September 14, 2023 • 6 mins
Luke Hewitt is playing Alan Bond in Taking Liberty which is on at the WA Maritime Museum. He spoke to Clairsy & Lisa about it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Not long now to go until we celebrate the big
fortieth anniversary of Australia winning the Aura as we like
to think of it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
West Australia.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Of course, Robert America's Cup and Taking Liberty is on
at the Doubly Way Maritime Museum from September sixteenth to October.
The first tickets are through the WA Maritime Museum website.
This is a fabulous play and it's a three parter.
So one of those roles is Alan Bond. A playing
Alan Bond in Taking Liberty is Luke Hewitt.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He joins us. Now, Hollio Lake mate good a.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, Luke, Now, I don't tell me if I was wrong,
but I said, I think it was first done in
twenty eleven. And we you You were Alan Bond in
that one too, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was, Yeah, that was the second time.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That was the second time.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, it was first down in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
All right, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And I wasn't in that, but our director was in that,
and our director for this production played John Bertrand in
those first two productions.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Awesome, So I get Joel Jackson this time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So for those the uninitiated, tell Us quickly about the play, Well, it.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Sort of tracks all of Australia's involvement in the challenges
for the Cup and eventually winning the Cup. So we
go right back to like nineteen seventy when Bondie decided
he was going to throw his hat in the ring
for the Cup, and yeah, we track along. There's three
(01:30):
actors play all of the roles. So Joel plays John
Bertrand and others. Kasimir South plays Ben Lexton and others.
And I am Alan.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Bond and others.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And the others are like various commodoes of the New
York Yacht Club and Warren Jones and of all the
people that were around around the challenges at the time.
So it's a funny play. It is moving at the end,
and it's exciting during the races. And it's all set
in front of a large cinema screen. So the screen
(02:01):
is actually the fourth actor, and you'll see some wonderful
historical pictures and videos.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And that's where we'll see the key will come up
and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Absolutely we're also around sound as well, Yeah, cinema sound.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So yeah, it's a real experience.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It was a real It was a huge time for
Australia with a cultural cringe going on in nineteen eighty three,
and felt like we could take over the world, Luke,
But you know so much passion at the time was
such a huge celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But let's be honest. I saw the doco.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I think it was last year they made the doco,
maybe the year before, and John Bertrand was still nearly
forty years later in tears. It meant so much to
Australians and the people who were there. It meant so much,
didn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes, Well, we've spoken to many of the crew both
in twenty eleven and this year preparing for this play,
and it all it affects them all in a similar way.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They missed. They get missed the eyed really quickly when
they're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, I think it's the greatest moment in Australian sporting
history and the greatest achievement in Australian sporting history. Do
you remember not do You might have just been a
little baby, Luke, but how do you remember where you were,
where you were.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Where we were baby?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I certainly do remember. I was in high school. I'm
not going to tell you which year of high school.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I was in high school. Yes, it was. It was
a massive thing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And you know when we brought the cup home, there
was like half a million people on the foreshore celebrating.
Jackie Love was doing numbers to five hundred thousand people.
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It was a massive thing. Yeah, and you was just
for us.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting competition in
the world, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It predates the modern Olympics. Yes, so it was.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
A big thing one hundred and thirty six years before
it was won by anyone else, and that someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Was easy to forget.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Luke, what a story was because it wasn't just the
underdog story because Australians have been trying for a long
time to win the greatest. We were done and dusted,
gone and Jennis kind of was strutting around because I
was so far in front of it was a strut.
They thought they had it all wrapped up, and then
all of a sudden we came back from pretty much
from dead.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was an incredible comeback, as asie as you can get.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Definitely like it was three to one. It's a best
of seven competition. It was three to one. So from
that point on, every race was due or die and
we ended up winning the next three and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It was. We were all hanging on the edge of
our chairs. It was.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was really it's amazing chills now just thinking about it.
I mean, it never ceases to make me get those chills,
Like I'm like, I'm seeing the story for the first
time whenever I watch anything about it.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It was mind blowing, especially for us here in the West.
It was such a West Australian celebration.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Massive, and look I'll tell you also, the show is
part of the massive exhibition from Australia to forty Years
On that's on at the WA Maritime Museum. It's on
until February. Okay, yeah, till the fourth of February, so
there's plenty of time to see it. But if you
buy a ticket to the show, it gives you free
access to that exhibition. And I've been through the exhibition
(05:22):
and it's absolutely amazing. It tracks all of what we've
just been talking about. You can have a selfie in
the Australia jacket that Bob Hawk put on and got
spray wow. Really yeah, yeah, they've made up because of
that jacket.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So people can have selfies. Yeah you can.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You can do a little virtual sailing of a twelve
meter as well as look at all of the history
leading up to and videos and interviews of people that
were involved.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That is amazing once again. Fremantle is going to be
the place to be taking Liberty is on from Saturday
night at the Maritime Museum through to October first, and
of course there's the big free concert on the twenty
four September twenty fourth, so and that Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Week sensational celebery, Monday.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Week a big pun Sunday Sunday Week, Luke, thank you
so much. Should we look forward to seeing you take
on the Bondi roll again?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes, come along, let's go silent.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Thanks LOUCN.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Always remember made any employee, any boss who's there's a
bum of that you have the next day off?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Helly, thanks bye
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Look you unreal
Not long now to go until we celebrate the big
fortieth anniversary of Australia winning the Aura as we like
to think of it.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
West Australia.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
Of course, Robert America's Cup and Taking Liberty is on
at the Doubly Way Maritime Museum from September sixteenth to October.
