New South Wales

Venue: The Phoenix Theatre, 24 Bridge Street, Coniston NSW 2500

This is a new edit of the script (120 minute run time) and looks at gender issues while using multi gender casting to highlight how Joan Herself perceives the world around her.
This incredibly strong cast performs in a passionate production of the G. B. Shaw classic.
A classic play, Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, tells the story of Joan of Arc and her mission to lead the French army against the invading English.
It's also about the self-doubt and problems she faced when succeeding where men had not.
It features a gender-blind cast and puts to the front, the struggle of competent women in a world dominated by men.

NSW

Venue: The Guild Theatre, Cnr Walz & Railway Streets, Rockdale, Sydney, NSW

'There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being!'
In a small town, just like your town, stories play out in th eold familiar patterns of love, lfe, marriage, death, and the passage of time. This Pulitzer Prize winning classic is waiting to welcome you home.

New South Wales

Venue: Laguna Hall, 3734 Great North Road, Laguna, NSW 2325

Spies, villainy, suspicion, murder, cruelty, fear, persecution and conspiracy. It’s been a shocking twelve months. But if you add adventure, love and comedy to the story you have an evening of utter escapism. That’s why we at Valley Artists have been working undercover, plotting and scheming, to present to you the multi-award winning, spy noir thriller, The 39 Steps.
Valley Artists’ The 39 Steps is a comic play involving some interesting numbers – 100, 139 and 4 being the key ones. 100 is the duration of the play in minutes, 139 is the total number of roles, and 4 is the total number of actors! Our hero, Hannay, is played by Craig Howe, Siobhan Dillon plays three females, leaving the remaining 135 roles to be played by Alan Glover and Bob Philippe. They will be very busy.
'Who the hell cares frankly, what does it all matter, wait a minute, come on Hannay! Pull yourself together man! Find something to do you bloody fool! Something mindless and trivial. Something utterly pointless. Something – I know a Valley Artists’ show!' We need a hero right now, we need a laugh and you will get them in spades in Valley Artists’ June 2021 production, The 39 Steps.

New South Wales

Venue: MURWILLUMBAH CIVIC CENTRE AUDITORIUM, Tumbulgum Rd, Murwillumbah, NSW 2484

A completely new, unseen stage play written by Roy Clark and starring Hyacinth Bucket (who insists it is pronounced “Bouquet”) the character made famous by Patricia Routledge. “Keeping Up Appearances” spans five seasons from 1990 to 1995 and was a huge hit with its hilarious and eccentric characters with series repeats still aired on TV to this day.
Please note that as we are an approved Covid-safe organisation, ONLY ROW SEATING WILL BE AVAILABLE WITH NO BYO FOOD AND DRINK. However, there will be a licensed bar with light refreshments available.

New South Wales

Venue: Tweed Heads Civic and Cultural Centre, Cnr Wharf and Brett Streets, TWEED HEADS NSW 2485

A comedy play about retirement. What does a couple do when both the wife and husband retire? In fact, it involves two retired couples who are and have been best friends for many years. This very funny play will certainly make you laugh and may even bring a tear to your eye as you may relate to some of the situations they get themselves in to.

CABARET SEATING - BYO DRINKS AND NIBBLES

NSW

Venue: The Arcadians' Miner's Lamp Theatre, 141 Princes Highway, Corrimal, NSW 2518

A scrumptious coming of age musical set in the 1950’s. The lead character is a teenager Lisa who joins the staff of a fashionable department store while she waits for her exam results.
Over a summer that changes her life, she befriends the colourful characters of the women’s clothing department. Each is on the precipice of change – facing independence, working for a living and what it means to be a woman.
The Age called it “a unicorn of the stage: a full-blown, home grown musical that actually works” and “probably the best Aussie musical since Priscilla went global.”
It wrote “Tim Finn’s songs range from Broadway-inspired numbers to true blue ballads, from witty patter songs to shares of blues and jazz standards. They’re beautifully integrated with the dramatic action, and the comic lyrics are priceless.”

New South Wales

Venue: Zenith Theatre and Convention Centre, Mcintosh St & Railway Street, Chatswood, NSW 2067

Musical Makers Club proudly presents this hilarious favourite, Legally Blonde.
Elle Woods has it all. She's the President of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar, and, above all, a natural blonde.

