“Millie and Chard win <em>Beauty and the Geek Australia</em>”, <em>Perth Now</em>, 29 November 2012.
Australian TV, <em>Beauty & the Geek</em>, broadcast, Channel 7, Chard, fairytale, finale, jousting, knight, masquerade ball, medieval challenge, medieval festivities, Millie, princess, program, programme, sonnet, television, winners.
<p>This online article from the <em>Perth Now</em> website describes the fourth season finale show of TV programme <em>Beauty & the Geek Australia</em>, from which contestants Chard and Millie emerged as winners. Pursuing a ‘happily ever after’ fairytale theme, the article explains, the first part of the show ‘involved a series of medieval challenges’ – namely jousting and reciting sonnets – for which the couples dressed up as knights and princesses. This was followed by a masquerade ball. Beauty & the Geek was broadcast in Australia in 2012 by the Channel 7 network.</p>
<p>For the news article, see: <a href="http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/millie-and-chard-win-beauty-and-the-geek-australia/story-e6frg30c-1226527045824" target="_self">http://www.perthnow.com.au/entertainment/millie-and-chard-win-beauty-and-the-geek-australia/story-e6frg30c-1226527045824</a></p>
<p>For more about the TV show, see: <a href="http://au.tv.yahoo.com/beauty-and-the-geek-australia/" target="_self">http://au.tv.yahoo.com/beauty-and-the-geek-australia/</a></p>
Colin Vickery
<em>Perth Now</em>
<em>Perth Now</em>
29 November 2012
News Limited Network
Online news article
Castle, Dog Swamp, Perth, Western Australia
Arrowslit, balistraria, Castle, crenellation, Dog Swamp, fairy tale, fairytale, folk song, The Land of Make Believe, nursery rhyme, Old King Cole, moat, Perth, tower, WA, Western Australia, Wunderlich
This derelict castle building in the Perth suburb of Dog Swamp used to be part of The Land of Make Believe display centre. It was created by the brick and roofing tile company Wunderlich and featured small buildings based on fairytales. The castle was known as Old King Cole’s Castle, named after the figure in the British folk song/nursery rhyme. The small brick castle is reached by crossing a moat and has an arched entrance, crenellation, a tower, and balistraria (arrowslits).
McEwan, Joanne
July 12, 2012
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"Rumpelstiltskin" Pan Pow Productions stage performance at Monash University, 1974
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A Photograph of Act 1, Scene 4 from a 1974 stage performance of "Rumpelstiltskin" at the Alexander Theatre, Monash University, featuring Beverley Gardiner as Gretchen and Penelope Richards and Paul Kennedy as the two knights.
“Rumpelstiltskin†is a children’s fairytale by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. It was first written in 1812 and expanded in 1857. It tells the story of a Miller’s daughter who is forced to spin straw into gold on threat of her life for three successive nights. A little man appears and offers to spin the straw for reward. On the first night she gives him her necklace, on the second her ring but on the third she has nothing to give and promises him her first born child. Years later, after she has married the king and has her first child, the man appears and gives the queen three days to guess his name or he will take her child. After two days of guessing to no avail, the queen’s messenger (according to the 1857 version) stumbles upon the man dancing and singing in a house in the forest. The song he sings mentions his name, which the queen correctly reveals the following day. Although no date is given in the tale, the characters - involving a king, a queen and royal knights - and the importance of the spinning wheel are often assumed to indicate a medieval setting.
Anon.
Monash University Archives
Monash University
1974
Monash University
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