Community Theatre

Student theatre society Backstage UTS (NSW) is staging Ian Wilding’s Australian play Quack from November 15 to 23, 2013. The Griffin Theatre Company recently commissioned Quack after Ian Wilding won the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award in 2009. Only the play’s second Australian production, is being produced by Backstage in association with the student union of the University of Technology Sydney.

A fable of Christmas and a classic of the British post World War Two era, The Holly and The Ivy plays at The Guild Theatre, Rockdale NSW during November 2013.

It’s 1947 in the quaint vicarage of the Reverend Martin Gregory. As his family gather to celebrate the festive season, tensions break through the emotional veneer and secrets tumble out. With some unexpected laughs, preconceived ideas and assumptions are shattered as each family member learns how to reveal their true selves.

Alan Ayckbourn’s How the Other Half Loves, the last show of 2013 at Castle Hill’s Pavilion Theatre, is the madcap story of three married couples with only thing one thing in common: and it isn’t wedded bliss.

With his trademark incisive wit and imaginative staging, Ayckbourn takes the audience on a wild ride as William and Mary Featherstone go to dinner with first his new boss and then his new colleague, blithely unaware that they’re being used as unwitting dupes in a double-barrel game of marital ping pong.

Rarely does a production cater for three generations of performers from the one family, let alone with the performance craft and talent to match, but this is just what is set to happen when Adelaide’s The Hills Musical Company stages its November 2013 production, the popular Sondheim classic A Little Night Music.

Performers (and family members) Myfanwy May, Bronwen James and Georgia James will play grandmother, mother and daughter for the first time onstage.