NSW

Venue: Hunters Hill Theatre, 22 Alexandra Street, Hunters Hill

Victoria

Venue: Bayside Arts and Cultural Centre, Cnr Wilson and Carpenter Streets, Brighton, 3186

The Architect is disarming, funny and true, and dances nimbly around sentiment for so long, it feels more akin to the unlikeliest sort of romantic comedy than an end-of-life drama.
When John is heading overseas to indulge his passion for historical re-enactments of famous medieval battles, he decides to employ a carer for his partner, Helen, who is ill.
Initially Helen is appalled by the idea and only agrees by choosing the least likely candidate; a dubious young drifter and jack-of-all-trades. Lennie seems to be a fish out of water but nevertheless makes himself right at home.
A touching rapport develops between him and Helen, delicate and spontaneous, gentle but unflinchingly honest.

New South Wales

Venue: 19th June 2021: Inglewood Town Hall, 2:30pm.
Further details will be available soon, but tickets will be available at the door, or via Trybooking.
24-26 June 2021
4 Performances at the Alexander Theatre
Running time 2.5 hours approx
(1 Interval)
24th June at 8pm
25th June at 8pm
26th June at 2pm
26th June at 8pm
Alexander Theatre, Monash University, Wellington Road, Clayton
Enquiries: 0490 465 009, tickets@gsov.org.au, https://gsov.org.au/the-gondoliers-2021/

Set in Venice, and a balmy isle in the Mediterranean, this is the quintessential light opera of mixed up babies at birth, set to “the happiest music ever written by an Englishman”. Cachucha, fandango, bolero, Sullivan was truly inspired to write such delicious Italian and Spanish melodies. Gilbert’s satire of Republicanism is still as fresh today as ever. “When everyone is somebody then no one’s anybody”.
Marco and Giuseppe have just married their sweethearts, Gianetta and Tessa, who they won in a game of blind-man’s-buff
On their wedding night however, the Grand Inquisitor informs them that one of them is the rightful King of Barataria.
Furthermore, he, whoever he is, was married in infancy to Casilda – the daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro – who have just arrived in Venice to claim their daughter’s husband.

NSW

Venue: Maitland Repertory Theatre • Maitland

"I hate the world, Matilda. Do you know that?“ - Beatrice

Winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize, the Obie Award and the New York Critics Circle Award as best American Play of the season, this powerful and moving story of triumph in the face of adversity, set in the style of Tennessee Williams, is one of Off-Broadway’s greatest successes.
It is a biographical play of the writer’s dysfunctional family and the pain and loneliness suffered as a child growing up in a home with a narcissistic mother, a rebellious and manipulative sister and the absence of a loving father.RYet, even though the play presents a bleak situation, it also offers hope in the character of Tillie (Matilda) who, despite her mother’s cruelty, refuses to be defeated. Tillie embodies the spirit of the survivor. Tillie is an awkward outcast at school, yet she is able to appreciate what life has to offer because she has discovered something more important than external appearances, something more lasting. She has discovered that she is important.

New South Wales

Venue: Campbelltown Town Hall Theatre. Campbelltown

Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king, and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.

Tasmania

Venue: Newstead College Auditorium, 30 Cypress Street, Newstead, Tasmania 7250

Three River Theatre and IO Performance are thrilled to announce we will be presenting 'Gloria' by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins in our 2021 season.
From the 5-8th of May 2021, 'Gloria', directed by Georgie Todman, with be at IO HQ on Cimitiere street.
A killer exploration of ambition and identity.
Warning: this play is for audiences age 16+

New South Wales

Venue: Capitol Theatre, Tamworth, NSW

Truvy Jones runs a successful beauty salon in Chinquapin, Louisiana, where all the ladies who are ‘anybody’ in the neighbourhood have a standing Saturday appointment. As the women of Chinquapin makes their ways over life’s many hurdles together, they find comfort (and a fair amount of verbal ribbing) in one another. This Tamworth Dramatic Society ‘made in Tamworth’ production, directed by Gero Cutmore will have you in stitches and bring a tear to your eye. Great entertainment!

New South Wales

Venue: Orange Civic Theatre, Orange

Step into the enchanted world of Broadway's modern classic, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, an international sensation that has played to over 35 million people worldwide in 13 countries. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature, the stage version includes all of the wonderful songs written by Alan Menken and the late Howard Ashman, along with new songs by Mr Menken and Tim Rice. The original Broadway production ran for over thirteen years and was nominated for nine Tony Awards, including Best Musical.
The classic story tells of Belle, a young woman in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is really a young prince trapped under the spell of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to love and be loved, the curse will end and he will be transformed into his former self. But time is running out. If the Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and his household will be doomed for all eternity.
This "tale as old as time" offers a great opportunity to experience family theatre at its best.

