Featuring the talented direction of Brendon Dart, Louise Deibe, Diane Howden, Tracey Okeby Lucan, Kirsty Semaan, Leah White and Rob White.
The show runs for approximately 90 minutes, with no interval.
This classic Victorian thriller is the dark tale of a marriage based on deceit and trickery. Jack Manningham is slowly, deliberately, driving his gentle, devoted wife, Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness that masks more sinister motives. This play, which brought the term ‘gaslighting’ into the modern vocabulary, has some of the most suspenseful and heart-stopping scenes in modern theatre.
You will be on the edge of your seat!
Read MoreWritten by: Alan Ayckbourn
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company
Directed by: Gavin Critchley
Annie has arranged to spend an illicit weekend away with her sister Ruth’s husband Norman. Her brother Reg and his wife Sarah have been asked to look after their invalid mother and the house without being aware of the real circumstances. What ensues is a dysfunctional family gathering filled with confusion, conclusion-jumping and mayhem! And very little food!!
This entertaining romp will have you in stitches. Not all (illicit) plans are best laid!
Our theatre is air-conditioned. We aim to address the comfort levels of our audience seated in all parts of the theatre, as well as our cast on stage and technical operators up in the Lights and Sound Box. If you do feel you might require a jacket or wrap, please bring one with you.
Written by: Andrew Bovell
Exclusively licenced by HLA Management Pty Ltd.
Directed by: Racquel Boyd
Life is seasonal, and those seasons bring change, challenge and hope. Things I Know To Be True tells of a normal Australian family through the course of one year. It’s a play about family resilience, and about love in its many forms; sometimes comforting and supportive, sometimes stifling and destructive. But always love.
A story told with warmth and humour as each season brings a turning point and the ramifications of the ensuing changes unfold.
It’s all about love, trust and strength of character.
Written by: Joanna Murray-Smith
By arrangement with the author.
Directed by: David Allsopp
Winner of the Victorian Premier’s Award for Drama 2003
What happens when a group of smart, educated city people whose cynicism, complacency and self absorption carry them through life until their values and principles are challenged by some of their own?
When one couple in this close-knot group undergoes a spiritual epiphany, the fallout is shocking, revealing and highly entertaining.
How strong are our values and beliefs when truly tested?
The show runs for approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, including a 20 minutes interval.
Our theatre is air-conditioned. We aim to address the comfort levels of our audience seated in all parts of the theatre, as well as our cast on stage and technical operators up in the Lights and Sound Box. if you do feel you might require a jacket or wrap, please bring one with you.
Season: 9 Feb to 5 Mar 2022
Written by: Bob Larbey
By Arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical On Behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
Directed by: Rob & Leah White
Jim and Mary Baxter are in the middle of one of life’s major traumas. They are building an extension on to their house. A great deal of their time is consumed in negotiations with the builder, the charming but evasive David. By turns hilarious and touching, this well-observed comedy will bring smiles and groans of recognition to all those who have ever been involved in this situation -- and a few rueful warnings to those who have not!
Naturally, everything goes to plan, - but does it?
Bob Larbey wrote the television comedies A Fine Romance and As Time Goes By and co-wrote ‘The Good Life’ amongst others. Building Blocks was written from the heart about family traumas during a domestic building extension.
Bob Larbey nails the torture of renovating.
Read MoreSeason: 8 June to 5 July 2022
Written by: Ron Hutchinson
By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of Samuel French A Concord Theatricals Company.
Directed by: Joy Sweeney
Legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick has a problem. Five weeks into shooting Gone with the Wind he has fired a clueless director and the script needs to be completely rewritten in 5 days or the production will shut down! The writer he wants has never read the novel. The replacement director has to be called away from the set of The Wizard of Oz.
The three men, supported by Selznick’s assistant, frantically work to craft one of the most beloved screenplays of all time.
An hilarious insight into the five madcap days that brought a Hollywood classic to the screen.
Read MoreSEASON: 5th October - 30th October 2022
Written by: Ed Sala
By arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of Dramatic Publishing Company of Woodstock, Illinois.
Directed by: Margaret Olive
A group of the typical British murder-mystery types gather for a weekend retreat at a sumptuous country estate. Suddenly one of them dies.
'We’re always at one of these little gatherings, aren’t we? Someone is always murdered in some foul and nefarious way. Every time. Without fail. It completely ruins the party'
As the laughs and the bodies pile up, is this another formulaic Agatha Christie type murder mystery? Or is it something diabolically different?
Read MoreSeason: 17 Feb - 14 Mar 2021
Written by: Hugh Whitemore
An Amateur Production by arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL, on behalf of SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD
Directed by: Jan McLachlan
Based on a true story, this tells of the Jacksons, who are visited one night by a man from Scotland Yard. He wants to use their house as an observation station to try to foil a Soviet spy ring in the area. As the demands on the family increase, they strain under the conflicting costs of duty and betrayal.
