Past Productions

2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003 • 2002
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Noises Off

(Comedy - July 2008)

The show recounts the misadventures of a troupe of fifth-rate actors as they perform a sex farce titled NOTHING ON during a flea-bag provincial tour. The plot of NOTHING ON involves a ditzy maid in an English country house, a wayward plate of sardines, an illicit couple dodging the taxman, a sheik and a bibulous burglar. Doors slam (the set contains 7 of them) and trousers drop with dizzying abandon. In theatre language, noises off refers to commotion in the wings. The noises off are the backstage yelps and battle cries of the actors, who are entangled in a sex farce of their own. Frayn’s most novel stroke is to set the second act behind the set at a performance of NOTHING ON. While the players on the far side of the scenery invisibly sing out their lines, those on the near side conduct a frenzied pantomime with a wine bottle, a cactus plant, bouquets of flowers, a fireman’s ax, shoelaces tied together and assorted other slapstick paraphernalia.

Synopsis by: Johnny Brewer, April 06, 2007 on his site Whole Backstage
http://www.wholebackstage.com/Noises Off.htm

Starring: Jim Denton, Tom Bayford, Sean Flierl, Lynda-Marie Gerritsen, Miriam Keane, Terry Crowe and Janet Jauncey.
Directed by Ensemble.

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Sweet Charity

(Musical Comedy - May 2008)

ADAPTED from Nights of Cabiria, a film by Federico Fellini, Sweet Charity tells the story of an optimistic young woman, Charity, who not only wears her heart on her sleeve, she's had it tattooed to her arm! As the play begins, Charity finds herself dumped by the married man on whom she had pinned all her hopes and dreams, and she vows never again to be taken advantage of by a man. But Charity is too trusting and soon finds herself involved with an Italian movie star. The actor, however, is no better than the other men Charity has dated, and once again she finds herself jilted and alone. The next night, however, as fate would have it, she finds herself trapped in an elevator with a claustrophobic tax accountant who soon sweeps Charity off her feet. Soon it becomes clear that this man is different--that he actually wants to marry her--but will he still feel the same way when he finds out that Charity works at the Fan-Dango as a dance hall hostess?

Synopsis by J. Crabb and originally published on the Moonstruct Drama Store website on April 5, 2002.
http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/albm96.html

Starring: Fiona Bailey-Wiggins, Jamie Richards, Doug Wiggins, April Stuart, Linda Lawson, Paul Truack, Paul Kaesler, Kylie Toogood, Courtney Allen, Peter Langshaw, Kate Anolak, Cherylene O'Brien, Claire Schofield, Alison Owens, Karen Prenzler, Tom Bayford, Sean Flierl, Vanessa Dewar, Kyla Fava, Callum Bryne, Cameron Roberts and Pat Andrews.
Directed by Harry Dewar, Musical Director: Mark Delaine, Stage Manager: Josh Smart.

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