NSW

Venue: The Guild Theatre, Cnr Walz & Railway Streets, Rockdale, Sydney, NSW

'There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being!'
In a small town, just like your town, stories play out in th eold familiar patterns of love, lfe, marriage, death, and the passage of time. This Pulitzer Prize winning classic is waiting to welcome you home.

New South Wales

Venue: Maitland Repertory Theatre • Maitland, NSW

Written in 1935 amid the American Great Depression, Clifford Odets’ Waiting for Lefty captures a meeting of New York taxi drivers ready to strike. The corrupt union head does everything he can to discourage a decision to strike, but as they wait for their leader Lefty Costello to arrive, members of the workers committee step forward to tell heart-wrenching tales of the conditions that have brought each of them individually to the point of no return.
With families they cannot feed, a society fraught with injustice and no future in sight, they are determined to fight to the death for the right to live like a man; a whole, fully realised person, in a world in which success – “your name in the papers”, “fame and fortune” – is God.
The strike is not about a few extra pennies in their pay or shorter hours of work but a strike for a greater dignity, for a bolder humanity; a strike for the full stature of man.
This American classic will be performed on stage by Reamus Youth Theatre.

New South Wales

Venue: Jetty Memorial Theatre, 337 Harbour Drive, COFFS HARBOUR, NSW 2450

James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim’s fantastic musical weaves together fairy-tale figures such as Cinderalla, Jack (of the beanstalk), Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf, Rapunzel and the witch, and more than one handsome Prince, but not as you’ve seen them before. An ambivalent Cinderalla, who’s not sure she wants to marry a Prince? A blood-thirsty Little Red Riding Hood? A Prince Charming with a roving eye? A witch… who raps?
What begins as a lively irreverent fantasy becomes a cautionary tale about community responsibility and the stories we tell our children. Be careful what you wish for…

New South Wales

Venue: ONLINE

Missed out on our last show? No problem, "Rehearsed - Staged readings of local writers" is now available online! Ticket prices are low given the challenges of live recording a stage show (the sound quality is very good!) Also, access can be purchased as a gift - a great last minute Mothers' Day gift idea! This show has a diverse range of plays, poems and monologues, written by Dubbo writers and performed by Dubbo actors.
A recording of unique evening of local actors presenting rehearsed readings of the work of local writers from Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia. Plays, poems, short stories, monologues - exploring life's big - and little - questions. Funny, angry, sad, devastating - so many emotions covered in a one-time only event.

NSW

Venue: Woy Woy Little Theatre at The Peninsula Theatre, Cnr McMasters and Ocean Beach Road, Woy Woy, NSW 2256

LADIES in Lavender is a wistful, poignant play about the longing for love and Shaun McKenna adapted it from Charles Dance’s 2004 film starring Judi Dench and Maggie Smith.
It is set in a remote Cornish village in the late 1930s, as World War II looms, where spinster sisters Janet and Ursula lead a quiet life.
Then one morning they find a half-drowned young man, Andrea on the beach and take him to their home. Ursula spends hours by his bedside reading him The Little Mermaid as they slowly nurse him back to health, helped by the local doctor.
Andrea, who claims to be Polish but only speaks German, turns out to be a gifted violinist. Borrowing the doctor’s violin, he charms the sisters and many in the village.
The play is beguiling. An old-fashioned drama that unfolds at a slow, gentle pace but the emotions feel palpably real.

New South Wales

Venue: ENGADINE COMMUNITY CENTRE, 1034-1036 Old Princes Highway, Engadine NSW 2233

Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two girls who first meet as sorcery students at Shiz University: the blonde and very popular Glinda and a misunderstood green girl named Elphaba.
Following an encounter with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, their friendship reaches a crossroads and their lives take very different paths. Glinda's unflinching desire for popularity sees her seduced by power while Elphaba's determination to remain true to herself, and to those around her, will have unexpected and shocking consequences for her future.
Their extraordinary adventures in Oz will ultimately see them fulfill their destinies as Glinda The Good and the Wicked Witch of the West.

New South Wales

Venue: Wollongong Workshop Theatre, Gwynneville, NSW

'Heaven is a city much like San Francisco.... '
Angels in America opens next Friday, so grab your tickets today before you miss out! Don't forget you can use your NSW dine and discover vouchers too!
In the midst of the AIDS crisis in America in the 1980s and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell.
The follow up to WWT's successful production of Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, Perestroika is the powerful conclusion to one of the most important plays of America theatre. With the original production team and most of the original cast from the 2018 season returning to the Workshop stage, this production is sure to be one not to be missed.

