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It’s 1971 and outside on the streets, Australia is protesting the war in Vietnam. But inside a burned-out theatre, the resident patients of a mental asylum are listening to Mozart, learning their lines and occasionally skipping their medication. Louis Nowra’s renowned Australian comedy finds light in the darkness and challenges our perceptions about love, madness, and …
Brother and sister Martin and Hilda Massie live together, leading a quiet, Christian existence in the confines of the Bluebell Hill Development. Just as they are preparing for a housewarming gathering, their peace is shattered by a young trespasser in their garden. The Massies’ neighbours congregate in their living room and together they agree to …
Rupert Knox wants two things in life: to make the astronomical discovery of the new millennium and to find a date to his sister’s wedding. He might have found both in Claire, a celestial poet getting over an interstellar break-up. But when a mysterious woman named Elaine shows up at Rupert’s door with an offer …
The ladies of the Dramatic Society are performing the story of a Martian who wants to steal the newly invented Roberta the Robot in order to learn the secrets of macrame. Trouble is, the actress playing the robot has been accidentally dosed up with a handful of Valium, the lady playing the leading man is …
Directed by Steve Saul By arrangement with Origin Theatrical, on Behalf of Samuel French, Ltd. George and Charlotte Hay are great actors - just ask them! But as the curtain begins to fall on their long, almost successful careers, they find themselves touring their repertory company in upstate New York, hoping for that one last …
A Flea in Her Ear is world-renowned as the funniest and most famous of all French farces. It’s perfectly formed in its comic timing, shamelessly saucy and completely bonkers. We’re in Paris, 1908. After years of married bliss, Madame Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband is having an affair. In an effort to catch him in the act …
In a farmhouse at the edge of Salisbury Plain a family is falling apart. Stephen can’t afford to put his mother into care. Arthur can’t afford to stop working and look after his wife. When a young stranger moves in to care for Edie as her mind unravels, the family is forced to ask: Are …
PLAY BY LOUIS NOWRA | DIRECTED BY DAN BELLIS Louis Nowra’s vibrant play is set inside a psychiatric institution in 1971. Lewis, a young director, takes on the task of mounting a production of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte in the burnt-out theatre. He becomes emotionally involved with his patients-cum-actors as his operatic production lurches forward …
Maude, a fifty-something unemployed bartender living in a trailer park, has bought a painting for a few bucks from a thrift store. Despite almost trashing it, she’s now convinced it’s a lost masterpiece by Jackson Pollock worth millions. But when world-class art expert Lionel Percy flies over from New York and arrives at her trailer …
On a chilly night in a low-rent flat in East London, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from Tom Sergeant, her one-time boss and long-time lover. After the painful and unresolved dissolution of Tom and Kyra’s relationship, the pair have pulled away from each other physically, emotionally and ideologically, as Tom continues to focus …
In conjunction with The Yellow Agency & Reg Cribb Sherbrooke Theatre are proud to present the Non Professional debut of Reg Cribb’s incredible “Last Cab to Darwin” This beautifully written quintessential Australian piece is based around the true story of one man’s determination to find some dignity, but in his journey, he discovers more about …
Director: Terese Maurici Production Coordinator: Emma Hunt On a moonless evening, a man brings his new girlfriend to a remote cabin for a night of trout-fishing. But before the night is over, it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems... and as memory collides with desire, the truth becomes the most elusive catch of …
It’s 1971 and outside on the streets, Australia is protesting the war in Vietnam. But inside a burned-out theatre, the resident patients of a mental asylum are listening to Mozart, learning their lines and occasionally skipping their medication. Louis Nowra’s renowned Australian comedy finds light in the darkness and challenges our perceptions about love, madness, and …
It’s 1971 and outside on the streets, Australia is protesting the war in Vietnam. But inside a burned-out theatre, the resident patients of a mental asylum are listening to Mozart, learning their lines and occasionally skipping their medication. Louis Nowra’s renowned Australian comedy finds light in the darkness and challenges our perceptions about love, madness, and …
Brother and sister Martin and Hilda Massie live together, leading a quiet, Christian existence in the confines of the Bluebell Hill Development. Just as they are preparing for a housewarming gathering, their peace is shattered by a young trespasser in their garden. The Massies’ neighbours congregate in their living room and together they agree to …