Community Theatre

Three Days of Rumours at Holroyd

Neil Simon’s Rumors plays at Holroyd Musical and Dramatic Society (NSW) for three days only from 6-8 August.

Steel Magnolias Steals Hearts at Castle Hill

Set in the 1980s in Truvy’s hair salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, this play will warm your heart and leave you feeling cosy and content right to the very end. Directed by Valerie Miller, Steel Magnolias follows the trials and tribulations of the six friends over three years. The soul of the play focuses on the loving companionship and solidarity the six women have between them. These Southern gals are there for each other as they sling witty sayings and tease each other.

Perfect Wedding at Cronulla

Imagine you are waking up in the bridal suite of a gracious country-house hotel somewhere outside London. Imagine you are the bridegroom, due to be married that very day. Imagine that you roll over and find an attractive woman in bed beside you – but it is not your fiancé! You now have a perfect picture of the opening scene of a Perfect Wedding by Robin Hawdon, the new production at Arts Theatre Cronulla.

Building The Musical Bridge

Coral Drouyn explores the sense of family and standard of excellence in one of Melbourne’s “MEGA” community theatre companies. She spent time with PLOS rehearsing for Legally Blonde.

Perth Students Tackle Tartuffe

A PLAY by one of France’s most celebrated playwrights plays at the Studio Underground of the State Theatre Centre in Perth during July 2015.

Performed by students from The Actors’ Hub, Tartuffe is a classic French satire and farce by Moliére first performed in 1664 and regarded as one of his most famous theatrical comedies.

Tartuffe is the name of the central character who is a wolf in sheep's clothing – he scams the family that has taken him in as their spiritual adviser and causes drama, confusion and comedy.

Lust, Lies and Betrayal in Award Winner Speaking in Tongues

AN intriguing and seductive play that was later turned in a multi-award-winning film is Limelight Theatre’s August 2015 offering.

Written by Kalgoorlie-born Andrew Bovell, Speaking in Tongues is a mystery for grown-ups laden with love, infidelity and mistrust, complete with twists, turns, flashbacks and surprises.

The three-part story focuses on the interwoven lives of nine people – two couples set out to betray their partners, a lover returns from the past and a husband doesn’t answer the phone.

Einstein and the Polar Bear for Adelaide

In the midst of an icy winter, St Jude’s Players intend to warm the hearts of Adelaide audiences by transporting them into the blizzard-blown wilds of New England, USA. Lesley Reed reports.

Powerful Tragedy in Wolf Lullaby

A CHILLING play that looks at children who murder, asking if there is intrinsic evil in the world, is the latest production at South Perht’s Old Mill Theatre, from July 31, 2015.

Written by Australian playwright Hilary Bell, Wolf Lullaby explores the themes of parental guilt and responsibility and whether some people are just born evil.

Set in a bleak, remote Tasmanian town, a small child is murdered – and suspicion falls on nine-year-old Lizzie.

Sondheim Meets Roman Farce In Forum at Phoenix

Phoenix Ensemble's upcoming production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is taking comedy all the way back to its roots – to Ancient Rome!

Running over five weekends from 7 August at Beenleigh’s boutique Pavilion Theatre, Forum delivers an almost constant stream of gags and upbeat songs.

The Merry Widow from Bluegum Creek Returns to Diamond Valley

Based on the original operetta Merry Widow by Franz Lehar, and featuring an identical score, Bluegum Widow has a distinctly Australian flavour. Set in the Australian Embassy in Paris 1901, with the action moving to a Parisian apartment, it's a story about love lost and found, mistaken identity (or was it?), Aussie vernacular confusing the “Frenchies”, and Parisian cultured society versus the unsophisticated Australian abroad. The poor Aussies are rather out of their depth in sophisticated Paris and would not survive without their wily French translator.

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