Signal Driver

Patrick White wrote Signal Driver at the request of director Jim Sharman.

A short play (approximately 90 minutes – including a 20 minute interval); a married couple face life through three progressive periods of the journey through life which starts and ends with a transport shelter: at first – a tram stop and later, a bus stop. Their journey is shared with two ever present “beings” that regularly break into little ditties and dances to enhance the plot (contributed by Order of Australia recipient, Carl Vine).

The quartet of performers is comprised of Theo – Noel Thompson, Ivy – Jackie Simmons and the 2 “beings” Jann Alcorn and Shayne Caddaye.

Noella Johnson has the knack of assigning interesting people to interesting roles and the cast of this play is the proof.

Pianist Mary Walters provides the musical backing for the story.

Signal Driver is not everybody’s cup of tea but an interesting piece of theatre, never-the-less.

Roger McKenzie

Picture by Murray Rix – Rix Ryan Photography