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The Bakery
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BATS Theatre
Beaumaris Theatre
The Croydon Parish Players
Eltham Little Theatre
1812 Theatre
Encore Theatre
Essendon Theatre Company
Frankston Theatre Group
The Hartwell Players
Hats Theatre Company
Knox Theatre Company
Malvern Theatre
Mitcham Theatre Group
Mordialloc Theatre Company
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Special News

Flood Relief Benefit Concert

Featuring

Raymond Khong tenor
Alexandra Oke soprano

Accompanists: May Gavin and Thomas Williams

With other guest performers

2pm on Sunday February 20 at the Eltham Community and Reception Centre, 801 Main Road Eltham, Mel Ref. 21, J6

Diamond Valley Singers are organising a community concert to aid victims of the recent floods. Funds raised will go to the Red Cross Flood Appeal. We hope you can come along and support this initiative.

Entry is by donation at the door

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Athenaeum Theatre Lilydale

Bookings: 61 3 9735 1777

The 39 Steps

This two-time Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning trreat is packed with over 150 zany characters (played by a cast of only four) an on-stage plane crash, handcuffs, missing fingers and some good old fashioned romance! Richard Harvey's life is turned upside down when a beautiful female spy is murdered in his apartment. Soon, a mysterious organisation called The 39 Steps is hot on Richard's trail in a nation-wide manhunt that climaxes in a death-defying inale! Vihtage Hitchcock meets Monty Python in thia fast paced whodunit.
Season: March 8 - 28.

Death of a Salesman

A cornerstone of contemporary American drama, Death of a Salesman portrays the universal hopes and fears of middle-class America/. Through the main character, Willy Loman, the play examines the myth of the American Dream and the shallow promise of happiness through material wealth. willy is an eaxmple of how undivided faith in such a dream can often yeild tragic results, especially when itr gioes largely unfulfilled.
Season: May 31 - June 18.

They're Playing Our Song

A story based on the real-life relationship between composer marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager.
VeronGersch, a neurotic and successful composer finds a new lyricist, the lovely eccentric sonia Walsk - a hopeless time-keeper who dresses in cast off theatre costumes. The unlikely pairing seems destined to falter off key: can Vernon's egotistical bachelor lifestyle cope with sonia's ex-boyfriend and her multile personalities? As their working relationship grows., so do their feelings for each other. To make sweet ll they have to do is wrk in harmony.
Season: August 30 - September 17.

'Allo 'Allo

This play follows the adventures of hapless café owner René and his wife Edith as tey struggle to hide a pricelss portrait stolen by the Nazis inside a sausage. At the same time, René tries to keep his two long-running affairs with his waitresses a secret while being forced by the French resistance to help return two British pilots back to England.
Season: November 15 - December 3.

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The Bakery

Bookings: 61 3 9735 2802

 

 

The Basin Theatre

Bookings:1300 784 668 (7pm - 9pm only)

Butterflies are Free

All Don Baker wants is a place of his own away from his over-protective mother. He sets up in a San Francisco apartment and makes the acquaintance of his off-the-wall, liberated, actress neighbor Jill. They have lunch, go shopping, get to know each other, and worst of all meet Don's mother when she turns up a month earlier than arranged in their “stay away” agreement. When she finds her son and Jill together, trouble for all is only a breath away. "Butterflies" is warm and funny and great fun.
Season: February 24 - March 20.

 

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BBATS Theatre
Bookings: 61 3 9702 2759

 

 

Beaumaris Theatre
Bookings: 61 3 9583 6896

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Catchment Players
Bookings: 0437 228 246

 

 

 

The Croydon Parish Players
Bookings: 61 3 9725 9520

 

 

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Eltham Little Theatre

Bookings: 61 3 9437 1574

10 Minute Quickie results

Best Actress - Jeanne Snider in "Item on the News"
Honorable Mention - Sian Devine in "Maid of Conviction"

Best Actor - James Carlon in "Item on the News"
Honorable Mention - Chris Shaw in "Status Update"

Best Director - Lisa Inman for "Heading in the Right Direction"
Honorable Mention - Cas Yates for "Status Update"

Best Play: "Item on the News" by Beverley Lello (writer awarded $1,000)
Honorable Mention - "Status Update" by Mark Konik

People's Choice Award - "Heading in the Right Direction" by Chris Hodson ($500)

Congratulations to all our finalists for ten very entertaining plays:

Mick Poor (Vic), Carmen Saarelaht (Vic), Suzan Dalziel (Vic), Beverley Lello (Vic), Phil Holmes (Vic), Chris Hodson (Vic), John Tilbrook (Vic), Michael Agostino (NSW), Mark Konik (NSW), Don Hutley (QLD)

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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EEssendon Theatre Company
Bookings: 61 3 9330 4808

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1812 Theatre

: & Inquiries 61 3 9758 3964

2011 Season

Visiting Mr Green

This Award winning play is crowded both with humour and pathos. Mr Green, a cantankerus elderly widower and Ross a successful corporate executive are brought togetrher by a court order.
As Ross energetically sweeps the apartment clean of accumulated clutter, the cracks begin to materialise in Mr Green's narrow-minded, suspicious veneer.These tow extremekly different men begin to reveal themselve, and in doing so, affect each other's lives in prorfound and surprising ways.
Season: March 3 - April 2.