New South Wales

Venue: The Concourse, Chatswood

Get ready to get on the bus… the fabulous Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical is coming to The Concourse.
Willoughby Theatre Company will be the first community theatre company in NSW to present the Australian musical, based on the hit film, that has taken the world by storm - from Broadway to the West End and now Chatswood!
Featuring some of the biggest pop hits of all time including “It’s Raining Men”, “I Say A Little Prayer”, “I Will Survive”, “I Love The Nightlife”, “Shake Your Groove Thing”, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” and “Boogie Wonderland”, we expect this production to be our biggest yet!
So if you’re looking for some “Hot Stuff” then join us as we “Go West” on a journey in the outback with Tick, Bernadette and Felicia.

New South Wales

Venue: Theatre 16, 16 Bellambi Ln, Bellambi, NSW 2518

We’re proud to announce our return to shows at Theatre 16 with a show highlighting the talented improvisers we have coming through our ranks.
If you’re looking for a fun night of laughs, come support our newest batch of comedians NEXT Saturday on May 15th. Tickets just $10.
For the past year Rising Arts have held improv workshops for the Illawarra theatre community. Over that time we've had many dedicated performers try their hand at improv, many of which for the very first time. We wanted to create a show to highlight all their effort and share what they've been working on with friends, family and our community.
Join us for a night of laugh as our newest group of improvisers takes to the stage to perform improv classics as seen on shows like 'Whose Line'.

Victoria

Venue: Costa Hall, 81 Ryrie Street, Geelong VIC 3220

Magical, musical entertainment on a grand scale, will delight audiences of all ages.
After being out of action for more than a year, The Geelong Lyric Theatre Society is set to stage the biggest Musical Theatre Concert in it’s almost 50 year history, bringing a dazzling dose of Disney to Costa Hall this May.
Wish Upon a Song showcases the epic music and all-time hit songs from over a dozen Disney films, including The Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Mary Poppins, The Little Mermaid, Frozen and Frozen II.
The all original program brings together many of our regions most talented performers, featuring a youth orchestra on stage, a 46 strong cast, and the beautiful voices of the Geelong Youth choir.
All music is specially arranged for orchestra, cast and choir by local maestro and Musical Director, Brad Treloar. Charlotte Crowley, makes her debut as Choreographer, alongside well-known local Director, Davina Smith and Assistant Director Richard Senftleben.
The Wish Upon a Song Production Team and most of the original cast were very excited to re-start rehearsals in February, after the show was put on hold throughout 2020.

New South Wales

Venue: The Phoenix Theatre, 24 Bridge Street, Coniston NSW 2500

This is a new edit of the script (120 minute run time) and looks at gender issues while using multi gender casting to highlight how Joan Herself perceives the world around her.
This incredibly strong cast performs in a passionate production of the G. B. Shaw classic.
A classic play, Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw, tells the story of Joan of Arc and her mission to lead the French army against the invading English.
It's also about the self-doubt and problems she faced when succeeding where men had not.
It features a gender-blind cast and puts to the front, the struggle of competent women in a world dominated by men.

Australia
Queensland

Venue: Brisbane Arts Theatre, 210 Petrie Tce, Petrie Terrace, 4000

New South Wales

Venue: Young Peoples Theatre Newcastle, Cnr Lindsay & Lawson Streets, Hamilton NSW AUSTRALIA 2303

The Addams Family – Young @ Part
Based on the Kooky and Spooky Addams Family TV Show, this musical embraces the wackiness in every family. Wednesday Addams, the ultimate princess of darkness, has grown up and fallen in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family – a man her parents have never met. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday’s “normal” boyfriend and his parents.
The Addams Family Young @ Part is an abridged version of the full-length show – a fun show for all the family.
YPT’s production of The Addams Family Y@P is a COVID Safe Production. You can access our COVID Safe Plan here: https://ypt.org.au/addamscovidsafe/

New South Wales

Venue: Redgum Centre, 2 Lane Street, Wentworthville

Queensland

Venue: Brisbane Arts Theatre, 210 Petrie Tce, Petrie Terrace, 4000

This Australian children’s musical returns to the original tale of the wicked Queen, so jealous of her beautiful step-daughter that she orders her into the forest to be killed. When the royal huntsman fails to complete the job, the Queen uses her own evil magic to try to kill Snow White, who is helped along the way by some very unusual dwarfs.

