2024 SEASON
February/March Season – Exit Laughing
Written by: Paul Elliot
Production Dates: 23/02/2024 - 09/03/2024
Directed by: Dale James
When the biggest highlight in your life for the past 30 years has been your weekly bridge night out with the "girls," what do you do when one of your foursome inconveniently dies? If you're Connie, Leona and Millie, three local ladies, you do the most daring thing you've ever done. You "borrow" the ashes from the funeral home for one last card game, and the wildest, most exciting night of your lives involves a police raid, a stripper and a whole new way of looking at all the fun you can have when you're truly living.
March Season – A Prudent Man
Presented by Serial Productions
Written by: Katy Warner
Production Dates: 15/03/2024 – 16/03/2024
Directed by: Jacqui Warner
A conservative politician, a leader, a man in a snappy suit, an athlete in a bad tracksuit. Meet A Prudent Man – an amalgamation of the right-wing politician that haunts us all. Written by AWGIE winning playwright Katy Warner, A Prudent Man takes an unapologetic look at a man in control of everything on the edge. This man has some things he needs to get off his chest. This man has some things he needs you to hear and by God you’re going to sit up and listen!
April Season – Season of Music
Presented by Old Mill Theatre
Production Dates: 09/04/2024 – 28/04/2024
Experience different styles of Music at the Old Mill Theatre over two weeks! "Eclectic Groove" 7 Piece Band with a mix of many genres including Jazz, Swing, R&B & Soul will be performing onstage on 19th April at 7.30pm. "Orange Coloured Sky" will be performing an afternoon of easy listening Music on Sunday 21st at 4.00pm. Entertainer Jake Dennis performs jazz, swing, blues + soul, pop, & disco classics for one night only on Saturday 27th April 7.30pm. “Songs From The Stage” a performance of hit songs from Musicals by the talented team from Bel Canto Performing Arts will be on Sunday 28th April at 4.00pm
May/June Season – Mary Poppins Jr.
Presented by Bel Canto Performing Arts
Production Dates: 31/05/2024 – 03/06/2024
Directed by: Blake Jenkins
The jack-of-all trades, Bert, introduces us to England in 1910 and the troubled Banks family. Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family members how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren't the only ones upon whom she has a profound effect. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that "Anything can happen if you let it."
August Season – Breaker Morant
Written by: Kenneth G Ross
Production Dates: 02/08/2024 - 17/08/2024
Directed by: Garry Lawrence
'Don't make a mess of it.' Of such stuff are legends built, heroes made, and plays written. The popularity of Harry 'Breaker' Morant survives still, in this play written by Kenneth Ross. Here Ross, in theatrical terms, has created the last days of 'Breaker' Morant based on what is known of the characters involved, the circumstances leading up to the arrests, and a number of events known to have occurred at the time. Originally performed by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Athenaeum Theatre on 2 February 1978.
September Season – Side Effects
Presented by Serial Productions
Written by: Eric Chappell
Production Dates: TBC
Directed by: Jacqui Warner
Frank Cook, having been taken ill with a rare complaint, has been booked into a private nursing home by his wife June for a week's respite. Whilst there, he encounters the Reverend Paul Latimer who is recovering from a heart transplant and whose odd behaviour is beginning to alarm his wife, Sarah.
October Season – Perché papà è mio figlio
Presented by Italian Theatre of WA
Production Dates: 09/10/2024 - 20/10/2024
Directed by: Rino Pellone
The play, performed in Italian, “Perché papà è mio figlio” (Why dad is my son) is a comedy in three acts written by Giovanni Rescigno. The dominant theme is love, which knows neither geographical boundaries nor age boundaries. The comedy takes inspiration from the particular characterization of each of the characters which, based on amusing ambiguities and bizarre misunderstandings, will certainly produce a pleasant and highly effective result.
November Season – Picnic At Hanging Rock
From the book by Joan Lindsay
Adapted by Tom Wright
Production Dates: TBC
Directed by: Kathleen Del Casale
On a summer's day in 1900, three Australian schoolgirls on a picnic expedition to the remote Hanging Rock abscond from their group. They are last seen heading towards the beckoning Rock...
In Tom Wright's chilling adaptation of Joan Lindsay's classic novel, five performers struggle to solve the mystery of the missing girls and their teacher. Euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community, as the potential for history to repeat itself becomes nightmarishly real.
This adaptation of Picnic at Hanging Rock was first co-produced by Malthouse Theatre and Black Swan State Theatre Company, Perth, and first performed at Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in 2016. The play received its European premiere at the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, in 2017.