Breaking Legs

The worlds of the Mafia and the theatre clash hilariously when Terence, a professional playwright seeks funding for his new play from the family of a former student. The action occurs in an Italian restaurant owned by a successful mobster and managed by Angie, his beautiful unmarried daughter. The "family" turn out to be minor Mafia godfathers who are willinjg to underwrite the play provided they never have to read it. The lustful attraction which develops between Terence and Angie creates a dangerous relationshipwhich draws him either further into the mobs embrace. Will he succeed? Will he survive?
Season: May 26 - June 25.

The Peach Season

Folloewing the murder of her husband, Celia hasshut herself and her young daughter Zoe away toiling on an isolated peach farm in the middle of nowhere.
The peach farm is a " Garden of Eden" where the pair lead a sheltered existence until the outside world intrudes with the arrival of a troubled young brother and sister (Kieran and Sheena) who are employed to help during the icking season, bringing their own dangerous past into the rural utopia. Zoe is now avibrant 16 year old showing signs of wanting to stretch her wings. Love blossoms between the enigmatic Kieran and Zoe which sets off a disturbing chain of events. The safe, perhaps smothering world that Celia has created begins to unravel.
Season: August 11 - Septenber 10.

The Return

Explosive humour and powerful dialogue, this is riveting theatre at its best.
Late on a stifling hot night, the last train from Perth to Fremantle becomes a claustrophobic psycholigical battleground. Two thugs, Steve and Trev control this train and its occupents who become unwittingly participants in a game of intimidation. Through a series of comical yet disturbing antics we are drawn into the confines of the carriage and witness the struggle spitral out of control. By journey's end the line between aggressor and victim has become blurred. Who is terrorizing who?
Season: September 29 - October 22.

Crossing Delancey

A charming, gentle, romantic comedy of the human connections that truly make life worthwhile. The play set in New York City explores the special relationship between Bubbie, a lovable feisty, sharp-wtted grandmother, and Izzy, her granddaughter, a young unattached modern woman. While Izzy starts to pine for a pompous self-absorbed novelist who lives near the book store where Izzy works. Bubbie is prospecting for a heart of gold and approaches the local "Matchmaker" Hannah, who tries to introduce Izzy to Sam the young and successful Pickelman.
A generational and culteral clash erupts and Izzy is left confused and torn between two men. One represents what her mind wants, the other represents her heart. The conflict is resolved with a benerous dose of Humour, affection and wisdom.
Season: November 10 - December 10.

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Encore Theatre
Bookings: 1300 739 099

 

 

Hayfever

The play is set in an English country house n the 1920's where the ultra-Bohemian Bliss family reside. One Saturday they all asually mention that they have invited their own guest for the weekend. Each member of the Bliss family is furious. Teh weekend becomes a hilarious disaster which succeeds in sending guest scutling away on the first rain the following morning.
Seson: March 25 - April 9.

 

 

 

Frankston Theatre Group
Bookings: 03 9905 1111

 

 


 

The Hartwell Players
Bookings: 61 3 9889 5006

 

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Hats Theatre Company

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Malvern Theatre

Bookings: 1300 131 552

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.

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
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Mordialloc Theatre Company

Bookings: 03 9587 5141

 

 

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Peridot Theatre

Bookings: 61 3 9898 9090
1300 138 645

 

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.

 

Saltpillar Theatre Company

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Sherbrooke Theatre Company

Bookings : 61 3 9752 8979

Play in a Day

Play in Day is raw, exciting and innovative theatre - where it takes only 24 hours to create, write, direct, rehearse and perform a series of short plays.
That's right, a goup of 36 peole meet for the first time on Friday evening Febriary 25 and withn the space of 24 hours, they will have written, directed and rehearsed a series of six short 10 minute plays to be performed for your entertainment on the Saturday evening - for the very first time.
Season: February 26 at 8pm. Venue: Doncaster Secondary College Church Rd. Doncaster. Bookings: 1300 50 209.

Six of the Best

A collection of short comedies by Chris Hodson.
In this collection of short comedies Chris examines industrial relations concerning toothbrushes, immigration issues through the eyes of a redneck kangaroo, the uneasy relationship between drivers and their GP'S units and many more everyday experiences.
Season; April 1 - 16.

Wait until Dark

Small-time confidence tricksters Mike and Croker have just come out of jail and are summoned to a flat in London's Notting Hill Gate by former accomplice Lisa, who informed on them. Istead of lisa, they are met bythe sinister Roat. He explains he wants them to find a doll stiffed with heroin left somewhere in the flat by photographer Sam Henderson who wasa conned into bringing it through customs. Sam's wife, Susy, is blind and an easy target for the crooks. Or is she?
Season: July 22 - August 6.

