Community Theatre

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.

Prolific Perth playwright Johnny Grim’s latest two plays, Schoolies and Thick and Thin, come to life at Belmont’s Latvian Centre in November, in a short play season that also includes Eugene Ionesco’s The Bald Prima Donna, presented by ARENAarts and Grim’s own A lad in sane productions.

“Schoolies, which I’m also directing,is a fun play that pokes a stick at the sometimes changing values – depending on how the wind blows – of large institutions,” Grim said.

Adelaide’s St Jude’s Players are closing a very successful 2013 with the  intricate and funny Ayckbourn play A Chorus of Disapproval from November 14, 2013.

No one but Alan Ayckbourn could blend two theatrical productions together and come out with a successful recipe for comedy, yet Ayckbourn did just that when he wrote A Chorus of Disapproval.