2023 SEASON
February Season – Rabbit Hole
Written by: David Lindsay-Abaire
Production Dates: 17/02/2023 – 04/03/2023
Directed by: Christopher Hill and Erin Hegarty
Tracking the lives of married couple Ben and Howie, Rabbit Hole steps into their home as they are grieving the loss of thier four-year old son Danny. Through their differing experiences of grief, we see them cope in their own unique ways - sometimes through hurt, soemtimes through humour. Rabbit Hole charts their bittersweet search for comfort in the darkest of places and for a path that will lead them back into the light of day.
April Season – Private Lives
Written by: Noël Coward
Production Dates: 14/04/2023 – 29/04/2023
Directed by: Barry Park
Elyot and Amanda, once married and now honeymooning with new spouses at the same hotel, meet by chance, reignite the old spark and impulsively elope. After days of being reunited, they again find their fiery romance alternating between passions of love and anger. Their aggrieved spouses appear and a roundelay of affiliations ensues as the women first stick together, then apart, and new partnerships are formed.
A uniquely humorous play boasting numerous successful Broadway runs boasting such as stars Coward himself, Laurence Olivier, Tallulah Bankhead, Gertrude Lawrence, Tammy Grimes, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor.
June Season – Pride & Prejudice
Written by: Jane Austen & Kate Hamill
Production Dates: 09/06/2023 – 24/06/2023
Directed by: Carmen and Jason Dohle
This isn’t your grandmother’s Austen! Bold, surprising, boisterous, and timely, this Pride & Prejudice for a new era explores the absurdities and thrills of finding your perfect (or imperfect) match in life. The outspoken Lizzy Bennet is determined to never marry, despite mounting pressure from society. But can she resist love, especially when that vaguely handsome, mildly amusing, and impossibly aggravating Mr. Darcy keeps popping up at every turn?! Literature’s greatest tale of latent love has never felt so theatrical, or so full of life than it does in this effervescent adaptation. Because what turns us into greater fools…than the high-stakes game of love?
July Season – Anything Goes: Youth Edition
Presented by Bel Canto Performing Arts
Production Dates: 07/07/2023 – 15/07/2023
Directed by: Blake Jenkins
Anything Goes is a wacky shipboard farce featuring romance, intrigue, colorful characters and a glorious score from Cole Porter. Highlights include: "You’re The Top," "It’s De-Lovely," "Friendship," "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "Blow, Gabriel, Blow," and the title number.
“Anything Goes exists to put a daffy grin on your face... if you’re looking for sheer escape, this is your ticket!” – Nelson Pressley, The Washington Post
August Season – Marriage Is Murder
Presented by Serial Productions
Production Dates: 11/08/2023 – 26/08/2023
Directed by: TBC
Ex-spouses Paul and Polly Butler write murder mysteries together. They act out the crimes in Paul's apartment: poisoned chocolates and lethal martinis, alibis and fingerprints, bodies in a trunk and bodies all tied up, daggers, guns and even an axe all contribute to the hilarity. Nobody gets hurt, but their egos take some hits as they find that their marriage was mixed up with their work. There are many fast paced comic twists as they attempt to outdo and surprise each other and they learn that marriage, like murder, is in the details. The final witty complication is a real murder which they and the audience should have seen coming.
This murderously funny two character comedy is by the author of Accommodations.
August/September Season – Park Bench Series
Presented by Maverick Productions
Production Dates: 31/08/2023 – 10/09/2023
Directed by: Noel O'Neill
6 brand new stories are coming to the Old Mill Theatre. The latest "Park Bench Series" created by Noel O’Neill has some of Perths favourite actors bringing you along into their lives. Ticket are on sale, and will go quickly.
October Season – Non Ti Pago
Presented by Italian Theatre of WA
Production Dates: 11/10/2023 – 22/10/2023
Directed by: Rino Pellone
The play ”Non ti pago” (“I won't pay you"), written by Eduardo De Filippo in 1940, explores the themes of the numbers game, superstitions and popular beliefs in a humorous way. Performed in Italian, the play depicts a situation in the family of Ferdinando Quagliolo, who runs a lottery office that he inherited from his father. He and his servant Aglietiello are avid gamblers but they never win anything. Meanwhile, one of his employees, Mario Bertolini, often wins and even manages to win 4 million lira, an astronomical figure for those times, with numbers received in a dream from Ferdinando's deceased father. This prompts Ferdinando to deny Mario his prize with a defiant "I won't pay you".
November/December Season – Man From Earth
Written by: Jerome Bixby
Production Dates: 24/11/2023 – 09/12/2023
Directed by: Virginia Moore-Price
After history professor John Oldman unexpectedly resigns from the University, his startled colleagues impulsively invite themselves to his home, pressing him for an explanation. But they're shocked to hear his reason for premature retirement: John claims he must move on because he is immortal, and cannot stay in one place for more than ten years without his secret being discovered.
Tempers rise and emotions flow as John's fellow professors attempt to poke holes in his story, but it soon becomes clear that his tale is as impossible to disprove as it is to verify. What starts out as a friendly gathering soon builds to an unexpected and shattering climax.
Acclaimed science fiction writer Jerome Bixby, writer of the original Star Trek and The Twilight Zone, originally conceived this story back in the early 1960's. It would come to be his last great work.