Auditions

Synopsis

Based on a true story, four men are sailing to Tonga when their boat overturns in a storm and they spend the next 119 days adrift. Flipside tells the story of what the men went through and then what happened after.

Their survival story is told as a flashback throughout the play. The present day features two of the former ‘shipmates’, as one keeps a bedside vigil to the other who is dying. There are elements of this journey between the two of them that echo what they endured with the others on the boat.

Over the course of the show, the four men confront the elements, each other, and themselves.

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On a moonless evening, a man brings his new girlfriend to a remote cabin for a night of trout-fishing. But before the night is over, it becomes clear that nothing is as it seems… and as memory collides with desire, the truth becomes the most elusive catch of all.
Described as “beautiful, slippery and unnerving”, the nature of the play and its inherent mystery means that the finer details of its plot and characters resonate long after the production.

Note – 80 mins – no interval
Strong language

Synopsis

This superb example of the British farce had audiences rolling in the aisles in London and New York! A taxi driver gets away with having two wives in different areas of London because of his irregular working schedule. Complication is piled upon complication as the cabby tries to keep his double-life from exploding.

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Set in the village of Avonlea and at Redmond College in Halifax, Anne and Gilbert follows Anne’s journey to young adulthood and her romance with high school academic rival, Gilbert Blythe. Gilbert is in love with Anne, but she seems to be immune to his declarations of love. In the end, Anne realizes what everyone else already knows: that Gilbert is the love of her life.

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“Anna By Lamplight”
Berlin, November 1938,two days after Kristallnacht. A dangerous time to be a Jew. But who presents the greater danger to Anna:the Nazis or her abusive husband Max? And who is the stranger lurking under the Lamplight.

“Cycle”
The laundromat is a sanctuary, an escape from the outside world, a welcomed mundane. A place to disconnect from your daily life as you focus in on the hum of the wash and the tumble of the dry. Until a stranger enters that safe haven ¦and begins to ask questions and takes it upon themselves to break the cycle.

“Catfish Jumping”
A whodunnit with a twist! Our two detectives have their work cut out in this murder mystery. Is it the fact they missed a clue? Is it a fact they don’t have a clue? Everyone is a suspect including the catfish!

Synopsis

There are two sides to every separation. Two truths. A story which will resonate with anyone who has ever loved and lost.

Matthew and Nina have been married for twelve years. He is forty; a successful publisher. Always in control, his pace is enormous and his path is littered with the discarded souls of those who tried to keep up. Nina’s thirty-eight; a journalist. She hasn’t worked since the birth of the children. She’s restless; looking for something. So when Mathew suggests she takes on the biography of Lawrence Clifford, tycoon, philanthropist and now Australian of the Year, she throws herself into the project with an all-consuming enthusiasm. This is a play about love and betrayal, about sex, sacrifice and survival, of break-ups and break-downs.

The play is a dissection of the breakdown of a marriage: with Andrew Bovell’s Act One taking the male point of view, and Hannie Rayson’s Act Two seeing the other side of the story (and scenery).

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A young sculptor who has been critically injured in an automobile accident has been left with an irreversible quadriplegia. Though his condition is stable, his paralysis is permanent and requires him to stay under a long-term care facility in order to stay alive. He is trapped inside a useless body with little enthusiasm to continue life. He is determined to decide his own fate. The play deals with the theme of patient’s autonomy vs. medical authority and sheds light on some legal, medical and ethical issues related to health-care. This play puts forward critical arguments both in favour of and against euthanasia.

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Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel is brought to the stage by Christopher Sergel. The story of Jean Louise Finch, who shares her memories of growing up in Maycomb, Alabama during the summer of 1935. Known as “Scout” as a young girl, the nine-year old’s world is turned upside down when her widowed father, lawyer Atticus Finch, defends a young black man accused of raping a white woman. As tensions erupt and neighbours take sides in the life-and-death case, it is Scout’s clear-eyed courage in the face of ignorance and bigotry that ultimately brings hope to a damaged community.

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The King of Hollywood, two mass murderers, a dying Playboy centrefold, a rinsed out ex-wife, a spoilt weeping teen –blood, guns – we’ve got it all.
Set in the Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning movie director Bruce Delamitri, Popcorn is a satirical comedy thriller with the firepower of a hit squad. When notorious killers Wayne and Scout interrupt Bruce’s passionate introduction to Brooke Daniels (a nude model AND actress, they want more than an autograph from their cinematic idol. Wayne intends to use Bruce’s art as justification for murder. Events are disrupted by the arrival of Bruce’s soon to be ex-wife, spoiled teenage daughter, and his producer. Depsite this, Wayne means to succeed – whatever the cost.

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Everybody at Westfeild High School thinks they know what happened the day of the fire.  Fire exit opens in teh aftermath as the community faces what appears to be a prank gone wrong.  But as the kids and adults open up about their lives through a series of poignant and often funny monologues, Fire Exit is a powerful ensemble piece that proves things, and people, aren’t always what they seem.