Community Theatre

BEAUTY is in the eye of the ogre as Shrek Junior – The Musical comes to life at Roleystone Theatre during the April 2016 school holidays.

Based on the Academy Award-winning film and Broadway musical, everyone’s favourite ogre Shrek leads a cast of fairytale misfits on an adventure to rescue Princess Fiona and find true acceptance.

Part-romance and part-twisted fairytale, Shrek Junior is an irreverent show with a powerful message for both kids and adults.

AN IMAGINED meeting between English composer Benjamin Britten and poet WH Auden form the basis of the Old Mill Theatre’s April 2016 production, The Habit of Art by Alan Bennett, one of the UK’s most prolific living playwrights.

The Habit of Art sees the two men meet for the first time in 25 years with Britten seeking advice from Auden – his former collaborator and friend – about his new opera Death in Venice.

In April 2016, Javeenbah Theatre presents Minefields and Miniskirts, a play that is both an engaging and frank recollection of how five Australian women experienced the Vietnam War. The play touches on issues of women’s rights, the realities of warfare, Australian reaction to the war and the legacy of our country’s involvement. 

A MYSTERY of dimming gaslight and footsteps in the night, matched with the timeless theme of marital manipulation, form the basis of a popular Victorian thriller on show at Limelight Theatre (WA) during April 2016.

Written by Patrick Hamilton and directed by Karen Tropiano, Gaslight is set in 1880 and focuses on the Manninghams – suave Jack Manningham is slowly psychologically torturing his wife Bella into insanity.

When she is visited by Inspector Rough, he convinces her that Jack is a maniacal criminal wanted for a murder committed 15 years ago.