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2025 Season
Please note: The season is subject to rights confirmation.
Download the season brochure HERE.
Children's Pantomime
The Lost Crown
Created by
Vee Malnar, Leslie Moodie & Anne Payne
Directed by Vee Malnar
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8, 9, 10 January 2025
at
11am & 2pm
Box Office open from
Saturday, 28 October 2024
Synopsis:
Emma and Henry find themselves in a magical underwater world ruled by Queen Octavia, the Octopus. All manner of colourful fish and sea urchins co-exist happily together, but when Octavia’s crown goes missing (which had real rubies in it), their world turns upside down! Even the Wizard’s spells no longer work! Emma and Henry’s search for the missing crown leads them on a wild and adventurous chase with cantankerous and hungry fish, plenty of perplexing circumstances and lots of playful shenanigans!
Play 1
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Written by Ray Lawler
Directed by Tom Richards
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14 February to 22 March
Wednesday, 12 Feb (Charity preview)
Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 16 & 23 Feb, 9 & 16 Mar at 2pm
Box Office opens
Saturday, 1 February 2025
Synopsis:
The most famous Australian play and one of the most loved, this is the tragicomic story of Roo and Barney. Beautifully observed, humorous and poignant, Ray Lawler’s much-loved play is a tale of two Queensland cane-cutters who, for 16 years, have worked up north in the brutal sugar cane fields and travelled back to Melbourne to meet up for 5 months of partying and romance with their barmaid girlfriends. AussieTheatre.com said this play is “an iconic Australian work that should remain an important part of our Australian theatre-going repertoire and cultural education”.
Play 2
Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall
Written by Mark Kilmurry & Jamie Oxenbould
Directed by Sue Turner
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9 May to 14 June
Wednesday, 7 May (Charity preview)
Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 11 & 18 May, 1 & 8 Jun at 2pm
Box Office opens
Saturday, 26 April 2025
Synopsis:
It is opening night of director-writer Shane Tweed’s new murder mystery. Seven of the company’s cast are down with the dreaded lurgy, so the Middling Cove Players’ director and two of the remaining actors, and whoever else Shane can co-opt, pitch in to continue the long tradition of ‘the show must go on’. Juggling nerves, props and absurd miscasting, will they manage to pull it off? Or will everything go horribly, terribly and awfully wrong? A look behind the scenes at the world of amateur theatre where luck , determination and unbridled confidence rule the day.
Play 3
Seventeen
Written by Matthew Whittet
Directed by Susan Geldart
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1 August to 6 September
Wednesday, 30 July (Charity preview)
Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 3, 10, 24 & 31 Aug at 2pm
Box Office opens
Saturday, 19 July 2025
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Synopsis:
A unique coming-of-age story in which older actors, who have long passed the season of youth, portray a group of 17-year-olds on the brink of adulthood. Set in a playground on the last night of high school, the vulnerability, uncertainty and exhilaration
of youth are captured as six friends navigate the bittersweet transition from adolescence to the unknown world of adulthood. The play explores themes of friendship, love, identity and the inevitable passage of time, offering a moving and honest reflection on growing up and letting go. The finely tuned writing delivers both humour and tenderness, making this a heartfelt portrayal of the essence of life.
Play 4
Gaslight
Written by Patrick Hamilton
Directed by Michael Gooley
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24 October to 29 November
Wednesday, 22 October (Charity preview)
Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm
Sundays, 26 Oct & 2, 16, 23 Nov at 2pm
Box Office opens
Saturday, 11 October 2025
Synopsis:
This is a classic thriller set in Victorian London. Jack Manningham, a suavely handsome man, is slowly driving his gentle, devoted wife, Bella, to the brink of insanity with an insinuating kindness that masks more sinister motives. But as his dark and disturbing past begins to catch up with him, the audience is taken on a thrilling ride through a series of gripping scenes, culminating in a breath-taking climax.