by persuading one another to pose for a charity calendar with a difference! As interest snowballs, the Calendar Girls find themselves revealing more than they'd ever planned!

With a number of special guest stars still to be announced, CALENDAR GIRLS is thrilled to have secured Lorraine Bayly, Rhonda Burchmore, Cornelia Frances and Amanda Muggleton to play four of these magnificent women.

Currently playing to sold-out houses at the Nöel Coward Theatre on the West End, CALENDAR GIRLS will play Brisbane Lyric Theatre from Thursday 8 April to 18th April. It will then move to the Theatre Royal, Sydney from 29th April to 13th June and then on to the Comedy Theatre, Melbourne from 17th June to 1st August, 2010.

Fanfayre - PETA TOPPANO - July 2010

Actress PETA TOPPANO star of ‘Prisoner’, ‘Return To Eden’, ‘Home & Away’ and ‘Fields of Fire’ is returning to the UK this coming summer! Peta's upcoming trip will include a Lunch Event with fans at The Old Joint Stock Theatre in Birmingham, UK is on Saturday 31st July 2010. For anyone interested in meeting Peta Toppano, please register your interest as soon as possible by emailing: Hazel Prosser at Fanfayre - events@fanfayre.com

This is a unique and rare opportunity to meet one of Australia's leading actress' in person. DON'T MISS OUT!

Please direct all enquiries to Fanfayre, NOT Peta Toppano Online. Thank you.

For those of you in the UK, remember to tune into CBS Drama on Thursdays at 8:00pm to see Peta and other familiar faces in 'Return to Eden'

 

Me & Jezebel - AMANDA MUGGLETON - February 2010

Amanda Muggleton ("Chrissie") will be starring in a one-woman show called "Me & Jezebel", based on the life of Bette Davis, which opens at the MECC (Alfred Street), Mackay, Queensland on February 23rd (8PM) and February 24th (2PM & 8PM). Amanda will also appear in John Frost's production of Calendar Girls, which opens in Brisbane at the Lyric Theatre from 8th April - 18th April, before touring nationally. Amanda will also be appearing for Black Swan Theatre's production of "Madagascar" in October 2010.

The Swimming Club - CAROLINE GILLMER / TINA BURSIL - January - March 2010

Six friends. A Greek island. A summer romance. Thirty years later, would you dive in again? A seductive new comedy from the writer of Hotel Sorrento and Inheritance. In 1983, when they were footloose and fancy free, they spent one glorious summer together working and loving on a Greek island. Now that they are middle-class, middle-aged, mid-career and mortgaged to the hilt, do they really want to carry all their burdens halfway round the world for a reunion? Stars CAROLINE GILLMER & TINA BURSIL, for Melbourne Theatre Company. For more information, click HERE.

Underbelly 3 - SIGRID THORNTON - January 2010

(From TV Tonight) Celebrity gangsters, crooked cops, violence, sex scenes, a ripping soundtrack, star turns, urban folklore coming to life before our eyes -Underbelly’s infamy is now so well entrenched in Australian television that we know what to expect. As the theme reminds us, “it’s a jungle out there.” Set against King’s Cross from 1988-99, UNDERBELLY's third series has glitzy strip clubs, extortion rackets, drag queens and street brawls. Sigrid Thornton also adds a dash of class to the second hour as Australian Federal Police Inspector ‘Gerry’ Lloyd. Other Australian actors to appear across the series will include Steve Bastoni, Matt Day, Paul Tassone, John Waters, Andrew Bibby, Salvatore Coco, Jessica Tovey and Damien Garvey. For more information, click HERE.

Australia Day - JANE CLIFTON - January 2010

The City of Whitehorse Australia Day Twilight Concert and Fireworks is a fantastic way to enjoy this special public holiday among family, friends and the community. Our Australia Day Ambassador Jane Clifton, a talented Australian actor, singer and writer, will host an evening of reflection, celebration and spectacular entertainment. The concert, to be held at the Whitehorse Centre Soundshell, 397 Whitehorse Road, Nunawading. For more information, click HERE.

Sad News - MONICA MAUGHAN - January 2010

THE Australian actress Monica Maughan has died in Melbourne. A veteran of the theatre, she launched her career in the 1950s and has worked with all of Australia's major theatre companies. She also had many TV roles, including "Pat O'Connell" in Prisoner and Monica McHugh in the 1994 ABC series The Damnation of Harvey McHugh, for which she won a Silver Logie and an AFI award. Read MORE.

Cast Interview - PATSY KING - Audio, MP3 December 2009

Patsy King, best known as Governor Erica Davidson, is emerging from the wings to tread the boards again, in a stage production of A.R. Gurney two hander, Love Letters. First performed in 1988, the play features two actors reading letters their characters have written to each other over 50 years. It has been performed numerous times with celebrity pairings, and picked up a Pulitzer Prize along the way. To listen to an MP3, click HERE.

 

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