Community Theatre

Hedda Gabler, Ibsen's 'Female Hamlet', for Perth

ONE of theatre’s great dramatic roles is coming to Perth’s Melville Theatre from July 13, 2012, when Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 masterpiece Hedda Gabler is staged.

Olivia Darby takes on the title role of Hedda Gabler, commonly referred to as the “female Hamlet” in theatre circles, because of her strong and complicated nature and an energy both attractive and destructive.

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Pajama Game to Warm Winter Nights

Diamond Valley Singers (Vic) present the classic Broadway musical The Pajama Game from July 6 – 14 at Warrandyte High School Theatre. Eltham Community Orchestra will accompany the cast of more than thirty performers for a nine performance season.

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Hills Celebrate 40 Years with Eurobeat!

2012 marks the 40th Anniversary of the Hills Musical Society located in the Hills District in Sydney, and the Society is celebrating the occasion with a production of Eurobeat! Almost Eurovision from June 15.

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Chatswood

Dark, funny, timeless and universal… Epicentre Theatre Company (NSW) presents Dario Fo’s absurdist masterpiece Accidental Death of an Anarchist at Sydney’s Zenith Theatre in June, 2012.

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World Premiere of New Play from The Sum of Us Author

THE Old Mill Theatre (WA) is staging the world premiere of the latest play from Hollywood writer and director David Stevens (best known forThe Sum of Us, A Town Like Alice and Breaker Morant) from June 22.

Described as a “love story re-invented”, The Beast and The Beauty re-works the classic tale of magic and enchantment and sets it in the Australian outback of the late 1880s.

The so-called beast is an ordinary man, horribly disfigured in a bushfire as a baby.

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MLOC Witches of Eastwick a Family Affair

MLOC (Victoria) is presenting The Witches of Eastwick from June 15 to 23, 2012 at the Phoenix Theatre, Elwood.

The cast is a family affair, with six sets of family members out of just over forty performers. These include mother and daughter teams Loretta and Ebony Richardson, Lucy and Lily Nicolson and Barbara Mendleson and Amy Howden. Married couples include Margot and Colin Sephton and Margaret and Paul Boyd, while Amber and Kayla Krause are sisters.

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David Williamson’s After the Ball for Beenleigh

South East Queensland audiences can catch David Williamson’s highly regarded 1997 play After The Ball when thePhoenix Ensemble presents it over it over four weekends in June, at the Pavilion Theatre, Beenleigh (Logan City), half way between Brisbane and the Gold Coast.

Director Maria Grills has assembled a cast combining Phoenix regulars and newcomers for this drama, which offers a frank, critical look at Australian suburban family life in the 1960s and 1990s.

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Romeo and Juliet for Castle Hill

Castle Hill Players (NSW) present Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare’s timeless tale of star-cross’d love, at the Pavilion Theatre from June 1 – 23.

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Next to Normal: Victorian Amateur Premiere for Fab Nobs

Next to Normal is anything but, as it straps audiences in for a rollercoaster ride through the devastating effects of mental illness on a seemingly normal family. To get to the ending of the triple Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning musical means making an emotional investment as an audience member. With music by Tom Kitt and lyrics by Brian Yorkey, the musical has been acclaimed for its poignant dramatisation of mental illness.

Fab Nobs Theatre (Bayswater, Vic.) will stage the Victorian Amateur Premiere of Next to Normal from June 15 – 30.