Happy Birthday

Bernard invites his mistress, Brigit, to his home on her birthday despite the fact that his wife Jacqueline is present. To lull Jacqualene's suspicions he haas also invited his oldest friend, Rober, and asks him to complete the cover-up by pretending that Brigit is his own mistress. Thus are laid the foundations for a shaky edifice of frantic complications, in which identifies, plots and bedrooms, are changed around with ever-increasing confusion.
Season; October 14 - 29.

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Strathmore Theatrical Arts Group
Bookings: 61 3 9379 5348


A Midsummer Night's Dream

The Duke of Athens and the Queen of the Amozans are to marry. A pair of lovers decide to elope, pursued by their erstwhile partners. At night, in the forest they are bewitched and beguiled by the faerie.
At the same time a troupe of amateur actors gather to rehearse for the Duke's wedding celebration, they too encounter the faerie folk with especially disastrous results for one of their party. The lovers and actors are not helped by being unwitting pawns in a marital dispute within the world of faerie.
Season March 3 - 6 , 9 - 12.

Hysteria

Imagines the circumstances of a chance meeting in London 1938, between one of hte most controversial doctors of all time and one of the most recognisable surrealists.
The bubbling inertia of Hysteria brings a young woman to an old man's office in the dark of the night. Her past is shadowed in questions, her salvation lies in two men; one who will not help her, and nne who cannot see beyond her armpit.
ther's a knock, knock, knocking on the door and all those uncomfortable truths and half-conscious fantasies are coming home...
Season: May 26 - 29 June 1 - 4. Matinee May 29 at 2pm.

Kidnap Game

Paul Kendon is a high successful businessman, international arms dealer, and head of a large corporation. His world is turned upside-down, however, when he receives a telephone call from a man claiming to have kidnapped his dauhter, Sarah.
Although Kendon ransom and keep quiet, his security officer Daines, calls in the police - in the form of the cool and intelligent Inspector Joy Hart.
Kendon must now take a back seat as Inspector Hart engages the kidnapper, Phillip, in a battle of bluff and counter-bluff , leading to the exciting climax, with its unexpected twists.
The crisis is resolved but, for Paul kendon who has devoted his life to his business, the cost is counted in personal,rather than financial terms.
Season: August 18 - 21. 24 - 27. Matinee: August 21 at 2pm.

Educating Rita

Frank is a boozy burnt out professor who wants nothing more than to drink himself to oblivion. Rita is a free spirited hairdresser who thinks Macbeth is the guy who runs the local pub, she's also Frank's newest Open University student.
When these two forces collide magic happens.
Educating Rita is a beautiful bitter sweet comedy about a man who has given up on lifeand a woman who is determined to change hers.
Season: November 17 - 20. 23 - 26. Matinee: November 20 at 2pm.

 

 

 

Swamp Fox
Bookings: 61 3 9735 2802

 



Castle Hill Players
Bookings: 02 9634 2929

The Breath of Life

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge...” Madeleine Palmer is a retired Museum curator and lifelong political activist, living alone on the Isle of Wight. Her fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of Frances Beale, a woman she has met only once, who is now enjoying sudden success as a popular novelist. Over a single night, these two women discover how intriguingly close the course of their lives have been interwoven.

The original production at London’s Haymarket Theatre, starring the two Dames of British theatre, Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, enjoyed rave reviews, once again proving David Hare to be one of “Britain’s leading contemporary playwrights”. This often wry and humorous moral tale follows these two women as they strive to break free from a life burdened by memories, both treasured and painful, and take a new breath to make the most of their later years.

 

Season: February 11 - March 5

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Cooma Little Theatre - Cooma

 

Genesian Theatre Company - Sydney
Bookings: 1300 306 776

The Adventures of Paddington Bear

Season: January 8 - 30.

The Fantasticks

Season: January 15 - February 19.

 

Private Lives

Season: March 5 - April 16.

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Guild Theatre - Rockdale
Bookings: 61 2 9521 6358

Play On

by Robert Abbot

Season: Novenber 5 - 24


 
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Highlands Theatre Group - Mittagong
Bookings: 1300 657 559

Henry Lawson Theatre Werrington
Bookings: 02 4729 1555

The Wizard of Oz

Season: January 7 - 28.

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Hunters Hill Theatre - Hunters Hill
Bookings: 61 2 9878 7765

On Golden Pond

Season: March 4 - 9.

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Lieder Theatre Company - Goulburn
Bookings: 61 2 4821 5066

Newcastle Theatre Company
Bookings: 61 2 4952 4958
3pm - 6pm Mondays to Fridays.

 

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Nowra Players - Bombaderry
Bookings: 1300 662 808

 

Pymble Theatre
Bookings: 1300 306 776

 

 

Wyong Drama Group - Wyong
Bookings: 61 2 4353 4353

 

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