Past Productions

 
 
 

2023 ProductionS

 
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Long Story Short
Long Story Short

Long Story Short

SEASON: 1st December - 3rd December 2023

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.

8 separate plays - 8 different authors - 7 different directors.

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Gaslight
Gaslight

GASLIGHT

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!

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Table Manners
Table Manners

SEASON: 9th August - 3rd September 2023

Written 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.

Congratulations to the Cast and Crew!

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Things I Know To Be True
Things I Know To Be True

SEASON: 17th May - 11th June 2023

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.

Congratulations to the Cast and Crew!!

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Rapture
Rapture

SEASON: 22nd February - 19th March 2023

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.

Congratulations to the Cast and Crew - It was a fabulous Season!!

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2022 ProductionS

 
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Building Blocks
Building Blocks

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.

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Moonlight and Magnolias
Moonlight and Magnolias

Season: 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.

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Bloody Murder
Bloody Murder

SEASON: 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?

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2021 ProductionS

 
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Pack of Lies
Pack of Lies

Season: 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?

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Blithe Spirit
Blithe Spirit

Season: 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.

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2020 Production

 
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The Shoe Horn Sonata
The Shoe Horn Sonata

Season: 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

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