2023 Season

Family Values

A celebrated federal judge. His son, a born-again Christian. His daughter, a Border Frce officer. Her [artner, the captain pf a border Force ship/. His pther daughter, a left-wing anctivist. His wife, who has worked all her life to keep the family together. Saba, an asylum seeker on the run from Naura.
On the eve of his borthday, is it too much to expect his wife and three children to celebrate with him?
Season: February 9 - 25. 2023.

Barefoot in the Park

Paul Bratterm a conservative lawyer, marries the vivacious orie, but their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discird in a five-flight New York walk up apartment contending with a lack of heating, a leaking roof, several; long flightrs of stairs, the oddball neighbour, the telephone repairman and Corie's we;;-meaning mother.
Season: April 20 - May 6. 2023

Switzerland

A thriller by Joanna Murray-Smith

Somewhere in the Swiss Alps, grande dame of crime literature Paula Highsmith lives with an impressive collection of books, ans a somewhat siniser collection of guns and knives. She finds solace in her solitude, her cats and cigarettes. But when amysterious international visitor arrives at her perfectly secluded home, her love of fictional murders becoes a dangerous reality.
Season: June 29 - July 15., 2023,

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare ( abridged) (revised) (again)

A comedy by Adam Long, Daiel Snger and Jess Winfeield

The show features three overachievers attempting to perform all 37 of Shakespeare's plays in 97 minutes. Fast-paced, witty, and physical., it's an evening (or afrternoon) of laughter for Shkespeare lovers and haters alike.
Season: September 7 - 23. 2023.

Fracked! Or Please don't use the F-word

A black comedy by Aistair Beaton

Hpw would you feel about sitting in front of that nice old village pub on a sunny afternoon whilw convoys of 40-ton tankers roll past six feet away? Deerland Energy's plans to drill for shale gas in the pretty villageof Fenstock are going well. The company is looking at big profits with scientists and Coucillors open to lucrative offers. The only snag is a ragged band of protestors, headed by just another 'mad old biddy', Elizabeth Blerackwood.
Season: Novmember 16 - December 2. 2023.

 

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Sense and Sensibility

CPP Conmunity Theatre sends itsd congratulations to the cast of Sense and Sensiblity and the company's thanks to all who auditioned.
The Compnay are exsited to be presenting Sense and Sensiblity adapted by Kate Hamill and based on the novel by Jane Austin.
The performance season os April 14 - 22./ 2023.

As you might know CPP Community Theatre is an amateur theatre group, volunteer-run, not-for-profit community group, and the orchestras are historically unpaid and participate fr the love of the group and the craft. The Company understands that stepping in for one show is a big ask, but they would love t find someone who’s keen enough to do so for the sake of supporting the CPP Community theatre.
If you or someone you know is interested please email Cassie Quinlan ASAP
 Click here secretary@cppcommunitytheatre.com.au

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Ladies Day

Life is one long, hard slog for the fish-filleting foursome. Pearl, Jan, Shelley and Linda. but their fortunes are set to change when they head for Ladies Day at the races. Factory hairnets make way for fascinators so the four friends hit the track for an unforgettable day out. Secrets are spilled with the champagne and friendships are tested to the limit. Personal lives and relationships are unveiled in both humorous and somewhat more serious interactiona.
Yet as the day unfolds and tempers fray, theur accumulatir bet keeps quietly winning, if their luck and their nerves hold, the ladies could hit the jackpot - and more besides.
Season: February 17 - March 4. 2023.

Death Trap

Comfortably ensconsed in his charming Connecticut home, Sudney Bruhl,. a successful writer of Broasway thrillers, is struggling to overcome a dry spell, which has resulted in a string of failures and a shortage of funds. A possible break in his fortunes occurs when he receives a script from a student in the seminar he has been conducting at a nearby college, a thriller that Sidney recognises immediately as a potential Broadway smash hit. Sidney's plan, devised with hes wiffe's help, is to offer colaboration to the student for co-credit. Ot is it?
|Season: April 21 - May 6. 2023

The Whales of August

A sensitive and gently humorous study of two eldery widowed sisters who are living together in a beach house on an island of the Maine coaast, and pass their days watching whales from the porc and reconciling their complicated relationship. The older sister, Libby, has grown increasingly reclusive and irritable, as she progressively loses each of her senses and is being taken care of by her younger sister, sarah, who feeels obliged to repay the debt which was incurred when their mother died and the older sister assumed maternal responsibilities. They came to decisions, which for them are both momentous and filled woth the bittersweet recognition that life, despite the alterarations of tomem must continue as best it ca.;
Season: JKune 28 July 8. 2023,

The Third Act

Sue's dughter is getting married. While the bride to-be brims over with excitement, Sue grits her teeth and wonders how she will endure it. The wedding will force her to come to terms with her own, very different circumstances, the end of her long marriage, her estranged husband and his new partner, and questions she has tried very hard to ignore. As pressure buildsm the armnour she has carfully constructed arouihnd herself is threatened. She is forced to a reckoining with famiily,m her oldest friend and even the past in theform of an old flame with an agenda of his own.Can she find the strength to face a very different future from the one she imagined?
Season: August 25 - September 9. 2023.

