Community Theatre

Heidelberg Theatre Company’s first production for 2013, The Dresser, opens on February 21.

Playwright Ronald Harwood was himself dresser to the great Shakespeare actor-manager Donald Wolfit for several years, and though he strenuously denies it, has clearly made great use of this experience in creating The Dresser.

MELVILLE Theatre (WA) is presenting two very different comedies from February 8 – the world premiere of the adaptation of an Australian short story, Someone Called Rob, and a classic British comedy, Hands Across The Sea by Noël Coward.

Martin Lindsay’s Someone Called Rob was featured in the book Best Australian Stories 2012 and he has now adapted it for the stage.

Jeffrey Hansen is directing the comedy, which explores the miscommunication and subsequent paranoia that can occur from a simple mistake.

Melbourne's CLOC Musical Theatre, one of Australia's largest and most successful community theatre groups, has been known as the home of amateur premieres, whether it be Victorian (Evita, Singin' in the Rain, The Boy from Oz, Hot Shoe Shuffle), Australian (Sweeney Todd, Annie, Les Misérables, Dusty) or Australasian (Cats, Steel Pier, Miss Saigon, Sunset Boulevard).

LOVE, betrayal, revenge, murder and intrigue combine from February 7, 2013 as Limelight Theatre (WA) brings The Late Edwina Black to life on stage.

Written by William Dinner and William Morum and directed by James Hough-Neilson, the play is set in 1895 the day before Edwina’s funeral.

A Scotland Yard detective believes her death is suspicious and calls to interview her husband Gregory, companion Elizabeth and housekeeper Ellen.