Community Theatre

So firmly is James Goldman’s play entrenched in the mythology of Broadway that it is sung about in the musical, Fame, rhyming: ‘…The Lion in Winter, … Brecht and Harold Pinter.’

Heidelberg Theatre Company has chosen a play which is part of their history, James Goldman’switty story of a dysfunctional royal family, The Lion In Winter,to begin their 60th Anniversary year in February. It harks back to the company’s successful 1983 production.

The night of nights for Western Australian amateur theatre, the 37th Annual Robert Finley Awards, took place on Saturday 21st January 2012. The event took place at the beautiful Judith Cottier Theatre at Perth College and was a wonderful celebration of the year that was. The Independent Theatre Aossociation of WA manages the awards and their adjudicators saw over 55 productions in the 2011 year.

THEATRE with an edge comes to Melville in March 2012 with a play exploring social taboos and what types of behaviour are acceptable.

Written by Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? author Edward Albee and directed by Jeff Hansen at Melville Theatre, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a mix of the funny, shocking, absurd, tragic and confronting.

The story follows a leading 50-year-old New York architect who suddenly and inexplicably falls in love with a goat, whom he calls Sylvia.

When Director Michael Lill first read Doubt by John Patrick Shanley he knew instantly that he had to direct a production of it.

So he’s naturally thrilled to be given the opportunity to reprise Doubt as a co-production with the Javeenbah Theatre Company in January.

Doubt explores moral uncertainty. Set in a Bronx Catholic school in 1964, a strong-minded nun wrestles with conscience and indecision as she is faced with concerns about one of her male colleagues.