The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 36

Songs from the wing of a Dove Sharyn Cambridge Cambridge pop world KATHY KIZILOS interviews a battler. the first time in her career she is without recording contract. And her old manager has left show business to invest in a Gippsland enterprise. "I didn't realise how hard it would be for me on my own," she said. was in a tight unit for six years, under protective management.

not see a side of the business that existed all along. "I did not know the world was like it is have to push to go out and talk to people, to tell people I'm good. I have to promote myself." Earlier this year she released a single for EMI, You Take My Breath Away, by an English composer. Despite some airplay and a clip on Countdown it was not successful. Ex-manager, Phil Dwyer blames himself for this: he said a record can't be successful without adequate promotion.

Sharyn has three main objectives, to align hermanagement, preferably with overseas connections, get a recording contract, and have her music published. In the year she has been on her own her interest has switched from performing to writing, to the extent that she doesn't. mind if other people sing her songs, just so long as they are heard. She said: "The hardest thing is to motivate yourself. When you are in a band you can bounce off the other members in the band with this I have to push myself and other people all the time.

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She hopes to release this song as a single. She admires Joni Mitchell and Linda Lewis and said they inspired her to shape the way she writes. "What I write is fairly personal I mean I find it difficult to write objectively, to write about things that don't concern me. I hear about writers who do that and can't understand how they can." She has become very selective, a reason why she does not do much live work these days. She does not want to work in clubs, or floor shows, because, "I want to achieve recognition as a song writer to perform in places where my songs will Sharyn remains determined: "I won't leave this business till I'm on my last leg I love it and I'm not going to leave it.

I'm optimistic, I always have high hopes my songs are good songs, strong songs, I'll do MARK LAWRENCE previews a play which has twice been withdrawn from TV- -the first time when it coincided with the death of Pope Paul VI, and on the second occasion because of Pope John Paul I's death. Ambush: In March, 1944. resistance fighters Pius XII and David Burke as Carambushed column of German dinal Volponi soldiers as they marched along Burke's role is perhaps the most diffi. Rome's Via Rasalla. cult.

The Cardinal is aware of the Thirty- -three of the soldiers were glaring errors of the church, horrikilled. In retaliation Hitter ordered fied by the Pope's refusal to raise the execution of 10 Italian civil- his voice in defence of the innocent ians for each of the dead soldiers. victims Yet he has chosen to stay In his play. Choice Of Evils, Jim Allen within the church in the hope that has taken this horrific event and from within he can contribute to inserted his own fictional charac- change. ters to raise the general issue of Cardinal Volponi also appeals to the the relationship between church German Ambassador whom he and State.

finds impotent in the face of the More specifically. he askes for the blind fury and demand for venviewer's judgement upon the then geance emanating from Hitler and Pope Pius XII who made no at- officers tempt to publicly protest or pre- The play's most powerful moments vent the massacre. are provided by the closing scenes The play will be shown in Stuart where Volponi desperately Wagstaff's World Playhouse at peals to Borrelli to sign a 8.30 pm on Friday, November 3. ment disassociating himself from It is for the Roman the ambush (in which, in fact, he easy dogmatic Catholic or humanist to quickly was not involved) spring to one or more of the ob- It is here that the agony of a radical vious conclusions but Allen has mind, at peace with his God but avoided as much as possible using aghast at the actions of his "spirithe play to state his own beliefs. tual screams out at the By exploiting a number of relation- viewer.

ships he manages to present the Lest the reader that Borrelli presume complex arguments of all sides. earns all the points it should be The play's plot revolves around the noted that some of the harsh realifact that one of the hostages ar- ties revealed by Cardinal Volponi rested and destined for execution during these exchanges occasionis a priest, known for his sympaally make Borelli's idealism look thising with communist very fragile sives. This character, Fr. Don Borrelli is The issues raised by Choice of Evils strongly played by Trevor Pea- are not new but never more cock The Father is convinced that vant. In a world seething with the church is to survive it must cial change or the demand for it acknowledge its mistakes and re- the role of the church remains discover the spirit of Christ in so- major consideration cialism" Choice of Evils is an intellectually The Papal rationale for remaining stimulating play boasting good silent is conveyed during a scene production qualities and excellent between Stephen Murray as Pope acting.

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