Where do loyalties lie and at what cost?
Read MoreSeason: 2 Jun - 24 Jun
Written by: Noël Coward
An Amateur Production by arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of SAMUEL FRENCH, LTD.
Directed by: Sarah Lovesy
As research for his latest novel, sceptic Charles Condomine invites a self-proclaimed medium, Madame Arcati to conduct a seance. When Mme Arcati accidentally conjures up the spirit of his first wife Elvira, he doesn't stand a ghost of a chance against Elvira's determination to wreck his current marriage. Through supernatural shenanigans she creates merry mayhem for all!
Witty, elegant and one of Coward's most popular comedies.
Read MoreSeason: 19 February - 14 March
Tickets Available From: 15-Jan-2020
Written by: John Misto
An Amateur Production by arrangement with ORiGiN™ THEATRICAL on behalf of the rights holder
Directed by: Racquel Boyd
When Bridie and Sheila are reunited fifty years after surviving a Japanese POW camp, the filming of a documentary sets them raking over their shared past. They recall their survival, thanks to their music, humour and sheer bloody mindedness, but why did their precious friendship end with the war - and where is that shoe-horn?
Based on a true story, a tender tribute to friendship and courage
Read MoreDirected by: Jan McLachlan
Embers recounts the courage, survival and community strength shown when residents faced the extreme adversity of the 2003 fires in the Eastern Alpine area of Victoria. Campion Decent's award winning play uses material from Government transcripts and interviews with residents from the rural townships involved. These are true stories with real emotions from actual people and events. The content is still relevant today as we continue to battle bushfires.
A marvellous piece of verbatim theatre, with 10 actors playing multiple roles. The Director acknowledges the support received from the playwright Campion Decent.
It is both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time. # Warning - special effects will be used.
Read MoreDirected by: Jennie Bazell
The Peach Season is a powerful, salutary tale showing what it’s like to be a young person desperate for independence and the pitfalls of being a parent during the painful process of letting children fly the nest. A story of first love and the love between a mother and a daughter.
A moving and suspenseful story
Read MoreDirected by: Rob White
Natural Causes is a black comedy/thriller dealing with the subject of death through misadventure and misunderstanding. Suicide, murder, manslaughter, affairs … it sounds pretty serious – but it’s hilarious!
Liberating - joyful, enlightening, funny.
Read MoreDirected by: Joy Sweeney
That famous mismatched couple, Felix Unger and Oscar Madison, have become Florence and Olive, two complex and complicated women. Audiences will have a ball as they navigate the pitfalls of relationships and friendships of single women in 1980s New York. Be prepared for a play full to the brim with heart, warmth, spirit and cracking one-liners.
Read MoreDirected by: Racquel Boyd
A well-meaning neighbour innocently passing information to redheaded Rhonda, unwittingly sets in motion a catastrophic sequence of events. A complicated story unfolds as seemingly unconnected characters contribute their points of view and disclose, to the audience, their own involvement in the events.
Read MoreDirected by: Diane Howden
Summary: When the commission to transform a Victorian era slum in South London into modern low-rise community-friendly dwellings comes his way, David, a passionate and idealistic architect, couldn’t be more excited. But the potentially career changing utopian development on Basuto Road soon takes on a very different shape. Moving back and forward in time between the late 1960s and early 1980s London, Benefactors encompasses universal themes that resonate powerfully today. Against the backdrop of urban renewal, this edgy and intriguing play gives us four people whose intentions are not always as they seem.
Approximate running time 2 hours and 20 minutes including Interval.
Directed by: Joy Sweeney
Set in England in the 1950s, when convicted murderers faced the hangman’s rope, this famous thriller will have you on the edge of your seat. When what seems like a foolproof plot, involving blackmail, coercion, murder and intrigue, does not go exactly to plan, the results are devastating. The suspense is heightened as Inspector Hubbard races against the clock to set a trap to bring the real criminal to justice.
Oh what a tangled web we weave...
Read MoreDirected by: Vivien Wood
Reginald, Wilfred and Cissy, three former opera singers, have their companionable existence at the retirement home for musical artists challenged by newcomer Jean. A gala concert is planned for Verdi’s birthday. Can differences be settled, histories put aside and beautiful music recreated?\
The Production runs for approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes including interval.
Can you teach an old dog new tricks?
Read MoreDirected by: Catherine Potter
Ross Gardiner, a young business executive, is sentenced to six months of community service visits to Mr Green, an elderly, curmudgeonly widower. Both resent being forced together and, in the relationship that develops, prejudices are challenged as family and social issues are discussed. Against the backdrop of Mr Green’s tired Manhattan apartment, Jeff Baron skilfully and humorously raises some profound questions about the value of tradition and the true nature of loving and being loved.
Life sometimes takes an unexpected turn.
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