The power and intrigue behind the scenes in a football club struggling for on-field success.
Playwright David Williamson has given Allegro special permission to update his famous play from the 1970s. Instead of the original all-male cast, the club president, the captain and the new recruit are all women.
Now not only clever and funny, the play’s new dimension also makes it topical and thought-provoking in today’s world of women’s football.
Thomas is nine years old, and he can see things that nobody else can see! In the Book of Everything, the generosities of imagination and love are pitted against ignorance, oppression and fear. This Australian adaptation took the world by storm as a daring, radiant piece of ensemble theatre, and was written for everyone’s starry-eyed inner child.
THE UK is in crisis; debt is spiralling, unemployment is on the rise and the fragile coalition cabinet, led by Prime Minister Jim Hacker, is at breaking point. When the Kumranistan Foreign Secretary makes a shocking request of Bernard, moral considerations collide with the economic future of the nation. But how will Jim and his team reconcile the two? All the razor-sharp wit, finely drawn characters and hilarious situations of the TV series reside in this delicious play!
Holmes and Watson must crack the mystery of “The Hound of Baskerville” before a family curse dooms its newest heir.
A fast-paced adventure with everyone’s favourite detective, solving his most notorious case. Five actors deftly play more than forty characters in this joyful, mischievous, comedy thriller.
Many will know this story from Peter Weir’s classic film of the novel, which was released in 1975. The play, adapted by Tom Wright from Joan Lindsay’s 1967 novel, is narrated by five performers, ‘five Australian women’, who are named in the published script after the actors who played them in the first production. They are struggling to solve the mystery at the heart of Joan Lindsay’s original novel, which presents itself as the true story of the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their teacher, who inexplicably vanish into the mountainside, while on a picnic expedition to Hanging Rock in Victoria on Valentine’s Day, 1900. Euphoria and terror reverberate throughout the community, as the potential for history to repeat itself becomes nightmarishly real.
The Lady from the Sea is one of Ibsen’s more elusive and enigmatic plays. There are many moments of laughter, but beneath a sense of restlessness that seems to infect all characters as the play builds slowly to a tense and highly dramatic conclusion. This is a powerful play, full of barely controlled emotions.
Tabitha. Tab. A feisty, confident fifteen year old who has been raised since birth by single dad, Adam. A typical teen; outspoken, messy, glued to her smartphone, listening to music and constant messaging. Out of the blue, her mother makes contact and, against Adam’s will, Tab determinedly leaves for a short stay where her secure world is turned upside down. How does Tab deal with the truth of her story?
A look at the spectrum of parental love. Three intertwined stories by local writer, Kerry Drumm, told with warmth, humour and love.
A World Premiere
The year is 1962 and the world is worrying about the Cuban missile crisis, except for Lewis, a youth on the cusp of manhood, growing up in a Melbourne housing commission suburb. He is preoccupied with flying saucers, much to the disgust of his friend Brian who can think only of losing his virginity.
The play centres on relationships, especially the relationship between 14 year old Lewis and 14 year old Dulcie. It is through Dulcie that Lewis begins to understand that the struggle to be adult is the struggle to understand the world around him.
Summer of the Aliens is a vivid and amusing evocation of a family and a neighbourhood whose increasingly strange behaviour Lewis is forced to interpret in the only way he can… the aliens must be among us!
The disappearance of a teenage girl has the adults of Corrigan (a fictional Australian town) gripped with fear for their children. Jasper Jones, the town scapegoat, is under suspicion.. Gradually the dark secrets of respected community members are revealed.
