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Loot

A black farce masterpiece, Loot follows the fortunes and misfortunes of two young amateur thieves, Hal and Dennis. Dennis is a hearse driver for a funeral parlour. After robbing the bank next door they hide-out with the loot in Hal’s home. Hal's mother has just died and the pair conceal the money in her coffin, hiding the body in a cupboard. Playing with all the conventions of popular farce, Orton creates a world gone mad and examines in detail mid-century English attitudes.
Season: November 15 - 30. 2018

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2018 Season

Sylvia

A modern romantic comedy about a marriage and a dog. Greg's career as a financial trader is winding down, while Kate's career, as a public-school English teacher, is beginning to offer more opportunities. Greg brings home a dog he finds in the park. A street-smart mixture of Lab nd Poodle, Sylvia becomes a major bone of contention between husband and wife, she offers Greg an escape from the frustations of his job and the unkowns of middle age. To Kate, Syliva becomes a rifal for affestion. And sylvia thinks Katre just doesn't understand the relationdhip between amn and dog.
Season: November 16 - December 1. 2018.

2019 Season

Brilliant Lies

An adult comedy about a woman who accuses her former employer of harassment and unfair dismissal after failing to comply with his sexual demands. Williamson turns his penertating eye and sharply focused wit t issues of political correctness and sexual harassmentz.
Brilliant Lies is a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate oon our chnging social values. It looks at the clash between different perceptions of truth and the wternal battle between sexes. Set in the 1990s when the phrase sexual harassment was still relatively new to the workplace setting.
Season: February 1 - 16. 2019 at 8pm. Matinee Sunday February 3. 2019 at 2.15pm. Twilight Sunday February 19. 2019 at 4pm.

Crimes of the Heart

This tragicomedy relates the story of the three Magrath sisters, Meg, Babe and Lenny. who reunite at Old Granddaddy's home in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, after Babe shoots her abusive husbnad. The sisters were raised in a dysfunctional family with a penchant for ugly predicaments. Each has endured her share of hardship and misery.Past resentments bubble to the surface as the sisters are forced to deal with assorted relatives and past relatiionships while coping with Baba's latest incident. Each sister is forced to face tha consewuences of the crimes of the heart she has committed.
Season June 7 - 22. 2019 at 8pm.
Matinee Sunday June 9. 20199 at 2.15pm. Twilight Sunday June 16. 2019 at 4pm.

The Diary of Anne Frank

Two Jewish families are forced to hide from the Nazis in a secret annexe in Amsterdam. IN her tiny room. Anne Frank keeps a diary, detailoing the claustrophbic realities of daily existance experienced by the families. She also records her own coming of age, battling low spirits and loneliness, fighting with her mother, and falling in love for the first time. Despite her oppressive circumastances, her spirit shines through as she voices her belief that people are really good at heart.
Seaon: Augst 9 - 24. 2019 at 8pm.
Matinee Sunday August 11. 2019 at 2.15pm.
Twilight Sunday August 18. 2019 at 4pm.

Stage Kiss

Art imitates life, Life imitates Art. When two actors with a history are thrown together as romantic leads in a forgotten 1930s melodrama, they quickly lose touch with reaqlity as the story onstage follows them offstage. There's mot one but two plays-within-a-play in Sarah ruhl'sStage Kiss, a highly meta-theatrical, fundamentally enjoyable, slightly slight, not-so-romantic comedy pondering the complexity of onstage osculation.
Season: November 15 0 #0. 2019 at 8pm
Matinee Sunday November 17. 2019 at 2.15pm
Twilight Sunday November 24 at 4pm.

Volunteers Needed

Volunteering in Melbourne theatre is a wonderful way to make new friends and learn new skills, or polish up some old ones. If you would like to volunteer ad work with Peridot Theatre to create excellentl community theatre,

WHY DO THEY DO IT?
It is an extremely rewarding experience, it builds lifelong friendships. It enables them to utilise existing skills as well as develop new ones. They have a lot of fun and laughs and enjpy 7being part of a production which they are proud of and which brings enjoyment to the many people who attend the performances.
Whether it's a barbie in our backyard area, movie nights or other get togethers, we realise our volunteers are our lifeblood and a pretty social bunch too.
SET BUILDING:
No production is complete without the set on the stage. Thr building of the set involves design, painting, carpentary, furniture restoration and electrical work. This could range from hanging a picture to building a staircase.

Experienced chippies. electicians, artists, designers are always welcome along with people who are eager to learn ad willing to get their hands a bit grubby.

While the sets are being built the costumes designed and made. Working with the director this involves machine and hand sewing and fitting of outfits on the actors.

BACKSTAGE:

This involves the changes made to the sets on stage during the live performances. This could range from providing an empty cup to an actor at a critical time before thay go on stage to changes between acts while the lights are down.

If you can tip toe in the darkness and enjoy the adrenalin rush of being involved in a live performance, without being an actor on stage, this is for you.

FRONT OF HOUSE:
The face of Peridot Theatre- you could be the lovely lady or gent greeting our patrons at the door, guiding them to their seats and making sure the audience refreshments between the acts and after the performance are ready to go when needed.

At the end of the evening you get a chance to mingle with the actors, director,and other behind scenes volunteers.

TECH CREW//BIO BOX:
The designers choreograph the lighting and sound as part of the preproduction of the play. The technical crew and bio box operate the soud and lighting during each performances. You may be working with special effects?
With a wide range of lighting and sound equipment available, working in time with actors on stage, its a great experience to be the one bringing the stage alive with massive claps of lighting and rumbling thunder or the soft chirpd in a lush foredt dcene.

Whether you experienced or simply full of enthusiasm and ready to learn, thios may be for you.

You can find the fun you're looking fr by going to the Peridot website and clicking on Who We Are or by giving Helen MNcintodh a call on 0403 797 709.

2018 Season

Secret Bridesmaids Business

It is the night before Meg;s wedding. She and her bridesmaids are planning to kick up their heels during the final hours before the big day. However not everything goes to plan, as a last minute scandal threatens to ruin the whole affair.
Elizabeth Coleman's wonderful characters bring this seriously funny play to life. Never far from reality, it exposes the insanity that can be created as the wedding juggernaut threatens to swerve out of control.
Mariage may be a wonderful thing, but after a night like this, well, could it be really woth it?
|Season: November 16 - 24. 2018.

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