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The Lady from the Sea is one of Ibsen's more elusive and enigmatic plays. There are many moments of laughter, but beneath a sense of restlessness that seems to infect all characters as the play builds slowly to a tense and highly dramatic conclusion. This is a powerful play, full of barely controlled emotions. The action …
This chilling, unusual play takes as its influence from the myth of Romulus and Remus. Twins Robin and Linda were given up for adoption shortly after birth by their mother Helena. Years later, on their 21st birthday, they lure Helena to a derelict building on the pretext that she will be meeting her lover, Michael. …
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 …
Assassins lays bare the lives of nine individuals who assassinated or tried to assassinate the President of the United States. From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, writers Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman, bend the rules of time and space, taking us on a roller coaster ride in which assassins and would-be assassins from …
It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra, lace and liquor flow freely at one of the Sunset Strips last legendary venues, a place where sex machine Stacee Jaxx takes the stage and scantily clad groupies line up to turn their fantasies …
With music and lyrics by Cyndi Lauper and a book by Harvey Fierstein, "Kinky Boots" is based on the 2005 British film and inspired by true events. The musical tells the story of Charlie Price who, having inherited a shoe factory from his father, forms an unlikely partnership with cabaret performer and drag queen Lola …
Henrietta has lived her life to the full, scared of nothing except perhaps of not being herself. After an unexplained hospitalisation, she finds herself facing an uncertain future and a loss of the dignity and control she so values. She has some support from her distracted daughter, and understanding from her son, an aspiring Member …
Two Jewish families are forced to hide from the Nazis in a secret annexe in Amsterdam. In her tiny room, Anne Frank keeps a dirary, detailing the claustrophobic realities of daily existence experienced by the families. She also records her own coming of age, battling low spirits and loneliness, fighting with her mother and falling …
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 …
Holmes and Watson must crack the mystery before a family curse dooms its newest heir. Five actors deftly play more than forty characters in this joyful, mischievous, comedy thriller.
Boeing Boeing is now boarding, so fasten your seatbelts for this rollicking fast moving farce. Set in the 1960's, this comedy follows the tale of Bernard who ingeniously juggles his three stewardess girlfriends by arranging it so their layovers do not overlap, keeping each women unaware of the others. His plans begin to unravel with …
The Lady from the Sea is one of Ibsen's more elusive and enigmatic plays. There are many moments of laughter, but beneath a sense of restlessness that seems to infect all characters as the play builds slowly to a tense and highly dramatic conclusion. This is a powerful play, full of barely controlled emotions. The action …
A stunning new legal drama from a trail-blazer of contemporary theatre, Anchuli Felicia King. A riveting new play filled with disarming humour, Golden Shield sees trailblazing writer Anchuli Felicia King smash the personal against the political in a globetrotting thriller not to be missed. Tenacious young lawyer Julie Chen (Fiona Choi) brings her sister Eva …
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 …
Advertising. We love to hate it. We’re constantly wondering: does it really work? Are the ads on TV really louder than the programs? Are we being led astray by ‘subliminal advertising’? Is this marketing genius or just complete bullshit? Follow ad industry insider, **Jenna Featherstone**, on a musical journey through the highs and lows of …