2025/26 Season
April/May Season - The Lady in the Van
Presented by Old Mill Theatre
Written by: Alan Bennett
Production Dates: 26/04/2025 – 10/05/2025
Directed by: Barry Park
Alan Bennett draws from his memoirs to offer a dramatized account of the genteel vagrant, Miss Shepard, who parked her van in his driveway for fifteen years. Maggie Smith starred in London's West End.
May Season – 8 Women
Presented by Playlovers
Written by Robert Thomas
Performance Dates: 22/05/2025 - 31/05/2025
Directed by: Paul Treasure
A family gathers together to celebrate the holiday season only to find that their beloved patriarch Marcel, has been murdered. Eight women, each with a secret, each a suspect! All have a motive but only one can be guilty. Cut off from the outside world, the women are forced to unravel the truth from a web of family secrets and accusations.
June - Take Two
An evening of Rhythm & Blues, Jazz Standards, Rock & Roll
Performance Date: 6/06/2025
Featuring Rod Christian & Greg 'Bazz' Clarke
Between them, Rod Christian and Greg 'Bazz' Clarke play seven instruments . They have both been in many iconic Perth bands for the last 45 years. Take Two perform some great hits from a variety of artists includng Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, The Shadows, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison and more. Don't miss this exciting showcase of talent.
June Season - Losing Sinatra
Presented by Maverick Productions
Performance Dates: 13/06/2025 - 28/06/2025
Written and Directed by: Noel O'Neill
In the heart of Greenwich Village, New York, a struggling artist with grandiose ideas of being the next Picasso, grapples with his past and moves ever so closer to the edge of insanity after the death of his greatest idol, Frank Sinatra. His devoted, yet (not so) patient sister, a psychiatrist, helps to guide her brother to a new life outside of the four walls that have become his sanctity, whilst contending with his evermore infuriating memory lapses.
Storytelling at its best, penned by multi-award winning and highly respected Perth Hills writer, Noel O’Neill.
July Season – Chicago (Teen Edition)
Presented by: Bel Canto Performing Arts
Performance Dates: 11/07/2025 - 19/07/2025
A musical based on the play by Maurine Dallas Watkins
Music by: John Kander
Lyrics by: Fred Ebb
Book by: Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse
Directed by: Blake Jenkins
In “Roaring Twenties” Chicago, chorine Roxie Hart murders a faithless lover and convinces her hapless husband, Amos, to take the rap... until he finds out he's been duped and turns on Roxie. Convicted and sent to death row, Roxie and another "Merry Murderess," Velma Kelly, vie for the spotlight and the headlines, ultimately joining forces in search of the "American Dream": fame, fortune, and acquittal.
"Chicago: Teen Edition" is a version of the musical "Chicago" adapted for high school and youth theatre productions, with modifications to the content to make it suitable for younger casts and audiences. It maintains the core storyline and music of the original but removes or tones down more mature themes and language.
August Season – Keep on Laughing
Presented by Old Mill Theatre
Performance Dates: 08/08/2025 - 23/08/2025
Directed by: Dale James
They're back! The ladies of Exit Laughing are as zany and funny as ever, but now Connie’s daughter, Rachel, has married her 28-year-old stripper boyfriend, Bobby, and they are expecting twins.
Connie, Leona and Millie have been touring the world and having the time of their lives, returning to tell hysterical stories of their adventures. But this time, one of their adventures has gotten out of hand. Level-headed Connie has met a man in Paris, and he’s proposed to her. Everyone should be happy, but Rachel and Bobby are not - Connie’s new boyfriend is the same age as Bobby.
Join the ladies once more as they discover all the fun you can have if you look at life in new ways.
September Season – Don't Dress for Dinner
Presented by Serial Productions
Production Dates: 05/09/2025 - 20/09/2025
Directed by: Rob Warner
Bernard is planning a romantic weekend with his chic mistress in his charming converted farmhouse, whilst his wife, Jacqueline, is away. He has arranged for a cordon bleu cook to prepare gourmet delights, and has invited his best friend, Robert, along too to provide the alibi. It's foolproof; what could possibly go wrong?
Well.... suppose Robert turns up not realizing quite why he has been invited. Suppose Robert and Jacqueline are secret lovers, and consequently determined that Jacqueline will NOT leave for the weekend. Suppose the cook has to pretend to be the mistress and the mistress is unable to cook. Suppose everyone's alibi gets confused with everyone else's.
An evening of hilarious confusion ensues as Bernard and Robert improvise at breakneck speed.
October Season – I maneggi per maritare una figlia (in Italian)
Presented by: Italian Theatre of WA
Production Dates: 08/10/2025m- 19/10/2025
The play is performed in Italian and is about "The subtle art of marrying off one’s daughter"
More details coming soon . . .
October/November Season – Monopoly: The Unauthorised Musical
Presented by: Roundhouse Theatrical Co
Production Dates: 30 October - 8 November 2025
Written by: Ian Tassicker and Jasper Cruden
Directed by: Jasper Cruden and Ian Tassicker
The brainchild of Perth-born creatives Ian Tassicker and Jasper Cruden, "Monopoly: The Unauthorised Musical" is a fun-filled adventure that draws inspiration from classic Disney musicals and 80's/90's fantasy cinema, set in a world based on classic boardgames.
Featuring an all star cast, professional orchestra, and chaotic audience participation, Monopoly: The Unauthorised Musical is a rocking good time for the young and young-at-heart!
November Season – Shush
Presented by: Irish Theatre Players
Production Dates: 13-22November 2025
It’s Breda’s birthday, but she’s in no mood to celebrate. Life hasn’t been going to plan and she’d rather forget the day. Her four friends have other ideas. Over one unforgettable girls’ night in, five women share laughter, tears, and the kind of truths only close friends tell.
Funny and heartfelt, Shush looks at friendship, resilience, and the stories women share behind closed doors.
January-February 2026 Season – FringeWorld Venue
Over 40 performances coming to the Old Mill Theatre.
Details to be announced soon.
March 2026 Season – A Song at Twilight
Presented by: Old Mill Theatre
Written by: Noel Coward
Directed by: Barry Park
Performance Dates: 13/03/2026 - 28/03/2026
This bittersweet comedy is the story of a cosmopolitan author caught in his declining years between two women, one being his wife of convenience for twenty years, the other, one of his former loves.
There is a bit of the detective story in this, too, for the former flame produces some old love letters which she is about to turn over to a biographer. He is dead set against it, for it would compromise his impeccable reputation until she produces still another set of love letters, even more damaging, written to a male friend of his early youth. It remains for the wife of convenience to say that she has known about this all along, and to send the old flame off with an entirely different opinion. The blackmail fails, but the rue remains.