The first tickets are through the WA Maritime Museum website.
This is a fabulous play and it's a three parter.
So one of those roles is Alan Bond. A playing
Alan Bond in Taking Liberty is Luke Hewitt.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
He joins us. Now, Hollio Lake mate good a.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Well, Luke, Now, I don't tell me if I was wrong,
but I said, I think it was first done in
twenty eleven. And we you You were Alan Bond in
that one too, weren't you?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
I was, Yeah, that was the second time.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
That was the second time.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Okay, it was first down in two thousand and nine.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
All right, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
And I wasn't in that, but our director was in that,
and our director for this production played John Bertrand in
those first two productions.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Awesome, So I get Joel Jackson this time. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
So for those the uninitiated, tell Us quickly about the play, Well, it.
Speaker 4 (01:10):
Sort of tracks all of Australia's involvement in the challenges
for the Cup and eventually winning the Cup. So we
go right back to like nineteen seventy when Bondie decided
he was going to throw his hat in the ring
for the Cup, and yeah, we track along. There's three
(01:30):
actors play all of the roles. So Joel plays John
Bertrand and others. Kasimir South plays Ben Lexton and others.
And I am Alan.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Bond and others.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
And the others are like various commodoes of the New
York Yacht Club and Warren Jones and of all the
people that were around around the challenges at the time.
So it's a funny play. It is moving at the end,
and it's exciting during the races. And it's all set
in front of a large cinema screen. So the screen
(02:01):
is actually the fourth actor, and you'll see some wonderful
historical pictures and videos.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
And that's where we'll see the key will come up
and that sort of thing.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Is it.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Absolutely we're also around sound as well, Yeah, cinema sound.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
So yeah, it's a real experience.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
It was a real It was a huge time for
Australia with a cultural cringe going on in nineteen eighty three,
and felt like we could take over the world, Luke,
But you know so much passion at the time was
such a huge celebration.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
But let's be honest. I saw the doco.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
I think it was last year they made the doco,
maybe the year before, and John Bertrand was still nearly
forty years later in tears. It meant so much to
Australians and the people who were there. It meant so much,
didn't it.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
Yes, Well, we've spoken to many of the crew both
in twenty eleven and this year preparing for this play,
and it all it affects them all in a similar way.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
They missed. They get missed the eyed really quickly when
they're talking about it.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Well, I think it's the greatest moment in Australian sporting
history and the greatest achievement in Australian sporting history. Do
you remember not do You might have just been a
little baby, Luke, but how do you remember where you were,
where you were.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Where we were baby?
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I certainly do remember. I was in high school. I'm
not going to tell you which year of high school.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
I was in high school. Yes, it was. It was
a massive thing.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
And you know when we brought the cup home, there
was like half a million people on the foreshore celebrating.
Jackie Love was doing numbers to five hundred thousand people.
It was.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
It was a massive thing. Yeah, and you was just
for us.
Speaker 4 (03:43):
The America's Cup is the oldest international sporting competition in
the world, exactly.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
It predates the modern Olympics. Yes, so it was.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
A big thing one hundred and thirty six years before
it was won by anyone else, and that someone else.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Was easy to forget.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Luke, what a story was because it wasn't just the
underdog story because Australians have been trying for a long
time to win the greatest. We were done and dusted,
gone and Jennis kind of was strutting around because I
was so far in front of it was a strut.
They thought they had it all wrapped up, and then
all of a sudden we came back from pretty much
from dead.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It was an incredible comeback, as asie as you can get.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Definitely like it was three to one. It's a best
of seven competition. It was three to one. So from
that point on, every race was due or die and
we ended up winning the next three and yeah, it was.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It was. We were all hanging on the edge of
our chairs. It was.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It was really it's amazing chills now just thinking about it.
I mean, it never ceases to make me get those chills,
Like I'm like, I'm seeing the story for the first
time whenever I watch anything about it.
Speaker 5 (04:54):
It was mind blowing, especially for us here in the West.
It was such a West Australian celebration.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:00):
Massive, and look I'll tell you also, the show is
part of the massive exhibition from Australia to forty Years
On that's on at the WA Maritime Museum. It's on
until February. Okay, yeah, till the fourth of February, so
there's plenty of time to see it. But if you
buy a ticket to the show, it gives you free
access to that exhibition. And I've been through the exhibition
(05:22):
and it's absolutely amazing. It tracks all of what we've
just been talking about. You can have a selfie in
the Australia jacket that Bob Hawk put on and got
spray wow. Really yeah, yeah, they've made up because of
that jacket.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So people can have selfies. Yeah you can.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
You can do a little virtual sailing of a twelve
meter as well as look at all of the history
leading up to and videos and interviews of people that
were involved.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It's really amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
That is amazing once again. Fremantle is going to be
the place to be taking Liberty is on from Saturday
night at the Maritime Museum through to October first, and
of course there's the big free concert on the twenty
four September twenty fourth, so and that Saturday.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Week sensational celebery, Monday.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Week a big pun Sunday Sunday Week, Luke, thank you
so much. Should we look forward to seeing you take
on the Bondi roll again?
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yes, come along, let's go silent.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Thanks LOUCN.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Always remember made any employee, any boss who's there's a
bum of that you have the next day off?
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Helly, thanks bye
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Look you unreal
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