New South Wales

Venue: Campbelltown Town Hall Theatre. Campbelltown

Three witches tell the Scottish general Macbeth that he will be King of Scotland. Encouraged by his wife, Macbeth kills the king, becomes the new king, and kills more people out of paranoia. Civil war erupts to overthrow Macbeth, resulting in more death.

New South Wales

Venue: Wesley Community Hall, Dubbo

What has got Valerie (played by Rhonda Kerr) so shocked on her friend Violet's (played by Sue Harrod) computer? A scene from the short comedy 'Candy' by Kellie Jennar - part of 'Rehearsed - Staged readings of local writers'.

Australia

Venue: The Guild Theatre, Cnr Walz & Railway Streets, Rockdale, Sydney, NSW

The drama and politics of a royal family in crisis. Britain, 1936. Queen Mary, widowed mother of a new king, steers her family through turmoil and scandal. To follow his heart, her son abandons the throne, leaving his stammering brother daunted by responsibility and dark forces looming over Europe. Allanah Jarman leads the cast in the regal true story behind The Crown and The King’s Speech.

Australia
NSW

Venue: Lieder Theatre main auditorium, 52 Goldsmith Street, Goulburn, NSW 2580

This laugh-out-loud musical comedy documents the wonderful, crazy journey of motherhood.
Brought to life by an amazing all-female cast, crew, band and production team, featuring an incredible double-cast, many of whom are mothers themselves.
You’ll get to glimpse into the lives of four friends – Amy, a soon-to-be first-time mum; Brooke, a hard-working lawyer; Barb, a stressed-out mother of five; and Tash, a single mum seeking to balance work, her family and her divorce. During Amy’s baby shower they share their insights, challenges and joys of motherhood.
If you are a mother, have a mother, or even know a mother, you won’t want to miss this show! Get in quick to secure your seats!

New South Wales

Venue: The Concourse, Chatswood

In nineteenth century France, Jean Valjean is released from 19 years of unjust imprisonment, but finds nothing in store for him but mistrust and mistreatment. He breaks his parole in hopes of starting a new life, initiating a lifelong struggle for redemption as he is relentlessly pursued by police inspector Javert, who refuses to believe that Valjean can change his ways. Finally, during the Paris student uprising of 1832, Javert must confront his ideals after Valjean spares his life and saves that of the student revolutionary who has captured the heart of Valjean’s adopted daughter. His world view shattered, Javert commits suicide, and Valjean finally attains the peace that he has sought for so long.

Australia
New South Wales

Venue: Bowral High School, Bowral, NSW, Australia 2576

The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been back rehearsing their performances for over a week now, preparing for the big day on March 5th.
Whilst the Sisters may look innocent in this photo, do not be fooled! You are in for an absolute treat of song, comedy and dancing.

Australia
New South Wales

Venue: Capitol Theatre, Level 1, Centrepoint, 374 Peel Street, Tamworth, 2340

HILARIOUS, HEART-WARMING AND A HUGE AMOUNT OF FUN
Tamworth Musical Society will transform the Capitol Theatre stage into a Greek Island paradise when they burst onto stage in a brand-new production of one of the world's favourite feel-good musicals, MAMMA MIA!
Featuring hit after hit from the incredible songs of ABBA including Dancing Queen, Voulez Vous, S.O.S, Take a Chance On Me and The Winner Takes It All, MAMMA MIA! tells the hilarious and heart-warming story of a young woman's search for her birth father. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter's quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother's past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.

NSW

Venue: The Arcadians' Miner's Lamp Theatre, 141 Princes Highway, Corrimal, NSW 2518

Sweeney Todd has become a bloody, worldwide success since being awarded eight Tony’s, (including Best Musical), for its Broadway premiere. Stephen Sondheim’s and Hugh Wheeler’s (A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures) tasty, thrilling, theatrical treat has simultaneously shocked, awed and delighted audiences across the world.
An infamous tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to nineteenth century London, seeking vengeance against the lecherous judge who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck sharply shifts when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the integration of an ingredient into her meat pies that has the people of London lining up… and the carnage has only just begun!