Absurd Person Singular

This is one of Ayckbourne's most often-performed plays: a comedy that follows the changing fortunes of three married couples. We visit the homes of each of the couples on successive Christmas Eves, where we experience all kinds of domestic disasters and absurdities. In the forst year of his marriage in an attemt to climb the social ladder, the lower-class Hopcrofts host their bank manager and his wife (the Brewster-Wrights), and their architect neighbour, Geoffrey Jackson and his suicidal wifem eva, Havoc enses at this festive drinks partym which they hoped would impress their high-pwered friends - but that's nothing compared to what happens at the next two Christnases when the friends return the Hopcrofts' hospitality.
Seasn: October 27 - November 1. 2023.

The Effect

Connie is a psochology student. Tristan is a charming drifter.
Both have signed up to a clinical trial for a new antidepressant duoer-drug. Sealed of from the outdife world, the attraction between Corrie and Tristan turns to deeper feelings as their doses get stronger.
they've been warned of side effects - can they trust their feelings, or is this just a chemicalr romance?
Season: February 17 - March 4. 2023

It's Only a Play

A wealthy first-time bgroadway Producer, Julia Budder, is throwing an opening night party for The Golden Egg at her luxutious Manhatten home.
The playwright, Peter Austin, is joined by the director, a lead actor, and assorted frineds and hangers-on (including a critic) as they nervously wait for the late-night reviews printed in the newspapers.
It's alternatively raucas, ridiculous and tender - and proves that sometimes the biggest laughs happen offstage. The Associated Press, called the play a 'mailicously funy diatribe about the desporate and demented business of producing a play on Broadway.
Season: April 288 - May 13. 2023.

Summer of the Seventeeth Doll

The most famous australian play and one of the most loved, Summer of the Seventeeth Doll is a tragic story f Ro and Barney. Beautifully observed, humorous, and poignant.
Ray Lawler's much-loved play is a tale if two Queensland cane cuttersd who for 16 years have4 worked up north in the brutal sugar cane fields and travelled back to Melbourne to meet up for five months of partying and romance with their barmaid girlfriends.
Season: June 16 - July 1. 2023.

Consent

is a powerful and challenging play about the issue of sexual consent and its intersection with the justice system. Lawyer friends take opposing briefs in a shocking and contentious legal case where the key witness id a victom whose life seemas a world away from theirs. Public and private worlds collide as evidence is examined from many perspectives. Ulitimately, is the legal sustem itself on trial?
Season: Septemer 1 - 16. 2023.

Four fiat Whites in Italy

Holidays from hell were never so much fun!
recent retirees Adrian and Alison finally have timne for the Italian trip f their dreams. bur when thier best friends suddeenly pull out, they are faced with the prospect of sharinf their precious holiday with their new neighbours. Will they find in dolce vita? From Viagra to Vespas and canals to canneloni, this is one journey they will never forget.
Season: November 10 - 15. 2023.

Night Must Fall

When the imperious, embittered Mrs Bremson learns that her young maid Dora is pregnant, she sumons the child's presumed father to her bungalow. The young man, Dan, is charming but mysterious. Could he be responsible for the recent murder and beheading of a local woman, and could Mrs Brenson be his next victim? Skilfully Dan insinuates himelf into Mrs Brenson's affections and attempts to seduce her sceptical niece, Olivia. Despite strong suspicions of Dan's diabolical intensions, Olivia finds herself attracted to and fascinated by the young man.
Emlyn William's classic thriller, a hit on stage and screen, provdes thrils and surprises for audiences anywhere.
Season: February 9 - 19. 2023/

Peridot is asking for help to find an affordable space where they can rehearse, build their sets, and store their props. If yopu can help directly, or just point them in the right direction, plaes contact the President Helen McIntosh at president@peridot.com.au

# Bacchae Too

# Bacchae Too is a re-telling of argubily Europides; greatest work The Bacchae
In the original Greek tragedy, the women of the City of Thebes have escaped to a nearby mountain to celebrate the god Dionysus, as part of the god's plan to vindicate his mother. The new King of Thebes finds his authority theatened by these women ad the story ends in gruesome tragerdy.
In the age of the #MeToo moverment, the influence of social media, an agenda based news reporting, this modern adaptation of The Bacchae, explores whether the story is still relevent today in the struggle for Women Life and Freedom.
Season: May 4 - 14. 2023.

Things I Know to be True

Bob and Fran Price have loved each other for 30 years.They have built a home and raised four strong children. At the end of it all, they are left askig. Was it worth it? Who are we, now the chilfren have gone?
Things I Knew to be True ia a funny and honest accountof family life in the Australian suburbs. Over the course of a year, the four adult Proce children struggle to establish their identities and deal with personal crises.
Season: August 10 - 20. 2023.

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