STAGtheatre Playbill - 2011
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Three plays $45.00 ($33.75 concession)
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PO Box 454
Essendon Vic. 3040
Normal admission rates per play:
2008 Season: Adult $17.00 ($13.00 concession/child)
2009 Season: Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Groups of ten adults and more (for the same performance) will also receive a discount of $2.00 per ticket.
 Laying the Ghost Simon Williams
Directed by Robert Harsley
Origin Theatrical
Season:
1-Jan-11 to 1-Jan-11
Theatre:
Strathmore Community Hall
Loeman Street
Strathmore
Melway map 16 H10
Performances:
8:00pm / 2:00pm matinee
Prices:
Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Bookings:
9382 6284
Synopsis:
This moving, witty play is set in a retirement home for actors. The plot revolves around ex-actor Margot Buchanan who does not want to be reminded that it is her 70th birthday! Unfortunately for her, most of the residents around her are keen on celebrating it!
The cast includes an interesting collection of characters…Freda - .Margot’s psychic friend; the no-nonsense manager of the home; Margot’s ex-husband Sir Leo Buchanan – a philanderer and womaniser; Judy his current wife; and an aspiring young actress.
Sir Leo unfortunately suffers a fatal heart attack – and the scene is set for much chaos and hilarity as his ghost appears, anxious to sort out matters between his three women,….. but visible only to Freda
Everything does sort itself out….but not before a deeply touching ending when Margot receives a very unexpected birthday gift!
Other Information:
The Wednesday evening performance has been replaced with an additional Sunday matinee.
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Season:
3-Mar-11 to 12-Mar-11
Theatre:
Strathmore Community Hall
Loeman Street
Strathmore
Melway map 16 H10
Performances:
8:00pm / 2:00pm matinee
Prices:
Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Bookings:
9382 6284
Synopsis:
The Duke of Athens & the Queen of the Amazons are to marry. A pair of lovers decide to elope, pursued by their erstwhile partners. At night, in the forest they are bewitched and beguiled by the faerie.
At the same time a troupe of amateur actors gather to rehearse for the
Duke's wedding celebration, they too encounter the faerie folk with
especially disastrous results for one of their party. The lovers and actors
are not helped by being unwitting pawns in a marital dispute within the
world of faerie.
This, arguably one of Shakespeare's greatest comedies, ends with love and
laughter.
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 Hysteria Terry Johnson
Directed by Alex Lance
Season:
26-May-11 to 4-Jun-11
Theatre:
Strathmore Community Hall
Loeman Street
Strathmore
Melway map 16 H10
Performances:
8:00pm / 2:00pm matinee
Prices:
Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Bookings:
9382 6284
Synopsis:
Hysteria, a play by Tony Award-winning dramatist Terry Johnson, imagines
the circumstances of a chance meeting in London 1938, between one of the
most controversial doctors of all time and one of the most recognizable
surrealists.
The bubbling inertia of Hysteria brings a young woman to an old man's
office in the dark of the night. Her past is shadowed in questions, her
salvation lies in two men: one who will not help her, and one who cannot
see beyond her armpit.
There's a knock, knock, knocking on the door and all those uncomfortable
truths and half-conscious fantasies are coming home ...
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 Kidnap Game Tudor Gates
Directed by Cameron South
Season:
18-Aug-11 to 27-Aug-11
Theatre:
Strathmore Community Hall
Loeman Street
Strathmore
Melway map 16 H10
Performances:
8:00pm / 2:00pm matinee
Prices:
Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Bookings:
9382 6284
Synopsis:
Paul Kendon is a highly successful businessman, international arms dealer,
and head of a large corporation. His world is turned upside-down, however,
when he receives a telephone call from a man claiming to have kidnapped his
daughter, Sarah.
Although Kendon is prepared to pay the ransom and keep quiet, his security
officer Daines, calls in the police - in the form of the cool and
intelligent Inspector Joy Hart.
Kendon must now take a back seat as Inspector Hart engages the kidnapper,
Philip, in a battle of bluff and counter-bluff, leading to the exciting
climax with its unexpected twists.
The crisis is resolved but, for Paul Kendon who has devoted his life to his
business, the cost is counted in personal, rather than financial, terms.
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 Educating Rita Willy Russell
Directed by Brett Turner
Season:
18-Nov-11 to 26-Nov-11
Theatre:
Strathmore Community Hall
Loeman Street
Strathmore
Melway map 16 H10
Performances:
8:00pm / 2:00pm matinee
Prices:
Adult $20.00 ($15.00 concession/child)
Bookings:
9382 6284
Synopsis:
Frank is a boozy, burnt out professor who wants nothing more than to drink
himself into oblivion.
Rita is a free spirited hairdresser who thinks Macbeth is the guy who runs
the local pub, she's also Frank's newest Open University student.
When these two opposing forces collide magic happens.
Educating Rita is a beautiful bittersweet comedy about a man who has given
up on life and a woman who is determined to change hers.
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