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BEHIND THE SCENES

The production of a play at the 1812 Theatre involves far more people than just the actors on the stage. For example we need set builders, backstage crew, backstage management, costume making, front of house helpers, technical crew/bio box/lighting and sound technicians.

All these functions are provicec by a small army of volunteers.

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.

If you are aged between 14 and 80 and this sounds like something that you may be interested in doing, please read on to find out what is involved behind the scenes.

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 1812, 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.

STILL INTERSTED RING 1812 on 9758 3964 or email admin@1812theatre.com.au

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2020 Season

Heidelberg Theatre advises all remaining plays on 2020 are now cancelled. The Company will advise on the 2032 season.

Three Little Words

Now postponed and will be staged as soon as it is safe to do so.

For thse who have bouight tickets to Three Little Words the following three options are available.
Option 1 Do Nothing

Hold onto to your tickets intil the dseason date has been conformed. The Company has a record of all tickets puchased and they will be able to advise you when the ticketing arrangements have been conformed. This applies to subscriber tickets as well as single play tickets.

Option 2. Full Refund

If you have purchased tickets via the HTC website and wish to request a full refund please email your request to htc@htc.org.au
If your tickets were ppurchased via telephone, you can phone the Box Office on 9457 4117 to request a refund.

Option 3. Credit

If you a subsciber to the 2020 Season and if HTC is unable to stgage a production season this year, the value of the tickets that you have purchased can be used as a credit towards your subscription for the 2021 Playbill Season. Alternatively, if you would like to rwquest a refund please refer to Option 2.
If you have any questions please email htc@htc.org.au

A Nightiongale Sang

Helen is stoical, self-depreciating, and walks with a limp, her grandfather Andie is recruiting mouners to attend the burial of his dog; her devout Catholic mother is fretting about the health of the local priest; her father serencades an unwilling audience with popular dongs; and Joyce, Helen's younger sister, dithers over a marriae proposal.
Season: July 4 - 18. 2020.

The Beauty Queen of Leeanane

is a startlingly revealing story of a family dysfunction and abuse set in the deceptively idyllic, west Irish countryside.
Martin McDonagh's award-winning play tells the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folen, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative aeing mother. Meg's interference in her daughter's first and possibilty final chance of a loving relationship sets in motiona train of events that lead inexorably towards a tragic realisation.
Season: September 4 - 19. 2020.

The Ladykillers

is a classic black comedy basedon the popular Ealing film of the same name, it was adaptred in 2011 by Graham Linehan and found immediate success.
Posing as amateur musicians, Profesor Marcus and his gang of criminal misfits rent rooms in the lopsided huse of sweet but strict Mrs Wilberforce in order to pull off a brillianly conceived heist job. The police are clueless but Mrs Wilberforce soon becomes wise to their ruse and with only her parrot, General /gordon, to hewlp her, she finds herself alone with five desparate men. but who will be forced to face the music?
Season: Novembewr 13 - 28. 2020.

Behind the Scenes

There's so much more to do at HTC than just being in the audience. The theatre is looking for enterprising individuals to come aboard backstage in a number of diverse and exciting positions, ranging from assistant stage managing and crew to operations in lighting and sound. These backstage positions - working with experienced theatre veterans in all areas - offer an exciting glimpse into the world of community theatre, and how it really does take a village to make a show.

If you're interested in getting involved, HTC email us at htc@htc.org.au.

Don't delay - no two HTC shows are ever the same experience!

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Whose Life is it Anyway?

CANCELLED

Nobody's Perfect

CANCELLED

The Flick

A comedy set in a run--down movie theatre in Worcester, Massachusetts. the play follows three underpaid employees, Sam and Rose. Avery has an encyclopaedic obsession with film, and Sam has an unrequited obsession with Rose.
together they do the humdrum and tedious labour necessary for keeping one of the lastr remaining film-projector cinemas running, including mopping the floors. Rose id also the projectionist/ they bicker, laugh and dream their way through shifts in the empty aisles. The repititive sweeping and mopping is dull mind-numbing work, yet it provides a space for them to banter about their favourite films, astrology and the splitting of 'dinner money' stolen from receipts.
Season: August 28 - September 12. 2020. Wednesday to Saturday at 8.15pm. Matinees: Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.

Noises Off

A play within a play. An ambitious director and his troupe of mediocre actors and the backstage 'drama' that develops during rehearsals and tour. The cast and creware putting together a silly sex comedy called Nothing On - a single-set farce in which lovers frolic, doors slam, clothes are tossed away and embarrassing hi-jinks ensue. IN the end at the diastrous final performance, as the characters make their exists from Nothing On they find themselves making entrances into the even worse nightmare gong on backstage. The twoe plots can be seperate no longer, and merge into a single collective nervous breakdown.
Season: October 30 - November 14. 2020. Wednesday to Saturday at 8.15pm. Matinees: Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.

2020 Season

Fool for Love

by Sam Shepard

In a Mojave Desert motel, two former lovers reunite under less than ideal circumstances for an encounter that is far from simple. Eddie, a transient flame flicj=kering in and out of May's life, and May unable to fully extinguish it, exhibit a connection of equal parts painful, raw and passionate. Does yes mean no? Does love mean hate? Is it love or co-dependency? Lines are so blurred they can't always see a clear path, a way out from the ties that bind. Except the old man who watdhes, patiently, waiting to speak his truth. He's seen the fool, he sees everything. Or does he? Eddie and May are caught up in sorting through the emotional tumult of their lives in a power struggle where identity is vague and past haunts are ever preesent.
Season: February 20 - 29. 2020.

Popcorn

by Ben Elton

Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satircal comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad.
When notoriuos killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce's passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels. "a nude model and actress" they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends t use Bruce's "art" as justification for murder. Evens are disrupted by the arrival of Bruse's soon to be ex-wife and spoiled teenage daughter and his producer. However, Wayne means to succeed whatever the cost.
Season: May 21 - 30. 2020.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

Bassano asks his friend Antonio, a wealthy merchant of Venice, for a loan so he can afford to woo Portia, a beutiful heiress. Antonio's fortune is tied up in his trading ships, but he agrees to act as gearantor, if Bassano can borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. Shylock hates Antonio, but loans the money. Pretending that this is a jest, Shylock specifies the penalty for failure to pay on time as a pound of Antonio's flesh. Bassano wins Portia's hand after undergoing a trial specified by her father. Antonio's ships are unexpectedly delayed and he can't pay on time and Shylock demands his pound of flesh at the Duke of Venice's court. Portia and her companion Nerissa disguise themselves as men - a learned lawyer and her clerk - and travel to Venice, where Portia uses brilliant legal argument to confound Shylock's malicious intensions and save Antonio's life.
Season: August 20 - 29. 2020.

Towards Zero

by Agatha Christie

When a house party gathers at Gull's Point. the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Neville Strange finds himself caught between his old wife Aydrey and his new flame Kay. A nail-biting thriller, the play probes the psychology of jealousy in the shadow of a savage and brutal murder. A carefully unpeeled investigation before our eyes brings the story to a pointed ending.
Season: Novembe 5 - 14. 2020.

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