AU
New South Wales

Venue: Richmond School of Arts, Cnr March & W Market Sts, Hawkesbury, NSW, Australia

Based on the hugely popular TV comedy series, the stage version of 'Allo 'Allo follows the adventures of Rene, the hapless cafe owner in war-torn occupied France, as he and his wife, Edith, struggle to keep for themselves a priceless portrait stolen by the Nazis and kept in a sausage in their cellar.
Rene is hiding two British airmen and is endeavouring, with the help of the Resistance, to repatriate them. However, communications with London through a wireless disguised as a cockatoo add to the many embarrassments he endures in the company of his patrons.
Matters come to a head with the news that the Fuhrer is to visit the town and the cafe becomes filled with tricksters intending to impersonate Hitler before the event. Rene will need all the wit he can muster to save his cafe and his life...!

Australia
Queensland

Venue: Redcliffe Entertainment Centre, 102 Anzac Avenue Redcliffe, QLD, Australia 4020

Jersey Boys is a musical biography of The Four Seasons - the rise, the tough times, the personal clashes and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic and the soundtrack for a generation. Set in the vibrant 1960s, four scrappy young men from New Jersey - Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi and Tommy DeVito find a magic sound that propels them from singing under streetlights to singing in spotlights and on stages all over the world. With era defining songs like “Sherry”,"Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man”, the quartet finds itself at the top of the charts. However, personal and professional problems threaten to tear the group apart. The heart of the show is how an allegiance to a code of honour learned in the streets of their native Belleville gets four unlikely stars through a multitude of challenges: gambling debts, Mafia threats and family disasters. Jersey Boys gives audiences a glimpse at the real people behind a sound that has endured for almost 50 years.

Australia
New South Wales

Venue: Nowra Players Theatre, 27 Meroo Street, Bomaderry, 2541

There are three things that have divided this nation… Conscription, Whitlam and Lindy Chamberlain.
The words are spoken by an unnamed librarian in Alana Valentine’s finely-wrought play Letters to Lindy as he stacks some of the 20 000 letters that Lindy Chamberlain received during her ordeal of being tried, incarcerated, then exonerated of killing her baby Azaria.
The words, delivered matter-of-factly towards the end of the play, serve as an historical epitaph to an intimate and epic docu-drama spanning more than 20 years, from Azaria’s death near Uluru in 1980 to the 2012 coronial ruling that finally ended the legal saga.
The starting point of Valentine’s passionate inquiry came in the form of 199 boxes of correspondence at the National Library of Australia; a staggering archive from which the playwright has constructed an intricate, truthful, and deeply human account of a case which captured the public’s imagination from the moment Lindy Chamberlain uttered the words, ‘A dingo’s got my baby’. For here was an apparent murder mystery combining potent myths of the Australian outback, Aboriginal folklore, baffling cult-like ‘characters’ and elements of Greek tragedy. It was a time when the worst excesses of tabloid sensationalism fuelled an unthinking, sometimes brutal, spectator sport.
Australia hadn’t seen anything like it.

Australia
Victoria

Venue: The Knowe, 4 Clarkmont Rd, Sassafras VIC 3787

A delightful outdoor concert celebrating the genius of Gilbert and Sullivan. In their operas they made many references to nature, flowers, trees, and the hope of merry sunshine. Featuring highlights from all the operas, including “Comes the broken Flower” (Trial by Jury), “I’m called Little Buttercup” (HMS Pinafore), “Climbing over Rocky Mountain” (The Pirates of Penzance), “Oh dainty triolet” (Princess Ida) “There grew a little flower” (Ruddigore), “Roses white and roses red” (The Gondoliers) and a large selection from Utopia, Limited which is also titled as The Flowers of Progress.

Australia

Venue: Candelo Town Hall, NSW

Thomas Novachek is auditioning actresses to star in his new play, an adaptation of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Furs, the 1870 novel that inspired the word masochism. So far Thomas has found no-one up to playing his lead, Vanda. He’s about to give up when a sexy, brash and seemingly clueless actress barges in and demands an audition.
Her name? Vanda.
As a storm descends on the city outside, Thomas and Vanda embark on a journey that will challenge him and define her.
Venus in Fur is spellbinding and kinky, hilarious and frightening, seductive and brilliant. Just like Vanda.
And the Lord hath smitten him and delivered him into a woman’s hands …

Australia
New South Wales

Venue: Riverside Theatres, Parramatta

We Will Rock You is an hilarious, eccentric and moving story of outsiders rising up against the establishment. In a post-apocalyptic future, the world is controlled by a mighty corporation....rock music and all musical instruments are banned. It's up to two revolutionaries, Galileo and Scaramouche, to break free, restore individuality and bring back the power of Rock 'n' Roll.

Australia
Queensland

HALPIN AUDITORIUM, 185 - 187 ASHMORE ROAD, Benowa 4217: