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2011 Season

Just Like Elvis

Who would want to kill an Elvis Presley impersonator? "Just about any Elvis Presley fan" says a character in the play. A lighthearted comedy"whodunnit" which is set in a Greek restaurant in Melbourne. Eltham Little Theatre is pleased to present the world premiere of this entertaining play from the prolific pen of Joe Fairhurst.
Season: February 17 - March 5.

A Month of Sundays

A humerous and uplifting play about two men, Cooper and Aylott, who by choice live in a retirement home, but call themselves the Escape Committee.
dutiful Sunday visits from family help them realise that life is bestfaced with wit and humour, they treat it as it comes to them, with friendship and goodwill.
Season: April 28 - May 14.

We Happy Few

Based on the true story of the Osiris Players this comedy follows the adventures of a small group of totally mismatched women who form a girls only theatre company to bring plays to out of the way places in a culture-starved wartime Britain. A life affirming, touching and often hilarious story of overcoming adversity with dogged determination- and a passion for theatre.
Season: June 23 - July 9.

Private Lives

Sybil and Elyot arrive in France for their honeymoon. Elyot has just been diverced from his first wife Amanda, but Amanda arrives in the next suite with her new husband Victor.
Meeting alone on the hotel balcony Elyot and Amanda impulsively decide to elope, whereupon Victor and Sybil join forces in pursuit.
Season: august 5 - September 10.

The Perils of Purity Pimble - Annual Music Hall Production

Mr Harry M. Mueller presents The Perils of Purity Pimble, a play of passion performed by his intrepid travelling troupe of players. You will experience villainy, treachery and dastardly deeds, you will exoerience love and lust. Will true lovetriumph over adversity Will true love triumph over advcersity and will the wicked Sir Horatio Holgate get his just fate? All this, and songs and dancing grls too.
Season: November 10 - December 3.

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2011 Season

Shadowlands

The story of Oxford scholar and famed author C. S. Lewis falling in love with long-term fan Joy Gresham and dealing with the pain and suffering that inevitably comes in turn. A deep mutual love grows between tham but sadly their lives are interrupted when Joy becomes terminally ill. The two comfort and counsel each other through the emotional struggle of knowing that their time together will be cut short.
Season: February 11 - March 5.

Six Degrees of Separation

A charming young man posing as the son of Sydney Poitier arrives unexpectedly atht eluxury apartment of a wealthy New York couple. He sets in mortion an exacting ride that moves from sophisticated humour to dark moments leading to a final climatic statement. Along the way we get qa taste of wheeling and dealing in the art world, sexual intrigue and police involvement in rqapidly escalating events. By the end we question who has gained or lost from the games that have been played.
Season: April 22 - May 7.

The Farnsworth Invention

The turning point of the 20th century wasn't on television. It was television. This electrifying drama from the creator of The West Wing cnetres around the bitter conflict between Philo Farnsworth, a self - taught Idaho farm boy and David Sarnoff, a ruthless media mogul. During the 1920's and separated by 2000 miles, each knows that if he ever stops working, even for a moment, the other will gain the edge.
Who will unlock the key to one of the greatest innovations on the last century? In a race that would change humanity forever, the two men battle one another for honour, glory and a pice in their history books.
A tragic example of legal and industial force combining to crush a rightful [atent owner.
Season: June 24 - July 9.

Love Letters/ Later Life

Love Letters chronicles the hysterical and moving relationship between two childhood friends solely through their lifelong correspondence. They continue to exchange letters through adolescence, maturity and into middle age. Their relationship gradyually unfolds from what is both written and left unsaid in their letters. Although physically apart for most of their lives, they are spiritually as close as only true lovers can be.
Later Life is set at a cocktail party where Austin has the pleasure of rekindling a romance begun almost 30 yeara ago with Ruth. Comically and sometimes painfully, they rediscover each other and themselveswhile other free-spirited guests most of whom are mutual friends, rally behind them and remind them of the infinite possibilities that life holds, should one onlychoose to pursue them.
Season: August 26 - September 10.

They're Playing Our Song

A brilliant musical by Neil Simon basaed on the real-life relationship between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager.
Vernon Gersc, a neurotic and successful composer, finds a new lyricist, the lovably eccentric Sonia Walsh, who has already had some success writing lyrics. She dresses in cast-off theatre costumes and is a hopelss time-keeper arriving a day late for their first work session. this unlikely pairing seems destined to falter off key.
Can Vernon's egotistical bachelor life style cope with Sonia's ex-boyfriend and her multiple personalities? As their working ows, so do their feelings for eachother. To make sweet music, all thye have to do is work in harmony.
Season: November 4 - 19.

2011 SEASON

Beyond Reasonable Doubt.

Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairmn of the Bar Council is conducting the most imprtant case in his life - his own.
Accused of the wilful murder of his terminally wife, Sir David Metcalfe finds himself locked in legal conflict with his old rival, Anthony Blair-Booth QC. After a tense and gripping court room scene, Act 1 concludes just as we are about to hear the jurys verdict.
An intriguing Act 2 takes us back to the evening of Lady Metcalfe's death when the whole truth will be revealed.
Season: February 4 - 19.

Sitting Pretty

Unmarried sisters, Nina and Nancy, share a flat in London. Nina is brisk, dynamicand employed. Nancy is plump. self-conscious and depressed having been recently made redundant.
She unwittingly stumbles into modelling for a life-drawing class, but is horrified to discover that in doing so ahe must pose naked.
Nancy is unexpectedly liberated by the experience, however her new confidence unsettles Nina's self-possession. The sisters move towards an inevitable confrontation as Nina faces her unhappy past and Nancy glimpses at a possible future.
Season: April 29 - May 14.

The Glass Menagerie

Abanddoned by her husband, Amanda Wingfield ,a faded Southern Belle, confronts herself with recollections of her earleir, more genteel life when in her youth she was pursued by her many 'gentlemen callers'. Her son, Tom, longs to escape from his mother's suffocating domination while Laura, her painfully shy and crippled daughter, finds sanctuary from the outside world by fantasising over her collection of glass ornaments.
Season: August 12 - 27.

Caravan

Tells the story of three couples who spend their summer vacation together at a secluded camping site on the New South Wales coast.
Teh confined space of the caravan, together with a week of flooding rain and a series of hilarious mishaps contiue o make this the holiday you should never have.
Season: November 4 - 19.

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Private Lives

Season: March 5 - April 16.