Community Theatre

A SECRET life will soon be exposed at a funeral and the bombshell will cause tempers – and ashes – to fly.

It’s all part of Serial Productions’ latest show, Wife After Death, written by Eric Chappell and directed by Rob Warner at the Old Mill Theatre in August and September 2017.

Set at the funeral of successful television comedian Dave Thursby, his friends and family soon discover they know less about him than they imagined.

WHAT happens when people of widely different political views are forced to co-exist?

It’s a question posed in Let The Sunshine, a play from Australia’s most respected contemporary playwright, showing at Limelight Theatre during August 2017.

Written by David Williamson and directed by Tim Riessen, it’s a satirical comedy about 50-something sea-changers and their children.

When Toby, a hard-hitting documentary-maker, flees Sydney with his wife after a blow up with the media, he arrives at his old childhood haven. 

The fourth production of the 2017 Season at Castle Hill Players’ Pavilion Theatre is The Women of Lockerbie, by Deborah Brevoort, directed by Bernard Teuben.

Presented in the style of a Greek tragedy, the play is inspired by a true story surrounding the tragic loss of Pan Am Flight 103 which crashed into the village of Lockerbie on 21 December 1988.  

Opening on Friday 21 July and running until Saturday 12 August, the production is a superbly written pronouncement of courage and triumph over hatred.  

The Guild Theatre in Rockdale, NSW, presents Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo from August 4 to September 2, 2017.

The Rose Tattoo tells the story of Italian-American widow Serafina Delle Rose who lives in Mississippi in America’s deep south during the 1950’s.  Like most Tennessee Williams plays such as A Street Car Names Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Sweet Bird of Youth - his characters, particularly female ones, are deeply felt and fascinating.