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Flood Relief Benefit Concert Featuring Raymond Khong tenor 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 Please forward this email to your family and friends |
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The 39 StepsThis 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. Death of a SalesmanA 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. They're Playing Our SongA story based on the real-life relationship between composer marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. 'Allo 'Allo
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10 Minute Quickie resultsBest Actress - Jeanne Snider in "Item on the News" Best Director - Lisa Inman for "Heading in the Right Direction" Best Play: "Item on the News" by Beverley Lello (writer awarded $1,000) 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 SeasonJust Like ElvisWho 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. A Month of SundaysA humerous and uplifting play about two men, Cooper and Aylott, who by choice live in a retirement home, but call themselves the Escape Committee. We Happy FewBased 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. Private LivesSybil 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. The Perils of Purity Pimble - Annual Music Hall ProductionMr 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.
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2011 SeasonVisiting Mr GreenThis 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. Breaking LegsThe 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? The Peach SeasonFolloewing 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 ReturnExplosive humour and powerful dialogue, this is riveting theatre at its best. Crossing DelanceyA 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. |
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HayfeverThe 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.
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2011 SeasonShadowlandsThe 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. Six Degrees of SeparationA 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. The Farnsworth InventionThe 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. Love Letters/ Later LifeLove 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. They're Playing Our SongA brilliant musical by Neil Simon basaed on the real-life relationship between composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Carole Bayer Sager.
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2011 SEASONBeyond Reasonable Doubt.Sir David Metcalfe, distinguished QC and Chairmn of the Bar Council is conducting the most imprtant case in his life - his own. Sitting PrettyUnmarried 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. The Glass MenagerieAbanddoned 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. CaravanTells the story of three couples who spend their summer vacation together at a secluded camping site on the New South Wales coast.
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Play in a DayPlay 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. Six of the BestA collection of short comedies by Chris Hodson. Wait until DarkSmall-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? Happy BirthdayBernard 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. Goto top of page |
A Midsummer Night's DreamThe 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. HysteriaImagines 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. Kidnap GamePaul 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. Educating RitaFrank 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.
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The Adventures of Paddington BearSeason: January 8 - 30. The FantasticksSeason: January 15 - February 19. |
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Private LivesSeason: March 5 - April 16. |
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Play Onby Robert Abbot Season: Novenber 5 - 24 |
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