All Sorts - It Certainly Is!

Enjoy an evening of “snack-sized” short plays written by some of Henry Lawson Theatre’s (HLT) talented members alongside Australian and international playwrights. 

All Sorts is a combination of seven short plays, each one a different story, wrapped up in one evening’s entertainment for a short play special price of $20. 

Producer and playwright Nicole Smith said the short play festival is set at a great price to support patrons in tough economic times. "We have kept it at a low price, a meal at the bistro before the show and a ticket would only be about $50.00 for a night out."

Smith herself has a play selected in this year's season. We do Weddings! is a heartwarming look at the afterlife. “The afterlife can be pretty hectic especially on your first day, there are timetables, new accessories, a set of wings to manage - so much to wrap your halo around,” Smith said. "We do Weddings is an imagined look over the clouds on that first day of angel duty."

Other Sydney-based writers include Rhonda Hancock, who has written a comical short play Catnips! – a play about what your cat would really say if it could talk and Gina Cohen, who has written the dark drama Prick, which won the Sydney Short and Sweet festival in 2011. 

HLT is also supporting entertainment students via the school student work placement program, with roles behind the scenes, and hopes to involve more students in future productions. “We are passionate about developing and growing our youth theatre community in all aspects of theatre and also have two of our junior members running lights and sound for this production,” President Rhonda Madden said. 

Other short plays include: 

• The Dancing Lessons: This play poignantly depicts a daughter’s efforts to find a way of awakening lines of communication with her mother, a dementia patient – whose mind is locked away in her youth.

• The Unamable: As the two sit upon a weathered tomb, Carter tells Manton the tale of an indescribable entity that allegedly haunts the house and surrounding area.

• Storytime: You think you might know the story of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, but the full story is less about food they ate but the underpants they refused to pick up. Sometimes stories can get out of hand. 

• One Night Stan: Lust, self-doubt and questionable dance moves. A comedy about seeing the same things through different eyes. 

All Sorts has something for everyone. It's little bits of bite-sized fun!

Details: July 8-22. Saturdays, 2pm and 8pm. Tickets:$20. Box office: 0448 011 370, The Henry Lawson Theatre, 144 Henry Lawson Ave, Werrington County.

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